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Where have I been for the last year? Neglecting my duty to post weekly to GenealogyBlog, that’s what! Lucky for me, Leland and I have been good friends for 30 years……….. and have no doubts, we have some serious fun Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour……………. Week’s Peek (A Whole Year Later)
The following Press Release is from FamilySearch: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Breaks Ground for First-of-Its-Kind St. George FamilySearch Library ST. GEORGE, UT (AUGUST 15, 2015) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its Continue reading The LDS Church Breaks Ground for First-of-Its-Kind St. George FamilySearch Library
The following is from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY UTAH – A total of 82,039 volunteers helped to “Fuel the Find” during FamilySearch’s Worldwide Indexing Event, held August 7-14, 2015. Though short of the goal of 100,000 participants, the effort produced Continue reading More than 82,000 FamilySearch Volunteers “Fuel the Find” for People Worldwide
The Art Gallery of Ontario has posted over 4000 images from the Henryk Ross Lodz Ghetto Photographs collection. The user can browse the site, and search as well. You can search for images by theme or build your own groupings Continue reading The Henryk Ross Collection of Over 4000 Lodz Ghetto Photographs Posted Online
I had the opportunity to use some of the Discovery Center resources at RootsTech this last February, and came away quite amazed. Now FamilySearch has opened the Seattle Family Discovery Center at the LDS facility in Bellevue, Washington. I’m looking Continue reading FamilySearch Opens a New Seattle Family Discovery Center
Below are the latest updates to United States & Canadian Vital Records Databases at FamilySearch.org: Currently updates as of 30 June 2015 Previous update: 14 April 2015 There is a permanent link at the top of the blog to a Continue reading FamilySearch.org’s United States and Canadian Vital Records Databases — UPDATE
The following is from The Federation of Genealogical Societies: FGS is pleased to announce the re-launch of its webinar series. FGS is committed to continuing education for societies and the individual genealogist alike. The first webinar of the new slate Continue reading How to Keep Your Volunteers Happy, Helpful, and Engaged – FGS Webinar June 23 & Publicly Available for 30 Days Thereafter
The following teaser is from a fascinating article by Ana Swanson, published June 19, 2015 in the online edition of the Washington Post. The way that different races and ethnicities are spread around the U.S. says a lot about our Continue reading Maps of the USA Showing Our Ancestry & Other Cool Stuff
The following is from newswire.ca: DNA test pinpoints genetic ethnicity and helps people discover family origins going back thousands of years AncestryDNA studies a person’s entire genome at more than 700,000 different locations Results detail a person’s ethnic origins across Continue reading Ancestry Launches Family History DNA Testing Service in Canada
The following is from FamilySearch.org: FamilySearch has added to its collections more than 5.8 million indexed records and images for Australia, Canada, Hungary, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. Notable collection updates include 2,435,483 indexed records from the Canada Continue reading FamilySearch Adds Over 5.8 Million Indexed Records & Images for Australia, Canada, Hungary, Russia, South Africa, & the USA
The following News Release is from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY — The Knowles Collection, a quickly growing, free online Jewish genealogy database linking generations of Jewish families from all over the world, reached its one-millionth record milestone and is now Continue reading Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries
The following teaser is from nature.com: Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale map of genetic variation yet created. The analysis — which shows Continue reading A New Genetic Map of the U.K.
Life in the past, the life your ancestors lived, was different from our own. They still had to meet their basic requirements of work, food, shelter, family, and religion. People were born, they were christened, they married and had families, Continue reading Genealogy and the Law – A Guide to Legal Sources for the Family Historian
The following is from Kathleen Hinckley CG, with APG: DEADLINE – Friday, 3 April 2015 APG will be proposing a sponsored lecture at the FGS Conference in Springfield, Illinois, to be held August 31 through September 3, 2016. We invite Continue reading Call For APG Sponsored Lecture Proposals for the 2016 FGS Conference in Springfield, Illinois
The following Call for Papers is from the AAHGS.org website: October 15-17, 2015 – Richmond, Virginia In October 2015, genealogists and historians from around the Commonwealth of Virginia and across the nation will travel to Richmond to discover and celebrate Continue reading Call for Papers for the 36th National Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Conference