Here are the most recent USA Census & Tax Records AND  Canadian Vital Records related databases updated at Family Search.org. We have also updated the following records on this site:   USA State, Territorial & School Censuses and Tax Records at FamilySearch.org Canadian Vital Records Databases Posted at FamilySearch.org   THE FOLLOWING UNITED STATES CENSUS [...]

The following article was written by my good friend, William Dollarhide. Enjoy… That first pedigree chart usually shows up to four generations, sometimes more, but if a 4-generation chart starts with yourself, there are up to fourteen direct ancestors presented. How many documents have you collected for each of those fourteen persons? How many have [...]

The following excerpt is from a blog posted at the EKS Libris website: Wingate University Special Collections recently partnered with The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. … The partnership between WUSC and the [...]

The following exceprt is from the October 3, 2012 edition of the kstatecollegian.com: The Royal Purple, K-State’s yearbook, has become digitized. According to a Sept. 20 university press release, every edition from 1926 to 2009 will now be available online. The print editions are hosted by a free online database available to anyone [the Internet [...]

The following excerpt is from the September 26, 2012 edition of the WesternFrontOnline.net: Since Western was founded in 1899, there has been a student newspaper, said Tamara Belts, Special Collections Manager at Western. People often come to the Special Collections Office in the Western libraries to thumb through old copies of the paper, which date [...]

Do you have relative’s that attended Elon University? If so, you might want to check out the newly digitized newspapers. The following excerpt is from an article written by Natalie Allison ’13, for the Elon University website. Elon student newspapers from 1920-1970 are now available in digital format online, and the collection will soon be [...]

The University of Iowa, located in Iowa City in southeast Iowa, has posted online their yearbooks dating from 1892 through 1992. The following is from their website: “Published from 1892 until 1992 (except for a brief interruption during the 1970s), The University of Iowa’s Hawkeye yearbook features student portraits, photographs of the campus, club and [...]

There’s nothing like an old annual to bring back memories. I just spent a few minutes browsing the 1964 Orting, Washington high school yearbook. And the memories came flooding back. Although I didn’t attend school there, many of the Orting freshman class were among my friends. The following News Release was written by Ancestry.com staff: [...]

According to Ancestry.com, they have a lot of new things in store for us in 2011. The following lists are from their press release of December 27, with details found on their “What’s ahead” webpage. United States Records to be posted in 2011 • More naturalization records, 1795-1900s • Improved 1930 U.S. Census • More [...]

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is an historically black university, founded in 1886, and located in Princess Anne, Maryland. Their yearbooks date back to 1958-1959. These yearbooks are now posted online at the Internet Archive website, and may be accessed in a number of ways, including download or just reading them online. The following [...]

Jack R. Westbrook and Sherry Sponseller are currently compiling a book on early Isabella County, Michigan one-room schools. They are searching for pictures of the schools, the students, and their teachers. The book will be titled, “Yesterday’s School Kids of Isabella County.” The following list is made up of some of the one-room schools for [...]

For those of us that love new digitized online resources, today is a day to celebrate! Yearbooks for Penn State have now been digitized and made available free of charge at the PennState Universities Library website. The site is called: The Penn State Life: 100+ Years of La Vie. Annuals available start with 1890 and [...]

Indianapolis [Indiana]- Opponents of a state plan to close a home for troubled youth are battling to preserve its legacy by keeping military uniforms, band instruments, photographs, paintings and other artifacts dating back to the Civil War. Alumni and staff of the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Children’s Home in Knightstown and the Indiana American Legion, [...]

The Missouri History Museum recently launched the Genealogy and Local History Index which includes references to hundreds of thousands of St. Louis ancestors. In this index, you can search by personal name, business/corporate name, or street address. (The latter search option is designed primarily for those researching the history of their home and its former [...]

The Monroe County Library System has now posted high school annuals for four Rochester, New York schools. They are all in PDF format, making them individually searchable. The title of the Collection is: School Heritage Collection. The four school collections are: East High School Yearbooks 1904-1930 Kodak High School Yearbook – 1923 only Rochester Free [...]