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This last week we scanned over 1000 more pictures from my collection. This time it was pictures taken during the 1980s and 90s while traveling the United States doing what we called “Heritage Quest Road Shows.” The photos varied dramatically, Continue reading Scanning With My Flip-Pal – and My Best Flip-Pal Offer Yet!
With the Louisiana Purchase St. Louis effectively became the gateway to the western frontier. After the purchase from France, many of the pre-1803 vital records and historical documents of the are were sent to the United States government, though some Continue reading St. Louis Family History Research Guide
The following infographic was received from Julie Hill at Archives.com:
The following was received from MyHeritage: World’s largest family network unveils new mobile experience for searching historical records, including the 1940 U.S. Census, on iPhone, iPad and Android PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – April 5, 2012: Continue reading MyHeritage Releases Mobile App For On-The-Go Discoveries
The following was received from Mathew Deighton at Ancestry.com this afternoon: Ancestry.com is proud to announce the first indexed states of the 1940 U.S. Census are now ready for searching. After 72 years being held from public view, the Nevada Continue reading Ancestry Has Finished the Indexing of the 1940 Delaware & Nevada Censuses
The following news release was received from FamilySearch: 4 April 2012: The 1940 U.S. Census is here and the 1940 US Census Community Project has kicked off to a great start! The excitement and enthusiasm for this project is far Continue reading The 1940 U.S. Census Now Being Indexed by the US Census Community Project – Delaware Finished
As you most likely already know, MyHeritage was the first company to have all images of the 1940 Census fully available on their website. They did it in about 48 hours. MyHeritage will be exhibiting and presenting in person and Continue reading MyHeritage to Exhibit at the Houston and Albuquerque Family History Expos
MyHeritage clearly won the race to get the 1940 census up – and they are now busy producing indexes. See the following news release: PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – April 4, 2012: To satisfy the great Continue reading MyHeritage Publishes All 1940 US Census Images
FindMyPast.com is offering to find and notify us that they have located specific ancestors for us as soon as they have that ancestor’s state indexed. This sound like a good service for busy people (most of us!). Keep in mind Continue reading FindMyPast Sets up Program to Find Our Ancestors and Notify Us as Soon as They are Indexed
I just got the following note from Stephen Morse: The stats are in for my One-Step site on the first day of the census. The site normally gets between 100,000 and 200,000 hits a day. Yesterday, April 2, it got Continue reading Stephen Morse’s One-Step Site gets 2,248,987 Hits on April 2, 2012
I just got off the phone with Gilad Japhet, the CEO of MyHeritage.com. He was calling from near Tel Aviv, Israel. He was calling about the fact that they now have 60% of the 1940 U.S. Census images posted on Continue reading 1940 US Census: MyHeritage Publishes 2 Million Images & Unveils the First Indexed Records for Free Searches
The following was received from my good friend, Dan Lynch: It seemed only fitting that I should find President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 Census, enumerated exactly 72 years to the day from when he appears to have provided Continue reading Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 Census
The following news release was received from findmypast.com: Chuck Norris tops “Class of 1940” – voted America’s favorite “fantasy relative” Al Pacino second, Martin Sheen third in IBOPE Zogby poll for findmypast.com – marking the 1940 Census release April 2 Continue reading 1940 Census: Chuck Norris tops “Class of 1940” – voted America’s favorite “fantasy relative”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 2, 2012) – The 1940 U.S. Census Community Project—a joint initiative between the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Archives.com, FamilySearch.org, findmypast.com, and other leading genealogy organizations—announced today a national service project to create a free, high Continue reading 1940 U.S. Census Community Project Announces Call For Volunteers to Create Free, Searchble Database of 1940 U.S. Census Records
The 1940 census was released today, 72 years after it was taken. Many different websites now have the images from the census available for review, but none come with an index. An index is not part of the release, nor Continue reading Help Make a 1940 Census Index a Reality