For two centuries, more than 6,000 manuscripts and codices of the Roman College, the current Gregorian University in Rome, were kept hidden behind a wall. It's now been made available to the public through the cataloging and digitizing efforts by its new director, the Argentinian Martin Morales. The documents, most of them unpublished manuscripts, are a testament to the intellectual activity of the Jesuits since 1551. When they were expelled in 1773, the files were hidden for safekeeping. One hundred years later, they were discovered by the librarian of the National Library in ...

Full Featured - Windows - Shareware The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 beta build 110315 has been released. New: • Validate "Partnership Sexes" identifies families with a female husband and/or male wife.

Full Featured - Windows - Purchase RootsMagic 4.1.1.1 has been released. Changes: • Sort by birthday and anniversary in custom reports works correctly now. • Fixed some sentence template issues. • People View now supports FamilySearch ID as a column. • Removed debug window from NFS User Profile settings. • NFS Share Data screen sometimes showed incorrect matches between children. • Fixed some issues with the New FamilySearch import. • Fixed some issues with New FamilySearch Share Data screen.

PDAs and Handhelds - Purchase Irish Heraldry 2.3 has been released. Changes: • Added Push Notifications. • New names added See also: 70+ Genealogy Apps for PDAs and Handhelds

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During the peak months of the year, it's nearly impossible to get your wedding booked at a church or other venue. The economy is in the toilet and the costs for a wedding are already outrageous as it is. Further, you want a nice place to have this special day at. Why not have it at a funeral home? They have flowers, priests and a very nice building. They have limos, grand reception rooms and the best yet, they are never booked! Think about it, how many caskets go down the aisle of any given church? This isn't much different. Source & Full Story

A rare World Ward II rubber intelligence map of Iwo Jima was returned to the Battleship USS North Carolina this week. The battleship took part in the US Navy and Marine assault on the Japanese-held island during a brutal World War II battle. Over the past six months, a conservation effort at East Carolina University preserved the rubber relief map by removing previous restorations that caused deterioration. The map is now stored in an oxygen free environment to ensure the rubber does not deteriorate further and will be on display along with the rest of the battleship's ...

There’s a new phenomenon “trending” on social media — and it has absolutely no connection to wacky Hollywood stars or crazy Twitter rants. The City of Vancouver Archives has digitized about 400 panoramic cityscapes from the early 1900s and made them available on the Flickr photo site. The shots, by photographer W.J. Moore, are sending photo buffs into a frenzy, say archive employees Heather Gordon and Sue Bigelow. After debuting with about 84 views on Thursday, the collection got 6,000 views on Friday, Gordon said. Source & Full Story

On Sunday 2 April, 1911, families across the country completed long and detailed questionnaires about their living conditions, occupations and fertility in marriage – making that year's census the most detailed, some might say intrusive, since records began. "It was a radical departure from what had come before," says Audrey Collins, a family history specialist at the National Archives. For the first time, the census asked questions about marital fertility, and the nature of occupations. Source & Full Story

Full Featured - Mac - Freeware Personal Ancestry Writer II 97 has been released. Changes: • Removed leading commas from GEDCOM export of place names. • Removed .paw from .paw.ged file name extension. • The extension .paw is now added to untitled files when they are first saved.

Full Featured - Windows - Shareware The Complete Genealogy Builder 2011 beta build 110302 has been released. Changes: • Fixed occasional incorrect maintenance of "Referenced by" back-links. (These links will be recreated automatically the first time this build is run.)

Full Featured - Windows - Purchase MagiKey Family Tree 2.3.18 has been released. Changes: • Added support to save GEDCOM file specific to GenBox. • Improved source and repository index searching. • Added Norway census extraction form. • Now auto-expands place names correctly by allowing for spaces after commas. • Fixed merging of names which include a surname prefix. • Fixed several potential crashing bugs.

Full Featured - Windows - Freeware Ahnenblatt 2.64 has been released. Changes: • Problems with family and ancestor trees (per page) solved. • Shortcuts in main menu depend on language (Shift/Ctrl - Windows 2000 or newer). • Some minor bug fixes and optimizations.