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A new Google guide is available! Tracing Your Ancestors – Genealogy Research Using Google; by Lisa Alzo; 2021; 66 pp; Soft Cover magazine format; Saddle-Stapled; ISBN: 978-1-926510-15-6; Item #: MM035 The latest Tracing Your Ancestors publication is one of the best Continue reading NEW: Tracing Your Ancestors – Genealogy Research Using Google – 20% Off at the FRPC Website
Great news! The following News Release is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch Completes Digitization of Massive Microfilm Collection Effort makes billions of global genealogy records freely available online September 21, 2021; SALT LAKE CITY, UT—It is a milestone 83 years in the Continue reading FamilySearch Completes Microfilm Digitization Program
A new At a Glance quick guide has been published. This one covers doing research for your Ukraine ancestors. Genealogy at a Glance: Ukrainian Genealogy Research; Vera Ivanova Miller; 2021; 4 pages; Folded; 8.5×11; laminated; ISBN: 9780806321172; Item #: GPC3833 Continue reading NEW: Genealogy at a Glance: Ukrainian Genealogy Research – 10% off
The following News Release was posted a couple weeks ago, but I’m just now getting it up on my blog. These records contain all kinds of ancestral information – and not just for African-Americans. I did some searches for my Continue reading Ancestry® Adds New Freedmen’s Bureau Collection that Enables Family History Discoveries for Descendants of Formerly Enslaved People
The following databases have been posted at FindMyPast this Friday: Warwickshire Parish Records Findmypast have added hundreds of thousands of new baptism, marriage and burial records from St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham. Specifically, the new releases cover: Over Continue reading New Warwickshire Vital Records & Newspapers Posted at FindMyPast this Week
Since Covid hit us, Kevan Hansen has continued to write, and Family Roots Publishing has continued to publish more volumes of the series, Map Guide to German Parish Registers. All the volumes have dealt with big cities of Germany. Research Continue reading New German Map Guides Now Available – Big Cities – Vol. 60-65
Research in Maryland – a NGS Research in the States series guide; NGS Special Publication Number 137 by Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL and Debra A. Hoffman, PLCGS; GUGA, FVGS; 2021; Soft Cover; Saddle Stapled; 8.5 x 11; 54 pp; Continue reading NEW: Maryland – a NGS Research in the States Series Guide – New Edition
Alabama – a NGS Research in the States Guide; by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson JD, LLM, CG, CGL; 2021; Soft Cover; Saddle Stapled; 54 pages (48 numbered), NGS Special Publication Number 136; ISBN: 978-1-935815-48-8; Item#: NGS41; $20 Alabama has a long, rich, Continue reading NEW: Alabama – a NGS Research in the States Guide
Ancestry is offering Free Access to Occupational-related records at their website – but only through Labor Day 2021. That’s Monday, September 6. This includes the 1920 and 1930 U.S., which both have this type of information. Search for Occupational Records Continue reading Free Access Through Labor Day for Occupational Related Records at Ancestry.com
MyHeritage is offering free access to all the census records on their site through September 8. Search now. The Census & Voter Lists category on MyHeritage encompasses a vast repository of over 1.3 billion records, including census records from the Continue reading Free Access to All Census Records at MyHeritage Through Sept. 8
The following is from FamilySearch: SALT LAKE CITY, UT–FamilySearch expanded its free online collections this week with more Catholic Church records from Mexico (Jalisco 1590–1979, Puebla 1545–1977, San Luis Potosí 1586–1977, and Tlaxcala 1576–1994), civil registrations from Guatemala (Alta Verapaz 1877–1994, Baja Verapaz 1877–1994, Chimaltenango 1877–1994, El Progreso 1877–1994, Escuintla 1877–1994, Huehuetenango 1877–1994, Izabal 1877–1994, Jalapa 1877–1994, Jalapa 1877–1994, Retalhuleu 1877–1994, and Sololá 1877-1994), and tax assessment rolls from Canada (Ontario 1834–1899). US collections added voter registrations from Louisiana (Orleans and St. Continue reading New Databases at FamilySearch the Week of 30 August 2021
The following excerpt is from communityimpact.com. Fort Bend County Libraries will offer a new high-performance microfilm scanner to the Genealogy and Local History Department at George Memorial Library in Richmond, according to a press release from FBCL. According to the Continue reading Microfilm Scanner Added at the George Memorial Library Genealogy Dept., Richmond, Texas
I ran across an article that proposes to sell their report on the global genetic genealogy market. The report is 120 pages in PDF format and comes at a cost of only $4900!! From my standpoint and those of most Continue reading The Global Genetic Genealogy Market
The following news release was posted at Business Wire, via Yahoo! Finance. LEHI, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO, August 31, 2021 Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Geneanet, a Continue reading Ancestry.com Acquires French Genealogy Company – Geneanet
Sad news – my friend, Connie Bradbury, passed away on the 20th of August. During the “Heritage Quest” years, Connie and I worked together on Alaska-oriented genealogy projects. She will be missed. Following is an excerpt from her obituary in Continue reading Connie Bradbury 1939-2021: RIP