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California Collections Win This Week with 24 Million New Records – Records for 14 countries added FamilySearch added 31 million new, free records online this past week for Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Italy, Micronesia, New Zealand, Continue reading 31 Millon Records added at FamilySearch with 24 Million Records CA Birth Records 1905-1995 Posted!
The following excerpt is from an article written by Jeff Jacoby, a Jewish columnist for the Boston Globe. The article is dated March 1, 2012, and is posted at the jewishworldreview.com website. It’s a different take on LDS proxy baptisms Continue reading Another View of Mormon Proxy Baptism of Jews
Several weeks ago, my friend, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, sent me a copy of her new book. It’s titled “Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing.” I finally got the chance to sit down and read it cover to cover. Megan knows Continue reading A Review of “Hey, America, Your Roots are Showing“
The following news release was received from from Debra Chatfield at findmypast.co.uk: Today, in honour of St David’s Day, leading family history website findmypast.co.uk has announced the launch of the first tranche of parish records from Wales – part of Continue reading Baptisms, Marriages and Burials From Welsh Archives Published Online for the First Time
The following excerpt is from an article by Ron Wilkins, posted at the Feb. 21, 2012 edition of jconline.com: John M. Harris spends each Tuesday and Wednesday quietly working in a small office surrounded by shelves stacked from floor to Continue reading The Cataloguing of Tippecanoe County, Indiana Artifacts
And the controversy continues… The following is from an extensive article written by Howard Berkes, and posted at the kuhg Houston Public Radio website. He wasn’t Jewish and he wasn’t a victim of the Holocaust, but the discovery of Jan Continue reading LDS Posthumous Baptism Controversy Includes Polish Catholic Witness To Holocaust
The following excerpt is from an article posted at rafu.com: In remembrance of the 70th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which placed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps, Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family Continue reading Ancestry.com Offers FREE Access to its Japanese Internment Camp Record Collections Until Midnight ET Feb. 23, 2012
The following teasor is from an excellent article written by Marisol Bello and published in the February 21, 2012 edition of USA Today. It was first proposed by black Civil War veterans almost 100 years ago. Now, five special commissions Continue reading The National Museum of African American History and Culture
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 is the 25th anniversary of pop artist Andy Warhol’s death. He died of complications due to gall bladder surgery at the age of 58. See a February 21 photo of his gravestone, and that of his Continue reading 25th Aniversary of Andy Warhol’s Death.
The following excerpt is from an AP article by Jill Lawless posted February 20, 2012 at the dailynewsegypt.com: They foiled plots and cracked Nazi codes, but Britain’s spies were unable to solve the mystery of Charlie Chaplin‘s birth. Although the Continue reading The Mystery of Charlie Chaplin’s Birthplace
My friend, Julie Hill, at archives.com, sent me the link to the brand new website posted by the United States National Archives for the upcoming 1940 U.S. Federal Census. Currently, there’s a 3 minute 13 second video on the site Continue reading National Archives Posts the New Website for the 1940 Census
The following excerpt is from an article originally published in the The Illustrated London News, July 6, 1850. It gives detailed information about what emigration, and the passage of our ancestors was like in the mid-17th-century. The full article is Continue reading The Tide of Emigration to the United States and the British Colonies – an historic prospective
Family History Expos will return to Southern Utah with its annual flagship event, “2012 St. George Family History Expo,” Feb. 24 and 25. Dixie Convention Center will host the Expo at 1835 Convention Center Drive in St. George. “Our 2012 Continue reading Family History Expos Returns to St. George, Utah This Weekend!
The following excerpt is from the February 15, 2012 edition of Berksmontnews.com: … the public may now access birth and death records online and in person for free at the Pennsylvania State Archives thanks to a new law, according to Continue reading Expanded Access to Pennsylvania Vital Records
The following excerpt is from the February 20, 2011 edition of the Wetzel Chronicle. CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An old wedding invitation has helped West Virginia officials track down the heir to a South Charleston resident’s estate and give her Continue reading Old Wedding Invitation Leads to Heir