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We have now shipped nearly 100 packages of books to Family Roots Publishing customers who purchased product at the BYU and NGS Conferences and took advantage of our offer of “Free Shipping” on books purchased at the conference. We are Continue reading BYU & NGS Conference FRPC Books Now Shipped
The following information was received this morning from Paul Nauta with FamilySearch: There were over 150 new collections added or enhanced this week at FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch volunteers indexed over 120 million records — over 300 million new names — from Continue reading Over 300 Million New Names Added Online @ the New Beta.FamilySearch.org Site
The following news release was received from Ancestry.com: No. 1 Selling Family Tree Software Planned for Mac Users By The End of the Year PROVO, Utah, April 28, 2010 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family resource, today revealed a Continue reading Ancestry.com Previews Mac Version of Family Tree Maker Software
The following news release was received from my friends at Arcalife.com. Arcalife.com announces full integration with FamilySearch.org. This integration further deepens the features and capabilities between the two sites and offers members arcalife.com was established as an online community where Continue reading Arcalife.com Announces full Integration with FamilySearch.org
At 6:30 tomorrow morning (Monday) Family Roots Publishing will begin set-up of a booth at the BYU Computerized Genealogy Conference in the Salt Palace here in Salt Lake City. We are in vendor booth number 6 in room 255A & Continue reading FREE SHIPPING offered by Family Roots Publishing at the BYU Computerized Genealogy Conference & the NGS National Conference
The following excerpt is from an article in the Wednesday, April 21, 2010 edition of the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson). A missing handwritten transcript from a coroner’s inquest done after the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral has resurfaced in Continue reading Missing Transcript of the Coroner’s Inquest for the “Gunfight at the OK Corral” Found
Another piece from Tom Fiske… Enjoy… Maybe it’s just my family that has problems, but probably not. I just know that I have been warned not to dig up the past by very serious cousins – on more than one Continue reading Don’t Dig Up the Past!
We have the Family Roots Publishing Company genealogy guidebook exhibit set up in the Salt Lake Room at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel today. We will be here today until about 9:30 pm and again on Wednesday from about 1 Continue reading FRPC Vending at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel
After months of starts and stops at getting a new website up for the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour, we finally got it posted this afternoon. After reading a number of articles and even posting a blog about using Google Continue reading The New Salt Lake Christmas Tour Website
Did you know that you could get a subscription to the Federation of Genealogical Societies Forum as an online publication? Starting with the Summer, 2009 issue, the FORUM switched from a paper publication to an online publication. In 2010, the Continue reading Get the FGS FORUM as an Online Magazine
Over the last week, Family Roots Publishing has shipped all the standing orders for German Map Guide Volume 31. This volume includes a total of 3,723 places – mostly towns, found in the Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Hannover (Hanover) Continue reading Hannover II German Map Guide Now Available
Got Georgia research? If so, you might be interested in the North Georgia Family History Bulletin. Edited by Mike Brubaker, the online monthly periodical deals with Georgia, as well as topics of National interest. The periodical is well done – Continue reading The North Georgia Family History Bulletin
Another amusing article by my friend, Tom Fiske: I saw an Internet article titled “Texting from Beyond the Grave.” New technology allows a person to imbed a chip in his or her granite tombstone that can be excited by telephones Continue reading Beyond the Grave
I see that a preliminary list of speakers and topics has been posted for the Colorado Family History Expo, taking place in Loveland, Colorado on June 25 and 26. Check it out – and while you’re at the site, register Continue reading Speaker List Posted for the Colorado Family History Expo in Loveland
I just received word that Harvey Wolf passed away last Monday. My readers will know him as the guy with the big beard that ran, with his wife Barbara, Wolf’s Head Books – and exhibited at the national genealogy conferences Continue reading Harvey Wolf Passes