The Minnesota State Archives is housed in the Minnesota History Center in downtown St. Paul. The Archives is part of the Library and Archives Division of the Minnesota Historical Society. The website for all of these parts is at www.mnhs.org. This includes the massive electronic catalog that enables researchers to find book, manuscripts, state and […]
I have to admit that I enjoy sitting at home in my pj’s doing genealogical work online. Still, there are many repositories with one-of-a-kind records. One of these is here in Minnesota. The Immigration History Research Center is part of the University of Minnesota. This repository focuses on the history of American immigration with materials […]
You can still be a part of the 2008 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference, Footprints to Family History, being held in Philadelphia, September 3-6. Four full days of lectures, luncheons, a banquet, and an Exhibit Hall with many vendors is not to be missed. Registrations or changes to a registration can still be done online […]
10 August UPDATE: all registrations for Course I can be done online. Thanks to the webmaster for fixing this! I received this note today from the 2009 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (January 8-12) about the course that I coordinate at SLIG. “For some reason, the popular Course 1 “American Records and Research: Focusing on […]
Ancestry has launched the 1891 Census of Canada, which is online for the first time. The 1891 Canadian census contains 4.5 million searchable names and 90,000 images of original census pages. Included is information from all 10 present-day Canadian provinces and its three territories. The 1891 census is fully indexed and searchable and can be […]
Project cooperation between FamilySearch (Family History Library) and Ancestry.com (The Generations Network) including reindexing of the 1920 U.S. census. Thinking about becoming a certified genealogist? The Board for Certification of Genealogists now has a full application and judge’s comments online. If you are attending the FGS Conference in Philadelphia this September, visit the BCG booth […]
I was asked to share this press release: The International Society for British Genealogy & Family History (ISBGFH) is sponsoring the 8th Annual British Institute in Salt Lake City, October 6-10, 2008. The Institute will be held at the Crystal Inn, 230 West 500 South. The week-long courses and the instructors are: David Rencher, CG, […]
One of the subjects I lecture and write about is the use of older school records in researching individual, family, and community history. A wealth of information waits in these records. School censuses can help fill in the gaps in federal and state census enumerations. In many cases, these records give detail on an entire […]
I love to read news stories, obituaries, and press releases that mention words such as archives, indexes, genealogy, genealogical . . . you get the idea. I will continue to pass along such articles when I come across them. A long-time friend died this week. Patrick Chandler, along with his late wife, Dorothy, was a […]
Leland Meitzler asked me to post this press release for my readers. New Online Edition of Everton’s Genealogical Helper will debut July 1! Subscribe today for only $10.00! LOGAN, Utah, June 12, 2008. Genealogy Online, Inc., publisher of Everton’s Genealogical Helper, today, announced the publication of the Genealogical Helper in an Online Edition. The Online […]