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WHAT IS NEW ON THIS SITE & IN THE GENEALOGY WORLD 10-25-11: Google has changed the method of making sure that a word or phrase is included in your search. You used to be able to add the + (plus) operator, but now you have to put the word or words in quotation marks. Thanks to Dick Eastman for this tip.12-14-09: North Carolina Archives; papers dating from 1752-1890s from cities like
Edenton (1787-1801), Fayetteville (1798-1795), Hillsboro (1786), New
Bern (1751-1804), Salisbury (1799-1898), and Wilmington (1765-1816) - a
total of 23,483 digital images that are keyword searchable. http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/newspaper/index.html
11-29-09 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.
Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Library
Florida, Sanborn Maps
Georgia, Sanborn Maps
Missouri, Univ. of Missouri Sanborn Maps
Utah Univ of Utah Sanborn Maps
11-19-09 DAR Genealogical Research System records now online. This link does not provide all of the DAR records but it contains a lot of data. I have finally found several of my wife's Darnell ancestors, whom family lore said fought in the Revolutionary War. Now we have some proof. http://www.dar.org/library/online
11-13-09 "The Myth of Family Coats of Arms". An interesting article by Dick Eastman. http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans
10-23-09 Calendars from 1753 to 2050, lets you find the day of the week in each year. We like this to help in determining dates in obituaries and other records. Courtesy of the Western Wayne County Genealogical Society, Livonia, Michigan. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~miwwcgs/DayWeekCalendar.htm
10-23-09 Digital Library on American Slavery offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and
nineteenth-century documents and processed over a period of eighteen
years. The Digital Library contains detailed information on about
150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and
whites. These data have been painstakingly extracted from 2,975
legislative petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a
wide range of related documents, including wills, inventories, deeds,
bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, among
others. Buried in these documents are the names and other data on
roughly 80,000 individual slaves, 8,000 free people of color, and 62,000 whites, both slave owners and non-slave owners. http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/about.aspx
10-9-09 We have added a BRICKWALL BLOG to our site to allow researchers from around the world to help other researchers break through their brickwalls. Click here to go to the Brickwall Blog page.
6-7-09 UK Census Maps from 1871 now online. Find any location in England and Wales. Search by place name or postcode. http://www.cassinimaps.co.uk/shop/tna1.asp 6-7-09 An interesting sounding web site for Irish Family Research. It has data going back to the 1500's. with free, and paid databases. We have not subscribed to this site and cannot not vouch for it's value, but it looks promising. Please let us know if this site is worthwhile. http://www.irishfamilyresearch.co.uk/ 5-2-01 Certified vital record certificates from the UK. We have not used this service and cannot vouch for their relialbility and only provide this link for it's potential value to you. www.certifiedcertificatesuk.com 4-22-09 World Digital Library. Great new site from the Library of Congress. A collection of free online collections of documents, photos, maps & art from around the world. A little hard to figure out, but can be very rewarding. http://www.wdl.org/en/ 4-16-09 Washington state: The World War I Service Statement Cards, 1917-1919 (Department of Veterans Affairs), recently indexed by Washington Historical Records Project volunteers, are now available and searchable online at the Digital Archives. Information contained in the records includes full name, serial number, race, place inducted, place of birth, unit assignments, ranks attained, engagements fought in, wounds received, dates served overseas, date of demobilization, and degree of disability (if any). http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/ 4-15-09; GEDxlate A really neat free download program to convert your GEDCOM to an MS Excel spreadsheet. Allows you to review your records in many different ways. http://www.gedmagic.com/GEDxlate.htm 11-18-08 City of Detroit, Michigan directories at the U of M Bentley Library, Ann Arbor, MI Wayne County, MI 11-5-08 11-6-08 Cook County Clerk, search for and order birth, marriage & death certificates. cookcountygenealogy 10-30-08 Jewish Family History Collection, now free on Ancestry.com. Ancestry has partnered with JewishGen and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to create the world's largest online collection of Jewish historical records. Ancestry reports that "these Jewish Family History Collections will remain free as long as they exist on Ancestry.com". http://landing.ancestry.com/jewishfamilyhistory/default.aspx 10-16-08 http://www.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org Cook County, naturalization Declatations of Intention. 1906-1929. Includes name, occupation, birth city & country, birth date, current address. departure location, arrival date and declaration date. The State of Washington's digital archives containing about 74 million records are now online. Included are: agreements & contracts, birth, census, death, marriage, institution, frontier justice, land, military, misc auditor, misc family history, naturalization, oaths of office, plats & surveys; power of attorney, professional license, uniform commercial code recording. This information is also on our new Washington State page. 10-2-08, (From the Association of Professional Genealogists). NEWS ON THE RECORDS ACCESS AND PRESERVATION FRONT -- PAHR PROPOSAL
We'd like to make you aware of a bill before the U.S. Congress proposing an increase in federal funding for state and local archival records. The bill is called "Preserving the American Historical Record" or "PAHR." The funds could be used for the creation of finding aids, indexes, digital images, records preservation, education programs, etc. We advise you to become familiar with the bill at http://www.archivists.org/pahr/ The legislation is still in its early stages, but it may be timely to contact your Representative and express support for the effort.
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