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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 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 [...]

The New Sweden Centre has erected a map sign, at the Kalmar Nyckel Shipyard, 1124 E 7th St., Wilmington, DE, with 30 Swedish Heritage sites and museums the public may visit in the Delaware Valley. This informative sign has been designed to complement the State of Delaware’s newly launched Geo-caching History Trail that [...]

The following announcement is from Anastasia Tyler, PR and Events Manager at Ancestry.com:
The Ancestry World Archives Project is a collaborative effort that has allowed thousands of people around the world help to preserve history that might otherwise be lost. All records indexed through this effort are available for free to the [...]

28 September 2009: Volunteers with Rhode Island roots will be excited about the new indexing projects this week. The Rhode Island 1905 and 1935 State Censuses were added. New international projects for Argentina, Germany, Philippines, Spain, and the U.K. were also added.
Note: the links within the charts won’t work as they are just images [...]

The following news release was received from my friend, Kathy Meade:
Genline (www.genline.com) is working with groups around the country to promote research on Swedish roots. They are promoting the SwedGen 2009 tour, which is appearing in Worcester, Mass.; Berlin, Conn.; Cambridge, Minn.; and South St. Paul, Minn. The Research Day will include [...]

The following news release was received from Paul Nauta, FamilySearch:
400 million names included in largest indexing effort to-date
FALKÖPING, Sweden—FamilySearch and Svensk Arkivinformation (SVAR), a division of the National Archives of Sweden, announced today the launch of the largest online indexing initiative undertaken to-date. The two groups unveiled plans to engage Swedish volunteers throughout the [...]

A new free website dealing with emigrants from Falbygden, Sweden is now available. Emigrant.se contains a list of found emigrants who were born in some of the 52 parishes in Falköping, Sweden (the area is called Falbygden). Most of them immigrated to United States. The published number is 2,505 and the list is growing. The [...]

The microfiche research center in Kyrkhult, Bekinge closed April 27, 2006. This sad event was caused by a decreasing number of visitors and growing costs.
Unfortunately, this important information is lacking on its English-language web page (www.arkivcentrum.nu/), but found on the Swedish pages.
It is possible that the microfiche collection, which was rented from the Swedish National [...]