The following is from Mocavo. Mocavo.com Launches as World’s Largest Free Genealogy Search Engine Industry breakthrough provides instant search results for billions of names, dates and places worldwide BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mocavo.com™ (http://www.mocavo.com), a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words - including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com ...

The following is from NEHGS. NEHGS PROVIDES ACCESS TO MASSACHUSETTS JEWISH CEMETERY RECORDS Access Program Part of collaboration with Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts and American Jewish Historical Society Boston, MA–March 2, 2011 –The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) today announced that, together with the Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts (JCAM), and the American Jewish Historical Society of New England (AJHSNE) have made available for the first time online ...

The following is from FamilySearch. 9 Million Hungarian Records Added This Week New Records for Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Philippines, Spain, U.S., and Zimbabwe Also Added Can you believe that 11.5 million new international records were added this week? And 9 million of those were from Hungary! FamilySearch continued this week to strengthen its free online international collections by expanding 8 of its collections. It also added 2 million U.S. records. See the table below for more details. Search all of the record collections now for free at FamilySearch.org. ...

After investing all the time in energy into my genealogy files I have developed multiple backup plans to keep them safe.  One plan was using an online backup service called Mozy. Ever since Mozy doubled their price for backing up my almost 100GB external drive I have been researching for alternatives. Carbonite is highly recommend but I couldn't see anywhere on their website the ability to pay monthly.  The biggest drawback for me was the $54.95 yearly cost is only for your internal hard drive on your computer.  I store everything on an external hard drive and only use ...

The following is from Ohana Software. — UPCOMING WEBINARS —Increasing Productivity on the FamilySearch Website Guest Presenter: Andrea Schnakenburg Learn how to increase your productivity using Sharing Time™, a new tool that integrates into the FamilySearch™ website. Quickly link to and auto-search dozens of Internet resources, e-mail collaborators in seconds, and focus your research on ancestors that are closest to being ready for temple work.NOTE: This webinar will only be 30-45 minutes.      Thursday, March ...

I just took this survey and am passing along the information if you care to join in. The following is from Myles Proudfoot Dear Renee, I see you were an official RootsTech Blogger. I attended RootsTech this year and came away feeling very inspired to go discover more about the new generation of genealogists. As a way to give back to the genealogy community I have created a research survey about people's genealogy habits, attitudes and origins. My background is 15 years in market and consumer research with a large consumer goods company, as well as a long term interest ...

The following is from FamilySearch. Relive RootsTech 2011Popular Conference Makes Select Presentations Available for Free Online 11 March 2011 SALT LAKE CITY—If you missed the popular inaugural RootsTech 2011 conference, you can now at least get a sampling of what all the excitement was about. The wildly popular new technology and family history conference held last month in Salt Lake City, Utah, made its keynote addresses and a few other popular presentations available online today free of charge. The six free presentations can be viewed ...

The following is from FamilySearch. U.S. and Mexico Records Added This WeekNew U.S. records from MO, NC, NJ, OH, VT, WV Record collections for Mexico and the U.S. were expanded this week. The Mexico 1930 Census is drawing closer to completion with the addition of the state of Puebla—way to go FamilySearch volunteers! Patrons will also find new records from Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia (see table below for more details). Search them now for free at FamilySearch.org. If you enjoy the ...

The following is from FamilySearch. Free Seminar on a Watershed Movement in Discovering Where to Find Your AncestorsThe Riverton FamilySearch Library Hosts Event on March 19 RIVERTON, UTAH—The rapid digitization of records online is a crucial event in genealogy today, but records are appearing so fast on so many websites that most genealogists have no way to know where to find the best record. At this month’s Saturday Seminar, hosted by the Riverton FamilySearch Library, keynote speaker Michael Ritchey will address the topic “The Power of We: A Watershed ...

The long awaited RootsTech videos, of select presentations, are now available online at the RootsTech's website: http://rootstec...rg/video.php The ones currently available are: Jay VerklerBarry EwellCurt WitcherBrian PughThomas MacEnteeBrewster Kahle Below is the Jay Verkler presentation.  To see the other videos visit the link above. (c) 2005-2010 Renee M. Zamora All Rights Reserved

WAHOO!! I am so excited. My readers have put me on the top 40 list.  Thank you so much! http://familytr...y-blogs-2011(c) 2005-2010 Renee M. Zamora All Rights Reserved

The following is from FindMyPast. British Library and findmypast.co.uk to digitise 5 million pages of family history records        - Selections from the India Office Records and a century of electoral registers will be made available online The British Library and family history website findmypast.co.uk are to digitise a treasure trove of family history resources held by the Library, making them available online and fully searchable for the first time. The project will involve the scanning of UK electoral registers covering the century ...

The following is from the RootsMagic Blog. Thanks again for all the kind words about our free online classes.  And we’re just getting started.  Here are 5 new classes scheduled for March.  Each class will be limited to the first 1000 people to sign up, but if you miss out or can’t make it, don’t worry because we will record the class for you to download and watch later.To sign up for the free classes, or to view past recorded classes, visit us at:http://www.root...webinarsHere are the upcoming classes for ...

The following is from the FCHNET Mailing List. Starting March 7, 2011, 2000 Community Patrons will be allowed to register for newFamilySearch and Activate their FamilySearch account. After the first 2000 are accepted they will be taken to a sorry page and a page to enter information and be put in a queue for the next group to be allowed to enter the next group of BETA testers. Program will be in a BETA test mode until sometime in 2013. Information was from training agenda given to FamilySearch Missionaries this morning. (1 Mar 2011) 1. Look at the 'What's New' link to the right ...

There will be a two-day downtime outage next week on the FamilySearch Indexing server, in order to upgrade it to allow for more capacity, and also to always ensure the servers will be available, the current one will be a backup to the other, and vice versa. The downtime will begin on Tuesday, March 8, and last for two days. More details are on the FamilySearch Forums link below. http://forums.f...92#post26092(c) 2005-2010 Renee M. Zamora All Rights Reserved