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The following news release was written by NARA staff: Washington, DC. In May, the National Archives celebrates its new exhibition “BIG! Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Archives,” with free public programs including film screenings, author lectures, and a Continue reading May 2009 BIG! Exposition Events at the National Archives
Think about it… Genealogists love the ease with which we can get information from the Internet. But we know it’s not all here… So we still end up in libraries and archives – a lot! And at the library, who Continue reading Are Research Librarians Living Search Engines?
The Milan Public Library, in Washtenaw County, Michigan, has been saving obituary clippings from The Milan News-Leader and other local publications for many years. Library patrons Carl and Lillian Brown organized, bound and published some 3,500 obituaries dating back to Continue reading Obituary Collection Compiled at the Milan, Michigan, Public Library
There’s a good article in the April 15, 2008 edition of the Largo Leader about the Pinellas County Genealogical Society, their collection at the Largo Public Library – and my friend, Peter Summers. Thanks to the Pinellas Genealogy Society that Continue reading Genealogy at the Largo Florida Public Library
A while back I blogged the Michigan Death Records 1897-1920 available at Seeking Michigan website. They are in the process of posting about a million documents, digitized and indexed. Well, after what they call “many problems,” they have posted another Continue reading Digitized & FREE Michigan Death Certificates Online Better Than Double Over Just One Month Ago!
I spent some time today with the Montana Death Index found at Ancestry.com. The site says that it runs from 1860 to 2007. I had folks who died there early in the 20th-century and didn’t locate any of them in Continue reading Using the Montana Death Index Found at Ancestry.com
It was just ten years ago today that a gunman opened fire at the Family History Library here in Salt Lake City, killing two people and wounding four others before being shot to death by police.
Some days it seems like we lose another freedom every hour or so. So much for the Baby and the Bath Water… This is just in from my friend, Joy Rich: Here’s an instance of HIPAA being misused by the Continue reading HIPAA Laws Being Misused by the New York City Department of Health
In the last three days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted many newspapers from the 1880s & 1890s. Seventeen states and one Canadian province is represented this time around. Iowa is again the clear winner when it comes to numbers of papers represented. I Continue reading New Content at NewspaperARCHIVE.com
New Jersey is going through the struggle of debating and deciding whether to give adoptees rights to their birth information, or to continue to let things lie as they are. The New Jersey State Senate passed an adoptees’ rights bill Continue reading New Jersey Struggles With Adoption – Adoptees Rights
On August 21, 2009, Hawaiian’s will be celebrating 50 years of statehood. However, becoming a state wasn’t necessarily a simple undertaking. With American help, Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown all the way back in 1893, but the islands went on to Continue reading The Winding Road to Hawaii’s Statehood
As the third-largest municipal genealogical research facility in the country, each month Houston’s Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research hosts thousands of researchers from across the United States. Founded in 1921, the center got its start in the Julia Ideson Continue reading The Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, in Houston, Wins Best Hospitality Project Landmark Award
Ninety-five letters, written by a soldier, Joseph C. Clark, have been found in a metal box, unearthed from a closet in a Pennsylvania home. It seems that Clark traveled by stagecoach to Camp Floyd for the so-called Mormon Rebellion. He Continue reading Camp Floyd Letters Open a Window into 1860 Utah
I read the obits every morning, typically scanning them to make sure no friends in the area have passed on in the last day or two. It’s usually a pretty uneventful undertaking. However, it seems that Mary Mayou, of East Continue reading Brother – Missing for 50 years – Found in the Obituaries
Allen County Library officials are finishing their preparations for the Lincoln documents that were previously cared for by the former Fort Wayne Lincoln Museum, now that the library has completed the remodeling necessary to care for the collection. The Lincoln Continue reading Lincoln Papers to Move to the Allen County Public Library in Late May