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The following newspaper titles were recently added to the family history archives found in GenealogyBank.com and ObitsArchive.com. They recently added more than 104 newspapers from 35 states – over 130 million new articles. ObitsArchive.com NEW CONTENT: (1977 to present day) Continue reading New at GenealogyBank.com
I just got a note from my friend, Illya D’Addezio, telling me that genealogists can now view results from the Record Search pilot from within Live Roots. “The FamilySearch Record Search pilot include millions of indexed records, and is expanding Continue reading FamilySearch Pilot Database & Documents Now Searchable at LiveRoots
I got a note from my friend, Tom Kemp, this morning, apprising me of the fact that GenealogyBank.com is now up to over 280 African-American newspapers in their online offerings. The following is from the website: This fully searchable and Continue reading African American Newspapers 1827-1999 Added at GenealogyBank.com
The following databases have been added at The Original Record: 1130-1770 – Bodleian Library Charters and Rolls A large accumulation of documents preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, formerly constituted the antiquarian collections of Anthony a Wood, Roger Dodsworth, Ralph Continue reading More British Databases Posted at The Original Record
One of the resources that we were informed about on January 8 when the bloggers visited Ancestry.com was the 1950 census substitute. Ancestry.com announced this last week that the resource was now posted. This “substitute” for the yet-to-be-released 1950 census Continue reading The New 1950 Census Substitute at Ancestry.com
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection: CONNECTICUT Montville First Congregational Church 1875 Manual – Manual of the First Congregational Church, Montville, Conn, 1875. Connecticut College for Women 1929-1930 Catalogue – Sixteenth Annual Catalogue of Connecticut Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
The following news release is directly from the Oregon State Archives website. As a legacy to the sesquicentennial of Oregon’s statehood, the Oregon State Archives presents the Early Oregonians Database. The information that can be found in the database is Continue reading Early Oregonians Database Now Available
It seems that the staid British National Archives is coming forward in support of the sale of Friends Reunited to Brightsolid. The sale has been somewhat in doubt, as the “Competition Commission” has expressed reluctance to allowing the sale to Continue reading British National Archives Backs Sale of Friends Reunited to Brightsolid – to Give Ancestry Some Competition
The following small databases have been posted at Family Tree Connection in the last several weeks. CONNECTICUT Connecticut College for Women 1926-1927 Catalogue – Thirteenth Annual Catalogue of Connecticut College. Announcements for 1927-1928. Published at New London, Connecticut, March 30, Continue reading New at Family Tree Connection
Tom Mooney wrote a good column for the Times Leader today. It included suggestions on how to go about locating online data for Northeastern Pennsylvania. One important bit of information I got from the article is that The Sunday Independent, Continue reading Searching the Wilkes-Barre “Sunday Independent” 1913-1927
There was a good article by Kimball Perry posted at cincinnati.com last week that dealt with the many records posted by the Hamilton County Probate Court. It set me to searching records at the site, and I can tell you Continue reading Hamilton County, Ohio, Digitized Documents Online
The following databases have been added at The Original Record in the last week: 1766-1769 – Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Books: Country Collectors’ Returns Apprenticeship indentures and clerks’ articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound stamp duty: Continue reading New at the Original Record
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History’s Archives and History Section has been posting birth, marriage, and death data, as well as images, at their website for some time. They now have over 5 million records indexed and available Continue reading West Virginia Online Vital Records Reviewed
The following databases have been posted at The Original Record website in the last two weeks: 1763-1766 – Board of Stamps Apprenticeship Books: Country Collectors’ Returns Apprenticeship indentures and clerks’ articles were subject to a 6d or 12d per pound Continue reading New Databases Posted at The Original Record
Scotland’s People has now released the new years statutory images containing records from the Statutory Register of Births for 1909, the Statutory Register of Marriages for 1934, and the Statutory Register of Deaths for 1959.