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The following news release was received from Tom Champoux, with the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
AmericanAncestors.org reflects the organization’’s expanding national collection and resources.

Boston, MA – August 19, 2010: – D. Brenton Simons, President and CEO of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), today announced the launch of AmericanAncestors.org, the organization’s new website that [...]

I see that more digital newspapers will be coming online at the “Chronicling America” site soon. Now it’s New Mexico papers. Cool…
Following is an excerpt from an article in the August 16, 2010 edition of the Daily Lobo.
UNM Libraries received a more than $350,000 grant to resurrect hundreds of thousands of New Mexico [...]

Korea’s genealogy is gaining global attention with the unveiling of a digital database of genealogical records by the Paik Inje Memorial Library of Inje University at the 76th World Library and Information Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden.
During the congress, Director Park Jae-sup proudly introduced Inje’s Digital Genealogy Library, after three years of dedicated [...]

Following is an excerpt from a fascinating article dealing with various “famous folks” wills. Ancestry.co.uk is posting 6 million English & Welsh wills running from 1861 to 1941. If you do a Google News search, you’ll come up with all kinds of articles about this. However, this exceprt is from the best one I could [...]

Maps are an integral part of doing any genealogy or historical research. The following excerpt is from an interesting article at Mainebiz.biz.

Smaller is better for Historic Map Works. The company recently relocated from the former Portland Glass building in Westbrook to a 1,285-square-foot office in Portland’s Marine Trade Center, downsizing by two thirds.
The reason for [...]

We’ve been selling Dan Lynch’s Google Your Family Tree at the Family Roots Publishing website, and at conferences since last December. The book is a wealth of information, and it’s not surprising that the book has turned out to be one of the genealopgical best sellers.
The following is what I wrote about it last December. [...]

According to an AP article currently circulating, the University of Tennessee will manage a project wherein about 2500 rolls of Tennessee newspapers on microfilm will be digitized and posted as part of the “Chronicling America” project. The project concentrates on papers published between 1836 and 1922.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ― A couple of years from now, [...]

It seems that the Google folks would like to know how many books they are attempting to digitize, since their goal is to digitize all the books in the world…
Using a complicated formula, which reads for paragraph after paragraph on their “Inside Google Books, they have come up with a number.

When you are part of [...]

LONDON and PROVO, Utah, Jul 15, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM 17.50, -0.56, -3.10%) today announced the closing of its acquisition of Genline.se, the leading Swedish family history Web site.
Genline currently has more than 17,000 paying members with access to 26 million pages of digitized Swedish church records spanning more than [...]

The following news release was received from Debra Chatfieid, marketing manager at findmypast.co.uk:
As the 2010 Wimbledon Championships head towards the closing stages, leading UK family history website findmypast.co.uk has delved into its collection of census records from 1841 to 1911 to find some interesting tennis-themed entries..
The finds…
In the 1891 census, a Miss [...]

Footnote is once again making some of their most important documents available FREE online for a limited time. Check this out!

In recognition of America’s Independence Day, Footnote is opening their Revolutionary War collection free to the public. This unique collection features millions of original records found nowhere else on the internet.
Whether you are a [...]

In two years, students, historians, and anyone else curious about nearly a century of history should have 100,000 pages of Tennessee newspapers at their fingertips. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from 1836 to 1922.
“This is telling what the people [...]

Google has now made agreements with the Austria National Library to digitize their 400,000 out-of-copyright books. This should be of significant help to those of us doing European research. Very exciting! Following is a teaser from the article found at “The Economic Tmes.”

VIENNA: Austria’s national library said on Tuesday it has struck a 30-million-euro deal [...]

The following excerpt is from the May 5, 2010 edition of the Cherokeean Herald.

After four months of waiting, Mrs. Gonzalez and Singletary Memorial Library head librarian Amy Derrington received the news they had been waiting for: the library received a $60,288 grant through the Tocker Foundation for the digitization of microfilm of the Cherokeean Herald [...]

The following information was received this morning from Paul Nauta with FamilySearch:
There were over 150 new collections added or enhanced this week at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch volunteers indexed over 120 million records — over 300 million new names — from original source documents to accomplish this great feat. The massive release was announced [...]