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The following News Release was received from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch: FamilySearch Kicks Off 2011 with the Addition of 90 Million New Online Records Includes 18 Million Digital Images from 13 Countries No doubt family history enthusiasts will have a Continue reading FamilySearch Kicks Off 2011 with the Addition of 90 Million New Online Records
The following announcement is a month old, but since I missed it, I figure a few of my readers may have missed it also. Library and Archives Canada Announces Suite of Digital Services for Canadians by 2017 OTTAWA, December 7, Continue reading Library and Archives Canada Digitizing Records
Randy Majors posted a fascinating research report a couple weeks ago detailing how he broke a brick wall caused by his ancestor having changed the family surname from Baumgardner to Brown. Mr. Majors was able to make the breakthrough by Continue reading From Baumgardner to Brown – or How to Baffle Your Descendants…
The following databases have been added at The Original Record this week. The following was written by The Original Records staff: 1272 Northamptonshire Forest Pleas Much of eastern Northamptonshire lay in the jurisdiction of the Forest of Rockingham. Forest pleas Continue reading New Databases this Weeks at The Original Record
The following news release was received from Natasha White, Marketing & PR Executive, Genes Reunited: 100 Centenarians Found on the 1911 census for England & Wales & the Number of Centenarians Quadruples in the Last 30 years The team at Continue reading Aging Through the Ages – Study at Genes Reunited
The following news release was received from Amy Sell at FindMyPast.co.uk: Over 9 million family history records available online today Findmypast.co.uk to host Society’s collection in centenary year Today the Society of Genealogists in London and leading family history website Continue reading Society of Genealogists’ Collection Now Online at FindMyPast.co.uk
On the 16th of December, Ancestry.com posted the Maine Vital Records from data found at the Maine State Archives. The records themselves are transcriptions of births, marriages and deaths that took place statewide. They are digitzed, and indexed. These are Continue reading New Online Maine Vital Records Databases
Noting that additional data had been added to the the Germany Vital Records databases at FamilySearch.org in the last two days, I spent a few minutes checking them out, thinking that there wasn’t much possibility that I’d find MY ancestors Continue reading The German Vital Records Databases at FamilySearch.org Continue to Grow
Ancestry.com just posted the “Indenture of Apprenticeship Recorded in the Orphans Court, Washington County, District of Columbia, 1801-1811.” It’s a hand-written digitized volume (originally from microfilm M2011), with the index preceding the indentures. You can browse the index or use Continue reading Washington D.C. Apprenticeship Records 1801-1811 Digitized & Posted at Ancestry.com
Prompted by an item on Dick Eastman’s blog this morning, I checked out the new National Archives sponsored Online Public Access site posted at Archives.gov. First, the following press release was posted December 27 at Archives.gov: National Archives Launches Online Continue reading The New NARA Online Public Search Site is Powerful!
The following news release was written by FamilySearch.org staff, and courtesy of Paul Nauta: 29 December 2010 First Polish Indexing Project Now Available FamilySearch Indexing now has projects available in 11 languages, with the addition of the first project in Continue reading Lots of New Projects at FamilySearch, including the 1st Polish Indexing Project
The following news release was just received from Paul Nauta at FamilySearch. Updated Site Now Available; More Improvements to Come SALT LAKE CITY–FamilySearch announced several changes today for its family history website, FamilySearch.org. Online patrons will find millions of new Continue reading Big Changes at FamilySearch.org
The following news release was received from Paul Nauta At FamilySearch.org: October 27, 2010: People with ancestors from Ghana now have free online access to valuable census records, the first images from that African country to be published on FamilySearch. Continue reading Over 2M Records From 6 Countries Just Posted at Beta.FamilySearch.org
The following news release was received from Tom Champoux, with the New England Historic Genealogical Society. AmericanAncestors.org reflects the organization’s expanding national collection and resources. Boston, MA August 19, 2010: D. Brenton Simons, President and CEO of the Continue reading NEHGS Launches New Website – AmericanAncestors.org
Following is an excerpt from a fascinating article dealing with various “famous folks” wills. Ancestry.co.uk is posting 6 million English & Welsh wills running from 1861 to 1941. If you do a Google News search, you’ll come up with all Continue reading Six Million British English & Welsh Wills 1861-1941 Going On Line