In the spirit of Veteran’s Day, come to the Lillian E. Jones Museum on Broadway Street in Jackson to experience military history through the lives of 235 veterans related to one Jackson County family. The remarkable two-volume set details the military service of the descendants of the eight children born to James and Lydia Poor… Read More »
American Battle Monuments Commission An essential military history source covering 214,000 Americans buried in 24 overseas military cemeteries or named in Tablets of the Missing, this site has broadened its “Greatest Generation” features. Now you can view a live camera feed from the American Cemetery in Normandy or connect with the unofficial Registry of Remembrances… Read More »
Researching your Irish roots? A new Irish online free resource is now available to aid in your research. Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland, has today formally launched The National Archives of Ireland’s new genealogy-specific website. The following collections are now freely available on the site: Census of Ireland, 1901 and 1911 Tithe… Read More »
Here is some interesting tidbits going on in the genealogy world: FamilySearch has announced its US Immigration and Naturalization community indexing project is halfway to its goal of creating a free online collection of US passenger lists, border crossing records, naturalization records, and other immigration documents. Two months into the project, 85,000 volunteers have indexed more… Read More »
So it goes for many of us genealogists. We’re fascinated by cemeteries and death records; other people think that’s creepy. But in the spirit of genealogy and Halloween, here are some tips on finding your ancestors’ death records: Death records are generally available after the state passed a law that counties or towns had to… Read More »
Here is some interesting tidbits going on in the genealogy world: The Chronicling America free, searchable database of historic US newspapers, has posted its 5 millionth newspaper page. Launched by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2007 as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, the site digitizes newspapers published between… Read More »
Arlington National Cemetery has unveiled a public database of the 400,000 burials there. Called ANC Explorer, the database is available online and as a Mobile app. You can search it to locate gravesites on a map; get details including birth, death and interment dates, and branch of service; generate front and back photos of a headstone or… Read More »
FamilySearch has added more than 70 million indexed genealogy records to the free FamilySearch.org over the past couple of weeks. The indexed records come from the United States and 20 other countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the Caribbean. Updated or new US records are from more than 20 states, plus New England passenger lists.… Read More »
This project was indexed in partnership with the Ohio Genealogical Society. Name index of tax records as recorded with the County Auditor of each county. Includes the following Ohio counties: Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Monroe, Trumbull and Washington. The majority of the tax records in this collection are for the years… Read More »
FamilySearch Announces Post-1940 Community Project FamilySearch recently issued this announcement: North American Indexing Volunteers Invited to Join New US Immigration & Naturalization Community Project More than 160,000 volunteer indexers made the 1940 U.S. Census available for searching in just five months. The project was an unprecedented success that dramatically illustrated what the genealogical community can accomplish… Read More »
“We have the opportunity to do more,” said Don Anderson, senior vice president of patron and partner services at FamilySearch. Anderson spoke at a luncheon on the closing day of the annual conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. He made the comment in the context of the large numbers FamilySearch is producing and what… Read More »
FamilySearch announces that the 1940 U.S. Federal Census indexing project is wrapped up, and that indexing is beginning on the new U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Community Project. Visit http://familysearch.org/immigrationfor more information and to volunteer. Another indexing project has begun: the Italian Ancestors Project. Visit http://familysearch.org/italian-ancestors for more information and to volunteer. The Federation of Genealogical Societies has announced the publication of… Read More »
Ancestry.com is again offering free scanning at the 2012 annual Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference. “Ancestry.com will offer attendees the opportunity to have high quality scans done of their family history documents and photos. Ancestry.com will be doing the scanning on Thursday through Saturday, August 30-September 1, during Exhibit Hall hours,” said the announcement. The… Read More »
Received this in an email from a fellow researcher: Summerdale Phila. Dec. 4th 1906 I the undersigned George S Wolff being of sound mind & body write this my last will and testament Fifty cents (50¢) be paid to my son-in-law Chas W Wensel a native of Huntingdon Pa. to enable him to buy for… Read More »
Many of you have asked what the latest status is for posting the remaining states that make up the 1940 US Census project. Today FamilySearch will be posting 9 more states to the FamilySearch website. These states include Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, for a total of 37,575,945 additional records.… Read More »