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The following was received from the APG Professional Development Committee: Mark your calendars! Don’t miss the following upcoming APG webinars brought to you by the APG Professional Development Committee. Register soon to reserve your spot. The first webinar is scheduled Continue reading Upcoming FREE Live APG Webinars – Aug. 23 & Sept. 16
The following excerpt is from an article posted at the Montana Standard website: The Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, which occupies the former city fire station at 17 W. Quartz St., is where the city/county government record is kept, along with Continue reading The Butte-Silver Bow Montana Public Archives
Family Roots Publishing Company has put together a bundle of the three popular Kwikguides used to date, identify, and get lots of useful historical information on your old photos – making them available at a discounted price with one low Continue reading Bundle of 3 Valuable Old Photo KwikGuides Discounted 15% Thru Aug. 23
The following data is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added more than 5.1 million indexed records and images to collections from Brazil, New Zealand, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 375,900 indexed records from the Brazil, São Paulo, Continue reading FamilySearch Adds Over 5.1 Million Indexed Records & Images to Brazil, New Zealand, & the USA
Last spring we (the Meitzlers) made the decision to move home to Orting, Washington. As of July, we had been gone for 20 years, as it was in July of 1994 that we left Washington State and went on the Continue reading Family Roots Publishing & Meitzler Family Move Update
The following was received from ScotlandsPeople: Release of further 1861 Census enumeration book, and updated index for all census years! A further 1861 Census enumeration book has been indexed and is now available to search on ScotlandsPeople! 15 pages for Continue reading 1861 Census Enumeration Book Pages for Milton and Glasgow Posted at ScotlandsPeople
The following excerpt is from an article by Kate Clements posted on the 1914.org website: Illustrated London News Ltd (ILN) has launched a website featuring 1914-1918 archive material from the Illustrated London News, the world’s first illustrated magazine, and seven Continue reading The Illustrated London News Posts WWI-Era News Magazine Archival Materials
The following excerpt is from from a blog post written by Eric Shoup, received from Matthew Deighton, Sr. Public Relations Specialist at Ancestry.com: This past June, we [Ancestry.com] announced that we were retiring the MyCanvas website and service in September Continue reading MyCanvas Finds a New Home in Alexander’s
Hello again! It is only 118 days until our annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour rendezvous in Salt Lake City. We still have some spots left and if you are interested, I urge you to click to www.saltlakechristmastour.com and read and see Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour……………. Week’s Peek
The following was received from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added more than 10 million indexed records and images to collections from Canada, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, New Zealand, South Korea, Ukraine, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 3,427,354 Continue reading FamilySearch Adds Over 10M Indexed Records & Images for Canada, Czech Republic, Ukraine, & USA
Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores is a scholarly book, full of details and amassed facts in an effort to explain the mass migrations from the war torn Rhine Valley in the Continue reading Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores
Growing up I read my share of novels. Many of these included fantasy stories where taverns often play a major role as meeting place, rest stop, and center of information. Then there were the stories of the “wild west” where Continue reading Stage-Coach and Tavern Days
The Board for Certification of Genealogists [BCG] has just released a major upgrade to its book, Genealogy Standards: 50th Anniversary Edition. For the record, that is 50 years of the BCG. The guidebook is 14 years old. The Standards were Continue reading Genealogy Standards: 50th Anniversary Edition – On Sale for 15% Off Thru Thursday, March 6
The following article by my good friend, William Dollarhide: “Bleeding Kansas” is a reference to the bloody battles that took place in Kansas Territory from its founding in 1854 to statehood in 1861. Kansas Territory was a pre-Civil War battlefield Continue reading Bleeding Kansas – Part 1: Historical Timeline – Events Leading to “Bleeding Kansas”
The following news release was received from Amy Sell: More than 8 million newspaper pages from 1710-1954 are now available to search at The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk). In the last month, the website has started digitising the newspaper archives Continue reading The British Newspaper Archive Starts Digitizing 8 New Titles