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The following small databases were recently added to the Family Tree Connection database:

ALABAMA
Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War - Southern Martyrs. A History of Alabama’s White Regiments during the Spanish-American War, Touching Incidentally on the Experiences of The Entire First Division of the Seventh Army Corps. By Seargeant M. Koenigsberg.
Birmingham High Schools [...]

The shear numbers of records found at the FamilySearch labs website are mind boggling. Within the digitized records now found posted at the site are quite a number of State Census records.
Records for Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wisconsin are now found there.
These records are not [...]

Over several days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers from 20 states. The majority of the papers posted the last few days are dated between 1915 and 1925. I note that some South Carolina papers were included this week. This is good stuff…
I am pleased to again announce that the folks at NewspaperARCHIVE.com appreciate what [...]

The following new small databases have been posted at Family Tree Connection since I last posted about the website. Over 1,549,000 names from small databases are now found there!
CALIFORNIA
California State Prison 1855 Report - Annual Report of the Inspectors of State Prison, to the Legislature of the State of California, February 15, [...]

In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers. Eighteen states are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented.
I am pleased to again announce that the folks at NewspaperARCHIVE.com appreciate what we’re doing with GenealogyBlog, and are now officially SPONSORING this website. [...]

In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers, as well as numerous papers from the World War I time period - up to about 1919. Eighteen states and one Canadian province are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers [...]

According to reports, nearly half the Minnesota Historical Society staff might be laid off or see their hours cut this summer. State funding cuts of about $2.8 million in each of the next two years - along with what will most likely be a 2 million dollar per year drop in charitable giving, book [...]

There are many new, upcoming, and completed indexing projects to report in this update from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch. Twelve of the projects below are new (see Current Projects). Included are three Belgian and two Argentina projects. The New York 1892 State Census project is exciting! New York has some of the best [...]

The following new small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection.
CALIFORNIA
The California Club 1907 - California Club, Los Angeles, California, By-Laws and House Rules with List of Members, July 1907, Fifth and Hill Street, Los Angeles.
Oriental Chapter, No. 258, O. E. S., 1923 Roster - Roster, April 1923, Oriental Chapter, No 258, Order of [...]

CD-ROM Announcement: Genealogy Books on CD-ROM – Volume 1; Compiled by Stemmons Publishing, See: www.stemmonspublishing.com
This set of 10 CD-ROMs makes up a massive genealogy library of 705 books. Altogether, there are over 60,000 images, making up 230,643 pages. According to the compiler, the value of the book collection is over $7000.00. The following listings are [...]

The following news release was written by Minnesota Historical Society staff:

A project to restore fragile Civil War battle flags in the Minnesota Historical Society’s collection has been selected to receive funding from the Save America’s Treasures program, which is dedicated to preserving, conserving and rescuing the nation’s most significant cultural and heritage resources. Several federal [...]

March 4, 2009: The FamilySearch indexing application is available in three new languages:

Italian,
Portuguese, and
Russian.

These languages are in addition to English, French, German, and Spanish. They have current indexing projects in all of these languages except Portuguese. They will be introducing a Portuguese project in the near future.
Volunteers can help with any of the [...]

Again, more new databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. The following databases are now available to search:
ALABAMA
Ensley High School 1946 Graduation - Birmingham Public Schools, Graduation Exercises of the Ensley High School, Forty-Fifth Commencement, May Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred Forty-Six.
COLORADO
Washington County High School 1914 Commencement - [...]

Did your ancestor work for the WPA (Works Progress Administration) during the great depression? Mine certainly did. My own father, Theodore Canfield Meitzler, worked for the WPA in Oregon for at least a short period. I remember hearing him talk about it as a child. With Congress and President-elect Obama seriously considering a massive economic [...]