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There’s a good article by Antoinette Kelly posted at the ABC News website about Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak’s finding President Obama’s Irish roots. Following is an excerpt: Chief Family Historian for Ancestry.com Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak got the assignment of a lifetime Continue reading Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak Reveals How She Found President Obama’s Irish Roots
If you’re anywhere near Oakland, California next weekend, you will want to attend a program being sponsored by the California Genealogical Society. Thomas MacEntee and Craig Manson will speak on the subject of blogging. The Saturday, October 10, 2009 Program: Continue reading Bloggers to Speak for the California Genealogical Society
A couple of misconceptions persist regarding the Church History Library, opened in June by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It’s not a relocation of the church’s Family History Library. And while the Church History Department enjoys its Continue reading Confusion about the Family History Library & the Church History Library
Diana Lynn Tibert wrote a very interesting and informative column for the October 3, 2009 Times & Transcript in which she gives information on doing adoption research in Canada. She includes some online links that will be helpful to anyone Continue reading Adoption Record Accessibility Varies Across Canada, as in the U.S.A.
MODEST TOWN [Virginia] – Modest Town Baptist Cemetery will be the setting of an unusual memorial service Oct. 10 for an Accomack County child who died nearly 160 years ago. William Taylor White, an orphan who died of pneumonia at Continue reading Memorial Service Planned for Boy Who Died 160 Years ago.
There is an excellent article is the October 2, 2009 edition of the Orange County Register about Colleen Fitzpatrick and one of her projects. Following is a teaser: Finding people is her thing. Until now. The mysterious case of Benjaman Continue reading Who is Benjamin Kyle?
The shear numbers of records found at the FamilySearch labs website are mind boggling. Within the digitized records now found posted at the site are quite a number of State Census records. Records for Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Continue reading State Census Records Found at FamilySearch Labs
October is Family History Month – and the Allen County Public Library is doing it up in style. The month will end at the library with the Black Genealogy Summit. Following is an excerpt from an article about the Summit. Continue reading 420 Expected at the Black Genealogy Summit in Fort Wayne
Some might think the library is only good for finding books, but Marquita Johnson knows different. Through the help of several employees at Bartow Public Library, she found her father, Earl V. Whipple, whom she had not seen since she Continue reading Father Found After 56 Year Separation
The FamilySearch Center in the Joseph Smith Building is getting a full upgrade – and progress on the digitization of the Granite Mountain microfilm is moving ahead at a terrific pace. According to Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch, all that film Continue reading All 2.5 M Granite Mountain Films May be Digitized by Early Next Year
Geoff Rasmussen emailed me this bit of news about items Legacy Software is giving away at the Family History Expo in Redding. The expo takes place in just two weeks! Included in the prizes is an Acer Netbook PC. Now, Continue reading California Family History Expo – Oct 16/17 – Win a free computer from Legacy
What happens to your trash when you throw it out? It’s my bet that most of us don’t think twice about throwing out an out-of-date fishing license or our old hotel rewards cards. It seems that some very personal items Continue reading Provenience of Carter-Cash Family Items at Virginia Tech Questioned
The following news release is from marketwire.com: TORONTO, ONTARIO – (Marketwire – Sept. 28, 2009) – In honour of the birthday today of two of the most absurdly named children the world has ever known – Pilot Inspektor, son of Continue reading Ancestry.ca Reveals the Most Interesting Baby Names in Canadian History
Like many children, Arnold Nikolaisen was not happy to learn he wasn’t going to remain an only child. However, the shock for him was worse than most — he found out at 75. Nikolaisen was raised as an only child, Continue reading Man Finds He Has a Sister – at Age 75
I just ran across a press release that tells us that the New York Public Library is making a portion of their collection available to the public by way of digitization and distribution through Kirtas Books. Kirtas Books has already Continue reading New York Public Library and Kirtas Technologies Partner to Make 500,000 Public-Domain Books Available