I did my bit on TV yesterday. The staff at Twin Cities Live was great. I took my almost 16 year old granddaughter with me. The male host of the show, John Hanson, took her to meet the afternoon drive on-air personalities, Moon & Staci, from KS95 radio station. Talk about a neat experience for […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 13, 2009 NATIONAL ARCHIVES LAUNCHES NARATIONS BLOGNew blog to focus on online public access to records of the U.S. National Archives Washington, DC . . . On Wednesday, August 12, the National Archives launched the NARAtions blog to begin a discussion with researchers on the future of online public access at […]
The Minnesota Genealogical Society’s North Star Genealogy Conference takes place September 18 & 19, 2009. The educational sessions will be held at the Minnesota Genealogical Society Library and Office location at concord Avenue in South St. Paul. The main speaker is Clare Mire Bettag, Certified Genealogist and Certified Genealogical Lecturer. Clare is a nationally known […]
If you happen to be within viewing range of Twin Cities TV station KSTP on Wednesday, August 12th, you might catch a glimpse of me on Twin Cities Live. The segment features two half-sisters who met because of “an afternoon on the Internet.” Ancestry.com was apparently the impetus for the connection. The station wants me […]
If you are registered for the FGS Conference in Little Rock, there is some exciting news for you on the Conference News Blog. Keep watching the blog for lots of news during August.
Today’s Boston Globe has a story about the distribution of religions in the U.S. today. You can read the entire story here. The story is accompanied by a series of maps showing the distribution of Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Mormons, and those who consider themselves non-religious. I saw a few states that surprised me, but overall […]
I received this press release from Footnote.com yesterday. Today on Facebook, Footnote.com is saying that they are receiving a lot of traffic and that the site is operating a bit slowly but they are working on improving it. Footnote is a great subscription site. Just browse their content list that is constantly expanding. 1930 Census […]
Have you used Google’s newspaper archive search? It is one of my favorite search capabilities for obituaries and other newspaper items. Many of the links that pop up are to other websites that require a fee. Many of these do have subscriptions for home users. Your public library may have subscriptions to these sites. Google […]
Libraries have so many challenges today. It’s impossible to miss the stories online and in print that tell the drastic news of budget, staff, and hours cuts. Hurricanes and tornadoes still wreak havoc. The Louisville Free Public Library has now suffered flooding with “three feet of water in the basement” and “thousands of books have […]
This is a new press release from Ancestry.com: Collaboration with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Routes to Roots Foundation offers online access to more than 200,000 Jewish records PROVO, Utah, August 2, 2009 — Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history, today announced an addition to its Jewish family history record […]