Visitors were lined up at the door Wednesday morning waiting for a chance to see the new Polk County Main Public Library.
Since the doors opened at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, library officials say, theres been a steady stream of visitors, coming to return or check out books or just check out the new facility. Many […]
As I mentioned in a post earlier today, I find that I use both Ancestry.com as well as HeritageQuest Online when doing census research. There a several reasons for this.
First - the digitizing was done by two totally different companies. A little history might be in line here. I was working for Heritage Quest when […]
A new treasure-trove of the “old” has been found in a New Jersey courthouse attic. This type of thing happens a lot - but it’s always exciting - especially if records of your family are found! How many of you (like me) have Mercer County relatives?
TRENTON [New Jersey] - Fragile, handwritten records dating from the […]
Following is an excerpt from an article that fills in a few more details about Ancestry.com’s census project. They are getting a lot of much-deserved good press out of the release of the 1910 every-name index. I was on Ancestry’s site until into the morning hours this morning working on Hubbard genealogy. Having access to […]
If you’ve got Missouri folks, you really need to check out the Missouri Death Certificate database, sponsored by the Missouri State Archives. The Death index is complete for 1910 to 1955 - and you can actually download a digitized copy of the original death certificate for documents from 1910 through 1924. According to the website, […]
Make note that you only have a few more days to get your preregistration discount for the annual FGS Conference. It will be in Boston again this year - so I’m sure we will have fun!
Are your calendars marked for this coming August 30 to September 2, 2006 for a visit to historic Boston? An […]
MONTROSE [Colorado] In its 100-year history, St. Mary Parish has seen its fair share of ups and downs.
From when the church burned down in 1911 to its increasing numbers over the years, parishioners took time this week to pay tribute to the churchs colorful history.
A lot has changed over the years, said Father Don Malin. […]
THERE must be something in the water. The family of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the American presidential hopeful, hails from the same part of northeast England as George Washington, the first president of the United States.
Clinton, wife of Bill Clinton, the former president, traces her ancestry to a mining family in Co Durham. Washington was the […]
Carbon Hill [Grundy County, Illinois] was a mining town and its museum reflects it. Large coal mining companies moved thousands of residents to the area including immigrants of irish, Scottish, Italian, Slovenian and Bohemian descent.
The tiny town is celebrating its annual homecoming until Sunday with parade in the daytime and a nighttime fireworks display ending […]
If you’ve got Colorado ancestry, you’ll want to search the digital newspapers at the Colorado’s Historic Newspaper Collection website.
Mary Penner’s latest column gives some good tips for newspaper research.
Is there something genetic about what career you choose? According to the following article excerpt, there may be. However, I doubt it. I would think that that socioeconomic factors - brought on by the family’s situation - probably have more to do with similarities in occupation than the family genes.
THEY are calling […]
Many Genealogists pick up family memorabelia, books, software and so forth by bidding on eBay auctions. Any active eBay bidder knows that to win a coveted item that’s up for auction, you don’t get in a bidding war with 16 other folks. You bid at the last possible moment. It’s called sniping, and it’s now […]
Looking for family memorabelia - items that may have been lost long ago - or sold in the estate sale of a long-deceased relative?
Then check out the Your Past Connections website.
You can search the site by name - and find the descriptions of items that have turned up “somewhere,” and may have belonged to your […]
Reuters is reporting that if you want to live to be 100, your chances are much better if you have a young mother (under 25). So now I’d like to know what these folks expect us to do about it?
NEW YORK - People are more likely to see their 100th birthday, research hints, if they […]
Recently ProQuest (the company that owns HeritageQuest Online) announced that they will no longer provide remote access to members of genealogical and historical societies. Beginning 1 July, OGS members will no longer have access to HeritageQuest from home.
OGS paid for and signed a new contract with ProQuest in March; this contract allowed for members to […]
Only Mac Software has updated MacFamilyTree, genealogy software for Mac OS X, to version 4.3.0, which adds a new Genogram view.
Read the full article by Dennis Sellers at Macsimum News.
Having a lot of family from Southwest Michigan, I’ve been very pleased by the progress being made on an index to obituaries from the counties of Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo and Van Buren. Over 76,500 obits are indexed with over 5000 new names have been added to the Index just lately. A marriage, anniversary, […]
In searching the web last night I ran across a German genealogy website out of the Netherlands that I had not seen before. The site claims to have over 870 categorized links. In scanning the listings and clicking on a few of the links, I decided that I could spend a month doing nothing but […]
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The Marion Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Washington County Genealogical Society are working with the West Fork and Elkins public libraries to collect and preserve Bible records in the area and make the information available to the public. These records will also be sent to the National Society DAR Library […]