Five days ago I blogged about a newspaper article discussing a project that would revolutionize our access to the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) and the articles that the index covered. Today I received the official press release about the project. I am excited about this. For many years I have promoted PERSI and all those […]
The opening two sentences of a 17 July article in the Minnesota Daily, the newspaper of the University of Minnesota’s main campus, tells the story of why we still need to visit such places in our family history research. “In the last five years, the University of Minnesota Archives has digitized about 1 million pages […]
Back in 2011, I wrote about the arson destruction of the historical society building and contents in Isanti County, Minnesota. An article in yesterday’s Isanti County News tells the story of the rebuilding, the future, and the hopes for this building and society that is physically located in Cambridge, Minnesota “Our main focus is now […]
It’s official. The research hours at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul are being expanded to include Tuesday morning. Now the Tuesday hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. beginning this fall. Wednesday – Saturday hours remain 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Hours are also being expanded at several historic sites. Other research […]
Have you checked the newsletters produced by the state archives in your ancestral states? The content varies, but may include: list of recent acquisitions bios of staff members (may tell you which person is familiar with specific collections) descriptions of collections notes on state history indexing projects digitization projects Both the current and past issue […]
I love visiting the Genealogy Center at the main Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. My first visit there was in the early 1980s and I have been back there many times. One of the joys of researching there is accessing all those current, older and out-of-print genealogy and historical periodicals that are […]
Have you checked out the latest indexing projects at FamilySearch? One of the neat ones is the U.S. Immigration project. Volunteer indexers are indexing U.S. passenger arrival lists and naturalization records. “In June, the project reached a significant milestone of 50 million passenger ship and naturalization records indexed! Add that to the 25 million Ellis […]
he National Archives announced the recipients and research topics for the 2013 Regional Fellowship Program. The winners will research at specific National Archives locations. The topics include several that intrigue me due to the connection to American Indian research which is one of my specialties. The Northern Cheyenne Homesteaders of Southeast Montana’s Tongue River and […]
I love progress! The Hennepin County (Minnesota) government is finally announcing the consolidation of court cases. A plus is that records once stored offsite will be more readily available once the project is finished. “The new Records Center allows citizens to look up records from various cases in one place, ranging from civil and conciliation […]
From a press release just received from FamilySearch: View the full announcement online at FamilySearch News and Press. “July 3, 2013 FamilySearch Adds More Than 50.1 Million Images from Belgium, BillionGraves, Brazil, England, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, and the United States FamilySearch has recently added more than 50.1 million images from Belgium, BillionGraves, Brazil, China, […]