Another press released was received from FamilySearch this week. How often do you check the FamilySearch website’s section of digitized records and indexes? When you visit the website click on Search and then scroll down the next page to “Browse All Published Collections” and then click on the country of interest. I plan to keep […]
Memorial Day weekend brings another press release about free access to military records. Enjoy! “In honor of Memorial Day next week, MyHeritage is granting free access to millions of military records from our most popular collections. The records can be accessed from here. The free offer ends on May 28. The collections will help you […]
Just six weeks left to take advantage of the fantastic $50 savings on the 2013 Federation of Genealogical Societies conference registration. If you register for the FGS Fort Wayne conference no later than July 1st, you will save $50 off the full four-day registration price. The savings on a single day registration is $20. The […]
Have you recently checked the Minnesota category of the Historical Record Collections at FamilySearch? It has 22 section of material related to the state. Add a lot more when you check out the U.S. census records. Many have digitized images, some are record abstracts, and some are indexes. Check out the list below (and many […]
SLIG Registration Opens June 1The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is opening registration June 1, 2013 at 9:00 AM Mountain Time. So many great tracks for January 13-17, 2014! Course 1American Research and Records: Focus on FamiliesPaula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA Course 2New York ResearchKaren Mauer Green, CG Course 3Research in the SouthJ. Mark Lowe, […]
2.5 Million Criminal Records Now Available Online for the First Time Findmypast.com Launches UK Criminal Records dating 1770-1934 LOS ANGELES (Feb. 20, 2013) – Findmypast.com, an international leader in online family history, today announced the largest collection of historical criminal records from England and Wales is being published online for the first time in association […]
This great news about five days of free military records access was sent by findmypast.com “In honor of Memorial Day on May 27, and in remembrance of all who died while serving our country, findmypast.com will offer its collection of U.S. and international military records for free in the days leading up to the national […]
This press release was received from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. I am honored to be among the speakers at this inaugural event. I have some brief New York ancestral connections, have researched that state for clients, and a fun research project on a relative’s family has been all over the state. NEW […]
When is the last time you checked the wonderful online finding aids for many of the collections at the Minnesota Historical Society? Of course, there’s the library catalog, general descriptions of collections, and paragraphs describing various types of records, but have you seen the detailed inventories for others? MHS has many in-house comprehensive finding aids […]
Why is it that some dates just stick in our minds? For me, one is the date of Minnesota statehood. On May 11, 1858 Minnesota became the 32nd state in the United States. That’s 155 years ago. One of my great grandfathers, Michael Hanley, had already arrived in Minnesota Territory. He is on the 1857 […]