The following excerpt is from an article posted in the February 21, 2013 edition of newstimes.com: Blaming overzealous members of the media as well as those seeking to disprove that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School occurred, three state lawmakers representing Newtown testified in Hartford on Wednesday in support of a bill that would [...]
The following information is from Julie Hill at Archives.com: With the holidays behind us, it’s time to dig into finding more ancestors and Archives.com is here to help. We recently added more than 58 million United States vital records. These 27 new collections contain birth, death, or marriage information from 21 states. To learn more [...]
Genealogical Notes or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts is a reprint of a volume originally published in 1856. The book represents the compiled notes of an early American Genealogist, Nathaniel Goodwin. This collection is a effectively a descendants report, with extensive notes by Goodwin, on [...]
Legacy Family Tree offers some of their popular webinars on CD. Their series of webinars, presented by professional genealogists, provide expert advice on areas from traditional genealogical research to make use of the latest technologies both for research and for the maintenance of critical family data. Here are some of the webinars on CD we [...]
American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790 represents an exhaustive research project to extract population data for the area encompassed by the United State as represented in 1790. Data was gathered from previous research studies, government studies, and independent research. The population lists, which are of paramount importance to the genealogist, include poll lists, [...]
The following excerpt is from an article posted in the June 23, 2012 edition of TheHour.com: NORWALK [CT] — While some New England families can trace their ancestry back to the passengers on the Mayflower, most others’ roots are less glamorous and more difficult to ascertain. Take, for instance, the Barnes family. “They were regular [...]
A couple of weeks ago Leland wrote a blog announcing the release for the fifth edition of the Genealogist’s Handbook for New England Research. I have finally had a chance to go through the book for myself and I must say what a well put together book it is. The book is so clean and [...]
Finally! I got a case of Michael J. Leclerc’s new 5th edition of the Genealogist’s Handbook For New England Research today. And this is one great book. Although I don’t have the time at the moment to do a full review (which we will in a few days), I wanted to let everyone know that [...]
The following news release was received from FamilySearch.org: 10 New Digital Images of Historic Documents Created Every Second – Indexing Projects Added for Paraguay, Panama, Bolivia, and Slovakia! Since 2006, FamilySearch has dramatically improved its ability to scan and convert microfilmed records into digital images. In addition, more than 185 digital camera crews are now [...]
The following U.S.A. vital-records oriented databases have been added or updated at FamilySearch.org since my last posting made November 26. New data has been added for 24 states & the District of Columbia! We’ve also updated all five of the GenealogyBlog Online Database Links Files. See: United States Birth & Christening Records Found at FamilySearch.org [...]
The following U.S.A. vital-records oriented databases have been added or updated at FamilySearch.org since my last posting made November 8. New data has been added for Alabama, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas, Vermon, Washington, and Wisconisin. We’ve also updated all five of [...]
UNITED STATES BIRTH AND CHRISTENING RECORDS FOUND AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG – UPDATED AS OF 11 April 2013. Note that many of the “number of records” are marked as AFTER a specific date. That means that additional records, in some some cases tens of thousands, have been added since that date, which is the last one found [...]
UNITED STATES DEATH RECORDS POSTED AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG – UPDATED AS OF 6 May 2013. The following databases can all be accessed at FamilySearch.org. Alabama Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952- Name index to death and burial records from the state of Alabama – 105,825 Records as of 4 May 2010 Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974 -Name index to death [...]
The following was received from Steve Perreault: Jean Perreault, qualified by the Connecticut Sate Library to do genealogy research, takes an in depth look at the 2381 residents from the Granbys who were enumerated in the depression era 1930 Federal census. Her publication entitled Footprints Across Connecticut From 1930 East Granby & Granby Census, is [...]
UNITED STATES MARRIAGE RECORDS AT FAMILYSEARCH.ORG – UPDATED AS OF 6 May 2013. Alabama Marriages 1816-1957 – Name index to marriage records from the state of Alabama – 1,516,339 records as of 22 March 2012 – up 1,472,271 records from of 6 May 2010. Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950 – Name index and images of marriage [...]
