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Lorrine Massey at Olive Tree is reporting this morning that on June 10, 2009, Ancestry.ca in partnership with the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is holding a media event in Toronto to launch online the complete Canadian Censuses from 1851 Continue reading Complete Canadian Censuses from 1851 to 1916 to Be Online at Ancestry.ca in June
The Milan Public Library, in Washtenaw County, Michigan, has been saving obituary clippings from The Milan News-Leader and other local publications for many years. Library patrons Carl and Lillian Brown organized, bound and published some 3,500 obituaries dating back to Continue reading Obituary Collection Compiled at the Milan, Michigan, Public Library
There’s a good article in the April 15, 2008 edition of the Largo Leader about the Pinellas County Genealogical Society, their collection at the Largo Public Library – and my friend, Peter Summers. Thanks to the Pinellas Genealogy Society that Continue reading Genealogy at the Largo Florida Public Library
A while back I blogged the Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 available at Seeking Michigan website. They are in the process of posting about a million documents, digitized and indexed. Well, after what they call “many problems,” they have posted another Continue reading Digitized & FREE Michigan Death Certificates Online Better Than Double Over Just One Month Ago!
In 1899, a boy by the name of Mutt Baird (I didn’t make that given name up) borrowed a Webster’s Dictionary from the Lyn, Ontario Library. Then his family moved to the United States and the book went along with Continue reading Book Finds It’s Way Home to the Library 110 Years Late
I spent some time today with the Montana Death Index found at Ancestry.com. The site says that it runs from 1860 to 2007. I had folks who died there early in the 20th-century and didn’t locate any of them in Continue reading Using the Montana Death Index Found at Ancestry.com
Don’t marry your sister. It’s good advice, but one that the royalty often ignored. Scientific evidence confirms what we already knew. The following press release is a VERY ABBREVIATED recap of the paper itself: The powerful Habsburg dynasty ruled Spain Continue reading The Role of Inbreeding in the Extinction of the Spanish Habsburg Dynasty
It was just ten years ago today that a gunman opened fire at the Family History Library here in Salt Lake City, killing two people and wounding four others before being shot to death by police.
Dick Eastman just posted a very good article dealing with what he calls “Family Stories and Other Fairy Tales.” It’s educational and an excellent read – mainly dealing with our ancestors’ immigration to America and the stories that often surround Continue reading Eastman’s “Family Stories and Other Fairy Tales”
Book Review: Social Networking for Genealogists, by Drew Smith. This book is about the social networking made possible by the development of the Internet, and the ease of participating in the the various interactive sites, some specific to genealogy, others Continue reading Social Networking for Genealogists
Some days it seems like we lose another freedom every hour or so. So much for the Baby and the Bath Water… This is just in from my friend, Joy Rich: Here’s an instance of HIPAA being misused by the Continue reading HIPAA Laws Being Misused by the New York City Department of Health
In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many newspapers from the 1880s & 1890s. Seventeen states and one Canadian province is represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. I Continue reading New Content at NewspaperARCHIVE.com
My buddy, Jeff Bockman, just posted a very good article on cemetery research on his Genealogy According to Jeff website. This article couldn’t have been written 10 years ago… Check it out.
New Jersey is going through the struggle of debating and deciding whether to give adoptees rights to their birth information, or to continue to let things lie as they are. The New Jersey State Senate passed an adoptees’ rights bill Continue reading New Jersey Struggles With Adoption – Adoptees Rights
On August 21, 2009, Hawaiian’s will be celebrating 50 years of statehood. However, becoming a state wasn’t necessarily a simple undertaking. With American help, Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown all the way back in 1893, but the islands went on to Continue reading The Winding Road to Hawaii’s Statehood