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FindMyPast.com is offering to find and notify us that they have located specific ancestors for us as soon as they have that ancestor’s state indexed. This sound like a good service for busy people (most of us!). Keep in mind Continue reading FindMyPast Sets up Program to Find Our Ancestors and Notify Us as Soon as They are Indexed
I just got the following note from Stephen Morse: The stats are in for my One-Step site on the first day of the census. The site normally gets between 100,000 and 200,000 hits a day. Yesterday, April 2, it got Continue reading Stephen Morse’s One-Step Site gets 2,248,987 Hits on April 2, 2012
I just got off the phone with Gilad Japhet, the CEO of MyHeritage.com. He was calling from near Tel Aviv, Israel. He was calling about the fact that they now have 60% of the 1940 U.S. Census images posted on Continue reading 1940 US Census: MyHeritage Publishes 2 Million Images & Unveils the First Indexed Records for Free Searches
The following was received from my good friend, Dan Lynch: It seemed only fitting that I should find President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 Census, enumerated exactly 72 years to the day from when he appears to have provided Continue reading Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 Census
The following news release was received from findmypast.com: Chuck Norris tops “Class of 1940” – voted America’s favorite “fantasy relative” Al Pacino second, Martin Sheen third in IBOPE Zogby poll for findmypast.com – marking the 1940 Census release April 2 Continue reading 1940 Census: Chuck Norris tops “Class of 1940” – voted America’s favorite “fantasy relative”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 2, 2012) – The 1940 U.S. Census Community Project—a joint initiative between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Archives.com, FamilySearch.org, findmypast.com, and other leading genealogy organizations—announced today a national service project to create a free, high Continue reading 1940 U.S. Census Community Project Announces Call For Volunteers to Create Free, Searchble Database of 1940 U.S. Census Records
Well, the 1940 census opened today. I wasn’t ever able to get anywhere on the 1940census.arhcives.gov site, so this evening I tried seeing what I could find on Ancestry.com. They had a dozen states or so up tonight, so I Continue reading My First Forage Into the 1940 Census
The following news release was received from Matthew Deighton at Ancestry.com: MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (4/2/12) – A collaboration between the University of Minnesota and Ancestry.com will create the largest database of detailed information about people and their households ever Continue reading University of Minnesota Researchers Collaborate with Ancestry.com to Create the Most Comprehensive Database of the 1940 Census
Volume 41 of the German Map Guide series in now in print! This volume includes a total of 3,921 places – mostly towns, found in the Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Brandenburg, Regierungsbezirk Potsdam. This book also includes a master Continue reading German Map Guide – Brandenburg I – RB Potsdam – Now Shipping
The following press release was received from Debra Chatfield at findmypast.co.uk: . Over a million baptism, marriage and burial records dating back to 1538 now available . First time that images of the original parish records from Westminster go online Continue reading Westminster Parish Records Published Online by FindMyPast.co.uk
The following excerpt is from a press release posted in the March 22, 2012 edition of vtdigger.org. MONTPELIER – Secretary of State Jim Condos announced today that the Vermont Historical Records Advisory Board (VHRAB) has been awarded a grant of Continue reading Vermont Historical Records Advisory Board Receives Grant of $15,000
City Creek Center opened in downtown Salt Lake City today. Spread over much of three blocks in the heart of the city, this shopping, condo, and office space mall (if you want to call it that) is an amazing place. Continue reading City Creek Center Opens in Salt Lake City
The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE) annual Excellence-in-Writing competition is now accepting entries for the 2012 competition. Members and non-members of ISFHWE are eligible; published items (categories I and II) must have been published in 2011; Continue reading ISFHWE Now Accepting Entries for Their Annual Exellence-In-Writing Competition
UPDATE – IT’S 3:15 – AND SURE ENOUGH, WE’RE BACK ONLINE. We just found that the FamilyRootsPublishing.com website is down. Our hosting server says they think it should be back online about 3:15 MDT. For those of you trying to Continue reading Family Roots Publishing Co Server Down Temporarily
The 2012 season of Finding Your Roots, With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premiers on PBS March 25. The 10-episode series will explore the genealogy of a number of celebrity Americans, including Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey Jr., Branford Marsalis, John Legend, Continue reading Finding Your Roots, With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Premiers on PBS March 25, 2012