The free daily online genealogy nautamagazine
To further celebrate the National DNA Day and the Spring 2019 sales season, Family Roots Publishing Co. is offering all individual soft cover German Map Guide books, Volumes 1 through 57 at 25% off! That makes them just $26.21 per Continue reading Volumes 1 thru 57 of Map Guide to German Parish Registers on Sale for 25% Off – April 24 Thru May 1, 2019
The following news release is from NYGBS: The publication unlocks key resources for anyone tracing New York City’s vast history to leverage the hundreds of key collections housed at the Municipal Archives. NEW YORK, NY — The New York Genealogical Continue reading New York City Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians
The following excerpt is from the August 9, 2016 edition of the Baltic Times. An old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius has been registered among cultural objects protected by the state, under a decree signed by Lithuania’s Culture Minister Sarunas Birutis Continue reading Old Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania Under State Protection
The following excerpt is from the ireland.anglican.org website: The List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers has again been extensively revised and updated, and in a collaborative project between the RCB Library and the Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS), it Continue reading The List of Church of Ireland Parish Registers – Relaunched & Available Online as a Color-Coded PDF
Elvis fan? Got an extra 100K or so lying around? Then you might consider bidding on the personal birth record book kept by delivering physician Dr. Robert Hunt. Included in the booklet is the record of the births of Elvis Continue reading 1935 Elvis & Jesse Presley Birth Record Booklet from Delivering Physician Dr. Robert Hunt Up for Auction
The following excerpt is from an article posted August 4, 2016 at the koreaherald.com website. The number of Korean adoptees who requested to see their birth records increased dramatically from 2012-15, since the revision of the adoption law here, but Continue reading Korean Adoptees Say Digitization of Their Papers is Proceeding Slowly
The following excerpt is from a fascinating article written by Curt Mills and posted August 8, 2016 at the U.S. News website. The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, but the U.S. government is still paying a veteran’s Continue reading The U.S. Government is Still Paying a Civil War Pension
The following news release is from finance.yahoo.com: LEHI, Utah, Aug. 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, today announced that Carla S. Newell is joining its senior leadership team as Chief Legal Continue reading Ancestry Appoints Carla S. Newell as its CLO & General Council
The following teaser is from the August 3, 2016 edition of FoxNews.com: With walls about three feet thick, a royal palace being unearthed in England is raising eyebrows: Could the palace have some association with the legendary King Arthur? The Continue reading Has Legendary King Arthur’s Royal Palace Been Found?
The following excerpt is from an article posted August 8, 2016 at the news.fiu.edu website. Just a day after he graduated from the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs with a Ph.D. in history, Adam Silvia MA Continue reading An Online History of Haiti
The following teaser is from an article posted August 8, 2016 at the FoxNews website. Archaeologists digging at the Alamo may be close to locating the site of the historic compound’s main gate. Experts discovered stones beneath San Antonio’s Alamo Continue reading Alamo Archaeologists May Have Found the Main Gate to the Old Mission
The following databases have been added or updated at FamilySearch.org from June 28, 2016 to August 8, 2016 Location – Number of Indexed Records – Date Posted or Updated Australia, Tasmania, Migrant Files, 1945-1968 – Browse Images – 20 Jul Continue reading FamilySearch Databases Added or Updated From June 28 through August 8, 2016
The following teaser is from an article posted August 5, 2016 at the wiscnews.com website. The Juneau County Historical Society will soon have a better way to archive its valuable artifacts. Located at the Boorman House in Mauston, the county Continue reading Juneau County (Wisconsin) Historical Society Receives Grant
The following teaser is from an article posted August 6, 2016 at jamaicans.com. Gaia Goffe of New York, her sister Tao Leigh Goffe, and her mother Judith Hugh-Goffe embarked on a journey to China looking for a greater understanding of Continue reading Chinese-Jamaican Traces the Family to Hong Kong.
The following teaser is from the August 8, 2016 edition of the Houston Herald. More than 83,000 pages of past issues of the Houston Herald are available on the publication’s website this week, marking the completion of a project that Continue reading The Houston Herald is Digitized and Now Available Online for 1881-2016