A press release from Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage shares some details about free access to death-related records: “I’m happy to share that from October 27 to November 1, 2023, we’re offering free access to all death, burial, cemetery, and obituary records on MyHeritage: 370 collections and 881,738,760 records in all.” If you don’t have a […]
The media has been reporting about the change in Minnesota about adoptees being able to obtain their original birth certificate (OBC) starting in July of 2024. I wanted a few more details and some official words from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) before I started writing about it. The MDH website page about the […]
Today I am at the Dakota County Genealogy & History Fair. My booth is next to one from the county government. I am enjoying conversations with an IT person from the county. That’s nice, but she also has several original county record volumes with her. That makes it even nicer. My mother-in-law’s family is Dakota […]
The Iowa Genealogical Society shared this great news on Facebook: New vital records have been digitized and are now online! Delayed Birth Records from 1850-1940 and Deaths from 1921-1940 are now both on Ancestry and FamilySearch. Details here: bit.ly/2tRNmqe I have no ancestors connected to Iowa but I do have collateral family there and […]
The news release was received today from Findmypast.com “We’re excited to announce the release of the largest online collection of US marriages in history, which when complete will include over 100 million records covering 360 years. 60 per cent of these records have never been published online before offering you the chance to discover your […]
If you have heard me at seminars, you know that I often say things similar to “these records are so good because I don’t have family in that locality” or in that particular set of records. I have several localities where I wish my family had settled just because of the great information online from […]
The October 22 edition of the Minnesota Historical Society’s Local History News carried a story about another important use of the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants. The Kandiyohi County Historical Society recently microfilmed township records for six of the county’s townships and the films are available the county historical society in Willmar. For more […]
This is an overview of what exists for Minnesota birth, death, and marriage records and ways to access them. This is not a 100% comprehensive finding aid, but it should lead you to more records.Birth & Death RecordsBirth and death records were generally created at the county level beginning in 1870 or later if the […]
Tonight the Chicago Tribune is reporting something that made me smile. Governor Pat Quinn plans to sign into law a measure allowing adoptees to access their original birth records. The signing is planned for Friday, May 21, 2010. According to the article “The legislation allows anyone adopted before 1946 to get their full birth certificate […]
The Illinois Department of Public Health’s Division of Vital Records is moving to new offices. The office will be closed from May 27 -31 and will reopen on June 1, 2010. Because of this move, rush service and some other customer requests for birth and death records might be delayed. Click here to read the […]