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The following new small databases have been posted at Family Tree Connection since I last posted about the website. Over 1,549,000 names from small databases are now found there! CALIFORNIA California State Prison 1855 Report – Annual Report of the Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
Thanks to Paul Nauta for the following info: 20 May 2009: Thirteen collections were added or updated on the FamilySearch Record Search pilot—over 3.5 million new records. International researchers will be excited to know that collections were added for Brazil, Continue reading 3.5 Million New Records, Including Brazil, Czech Republic and Italy, Added at the FamilySearch Record Search Pilot Website
In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers. While compiling this list, I noticed that the time period of about 1925 through 1929 is prevalent in these posts. Eighteen states are represented this time around. Iowa is again Continue reading New at NewspaperARCHIVE This Week
Alerted by an article in the NEHGS eNews for April 29, 2009, I immediately checked out the Boston Post canes. Seven hundred canes were handed out to the oldest resident of Massachusetts towns in 1909. Following is an excerpt from Continue reading The Citizen’s Canes of Massachusetts
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has announced “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2009.” The announcement was made at one of the sites announced as at risk, the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The list is Continue reading America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2009
In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many new newspapers. Eighteen states are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. I am pleased to again announce that the folks Continue reading New Papers Posted are NewspaperARCHIVE
In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers, as well as numerous papers from the World War I time period – up to about 1919. Eighteen states and one Canadian province are represented this time Continue reading See the Latest New Data at NewspaperARCHIVE
In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers, as well as numerous papers from the 1870s and 1880s. Twenty-one states are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to Continue reading New Newspapers Posted Over the Weekend at NewspaperARCHIVE
The following digitized newspapers are either available or planned at GenealogyBank.com According to Tom’s entry today at the GenealogyBank Blog, “in the months ahead GenealogyBank will be expanding it’s coverage of 9 newspapers from 9 states.” The dates of this Continue reading Expanded Coverage Announced for 9 Different Digitized Historic Newspapers in Nine States at GenealogyBank.
In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many turn of the century newspapers. Seventeen states and one Canadian province are represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. I note Continue reading More New Content at NewspaperARCHIVE
The following news release was received from Paul Nauta, FamilySearch: 7 April 2009: FamilySearch added over 16 million new indexed records and almost 500,000 new digital images this week to its Record Search pilot (see chart below). Seven new states Continue reading FamilySearch Adds 16 Million+ Indexed Records And 1/2 Million New Digital Images This Week at Record Search Pilot
The Walpole [Massachusetts] Historical Society has recently published three new books, as follows: Industrialists of Walpole, by Elizabeth Cottrell, Charles W. Hardy, et.al and Susan Anderson, editor. The biographies of six entrepeneurs and the businesses they established are told in Continue reading Three New Walpole, Massachusetts Histories Now Available
As you folks know, I’m a big fan of digital documents, books, and periodicals online. This last week I finally bought a NewspaperARCHIVE.com subscription. I’ve already found numerous papers that have items about both my family, as well as Patty’s. Continue reading New Online Digital Newspapers at NewspaperARCHIVE – 1
The following new small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection. CALIFORNIA The California Club 1907 – California Club, Los Angeles, California, By-Laws and House Rules with List of Members, July 1907, Fifth and Hill Street, Los Angeles. Oriental Continue reading More New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
It’s been a while since I last used the “Index to Vital Records,” on the Massachusetts Archives website. The last time I did, it only had death indexes on it. Now I see that I can search Births, Marriages, and Continue reading Using the Index to Massachusetts Vital Records – 1841 to 1910