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I spotted an article in the paper today about my friend, Luana Darby, and her success using newspapers. The article has numerous online newspaper-related links. Following is a teaser. PROVO, Utah — Professional genealogist Luana Darby was researching Madison Cheadle Continue reading Newspapers Are Key
Civil War buffs will have a new online tool to use thanks to a grant the Tennessee State Library and Archives has received. The $40,750 grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program will allow the state to Continue reading Online Tennessee Civil War Database to Be Developed
According to Genie.com, Chelsea Clinton and Angelina Jolie are 12th cousins. These things are kinda’ fun, but with a bit of research you’d be amazed the folks that have have cousinships of this degree or better. But with Chelsea’s wedding Continue reading The Chelsea Clinton – Angelina Jolie Connection
Randy Seaver posted an interesting blog about Ancestry.com’s second quarter 2010 financial results. Check it out.
The following news release was received from Debra Chatfield at FindMyPast.co.uk: Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1854 now available to search online In-depth and colorful insight into the lives of ordinary ranking soldiers Records include servicemen born in the Continue reading 180,000 New Chelsea Pensioners Service Records Go Online at FindMyPast.co.uk
The opening session, with Lori Cox-Paul, Director of Archival Operations at the NARA Kansas City facility, for the Midwest Family History Expo in Kansas City is just wrapping up and the exhibit hall is about to open!
The following news release was received from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies: Toronto: July 21, 2010: Louise St. Denis, Managing Director of the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, has just announced that the Institute continues to celebrate its 10th Continue reading National Institute for Genealogical Studies Offering Intensive Short Courses
GLENDALE [California] — Lenore Devlin traveled more than 60 miles Sunday to visit the grave of a former student at Grand View Memorial Park. “There are certain students in your life who just touch your heart,” the Los Angeles Unified Continue reading Cemetery Access Closes for Four Months During Remodeling
The following news release was received from my friends, Greg & Vicki Boyd, whose books I highly recommend: Norman, Oklahoma, July 19, 2010: The nation’s largest publisher of original landowner maps, Arphax Publishing Co., announces today that its two primary Continue reading Arphax Publishing Announces New Paperback Editions of its “Family Maps” and “Texas Land Survey Maps” series.
LONDON and PROVO, Utah, Jul 15, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM 17.50, -0.56, -3.10%) today announced the closing of its acquisition of Genline.se, the leading Swedish family history Web site. Genline currently has more than 17,000 paying Continue reading Ancestry Acquires Genline
Another interesting story with a “Megan” connection… Following is an except from the original found in the July 8, 2010 edition of the New York Times. You can find just about anything on the sidewalks of New York, so when Continue reading Tombstone from a New York Sidewalk
According to a blog posted at Dick Eastman’s site, the Dallas Public Library genealogy collection may be in trouble. Following is a teaser. Please read Dick’s full blog. This is important… The Dallas Public Library has one of the best Continue reading Dallas Public Library in Budget Troubles
Out of respect for the dead, a number of states have passed laws allowing towns to acquire abandoned cemeteries if legal owners and heirs can’t be found. The laws don’t require that the cemeteries be cleaned up, but the hope Continue reading Communities Struggle With Abandoned Cemetery Issues
Talk about digging up the dead… Genealogists joke about it all the time, but Jean Stevens literally dug up her husband and sister, took them in the house, and placed them on couches where she could see them… The following Continue reading Living With the Dearly Departed
The following was received from the Association of Professional Genealogists: Call for Recommendations for Nominations for APG Board Positions and Nominating Committee that take effect 1 January 2011. Deadline for Recommendations: Postmarked or e-mailed by 1 August 2010. Board of Continue reading Call for Recommendations for Nominations for APG