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The following News Release was written by Ancestry.com staff: PROVO, Utah, March 25 /PRNewswire/ – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, today launched the World Archives Project, a new initiative dedicated to digitally preserving millions of the Continue reading Ancestry’s World Archives Project Launches Video News Release
You can now find families from not only West Yorkshire, but East and North Yorkshire as well as other areas of Britain (not all are posted yet), in the 1911 British Census at www.1911census.co.uk And if you happen to be Continue reading Michael Parkinson’s Roots are Found in the 1911 British Census of Yorkshire
Hoyt Alexander Canady answered his country’s call more than nine decades ago and took a bullet in the leg fighting the Germans in France during World War I. Now, after about 10 years of research and letter-swapping by his son-in-law, Continue reading Hoyt Alexander Canady Gets His Purple Heart – 90 Years Late
The following NBC announcement is directly from their website: Some of today’s most-beloved and iconic celebrities including Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Jessica Parker and Susan Sarandon are set to star in NBC’s new alternative series “Who Do You Think You Are?” Continue reading Who Do You Think You Are? – Coming to NBC April 20
There’s an interesting blog titled “Family skeletons detrimental to healing” posted on the ScienceBlog website that set me to thinking… Genealogists seem to love to drag out the family skeletons. Good old adultery, lying, cheating, stealing, and even a murder Continue reading Shaking Out the Family Skeletons Might Save Your Life
John Smithers had spent more than six decades looking for clues about the father who abandoned the family when he was just a baby. The barrel-chested, brash-talking Smithers had something he wanted to give his old man: a fist in Continue reading DNA Proves That Two Persons on Opposite Sides of the World Are Siblings
Michael Mansfield, a product manager at FamilySearch and a database expert, spoke at the BYU Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy on March 14. He listed a number of things that the researcher should do do locate your ancestor Continue reading Nine Things You Can Do to Find Your Ancestor Within Databases
The following news release was written by the Lawlor Media Group: NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ – Lively stories told by descendants of an American Jewish financial dynasty, buttressed by superb genealogical detective work dating back to the late 1600s, Continue reading An American Experience, Adeline Moses Loeb and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors
The following News Release was written by DCL staff: FRESH MEADOWS, N.Y., March 24 /PRNewswire/ – Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL), providing conversion services and software to publishers, industry, government, libraries and documentation developers, has announced the completion of several Continue reading Data Conversion Projects Completed for Accessible Archives
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection recently: CALIFORNIA California Pioneer Women Association 1926 Roster – The Association of Pioneer Women of California, Officers and Members, Honorary and Deceased Members, Past Presidents, Charter Members. Printed June Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon has some good indexes for those of us with Oregon roots. Each index is preceeded by an explanatory paragraph or two about the resource. If a copy service for the original document is available, fees Continue reading Fourteen Important Oregon Indexes Found at the GFO Website
Thousands of Post Offices have come and gone. Many of these offices operated where our ancestors are recorded as having lived. Today we might look at a map and find that no such place exists. A quick way to ascertain Continue reading A Listing of Over 200,000 United States Post Offices Found Online
Digital records from the Pennsylvania State Archives ARIAS (Archives Records Information Access System) have been available online at the Archives website for some time now. The databases are as as listed and linked below. Go to: www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp Pennsylvania National Guard Continue reading ARIAS: Pennsylvania State Archives Records Online
Over the last several days, I’ve been going back and looking at websites with digitized books that I use quite often, but haven’t written about for some time. I reviewed the books at HeritageQuest Online, and yesterday I brought you Continue reading Search Over 30,000 Genealogy & Local History Titles at the Family History Archives
More than 60 years after he and his brother returned from fighting in the Philippines, the thoughts of New York Mills resident Charles Stevens once again have turned to the South Pacific. Stevens, 96, learned earlier this month that dog Continue reading WWII Dog Tags Found on a Phillipines Beach