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Being an avid Mac user, I’m always watching for what new Mac software is available. I read today that Saltatory Software has just released a new version of Family with a number of changes – and fixes that allow the Continue reading Saltatory Releases Family 2.3 Software
Carllene Marek wrote an excellent “Relatively Speaking” article this week, published in Food For Thought: a News Cafe. She gives some good tips on “applying certain rules and techniques along with persistence, and a dash of creativity.” The column is Continue reading How to Best Use Surname Indexes
I had delightful time last night, as I met blogger Randy Seaver at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel about five and we made our way down to the Ruby River Steakhouse for dinner. I read his blog several times a Continue reading Dinner With Randy
A blog announcement posted by Dick Eastman brought to my attention the fact that a new website with 55,000 early War Department digital documents has now gone online. Early War Department papers as such have been hard to come by, Continue reading Digital “Papers of the War Department 1784-1800” Now Online
For a number of months now, Bruce Buzbee has been allowing us to find out what features will be in RootsMagic Version 4 by way of a blog. One of his users wanted to share the information about RootsMagic 4 Continue reading Complete “Unwrapped RootsMagic 4” Articles Available as a 6MB PDF File
Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration – in a digital format. It currently links to 2 million digital items, and the site isn’t even officially launched yet. This website is a prototype. Europeana Version 1.0 is being developed and will Continue reading Europeana.eu Website Up and Coming With Digital Items
The DuPage County Genealogical Society is sponsoring their 34th Annual Conference on Saturday February 28th, 2009. I will be lecturing four different times during the day, speaking on “The Witness – An Often Overlooked Source,” “Using Tax Records to Establish Continue reading Solving the Mystery of Your Family History – Seminar in St. Charles, Illinois
Prior to the Civil War, free blacks were required to register at their local courthouses in Virginia. The Rockingham County Clerk of Circuit Court, Chaz Evans-Haywood, said Monday the rebinding of the “Register of Free Negroes, 1807-1859” for Harrisonburg and Continue reading Harrison & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, Register of Free Negroes, 1807-1859 Gets New Life
The following press release was received today from Nicola Hussey, Lansons Communications. 36 million people were recorded in the British census taken on the night of Sunday, 2 April, 1911. Today, after nearly 100 years, these census records are available Continue reading 1911 British Census Goes Online
The following press-release was received from Cliff Kemball this morning: The Guild of One-Name Studies and Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd are pleased to announce a brand new five week introductory course on One-Name Studies, starting 27th April 2009. This Continue reading New Online Course: Introduction to One-Name Studies
The County Clerk of Hamilton County, Tennessee has posted a searchable marriage database online. Data from Marriage Licenses issued from 1857 to 1919 and then from 1985 through 2008 are posted at the website. The plan is to post the Continue reading Hamilton County, Tennessee Marriage Database Now Online
Juliana Smith reported today that Ancestry has Indexed and posted the digitized images of the 1821 to 1955 South Carolina Death Certificates. I did a search on the name Canfield (usually a New England name), and got 16 hits. I Continue reading Digitized South Carolina Death Certificates 1821-1955 At Ancestry.com
I can imagine that it must be rough to have to go through grade school with a name like Korney… However, Amy Korney Hotz decided to do a bit of searching and find out the origins of the name. It Continue reading Korney Name Traced to its Origins
It seems that the City of Lake Alfred, Florida may have sold a grave plot to two different parties. Someone got buried in the grave – and the other party is suing, claiming the grave is theirs. The oddest thing Continue reading Suit Filed Over “Wrongful Burial”
Patty mentioned to me a few days ago that in searching census records dealing with President-elect Obama’s ancestors, that she ran across one that listed the man as a”pumper” for an oil company. I really haven’t followed his ancestry all Continue reading Obama has Oil-Company Roots