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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
Thanks to Paul Nauta for the following info: 20 May 2009: Thirteen collections were added or updated on the FamilySearch Record Search pilot—over 3.5 million new records. International researchers will be excited to know that collections were added for Brazil, Continue reading 3.5 Million New Records, Including Brazil, Czech Republic and Italy, Added at the FamilySearch Record Search Pilot Website
I’ve blogged twice about the destruction in Italy several days back. Once soon after the earthquake happened, with a photo of the purported State Archives, and later with further updates. In a phone conversation this morning with Anthony Alioto, with Continue reading Photographed Damaged Building in L’Aquila is the Prefettura – and Not Archives as Reported
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!
Over the last two days, I’ve been blogging the tragic loss of lives (now up to 260, including 16 children), and historic structures in the area of L’Aquila, Italy. I’m finding that most of the reporting, as well as the Continue reading Crumbled Cultural & Historic Sites in Italian Earthquake May Get Outside-the-Country Aid
UPDATE: April 7, 2009: The full extent of the destruction of historic buildings, churches, archives, and such in the area of the regional capital of L’Aquila is impossible to gauge at this time. It’s said that getting around in the Continue reading State Archives in L’Aquila, Italy Destroyed in Quake
swissinfo has launched an interactive, multimedia special [website] aimed at people whose ancestors left Italian-speaking Switzerland for a better life abroad. The second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th was a period of great upheaval as Continue reading “We Shall Not Stay Long” – The Story of Swiss-Italian Migrations
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
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received a gift Monday from her counterpart in the Italian legislature – the birth certificates of her grandparents. ”We know how proud you are of your Italian roots,” said Chamber of Deputies Speaker Gianfranco Fini Continue reading Nancy Pelosi Receives Her Grandparents’ Italian Birth Certificates
My friend, Jim Derheim has launched an archive of his photos online at www.europeanfocus.com. To see his work, click on the tab that says “Ancestral Villages Photography” (illustration below). It is visible at the upper right side of the page. Continue reading European Focus Puts European Village Photography Online
You would think that where you have a civilization – seemingly living in an area for millennia – that DNA tests would show that them to be descended from ancient burials in the area. It seems this doesn’t hold true Continue reading The DNA Says the Tuscans of Central Italy are Not Descended from the Etruscans