Genealogy in Times Square!
WA neat way to find out that Ancestry.com is offering free access to Immigration Records this Labor Day weekend! Read more...
Paula's Genealogical Eclectica, Today, 12:18am
UW River Falls -- free classes and new archivist
Kathryn Otto is the new Archivist at the Area Research Center (ARC) and University Archives housed in the Chalmer Davee Library at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls. A news story in the New Richmond [WI] News tells about the free classes she is inviting people to attend. These are for those interested in "learning about the archives, doing historical research, or seeking ancestors." Read more...
Paula's Genealogical Eclectica, Today, 12:18am
Ancestry.com: Free immigation databases Labor Day weekend
Ancestry.com provided this press release today. Check out the advertising in Times Square two postings below this one! Read more...
Paula's Genealogical Eclectica, Today, 12:18am
Genealogy Round Up, September 2
Q&A: Illumina's CIO Scott Kahn on the Promise and Challenges of Mobile Apps for Personal Genomics Read more...
Roots Television | Megan's Roots World, Today, 12:18am
Checking out the Ancestry.com Immigration Collection
Ancestry.com announced yesterday that they have added or updated several databases to their Immigration collection, and that the entire collection is available for FREE access through 6 September 2010 (see here for the press release). The major additions include: Read more...
Genea-Musings, Today, 12:18am
Content Wars - my thoughts
Thomas MacEntee has posted Open Thread Thursday: The Content Wars on the Geneabloggers blog for discussion. He wants to know what readers think about four issues (Questions in red, my responses in blue): Read more...
Genea-Musings, Today, 12:18am
Legacy FamilyTree: Mapping Software webinar 15 Sept 2010
NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was received yesterday from our friends at LegacyFamilyTree.com. Please address all inquiries to Geoff@legacyfamilytree.com.Join us for a webinar on September 15 - Mapping Software for Genealogists Read more...
DearMYRTLE, Today, 12:18am
Ancestry.com: US immigration collection open through Labor Day
NOTE from DearMYRTLE: Whilst traveling yesterday and today, all sorts of announcements have come across my desk, including this one from our friends at Ancestry.com. Please address all inquiries to support@Ancestry.com. Read more...
DearMYRTLE, Today, 12:18am
NGS: New Education Manager Pat Stamm CG, CGL
NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was received from our friends at the National Genealogical Society. Please address all inquiries to support@ngsgenealogy.org. Read more...
DearMYRTLE, Today, 12:18am
Ancestry's Canada site offers limited free access to immigration records
Ancestry's Canadian cousin, Ancestry.ca, has announced that there will be free access to the site's international immigration records collections from September 2nd-6th, with Canadian collections and others from around the world included (273 different collections). Read more...
Scottish Genealogy News and Events, Yesterday, 1:25pm
Discover my Past Scotland 23 now on sale
This month's Discover my Past Scotland (issue 23, September 2010) is now on sale. So what's included? Och, I'm so glad you asked, any excuse for a good blether - here goes! Read more...
Scottish Genealogy News and Events, Yesterday, 12:33pm
Ancestry.com: Immigration Collection free through Labor Day
Ancestry.com launched a collection of more than 1,700 recorded oral histories of immigrants who arrived through Ellis Island. It's the first time the collection is available online. Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Yesterday, 12:23pm
Hong Kong: Asian Jewish Life's new issue
The summer 2010 edition of Asian Jewish Life has hit cyberspace to provide the rest of us with a look at contemporary Jewish diaspora life throughout Asia Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Yesterday, 12:23pm
Tel Aviv: 'One Family, Many Faces Festival' Sept. 26-28
Beit Hatfutsot will hold a "One Family, Many Faces Festival" - on September 26-28, during the Sukkot holiday, on the Tel Aviv University campus. Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Yesterday, 12:23pm
LIFE STORIES OF ELLIS ISLAND IMMIGRANTS AT ANCESTRY.COM
More than 1,700 first-hand audio recordings now available for free online Read more...
