Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take the most useful aspects of each of our favorite research places and combine them so that each place would have all that we love? (Yes, I know about reality, but I can dream, can’t I?) My ideal library, archive, and historical society would have: Copy cards so […]
Just three weeks (or 3 weeks if you like the numbers better) or twenty one (21) days from today is the start of the FGS Conference for the Nation’s Genealogists in Knoxville, Tennessee. The event takes place from August 18-21 at the Knoxville Convention Center. I am excited about this event because it has truly […]
Lori Thornton posted a timely item on her Smokey Mountain Family Historian blog and I urge you to read it. Your genealogical, historical, or family organization’s non-profit status might be in jeopardy. As Lori said, “There are many historical societies, Friends of the Library organizations, cemetery associations, fraternal organizations, and DAR chapters among those in […]
This press release was received from FamilySearch. Mighty impressive numbers! 22 July 2010 Online Volunteers Index a Whopping 100 Million Records Already This Year FamilySearch Indexing is excited to announce that our dedicated volunteers have completed 100 million records in the first half of 2010, and is on track to complete a targeted 200 million […]
Late this afternoon, MarketWatch carried a press release showing that Ancestry.com has completed the acquisition of the large Swedish research website Genline.se. I am speculating that this will soon give Ancestry World Deluxe subscribers access to “26 million pages of digitized Swedish church records spanning more than 400 years from the 17th to the 20th […]
Viewing current obituaries will soon be costing us more. Think about the fortune it costs for a family to have an obituary published in the newspaper. Now if someone else wants to check the newspaper for funeral details it might cost a few extra bucks. An article by David Brauer in yesterday’s Minnesota Post gives […]
I happen to have a 4 year old laptop computer that overheats. For the last year I have had a cooling pad device that sits under it. The USB part that plugged into the computer worked fine but the end that plugged into the device itself was too loose. I was having all kinds of […]
Myths & Legends: Stories from the Fergus Falls State Hospital Today’s Fergus Falls Daily Journal carried a bit of history of this hospital for the insane and an announcement about a presentation this Friday. “Join the Otter Tail County Historical Society for Myths & Legends: Stories from the Fergus Falls State Hospital on Friday, July […]
If you haven’t checked the FGS Conference News Blog lately, you have missed some important and exciting updates about the August 18-21 four day conference being held in Knoxville, Tennessee. Everyone is welcome to attend and the lectures and vendors offer something for all levels of interest. Hotel availability status Big door prizes to be […]
This press release is from the U.S. National Archives. Oh, how I wished for this service during the years I spent much of my time there. These record pulls are for the textual records that must be retrieved for you to view. Please note this is for July but if used may become a regular […]