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Dutch Are Still With Us; They Gave Us Cookies! Public Libraries: Worth Investigating Southerners Who Went To Brazil After the Civil War Uploading & Downloading GEDCOM Files on Ancestry Do You Believe in Dowsing Rods? Just finished studying (cannot Continue reading Serendipity Day
** Genealogy’s Star: A Must-Read Blog (in my opinion) & YouTube Channel ** Washington’s Colville Tribes Selected For The Next U.S. Census Test **Insects: Future Or Past Food? **How To Ensure All Will Be Lost James Tanner crafts Continue reading Serendipity Day
What a happy ending! After all these years, family historians are no longer discouraged by futile searches into that formerly hidden and unorganized body of German censuses. Let’s sit back and listen to the cheers –from both sides of the Continue reading The Reviews Are In. German Census Records 1816-1916 Gets Raves
A variety of small collection updates this week including Ecuador Catholic Church Records 1565‐2011, Germany Prussia East Prussia Königsberg Funeral Sermons 1597‐1794, Guam Judicial Land Obituaries and Census Records 1712‐2000, Ontario District Marriage Registers 1801‐1858, and can you believe, Zimbabwe Continue reading New FamilySearch Collections Update: May 9, 2016
MyHeritage Launches Global Pro Bono Initiative to Document the Family Histories of Remote Tribes Tribal Quest team members visit indigenous communities to create their family trees and record their family stories online, preserving them for future generations TEL AVIV, Israel Continue reading Announcing new Pro Bono initiative: Tribal Quest
How many presidents have visited YOUR town? Ancient Mohawk Cemetery in New York Eight Critical Thinking Skills Oregon-California Trails Association Is there a book with my family mentioned? Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia Blurb in our daily paper explained that Continue reading Serendipity Day
Under U.S. President McKinley, the United States took possession of the Philippines, and took responsibility of The Philippines. U.S. servicemen fathered children with Filipino women and then… The Many (Forgotten) Faces of America When the US naval bases in the Continue reading Filipino Amerasians – America’s Forgotten Children
Millions of new US an international records this week including Philippines Civil Registration (National) 1945-1984, New Zealand Archives New Zealand Probate Records 1843-1998, Massachusetts Town Clerk Vital and Town Records 1626-2001, France Saône-et-Loire Military Conscriptions 1867-1940, Russia Tatarstan Church Books Continue reading New FamilySearch Database Collections Update as of May 2, 2016
University of California, Berkeley has launched a new digital archive covering Chinese immigration to the United States between 1884-1944. “From 1882 to 1943 the United States Government severely curtailed immigration from China to the United States. This Federal policy resulted Continue reading Chinese Immigration to the United States, 1882-1944 Digital Archive
Even if you don’t live in the Pacific Northwest, you know some local geography……….. like the Strait of Juan de Fuca separating the U.S. and Canada. Just learned that the man for whom the strait was named was a Greek! Continue reading Serendipity from Donna
I need to first make a sincere apology. For years I have been telling people that there were very few German censuses taken – with a small number of exceptions. I didn’t know what I was talking about. I guess Continue reading German Census Records 1816-1916 – A Groundbreaking New Genealogy Resource
The fallowing news release is from Find My Past Today, 09 April 2016, over 911,000 records of British Royal Navy pensions have been published online for the first time at Findmypast. The publication, released in association with The National Archives, Continue reading Findmypast Publishes over 911,000 Royal Navy Pension Records Online for the First Time
The following excerpt is from newsweek.com The remnants of the worst engineering disaster of 20th-century America sit about an hour’s drive from downtown Los Angeles… Eighty-eight years ago, the St. Francis Dam burst in the middle of a March night, Continue reading An Engineering Disaster on Edge of L.A. Left Nearly 500 Forgotten Deaths
The following excerpt is from m.obsentinel.com Scott Dawson, a native of Hatteras Island and now a resident of Colington, has shared the location of a discovery he made on National Park Service property with that agency, which has now secured Continue reading Lost Roanoke Colony’s Ft. Raleigh? New Find on Roanoke Island Creates Stir
The following teaser is from an article posted on usatoday.com The Nazis aimed to erase the Jewish people. Now, 70 years later, contributors around the globe are etching victims’ names back into memory through an online memorial that’s just hit Continue reading Online database of Holocaust victims hits 1 million records