MoSGA Messenger, Yesterday, 12:23pm
CIVIL WAR SYMPOSIUM
Washington, DC, October 30, 2010 Read more...
MoSGA Messenger, Yesterday, 12:23pm
MILITARY HISTORY SITES OF NORTH AMERICA
I am happy to announce the completion of this long-term project. Read more...
MoSGA Messenger, Yesterday, 12:23pm
ALIEN FILES FIND NEW HOME AT NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Kansas City, (MO) For the first time, more than 300,000 case files on alien residents of the United States who were born 1909 and prior are now open to the public at the National Archives at Kansas City. These files, known as Alien Files (commonly referred to as A-Files) were transferred to the National Archives from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) and are only a small part of the millions of case files that will eventually be transferred and opened to the public. Read more...
MoSGA Messenger, Yesterday, 12:23pm
Treasure Chest Thursday - Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver's Death Certificate
It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to display a document or artifact from my boxes of family treasures. Read more...
Genea-Musings, Yesterday, 12:23pm
Rare Roman Lantern Found In Field Near Sudbury, England
A metal detecting enthusiast has found what is believed to be the only intact Roman lantern made out of bronze ever discovered in Britain. Read more...
Genealogy Blog, Yesterday, 12:14pm
England and Wales: Lives of Victorian Poor Go Online At National Archives
Records detailing the lives of the Victorian poor, including those in workhouses, have been published online. Read more...
Genealogy Blog, Yesterday, 12:12pm
Irish Roots issue 75 now on sale
The latest edition of Irish Roots magazine (issue 75, 3rd qtr 2010), Ireland's number one genealogy magazine, is now on sale at www.irishrootsmedia.com. The magazine can be purchased in both printed form or downloaded in an e-zine format. Read more...
Scottish Genealogy News and Events, Yesterday, 12:02pm
'Mitochondrial Eve': Mother of All Humans Lived 200,000 Years Ago
The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to "mitochondrial Eve" -- the maternal ancestor of all living humans -- confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago. The Rice University study was based on a side-by-side comparison of 10 human genetic models that each aim to determine when Eve lived using a very different set of assumptions about the way humans migrated, expanded and spread across Earth. Read more...
Genealogy Blog, Yesterday, 11:54am
A Tale of Three Brothers - AKA Don't Always Believe What You Read in the Newspaper
As I was chasing down a few leads on a user-submitted brick wall ancestor yesterday, I ran across an interesting marriage notice from the New York Times. Published 19 October 1938 under the title "Evelyn N. Purcell Married to Jurist," the marriage notice reads, in part: Read more...
About.com Genealogy, Yesterday, 10:09am
He was the genial dentist who cuddled him as a child. But then Martin Davidson found his grandfather’s secret past as a proud Nazi SS officer
Kneeling on the Prague pavement were a dozen men: German soldiers and bureaucrats who had been posted to the city as functionaries of the Third Reich. for more click here Read more...
Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy, Yesterday, 9:15am
Research Ancestry.com Immigration Records Free Through Labor Day
Subscription genealogy site Ancestry.com is making its entire US
Immigration Collection searchable free through Labor Day, Sept. 6. (You’ll need
to register for a free account to access full search results.) Read more...
Genealogy Insider, Yesterday, 9:01am
National Museum of Costume
Follow fashion and social etiquette from the 1870s to the 1950 at the National Museum of Costume. for more click here Read more...
Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy, Yesterday, 8:38am
Land Girls and Lumber Jills
Uncover the story of the Scottish Women’s Land Army and Timber Corps at the National War Museum. for more click here Read more...
Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy, Yesterday, 8:33am
Boston Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1943
This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of Boston, Massachusetts from 1820-1943. The names found in the index are linked to actual images of the passenger lists, digitized from National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm series, T843 (rolls 1-454) and M277 (rolls 1-115). [...] Read more...
Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy, Yesterday, 4:17am
It wasn’t easy to get here. But it’s easy to go back-FREE ACCESS WEEKEND Search the world’s largest online collection of U.S. immigration records FREE through Sept. 6th
They left everything they knew — sometimes even everyone they loved — to start a new life in a country called America. The immigration story is epic, filled with tragedy and triumph. Adversity and love. Loss and promise. And it’s your story too. Our vast collection of immigration resources helps you paint a rich portrait [...] Read more...
Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy, Yesterday, 4:12am
300,000 Alien Files Find New Home at National Archives
This press release was just received from the U.S. National Archives: Read more...
Paula's Genealogical Eclectica, Yesterday, 12:21am
Family Tree Maker 2011 is now available
This press release just arrived from Ancestry.com. Read more...
Paula's Genealogical Eclectica, Yesterday, 12:21am
Was Charlotte on the Orphan Train?
Several months ago, a lady, that I met while giving my "Be An Ancestor Detective!" presentation to a civic group, asked me to check out her family story - was it true? Read more...
Genea-Musings, Yesterday, 12:21am
Wordless Wednesday
Thursday Evening Discussion GroupGerman Research August, 19, 2010 Read more...
California Genealogical Society and Library blog, Yesterday, 12:21am
Join us for a webinar on September 15 - Mapping Software for Genealogists
Join us for our first-ever live webinar on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 2:00PM EDT. The webinar, Mapping Software for Genealogists will cover essential software tools: AniMap (U.S. & Canada), Centennia (Europe & Middle East), and Map My Family Tree... Read more...
Legacy News, Sep 1, 5:52pm
Archivist Finds 1794 Document In Eisenhower Papers
A document written by a federal judge 216 years ago has turned up in an unlikely place: in President Dwight Eisenhower's archives in Kansas. Read more...
Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 1:01pm
Real-Life Quasimodo Uncovered In Tate Archives
With his hunched back and deformed face, Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunch Back of Notre Dame, has always been considered a mythical creation drawn from the depths of the author's imagination. Read more...
Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 12:57pm
New Chinese-Canadian Website A Portal To Past
The Canadian government announced Monday 900,000 U.S. dollars for the creation of a new website documenting the experiences of Chinese settlers, past and present. Read more...
Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 12:52pm
JewishGen: Yizkor book project, August update
During the past year, JewishGen's Yizkor book project has added 71 new books, 83 new entries and updated an average of 20 existing projects each month. Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 12:50pm
Bechol Lashon: New issue online
The face of Judaism is changing. It includes Jews of many diverse backgrounds and origins. Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 12:50pm
Ancestry.com: Family Tree Maker 2011 launched
Ancestry.com today announced the release of Family Tree Maker 2011, an improved version of the popular family history software. Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 12:50pm
FamilyTreeDNA: 'Hitler ancestry questionable'
Journalists and the cybersphere out of control on a certain topic? Gee, where have we seen that before? Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 12:50pm
Technology: Disconnect to reconnect
Frequent media stories point to our reliance on technology which fosters a disconnect from personal contacts. Read more...
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog, Sep 1, 12:50pm
Zero to Search Success in Sixty Seconds
The room was packed. The room monitor did a great job of ushering late comers to the few free seats. Anastasia Harman was presenting this session at the Salt Lake Family History Expo on 27 August 2010. Read more...
The Ancestry Insider, Sep 1, 12:50pm
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
Various photos, artworks, and documents are posted; numerous online exhibits including one currently available on the Australian attempts to control malaria during WWII: Read more...
MoSGA Messenger, Sep 1, 12:50pm
PASTPORTS MAGAZINE
You can read current and past issues of this magazine (PDF files) produced by staff of St. Louis County Library Special Collections Department: Read more...
MoSGA Messenger, Sep 1, 12:50pm
GOOREADER
GooReader is a free software application that allows you to search, download, and read books and magazines available on Google Reader: Read more...
MoSGA Messenger, Sep 1, 12:50pm