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I got a note from my friend, Tom Kemp, this morning, apprising me of the fact that GenealogyBank.com is now up to over 280 African-American newspapers in their online offerings. The following is from the website:
This fully searchable and expanding collection of newspapers provides details about the daily lives of millions of African [...]

One of the resources that we were informed about on January 8 when the bloggers visited Ancestry.com was the 1950 census substitute. Ancestry.com announced this last week that the resource was now posted.
This “substitute” for the yet-to-be-released 1950 census is made up of about 2500 city directories. My first foray into the collection was [...]

An interesting article was posted in the Washington Post site yesterday. The article deals with files on soldiers, celebrities, and non-celebrities alike that are easily available through the Freedom of Information Act. The info came from the GovernmentAttic.org website initially. Two major files are dealt with in the article:
The VIP List:The National Personnel Records Center [...]

Tom Mooney wrote a good column for the Times Leader today. It included suggestions on how to go about locating online data for Northeastern Pennsylvania.
One important bit of information I got from the article is that The Sunday Independent, published in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1906 through 1993, is digitized for the years 1913-1927 and is [...]

There was a good article by Kimball Perry posted at cincinnati.com last week that dealt with the many records posted by the Hamilton County Probate Court. It set me to searching records at the site, and I can tell you personally that this site has something for anyone who has Cincinnati/Hamilton County roots.
Using the site [...]

The West Virginia Division of Culture and History’s Archives and History Section has been posting birth, marriage, and death data, as well as images, at their website for some time. They now have over 5 million records indexed and available for searching - and even viewing of the record books themselves. The records I have [...]

The following databases have been posted at The Original Record website in the last two weeks:
1763-1766 - Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Books: Country Collectors’ Returns
Apprenticeship indentures and clerks’ articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: the registers of the payments usually give the master’s trade, address, and occupation, [...]

Scotland’s People has now released the new years statutory images containing records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1909, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1934, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1959.

The following news release was received from FamilyRelatives.com:

Familyrelatives.com is proud to announce the addition of over a quarter of a million Victorian Scottish Trade Directory records online.
Familyrelatives.com continues to add to its collection of Trade directories by releasing Trade and individual records dedicated to Scotland.
Slater’s Royal National Commercial Directory is an impressive record of [...]

The following databases have been added at The Original Record this past week:
1847-1922
Brighton College Register
This edition of the register was published in 1922. The plan of the publication was to list boys by year or, later, term of entry. Each name is assigned a sequential number, 5000 boys, in all, being recorded. Full [...]

The National Library of Australia, using their Trove online database system, has posted the historic newspaper, The Argus, published in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The digitized newspaper runs from Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 15, 1848) through about 1945. The newspaper itself ceased publication on January 19, 1957. Note that the headings and titling all say [...]

Footnote.com just sent out the following news release:
We are excited to announce the release of our latest interactive collection: the Native American collection. Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a collection featuring over 1.8 million records that will help people discover new details about Native American [...]

The following databases have been added at The Original Record this past week:
1845 - The Yachtsman’s Annual and General Register
The Yachtsman’s Annual and General Register gave a description of each of the main yachting clubs in the British Isles, with the names of the officers, a membership list (names and addresses), [...]

The following excerpt is from an article by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, published in the the November 16, 2009 edition of the Wall Street Journal. If the topic interest you, I recommend that you read the whole thing at the WSJ website, as there’s a lot more to it.
I blogged about the [...]

The following news release was received from Anastasia Tyler at Ancestry.com:
PROVO, UT (Nov. 11, 2009) – Ancestry.com today added more than 600 Navy cruise books to its online collection of military records to commemorate Veterans Day. This historic effort is the result of an agreement between Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, [...]