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The following new records were announced by FindMyPast this last Friday: Lancashire Baptisms Discover your ancestors in original baptism registers covering 191 Lancashire Parishes and spanning 379 years of the county’s history. Learn when and where your ancestor’s baptism took Continue reading New Records at FindMyPast
I ran across an article about the Sinaloa Cemetery on the outskirts of Culiacán, Mexico at the FoxNews.com website. The article by freelance journalist Tim MacFarlan is very interesting. Following is a teaser. Click on the illustration or the link Continue reading The Sinaloa Cemetery – Where Tombs Run Up to $500,000
The following databases were posted or updated at FamilySearch.org between June 4 and July 12, 2018: DATABASE NAME – NUMBER OF RECORDS – DATED POSTED OR UPDATED: BillionGraves Index – 25,226,581 – Jun 26, 2018 Find A Grave Index – 169,018,998 – Jun 21, Continue reading New & Updated FamilySearch Databases Posted From June 4 through July 12, 2018
The following was received from FamilySearch June 7, 2018: FamilySearch added over 700,000 New York naturalization records and one million more historical records and images from Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, and New Jersey. The BillionGraves Index has added over 600,000 Continue reading New Historical Records Databases Posted at FamilySearch the Week of June 4, 2018
The following is from FindMyPast: There are over 2.7 million new records available to search this last Findmypast Friday, including: Chicago Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms Were your catholic ancestors baptised in the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois? Over 1.2 million additional Continue reading New Records Available To Search at FindMyPast Friday, June 1, 2018
The following was received from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Find your ancestors on FamilySearch with new historic records published this week from BillionGraves, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Panama, Russia, and Slovakia. Search these new free records by clicking Continue reading New or Updated Historic Record Databases at FamilySearch.org the Week of February 12, 2018
The following databases were added or updated at FamilySearch.org between October 21, 2017 and February 8, 2018. We’ve sorted the following linked listing so you can check out your country or U.S. state of interest quickly and easily. DATABASE TITLE Continue reading FamilySearch Databases Added or Updated October 21, 2017 through Feb 8, 2018
The following databases have been added or updated at FamilySearch.org between the dates of August 11, 2017 and October 20, 2017. DATABASE – NUMBER OF RECORDS – DATE BillionGraves Index – 22,500,536 – 26 Sep 2017 Find A Grave Index Continue reading Databases Added or Updated at FamilySearch.org From August 1 1 thru October 20
The following databases were published or updated at FamilySearch between June 2 and August 10, 2017: Title – Number of Indexed Records – Last Updated BillionGraves Index – 21,969,173 – 02 Aug 2017 Find A Grave Index – 161,552,555 – Continue reading Databases Posted at FamilySearch June 2 through August 10, 2017
The following databases were published or updated at FamilySearch between May 1 and June 1 2017: Title – Number of Indexed Records – Last Updated Argentina, Entre Ríos, Catholic Church Records, 1764-1983 – 601,470 – 30 May 2017 Canada, New Continue reading Databases Posted at FamilySearch May 1 through June 1, 2017
The following excerpt is from an article in the May 12, 2017 edition of the East Bay Times. SANTA CRUZ – Santa Cruz biomolecular engineering professor Ed Green and a team of science students last month generated DNA results to Continue reading San Francisco Girl – 2-Year Old Edith Howard Cook, Who Died Oct. 13, 1876 – Identified Using DNA
The following teaser is from The Cornell Daily Sun: After a spate of vandalism and years of deterioration, Ithaca is funding a comprehensive study of the city’s second-largest green space — the Ithaca City Cemetery — and the dozen vaults Continue reading Crumbling Vaults Spawn City-Funded Review of Ithaca NY City Cemetery
The following excerpt is from an article posted in May 5, 2017 at chronline.com: Families who have had difficulties burying loved ones at Greenwood Memorial Park in Centralia and other abandoned cemeteries across the state will be getting some relief. Continue reading Washington State Governor Signed Law Dealing With Abandoned Cemeteries
The following is from FamilySearch: Salt Lake City, Utah (March 25, 2017), Hundreds of thousands of free indexed records from all over Italy are featured in these newly published online collections. Additionally, find newly searchable records from Canada, Ecuador, Germany, Continue reading New Historic Records Databases Posted at FamilySearch the Week of March 20, 2017
The following excerpt is from an article first posted in the Columbus Dispatch: Yellow caution tape flapped in the wind, crisscrossing the entrance of a mausoleum erected nearly 100 years ago. It’s the latest sign of vandalism at Green Lawn Continue reading Over 600 Graves Damaged in the Last 2 Years at Columbus, Ohio’s Green Lawn Cemetery