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The following news release was written by The Society of Genealogists staff: The Society of Genealogists and Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd are pleased to announce a new joint online course called I’m Stuck! How can the Society of Genealogists Continue reading The Society of Genealogists Takes Its Courses Online With Pharos
The following new small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection. CALIFORNIA The California Club 1907 – California Club, Los Angeles, California, By-Laws and House Rules with List of Members, July 1907, Fifth and Hill Street, Los Angeles. Oriental Continue reading More New Small Databases at Family Tree Connection
The Irish Times is celebrating their 150th year in circulation by opening up free public access to the newspaper’s digital archives. The Archives goes all the way back to March 29, 1859. Note that the free access won’t last long, Continue reading The Irish Times, 1859-2009 – Digital Archive Available FREE through April 5
The following news release was written by Generations Network staff. Note that although the records are being announced as available at Ancestry.co.uk, all the records described in this release are available on Ancestry.com as part of the World Deluxe subscription, Continue reading Workhouses, Wills, Churches & More – 400 Years of London History Launches (i) at Ancestry.co.uk
The following press release was written by Footnote.com staff: Collection Includes the First-Ever Interactive 1930 US Census, and Becomes the Gathering Place for America’s Story LINDON, Utah – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Footnote.com, the premier history website for original content, announced Continue reading Footnote.com Releases Great Depression Collection
The Wells County Public Library in Bluffton, Indiana has two online resources that genealogists need to be aware of. First, they have an online Bluffton Obituary Index that runs from 1866 through the year 2000. Secondly, the Cemetery Index for Continue reading Wells County, Indiana Online Obituary & Cemetery Indexes
The following News Release was written by Ancestry.com staff: PROVO, Utah, March 25 /PRNewswire/ – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, today launched the World Archives Project, a new initiative dedicated to digitally preserving millions of the Continue reading Ancestry’s World Archives Project Launches Video News Release
You can now find families from not only West Yorkshire, but East and North Yorkshire as well as other areas of Britain (not all are posted yet), in the 1911 British Census at www.1911census.co.uk And if you happen to be Continue reading Michael Parkinson’s Roots are Found in the 1911 British Census of Yorkshire
Michael Mansfield, a product manager at FamilySearch and a database expert, spoke at the BYU Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy on March 14. He listed a number of things that the researcher should do do locate your ancestor Continue reading Nine Things You Can Do to Find Your Ancestor Within Databases
The following News Release was written by DCL staff: FRESH MEADOWS, N.Y., March 24 /PRNewswire/ – Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. (DCL), providing conversion services and software to publishers, industry, government, libraries and documentation developers, has announced the completion of several Continue reading Data Conversion Projects Completed for Accessible Archives
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection recently: CALIFORNIA California Pioneer Women Association 1926 Roster – The Association of Pioneer Women of California, Officers and Members, Honorary and Deceased Members, Past Presidents, Charter Members. Printed June Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon has some good indexes for those of us with Oregon roots. Each index is preceeded by an explanatory paragraph or two about the resource. If a copy service for the original document is available, fees Continue reading Fourteen Important Oregon Indexes Found at the GFO Website
Thousands of Post Offices have come and gone. Many of these offices operated where our ancestors are recorded as having lived. Today we might look at a map and find that no such place exists. A quick way to ascertain Continue reading A Listing of Over 200,000 United States Post Offices Found Online
Digital records from the Pennsylvania State Archives ARIAS (Archives Records Information Access System) have been available online at the Archives website for some time now. The databases are as as listed and linked below. Go to: www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp Pennsylvania National Guard Continue reading ARIAS: Pennsylvania State Archives Records Online
Over the last several days, I’ve been going back and looking at websites with digitized books that I use quite often, but haven’t written about for some time. I reviewed the books at HeritageQuest Online, and yesterday I brought you Continue reading Search Over 30,000 Genealogy & Local History Titles at the Family History Archives