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Haalloooww! I’m scribbling this on 23 Aug so as to not have you miss out on a single Week Peek’s drivel……… but today, Sept 19th, I’m joining that exclusive club of those who have had hip replacement. That’s why I Continue reading Salt Lake Christmas Tour Week Peek #41
Massive. How else do you describe a book with over 1,000 pages of Revolutionary War Pensions? Well, you could call it a brilliant reconstruction of lost records. On the 8th of November 1800 a fire razed the War Department, destroying Continue reading Revolutionary War Pensions Reconstructed
We’re spending the day at the annual Washington State Genealogical Society Conference in Richland, Washington. It’s fun for me, in that I’m getting the opportunity to see a lot of my old friends. Following is an excerpt about the conference Continue reading Washington State Genealogy Conference in Full Swing!
The following is from the September 16, 2011 edition of the Star Courier. Bishop Hill – John Anderson, of the Bishop Hill Old Settlers Association, presented a check for $1,000 to Steve Morrison, president of the Henry County Genealogical Society, Continue reading Research Updates the Bishop Hill, Red Oak & Piatt Cemeteries in Henry County, Illinois
The following teaser about the upcoming “Finding Your Roots” PBS series is from a good story published in the July 17, 2011 edition of ReadingEagle.com: The story begins with John Henry Schuker, a German immigrant who was living in Berks Continue reading A Peek at the Upcoming “Finding Your Roots” Television Series
German Maps & Facts For Genealogy is a book by by Wendy Uncapher & Linda Herrick. This book points out the uniqueness of Germany in over 100 maps including detailed historic maps of kingdoms, duchies, and principalities, to hand-rendered maps Continue reading German Maps & Facts For Genealogy
If FamilySearch only provided images, without indexes, how would that affect your research? Every birth record, death certificate, tax list, or any other document would have to be hunted down, one by one, through millions of images. Forget finding a Continue reading Volunteers Make it Possible — You Can Too!
Some Early Scots in Maritime Canada, a two-volume set by Terrence M. Punch. Referring to the Maritime Provinces of Canada, specifically New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Price Edward Island, this book covers the immigration of Scottish settlers into this region. Continue reading Some Early Scots in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
In a recent article, Millions of Civil War Service Records Added to FamilySearch, we listed the new Civil War records available at FamilySearch. Now they have added even more records. Millions more. Here is the complete list of Confederate and Continue reading Millions More Civil War Records at Family Search
Did your ancestors emigrate to the American colonies? If so, why? Was it their choice? The popular view of colonization suggests the majority of pre-revolutionary settlers came for religious freedom, to own and work one’s own land, to satisfy an Continue reading Emigrants in Chains — The Truth be Told
Ancestry.com took a hit on their stock prices today, dropping as much as 11%. I don’t think there was any connection, but the following ad parody is currently being run on the Internet. Warning, the F word with *** is Continue reading Ancestry.com Parody Ads & and a New Ad Campaign (for real!)
The following news release was posted on Marketwire today. The changes at Geni.com, with the addition of the subscription programs, have not been without controversy. WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA–(Marketwire – Sep 13, 2011) – Geni, the collaborative family history community home Continue reading Geni.com Debuts Their Geni Plus Service
The Mohawk Valley is a geographically isolated, at least by eighteenth and nineteenth century standards, section of central New York. So named after the Mohawk Indians, members of the Iroquois Confederacy, who inhabited the region. Early fur traders established the Continue reading A Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families
Family Search has added/updated some of their browsable image files. California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953: Passenger lists of those arriving in San Francisco, California, 1893-1953. 356,671 images as of 12 September 2011. Passenger lists prior to 1906 generally include the Continue reading Family Search Updates for 12–13 September, 2011
Scottish Maritime Records 1600–1850, A Guide for Family Historians is a brief but useful guide. Each section provides a short history of maritime travel and list of resources per type of seagoing endeavor. Take this example from the Fishing section Continue reading Scottish Maritime Handbook