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The following News Release is from the National Genealogical Society:

The National Genealogical Society opens the “Members-Only Data Section”
of its Web site www.ngsgenealogy.org for the Thanksgiving Holiday!
In recognition of the number of families that will be together over the
Thanksgiving Holiday, the National Genealogical Society will open its
“Members-Only Section” from November 23 through November 26, 2006 free
of […]

Could an online memory book save a Hollywood marriage. I doubt it. But maybe if they had been real people…
Did Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes, Ben Afleck & Jennifer Garner, or Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Make a Wedding Memory Book From iMemoryBook.com?
Provo, UT, November 18, 2006 - No, Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes, nor […]

I find the success at NAPC welcome, as these are the folks that I used to work for at ProQuest. I’m pleased things are looking good for the company.
National Archive Publishing Co., which was spun off from ProQuest Co. a year ago, is calling its first year as an independent company a success.
Breaking ties with […]

It’s recommended that we take the opportunity of the family gathering at Thanksgiving to find out more about the family health history. Get three generations if you can…
ST. LOUIS - Missourians are being encouraged to share more than a turkey dinner this Thanksgiving. State health officials recommend using the holiday gathering to track family medical […]

Goodness. I’m not even going to comment. I wouldn’t know what to say…
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Carla Latty removes a 1982 letter from her file of important papers. Written shortly after Latty learned she is adopted, it offers the first clues in her search for her birth mother.
“Your mother was described as a well-spoken, dark […]

New Book Announcement: McWethy… McWethey, Following a Family Migration Trail Massachusetts to Michigan and West
Included are the records of the family’s first ancestor in the colonies, who is believed to be James Mackerwithey, who arrived much against his will, the Scot’s army having been captured by Oliver Cromwell’s English army in 1650-51, and the […]

I got the following message from my friends at World Vital Records this morning. I note that a free “eSourcebook of American History” is being offered with signup for their free newsletter. In the last two weeks, they have launched over 30 million new records!
At this time of thanksgiving, we’d like to express our […]

If you do irish genealogy, you undoubtedly recognize the name Michael O’Laughlin. Michael is known for having founded the irish Genealogical Foundation in the late 70s. He’s written numerous books dealing with irish counties and families.
Michael has just launched the irish Roots Cafe website. The website includes the following:

Free weekly podcasts on irish family history
Free […]

The passing of a close relative is a sad and often difficult time. However, genealogists should remember that this is the one time that you might locate missing relatives by using “letter forwarding.”
Patti Spencer wrote a detailed and interesting piece this week about finding missing folks using the government mail-forwarding programs. Following is the intro […]

Mary Saggio recently posted the 17,491 record 1905 Ozaukee County, Wisconsin census index to Rootsweb.
Search for your families at: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/census/index/
State census records are numerous, but very little of this data is currently online. It’s great to see large databases like this being shared with the community.

I blogged about “Going Dutch, A Recipe for Freedom in Peter Stuyvesant’s New Amsterdam” a while back. Having read Manhattan, Seeds of the Big Apple a few weeks ago, I now have a fascination with early New York history. Beside that, I have a very early New York Anthony family in my ancestry, about which […]

Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $270 based on travel 12/4 through 12/6. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.

Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $270 based on travel 12/4 through 12/6. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.

Cemetery walking tours are a great idea. I’ve purchased several over the years - usually associated with National Parks - like Gettysburg and Andersonville.
If readers know of others, email me with the cemetery and its location. I’d like to post a list, even if it is short…
MOULTRIE [Georgia]— One good idea has rolled into another […]

Patty and I spent three hours watching the History Channel special, Desperate Crossing, last evening. I typically don’t watch television from 9pm to midnight, but this one was worth it.
Based on my own knowledge of the Pilgrims, I’d say that the story is quite accurate - and told with balance not often not seen before.
If […]

Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $270 based on travel 12/4 through 12/6. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.

Sample 2-night air/hotel package from Fort Lauderdale to Las Vegas from $270 based on travel 12/4 through 12/6. Sample prices are per person, based on double occupancy and vary by dates of travel, availability, and departure city.

OXFORD [Indiana] - Born in England, Bartlet Smith died of syphilis at the Benton County Poor Farm on Feb. 2, 1896. He was 52.
He had lived on the farm, four miles northeast of Oxford, for eight months. He lies in a pauper’s grave in the Poor Farm Cemetery.
It’s a sad, wind-blown little place … an […]

TOKYO, Nov. 17 (UPI) — A software tool developed at the University of Japan may soon make Internet searches for people with common names easier.
The software tool analyzes results of a search engine query, recognizing unique identities within the results, NewScientist.com said. For example, in a search on Google.com, the software differentiated between Michael Jackson […]

Library and Archives Canada has launched a new website featuring interviews with Canada’s veterans of the First World War.
The site Oral Histories of the First World War has audio files of interviews with more than 20 veterans.
The interviews originated in the CBC series In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the […]