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Tom Kemp, with GenealogyBank, just sent me a list of exciting new changes that have been made to the search capabilities in the Historic Newspaper Collection at GenealogyBank. The new search allows the following that we could not do before: Continue reading Exciting New Search Upgrades at GenealogyBank.com
UPDATE: Under pressure from subscribers, Zuckerberg backed off and reversed their policy. See his latest blog. Facebook, combined with genealogy, has become the rage in the last year. NEARLY every blogger I know now has a Facebook account and lots Continue reading Facebook Subscribers in an Uproar
Anybody want to buy a social networking site that’s losing money? Well, according to an article in the Guardian, Friends Reunited seems to be on the block. I don’t know if Genes Reunited will be caught up in any sale, Continue reading Friends Reunited is Up For Sale
The following small databases have been recently posted at the Family Tree Connection website: ALABAMA Alabama Penitentiary 1872 Report – Annual Report of the Inspector of the Alabama Penitentiary, From October 1, 1871, to October 1, 1872, to the Governor. Continue reading Family Tree Connection Database Update
The Missouri History Museum recently launched the Genealogy and Local History Index which includes references to hundreds of thousands of St. Louis ancestors. In this index, you can search by personal name, business/corporate name, or street address. (The latter search Continue reading The New Missouri History Museum “Genealogy & Local History Index” Online
World’s Leading Online Family History Resource Adds More Than 4 Million New Records to Its Civil War Collection, Including More Than 20,000 Letters Written to and from Lincoln. PROVO, UTAH – Feb. 12, 2009 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online Continue reading Ancestry Marks Lincoln’s 200th Birthday With the Launch of 5 Databases Featuring Millions of Civil War Era Records
The following news release was just received from my old friend, Claire LeBeaux, who tells me she has gone to work doing PR work for OneGreatFamily. It was good to hear from her again. Too many hits to be useful?! Continue reading Upgrades to the Online OneGreatFamily.com Database
The following is excerpted from a an article in the February 10, 2009 edition of Technology.net. Important unpublished records of the Hundred Years War are to be made available online in an innovative new project led by the University of Continue reading The Gascon Rolls – With Records of the British “100 Years War” to be Made Available Online
Schelly Talalay Dardashti, of Tracing the Tribe, posted an interesting blog today, alerting us to the fact that the New York Times had posted the infamous “Madoff List.” This list is made up of those folks who lost their money Continue reading Search the 13,000+ Name “Madoff List” in the New York Times
Juliana Smith reported this week that Ancestry.com had just posted an additional 987,415 U.S. Naturalization Records. The current update is made up of digitized original records from California, New York and Pennsylvania. According to Juliana’s blog, “Ancestry released the images Continue reading Ancestry.com Adds 987,415 U.S. Naturalization Records For California, New York & Pennsylvania
The following news release was received from Paul Nauta at FamilySearch on February 2. I looks like I just lost it in my mailbox – thus it’s not being posted until nearly a week later. Sorry… SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—FamilySearch Continue reading 1875 Norway Census Transcription Initiative Now Underway by FamilySearch Indexing Volunteers
The following small databases have been recently posted at Family Tree Connection. CALIFORNIA Mizpah Lodge No. 378, 1915 Roster – Mizpah Lodge No. 378 F. and A. M., Roster and By-Laws, 246 South Hill Street, Los Angeles, California. Arcadia Lodge Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
The Monroe County Library System has now posted high school annuals for four Rochester, New York schools. They are all in PDF format, making them individually searchable. The title of the Collection is: School Heritage Collection. The four school collections Continue reading Early Rochester, NY High School Yearbooks Now Online
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
Chris Lydiksen, at the Ancestry.com Blog, today reported that the 1925 Kansas State Census has now been posted. According the the blog, the 1925 schedules alone contained 1.8 million names. That brings the entire Kansas State Census collection 1855 through Continue reading 1925 Kansas State Census Now at Ancestry.com