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Ancestry.com has just launched a new feature that I guarantee I’ll use a lot. Ancestry.com subscribers can now share records and documents found on Ancestry.com with non-subscribers through Facebook, Twitter & Email. Once I “Share This Record” by clicking on Continue reading Share Documents You Find at Ancestry With Your Relatives – Instantly
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
The following Content Updates are from Gary Gibb, VP U.S. Content at Ancestry.com. This information was included in an email received October 6, 2009 from Anastasia Tyler, PR and Events Manager. The following collections are coming soon to Ancestry.com: Improved Continue reading Coming Soon at Ancestry.com
NEHGS has posted 6 major genealogical periodicals on their website. These are: The NEHGS Register – posting still in progress, to be complete in 2010 The Connecticut Nutmegger New Netherland Connections The American Genealogist (TAG) The Virginia Genealogist New England Continue reading NEHGS Provides Access to a Growing Suite of Premier Genealogical Journals
Ancestry.com has now posted the “Honolulu, Hawaii Passenger Lists -1900-1953.” The Honolulu Passenger Lists consists of inbound vessel passenger manifests for February 1900 to December 1953. The following description is from the Ancestry.com website: This data collection contains inbound passenger Continue reading Ancestry Posts “Honolulu, Hawaii Passenger Lists -1900-1953”
In a news release this morning, Ancestry.com announced that they have digitized the “Death Records of American Citizens Abroad, 1910-1974.” These records were formerly in paper format at the National Archives and could only be accessed in the research rooms Continue reading Ancestry.com Posts “Death Records of American Citizens Abroad, 1910-1974”
Ancestry.com has had an agreement with NARA to scan documents on-site at the National Archives since May of 2008. They have now obtained permission to scan at their own facility off-site, which they believe will allow the digitization of 5 Continue reading Ancestry.com Expands Partnership with the National Archives Through New Off-Site Scanning Location
In browsing the blogs this evening, I ran across an interesting article called “Filling in That 10-Year Gap,” by Allison Aston at The ProGenealogists Blog. Allison writes about a family whose children were in an orphanage for a period of Continue reading The 10-Year Gap
Thanks for nominating GenealogyBlog for Family Tree Magazine‘s 40 Best GenealogyBlogs. It’s now time to vote – and there are some great blogs in the running! The voting is done by category with the following categories being listed (in the Continue reading Vote for GenealogyBlog for Family Tree Magazine’s Top 40
On September 15, Dick Eastman wrote an article entitled, Survey: Please Tell Us About Your Experiences. He asked the readers of his newsletter to answer an online questionnaire about their genealogy interests, genealogy software, their computers and their Internet connections. Continue reading Dick Eastman Reports on the Response to “Please Tell Us About Your Experiences”
If you’re anywhere near Oakland, California next weekend, you will want to attend a program being sponsored by the California Genealogical Society. Thomas MacEntee and Craig Manson will speak on the subject of blogging. The Saturday, October 10, 2009 Program: Continue reading Bloggers to Speak for the California Genealogical Society
The shear numbers of records found at the FamilySearch labs website are mind boggling. Within the digitized records now found posted at the site are quite a number of State Census records. Records for Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Continue reading State Census Records Found at FamilySearch Labs
The FamilySearch Center in the Joseph Smith Building is getting a full upgrade – and progress on the digitization of the Granite Mountain microfilm is moving ahead at a terrific pace. According to Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch, all that film Continue reading All 2.5 M Granite Mountain Films May be Digitized by Early Next Year
The following news release is from marketwire.com: TORONTO, ONTARIO – (Marketwire – Sept. 28, 2009) – In honour of the birthday today of two of the most absurdly named children the world has ever known – Pilot Inspektor, son of Continue reading Ancestry.ca Reveals the Most Interesting Baby Names in Canadian History
Diane Haddad, at Genealogy Insider, wrote on September 30 that she had learned a new word – that being “Catablog.” Because of Diane’s blog post, I and a lot of other folks also learned the new word – and a Continue reading Diane Haddad Writes About Catablogs