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The following article was written by my long-time friend, Marielle A. Bourgeois. Marielle wrote numerous articles for me when I was editing Heritage Quest Magazine, most with a French-Canadian slant to them, but others of a more general nature. While Continue reading Finding Your Ancestors in Europe
HE CALLS her Marples and she refers to him affectionately as Sherlock. He is a determined, quiet cop with a forensic background, while she is a chatty grandmother with degrees in social research and 30 years of genealogy experience. They Continue reading Volunteers Search for Family Connections of 191+ Soldiers Buried in Fromelles’ Tiny Pheasant Wood
The following announcement is from Anastasia Tyler, PR and Events Manager at Ancestry.com: The Ancestry World Archives Project is a collaborative effort that has allowed thousands of people around the world help to preserve history that might otherwise be lost. Continue reading Ancestry World Archives Project Update
28 September 2009: Volunteers with Rhode Island roots will be excited about the new indexing projects this week. The Rhode Island 1905 and 1935 State Censuses were added. New international projects for Argentina, Germany, Philippines, Spain, and the U.K. were Continue reading FamilySearch Indexing Updates
The following news release is courtesy of Paul Nauta, FamilySearch: 28 September 2009 – Family researchers seeking their Mexican heritage have two million new records at their fingertips this week with an update to the 1930 Census collection. There are Continue reading International Databases Grow at FamilySearch Pilot Site
The following news release was written by dynastree.com staff. See my comments and direct links to the Foreign language sites at the end of the news release. Hamburg, August 11, 2009 – The family network dynastree.com features maps for showing Continue reading Surname Distribution Maps for the USA, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Austria & Switzerland on dynastree.com
The XXeme Congres Genealogie was held at Champs-sur-Marne on the edge of Paris, France from May 22 through 24, 2009. A video of a bit more than 10 minutes is now posted on YouTube. It has a music background. The Continue reading Video on the French XXeme Congres Genealogie on YouTube
The following are three data sets are recently completed projects that have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a final completion check process in preparation for future publication: Argentina Censo 1869—Catamarca y La Continue reading Recently Completed and Current FamilySearch Indexing Projects
Eleven new indexing projects were added this week, most of them international. Five of the projects are birth, marriage, and death records for France. New indexing projects added this week were: INTERNATIONAL Argentina Censo 1869—Jujuy Salta Tucuman Canada, British Columbia Continue reading New Indexing Projects at FamilySearch Indexing
The Times has obtained and posted in 13 pdf pages a list of British soldiers who fought in a series of battles in northwestern France in the First World War. These men were declared Missing In Action (MIA) and their Continue reading Searching for Information on MIAs From Battles in NW France in WWI
There are many new, upcoming, and completed indexing projects to report in this update from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch. Twelve of the projects below are new (see Current Projects). Included are three Belgian and two Argentina projects. The New York Continue reading All Kinds of Cool New Stuff Happening at FamilySearch Indexing!
I posted an item about the WWI soldiers buried at Fromelles, France just over a month ago. The soldiers are back in the news. The following is an excerpt from an article in the March 24, 2009 edition of the Continue reading Identifying the WWI Soldiers at Fromelles, France, isn’t an Easy Task
March 4, 2009: The FamilySearch indexing application is available in three new languages: Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. These languages are in addition to English, French, German, and Spanish. They have current indexing projects in all of these languages except Portuguese. Continue reading FamilySearch Indexing Update
Remains of around 400 British and Australian soldiers from the World War One are to be exhumed from a French battlefield and individually buried, it was announced yesterday. The excavation of six mass graves in Fromelles will begin in May Continue reading 400 British & Australian Fallen on French Battlefield to be Exhumed & Reburied
Vietnam and France have agreed to cooperate in the field of archives. The agreement was signed in Paris on Feb. 11 by Director of the Vietnamese State Archives Department, Vu Thi Minh Huong, and General Director of the French Archives Continue reading Vietnam & France Sign an Archives Agreement