Daily Archives: January 14, 2013

Genealogy World, January 7th – 11th

Ancestry.com has updated its 1850 US census collections (correcting some Indiana birth places that were keyed incorrectly) and its City Directories. In addition, Ancestry continues with its indexing of information for the 1940 US census to make it more complete. The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG), an independent certifying body recognized nationally and internationally since 1964, recently joined the… Read More »

FamilySearch Increasing Camera Operations by 60%

The Church News of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently ran an article about record preservation missionaries manning cameras for FamilySearch. (FamilySearch is wholly owned and operated by the Church.) Here’s information and quotes from the article. FamilySearch has 200 teams in 45 countries capturing digital photographs of historical records, according to… Read More »