APG members have until midnight on July 1st (tomorrow night!) to receive the $40 discount on the Professional Management Conference to be held in Boston, August 30, 2006.
Join the throngs of already registered genealogists, librarians, editors, booksellers, software developers, speakers, historians, librarians, archivists, and others in Boston, Massachusetts at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and the […]
A word to authors - If you’re going to thank people for their help in the “acknowledgements section” of your book - make sure they actually helped you - and know who you are! It seems that Mr. Tweedie upset a few academics (whom he acknowledged) that didn’t come to the same controversial historical […]
Propelled by a £4.3 million (7.95 million dollar) grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, plans are surging ahead to begin construction of a £10.2 million (18.85 million dollar) Highland Archive Centre. The new Centre will be built near the Floral Hall in Inverness, Scotland.
The centre will house documents relating to the Highland Clearances, the […]
Gail Roberts, a columnist for Greensboro’s News & Record, writes a good column this week about having received a phone call from someone who claimed to be a cousin. I found it fascinating, for I know that her response to the call wasn’t unusual. When I make those calls, I get the same type of […]
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection since I last blogged the site. The website, specializing in data extracted from pamplets, rosters, membership lists and such, now has over 600,000 searchable entries - and grows daily.
ALABAMA
Anniston 1924 Telephone Directory - Telephone Directory. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. […]
This book deals in-depth with the families of Kent County, Delaware (except when noted): Allen (Kent and Sussex), Bailey/ Bayley (Kent and Sussex), Barrett, Hall (Kent and Sussex), Collins (Kent and Sussex), Hodgson, McClement, Melvin, and Spruance.
The data in this book is compiled from many sources, the majority primary documents. Families are detailed by generation […]
A day or two ago, I recommended the new Second Edition of Rose and Ingalls’ Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy. It was pointed out to me this evening that the first edition is available online - all 353 pages of it! For those of you that may be considering the Second Edition, Click here and you […]
It seems that the flooding in the nation’s capital has knocked out the National Archives’ Air conditioning units, placing documents in jepardy. They brought in massive dehumidifiers to alleviate the problem. Water covered part of the theatre area, causing damage. It’s said that the Archives will be closed at least through Monday. Developing…
WASHINGTON - The […]
The new Ancestry.ca website now boasts over 13 million searchable people in their databases. The announcement was made today that they have posted the 1901 census, as well as the 1906 census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. They had already published the 1911 data. These censuses are indexed, with the indexes linked to the images. […]
The following excerpt is from a fascinating article about the Brits’ own Tony Robinson - and his passion for genealogy. The man speaks of ancestry research as “archaeology without the muddy hands.”
Radical genealogy. They’re not words that usually go together. But Tony Robinson isn’t the usual kind of history presenter. He’s not so much the […]
Welcome to Burnett the story of the community of Burnett, Washington as gleaned from the pages of the Buckley News Banner and other papers
My friend, Cindy Calton, actually wrote this book during the 1980s while I was still living in Pierce County, Washington, and involved in the local history of the area. When […]
As my blog readers already know, I happen to be a big fan of Christine Rose. She’s written several books for which genealogists can be very thankful. One of those books is her second edition of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy, 2nd Edition . I should also mention here that her co-author on this […]
All kinds of genealogical information online can be found on the RootsWeb Mailing lists. As of today, the site boasts 29,888 genealogy-related lists.
Anyone can sign up to be on a mailing list. Queries or comments are posted, and the information arrives in your email box. It’s simple to subscribe or unsubscribe from any list.
The oldest […]
Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $394 based on travel 8/1 through 8/3. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.
TASMANIA‘S early settlers could never have imagined an age filled with computers, digital cameras and the internet.
But the technology has ensured our forebears are never forgotten, with the Tasmanian Family History Society’s Hobart branch creating a new series of CD-ROMs preserving Tasmania’s graveyard history.
The society yesterday released Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania — a collection of […]
It looks to me like the Brits are more interested in “truth in advertising” than Americans. It seems to me like the more outrageous the ad, the better we like it. Must have something to do with rebellion and all that… Anyway, Ancestry.co.uk got called on the carpet about their advertising. Seems they lost on […]
This is cool. It seems that my old employer, ProQuest, set up a portable library in Baton Rouge soon after Katrina. Somehow I missed hearing about it at the time and am passing on the good vibes now…
Ann Arbor-based ProQuest Co. donated a portable library to the city of New Orleans library system which lost […]
Patty and I traveled for about seven years in our RV. During that time, the one thing that probably worried me the most was what would happen to the genealogy files if the RV were to catch fire. We had over a dozen file boxes of genealogy materials in the back closet of the Safari […]
I just blogged about the Missouri Death Records website - and folks have been hitting that blog like crazy! Now more information has come out about the success of the site. How about over a million vistors in five weeks? Following is an excerpt from an AP article.
A database of Missouri death certificates that went […]
Following is an excerpt from an article dealing with the historic records of Washington County, Tenessee. It is noted that records are kept “in the old jail and of other historic records in a third-floor attic.” This is really common. Not only are many municiple records records not preserved, but access to records kept in […]