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The following Family Search Indexing update information was received from Paul Nauta, Public Affairs Manager for FamilySearch. February 6, 2009: FamilySearch volunteers wrapped up 14 online indexing projects already in 2009 and continue to make good progress on the 38 Continue reading Family Search Indexing Update
More new items have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. Once again, the following databases are now available to search: ILLINOIS Monticello Seminary 1904-1905 Catalogue – Sixty-Seventh Annual Catalogue of the Officers, Continue reading More Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
Following is an excerpt from a BusinessWire news release found in the January 27, 2009 edition of earthtimes.org. No comment… The “bold type” emphasis is mine… CHICAGO – (Business Wire) Citing the need to have an accurate birth certificate for Continue reading Illinois Residents Sue to Have the M Changed to F on Their Birth Documents
Again, more new databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. The following databases are now available to search: ALABAMA Ensley High School 1946 Graduation – Birmingham Public Schools, Graduation Exercises of Continue reading More New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
Footnote.com sent out an update today stating the new records that can be found at their site. The following items are new or updated for January. I added a listing of cities for which Footnote earlier posted city directories. Indian Continue reading New at Footnote.com – Indian Census Rolls – City Directories – Civil War Widows’ Pensions – Arkansas Civil War Service Records
The following new Databases have recently been added to the many other “small databases” located at Family Tree Connection. I highly recommend the Family Tree Connection website, as it’s one of the few places where new “small databases” are consistently Continue reading New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
In September of 2008, The Circuit Court of Cook County announced that the Declarations of Intent (1906-1929) indexed database was going online. At that time there were approximately 140,000 records indexed and posted. I see that there are now about Continue reading A Review of the Declaration of Intention Database Now Online for Cook County, Illinois
What’s your story?… The Wabash County Museum in Mt. Carmel, Illinois would like to know your family’s story. The story of your family’s journey to the Mt. Carmel area, along the banks of the Wabash, will be saved in the Continue reading Wabash County [Illinois] Museum Looking for Journey Stories
Millions of village and town records nationwide beg to be preserved. However, in many, if not most, cases there is little chance that those records will be saved. The costs are high, and even if there are those who care, Continue reading Village Records Fade a Bit More Each Day
“A teenager whose skill at genealogical research made him something of a local celebrity died Thursday of burns he suffered in a house explosion on Wednesday (August 3, 2006). Coady Hatlen, 15, is being mourned not only by his natural Continue reading Young Carlinville, Illinois Genealogist Dies from Burns
An amazing number of cemetery and funeral home records have never been computerized in any way. How often have you pored over a cemetery map that was nearly 100 years old, faded, and tattered at the edges? And that was Continue reading Canton, Illinois’ Greenwood Cemetery Gets New Maps and History
Why would anyone be interested in a cemetery whose first burial was in 1851 and where there have not been many recent burials? For Jewish genealogists, Jewish Graceland is a treasure of our heritage. It documents members of the earliest Continue reading Chicago’s Jewish Graceland