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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
Having a name like Meitzler immediately brands me as having a Germanic ancestry. It just happens that my great-grandfather was from Kriegsfeld, Rhinepfalz, Germany, and he married great-grandmother Elizabeth Damm, who was born nearby in Albishiem, Rhinefalz, Germany. So I’m Continue reading Germanic Surnames
Map Guide to German Parish Registers, Kingdom of Saxony II, Volume 26 of the series was just published. Soft cover books on standing order were shipped on Wednesday, September 16. This volume includes a total of 2,894 places – mostly Continue reading Map Guide to German Parish Registers, Saxony II, Covering Chemnitz, Dresden, and Bautzen, Now Available
Map Guide to German Parish Registers, Kingdom of Saxony I, is now shipping in both soft and hard-bound editions. This volume includes a total of 2,375 places – mostly towns, found in the Kreishauptmannschäfter of Leigpzig and Zwickau. The entire Continue reading Map Guide to German Parish Registers, Kingdom of Saxony I, is Now Shipping
Volume 25 of the Map Guide to German Parish Registers series is now at press. This volume includes a total of 2,375 places – mostly towns, found in the Kingdom of Saxony regions of Leigpzig and Zwickau. The entire area Continue reading Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Kingdom of Saxony I – at the Press
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
I’ve blogged several times about the collapse of the Archives in Cologne, Germany. I can finally give my readers another update. It seems that the collapse of the Cologne city archives three months ago could have been worse. Not all Continue reading Large Portions of the Cologne City Archives Documents Are Saved
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
The following news release was written by TGN staff. I will do a full review of the new database later in the week. 20th Century German Phone Books feature over 35 million names including Albert Einstein, Actress Marlene Dietrich and Continue reading Ancestry Posts Digitized German Phone Directories 1915-1981
UPDATE: The Thurginia – soft bound – volumes are now shipping. Hard bound books are expected to ship on May 19. See the index posted below to see if your town is included. Following five months of constant writing and Continue reading German Map Guide Volume 24 – Thuringia – is at Press!
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!
The Cologne city Archives collapsed last week – and I blogged about the tragic event at that time. Since then, my friend, Donna Potter Phillips, has been corresponding with a friend (Cookie), who lives near Frankfurt. The following is an Continue reading Personal Observations on the Collapse of the Cologne City Archives
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
UPDATE: Read about just how bad this disaster was in the March 4, 2009 article titled “Archive Collapse Disaster for Historians” in Spiegel Online. The Cologne City Archive in Germany collapsed today. It seems that all the employees are safe. Continue reading Cologne City Archive Collapses in Germany
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