The following is a teaser from an extensive article written by Jackie Burrell. I found the article to be revealing and of interest to me - as a Genealogist.
IT SOUNDS like a script for a Hollywood movie or some new reality show — a granite vault stacked with precious books and more than a million […]
According to a short article in the Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake County, Utah Death records 1847-1949, and births as early as 1890 have been digitized and will be online in about a year.
…Salt Lake County has partnered with the Genealogical Society of Utah to make digital copies of more than 100,000 of the county’s […]
Project Gutenberg, with the cooperation of many other eBook publishers, is currently sponsoring a month-long eBook Fair. They have made available about 1/3 million books - free of charge - until August 4, 2006.
The Website can be searched by word or phrase - or you can browse the collections.
I found little that was of interest […]
Jessica E. Vascellaro, at the the Wall Street Journal, wrote an interesting article about Internet genealogy that posted today. Following is an excerpt.
Old family history records, from census information to draft cards, are now flooding the Internet thanks to new technology that makes it easier for companies to put fragile historical documents online.
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In recent months, […]
(PRLEAP.COM) The Origins Network (www.originsnetwork.com) is offering free access to both British and irish Origins on the 4th July to celebrate US Independence Day. Free access will begin at 00.00GMT and will run until 08.00GMT on the 5th July 2006. In order to access, simply go to www.originsnetwork.com and click on the link to sign […]
It looks like the Germans have decided that those snippets we see when using Google Book Search are legal, after all. According to their blog of June 28, 2006, “we specifically designed Google Book Search to respect copyright law - never showing more than two or three snippets around a search term without the publisher’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
JFK fans rejoice (that’s usually folks about my age - those of us who grew up singing that P T 109 song). It looks like plans are underway to digitize and put all things John F. Kennedy on the Internet.
The entire collection of papers, documents, photographs and audio recordings of former US President John […]