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 […]
Seemingly reacting to Ancestry.com’s announcement of the completion of the every-name census index project, the Wall Street Journal ran an article this morning dealing with not only Ancestry.com, but FamilySearch.org, MyHeritage.com, Legacy.com, and even Google. An interesting fact that was pointed out is that Ancestry.com’s “massive batch of census records is housed in a 3,400-square-foot […]
Upon turning on my computer this morning, I had two announcements from Ancestry.com - both proclaiming that the indexing of the Federal Census records was done. One actually mentions that the 1910 every-name census index is now complete. I blogged extensively about this accomplishment last night - pointing out the difficulties surrounding this index.
In going […]
Ancestry.com has posted an every-name index to the 1910 U.S. Federal Census. The posting of this index completes Ancestry.com’s every-name index project for all censuses currently available to the public - 1790 through 1930.
Folks - this is really big news. The 1910 census microfilm from which the digital images were made was by far […]