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 […]
A colleague from Massachusetts, Christine Sweet-Hart, posted an amazing link on a professional genealogists’ discussion list. That link is to Curious Expeditions and the pictures of libraries and books is literally thrilling. I have only been to six of those libraries. Christine warned that viewing this site would make us grab our passport and run […]
On one of the news services I subscribe to, I ran across an interesting article “South Africa: Genealogy Project to Connect Family History.” Click on this article title for the whole story. It comes from BuaNews (Tshwane) and states that “KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sibusiso Ndebele is to officially launch the Family Tree Project aimed at facilitating […]
It was dark and dreary here today and I hope that didn’t ruin any of the Memorial Day Celebrations. This morning I spoke with my Dad and said he was my favorite veteran. Dad served in the Army Air Corps in World War II. He was in the 1103rd Army Air Forces Base Unit.He was […]