Since March 2006, I’ve been posting newsletter-related items and other tidbits here on the 24/7 Family History Circle blog. Similar to the Ancestry.com blog, my posts were created with the intent to provide readers with helpful information as their research their family history. Since both blogs share the same goal, I am joining my colleagues on the Ancestry.com blog, where you will now see my blog posts moving forward. This move will make it easier for you, so that you won’t have to jump back and forth between the two blogs, and will provide a one-stop resource for those ...

Session Start Time: Wednesday, 24 June 2009 08:00 PM Eastern (New York) Speakers: Stefanie Condie and Jennifer Curry Make a lasting impression at this year’s family reunion with a descendant family tree poster or descendant-based family history book. In this hour-long webinar, you’ll learn how to create a book or poster that your relatives will be talking about long after the reunion’s over. Descendant books and posters also make great birthday and anniversary gifts. During the webinar, three randomly chosen participants will receive coupons for a free ...

Session Start Time: Thursday, 18 June 2009 08:30 PM Eastern (Toronto / New York) Come join our Ancestry.ca specialists, Lesley Anderson and Karen Peterson, and Canadian Genealogist, Glenn Wright, in this one hour online seminar as they walk through the history of the Canadian Census. They’ll tackle effective search techniques, and tips which will cover each census year – 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1906, 1911 and 1916. Click here to register now!

An estimated half of all Canadians will have an ancestor in the historical censuses / one in four Canadians cannot trace roots back beyond their grandparents 32 million names and 1.3 million images of original records Famous names with ancestors in the censuses include Conrad Black, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Liberal Party Leader Michael Ignatieff, Pamela Anderson and Alanis Morissette - original images available (Toronto, June 10, 2009) - Ancestry.ca, in partnership with Library and Archives Canada (LAC), today completed the world-first online launch of the Historical Canadian ...

Boston University's new genealogy program will be expanded to include an online format this coming fall. Developed in coordination with nationally recognized experts, the Certificate in Genealogical Research is an...

I never thought I would say this about a cell phone, but the iPhone my husband gave me for Christmas finally has me enjoying my phone. It makes it so...

The most popular handwriting style in Elizabethan Europe is a script commonly known as the Secretary Hand. This handwriting appears in official documents such as wills, deeds, and parish records,...

2.4 million people in Wales were recorded in the census taken on the night of April 2, 1911. Today the records of those people living in Wales in 1911 are...

Google Picasa Web Albums has face recognition software that can help name the unknown people who are in your old family photos.This free software even recognizes the same person at different ages. I discovered this by accident. I was scanning old family photos from one of those shoe boxes of unmarked and unnamed photos that every family seems to possess. After scanning, I uploaded the photos to a

FTM 2010 is now for sale in the Ancestry store.FTM 2010 is available with free shipping for a limited time.Use the following coupon code in your checkout cart for an additional 20% savings : 2C4TCHL .Here is a detailed list of what is new on this version of FTM 2010. This is a longer list than on the Ancestry Store site.Tree ManagementAncestry.com Family Tree DownloadYou can now download your

FTM 2010 is now for sale in the Ancestry store.FTM 2010 is available with free shipping for a limited time.Use the following coupon code in your checkout cart for an additional 20% savings : 2C4TCHL .Here is a detailed list of what is new on this version of FTM 2010. This is a longer list than on the Ancestry Store site.Tree ManagementAncestry.com Family Tree DownloadYou can now download your

FTM 2010 is now for sale in the Ancestry store.FTM 2010 is available with free shipping for a limited time.Use the following coupon code in your checkout cart for an additional 20% savings : 2C4TCHL .Here is a detailed list of what is new on this version of FTM 2010. This is a longer list than on the Ancestry Store site.Tree ManagementAncestry.com Family Tree DownloadYou can now download your

The room was packed. The room monitor did a great job of ushering late comers to the few free seats. Anastasia Harman was presenting this session at the Salt Lake Family History Expo on 27 August 2010.

I must say she ignored very nicely the person who took a cell call in class. (He-lo-o!) I tell my classes that I don’t care if they leave their cell phones on as long as they let me answer their phone should it ring. I’ve only answered one call. But I digress…

Harman told attendees that to understand Ancestry.com search results, you should know ...

In the years since FamilySearch introduced www.familysearch.org, their offerings have splintered into a dozen mostly disconnected websites. I look forward to the time that FamilySearch combines all these offerings into one. In the meantime, like me you may appreciate a handy list of links. Bookmark this article or look for it at http://ancestry...blogspot.com .

FamilySearch Websites FamilySearch.org – The old, current, classic Family History Lesson Series* FamilySearch.org Beta – The once and future king Community Trees Contact FamilySearch Forums ...

As I explain in my charter, FamilySearch releases a lot of information to the public, but only in out of the way corners. That’s where I come in. I try to be in those corners. This past weekend one of those corners happened to be the Salt Lake Family History Expo.

(I told a coworker that attending Ron Tanner’s presentations is the only way a FamilySearch employee can find out what FamilySearch is working on. But I digress…)

Tanner was off his best game—but only a bit. “Two weddings in two weeks,” he explained. Between tales of Jelly ...