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Ancestry.ca Announces World-first Online Launch of 1916 Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta (tRSSNews): The following was written by Ancestry.ca staff: More than 1.7 million names indexed and fully searchable - 38,000+ images of original documents In a world first, Ancestry.ca , Canada’s leading family history website, today launched online the 1916 Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, which contains 1.7 million names and more than 38,000 images of original Census pages
Created on May 21, 2012
Problem with the last episode (#152) (tRSSNews): It appears that the interview with Ann Mitchell didn't properly get included in the podcast episode, so I've deleted the episode and will re-upload it with a corrected version. Sorry for the problem! Drew
Created on May 21, 2012
Interview problem (tRSSNews): Oops...I'm getting reports that there is a problem with the Ann Mitchell interview. I'll try to figure out the problem. Drew
Created on May 21, 2012
The Genealogy Guys Podcast #152 - 2008 September 28 (tRSSNews): While George relaxes on a cruise ship off the Pacific coast of Mexico (ok, so he's doing some genealogy lecturing on the RootsMagic 2008 cruise), Drew handles the entire podcast himself (not even assisted by the cats). News items include the Louisiana Death Records Index for 1911-1956, a new partnering between 23andMe and Ancestry.com, GenealogyFreelancers.com (a new reverse
Created on May 21, 2012
News from Ancestry.com (tRSSNews): The following news was just received from Ancestry.com. We’re excited to tell you about two collections that provide post-1930 family history information on a national scale. The first is an update to our 1940 census substitute. Last week Ancestry.com launched more than 2,000 U.S. City Directories , representing more than 45 states, for 1940 and surrounding years. Forerunners
Created on May 21, 2012
Books Discounted Daily at Family Roots Publishing (tRSSNews): The economy is lousy… Sales seem to be down everywhere… A friend of mine, prominent in the publishing industry, made the comment a few days ago that “books just aren’t selling.” Well - I don’t see it as that bad; but yes, sales of genealogy books are down. Every item sold at the Family Roots Publishing website is now discounted. Some more, some
Created on May 21, 2012
New Papers from the Mid-Late 1800s at NewspaperARCHIVE.com (tRSSNews): In the last four days, NewspaperARCHIVE posted a few newspapers from the 1960s. However, the vast majority of the papers listed in this blog are from the mid to late 1800s - some really good stuff! Papers for Arizona (1), Arkansas (1), California (5), Illinois (11), Indiana (9), Iowa (30), Kansas (2), Louisiana (1), Michigan (15), Missouri (4), Montana (1), New Mexico (2), New York
Created on May 21, 2012
New Online Digital Newspapers at NewspaperARCHIVE - 1 (tRSSNews): As you folks know, I’m a big fan of digital documents, books, and periodicals online. This last week I finally bought a NewspaperARCHIVE.com subscription. I’ve already found numerous papers that have items about both my family, as well as Patty’s. NewsaperARCHIVE is currently posting newspapers from the 1960s - one of the more interesting periods in my own life -
Created on May 21, 2012
Ancestry.com Improves Basic Search Flexibility (tRSSNews): You’ll start seeing some changes to subscription genealogy website Ancestry.com’s Basic search form over the next few weeks. Ancestry.com says its users asked for more flexibility in entering place and date information: What if you don’t know when and where an ancestor was born—but you do know he lived in a certain place at a certain time?
Created on May 21, 2012
Ancestry.com Improves Search Forms (tRSSNews): Writing in the Ancestry.com blog, Anne Mitchell describes changes that will be made in the company's web site search forms, starting tomorrow. She writes: Over the course of this year, we have been making incremental changes to our new search forms in response to your comments and suggestions. We’ve added name and place filters and changed the way you could do searches that
Created on May 21, 2012
Frances J. Divine (tRSSNews): Frances J. Divine, age 99, of New Braunfels, passed away Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. She was born Sept. 24, 1911 in Houston, to William Anthony Alexander and Margareta E. (Mitchell) Alexander. She married
Created on May 21, 2012
The Genealogy Guys Podcast #204 - 2010 June 8 (tRSSNews): Our listener email includes: Mitch recently discovered a great video, Ken Burns' Horatio's Drive. He also wants to know if other listeners know of other movies or documentaries that are historically educational. Jennifer is seeking court transcripts of a murder trial in Harford County, Maryland, and a federal trial in the Baltimore Circuit Court in 1922-1923. Gary asked for
Created on May 21, 2012
Facebook Reunites Father and Son After 37 Years (tRSSNews): A father in Leicestershire is reunited with his son after decades - with the help of Facebook. Both two had each searched for the other for years, then they finally connected, almost accidentally, on Facebook. It is a great story. You can watch a BBC video of the two at http://news.bbc.../8679073.stm My thanks to Dave Mitchell for telling me about this story.
Created on May 21, 2012
Plus Edition Newsletter Has Been Sent (tRSSNews): To all Plus Edition subscribers:The weekly Plus Edition newsletter was sent to your e-mail address a short time ago. It should have arrived by now. If you have not yet seen it in your in-box, check your spam folder. If it is not there, please contact your e-mail provider to see why it was blocked. This week's entire Plus Edition newsletter is also available at: http://www.eogn...hisweek.htm.
Created on May 21, 2012
Paul Mitchell Immel, R.I.P. (tRSSNews): Paul Mitchell Immel, 55, of Waverly, Ohio, died of cancer on Friday (April 21, 2010) at his home, surrounded by his loving family. Paul retired from the State Library of Ohio as a genealogy librarian after serving over 30 years. He was well known throughout the state for his knowledge of genealogy, and as a historian and speaker. He received two prestigious awards in his field
Created on May 21, 2012
The Genealogy Guys Podcast #196 - 2010 February 4 (tRSSNews): In this episode: George notes that it is Black History Month, and points out that the New England Historic Genealogical Society has a website called AfricanAmericanAncestors.org . George shares the information that MyHeritage.com has acquired the Germany-based OSN Group, which includes such family sites as Verwandt.de , Moikrewni.pl , and Dynastree.com . The Michigan Genealogical
Created on May 21, 2012
Architecture at A&M (tRSSNews): I just received word that Texas A&M University recently dedicated its first two architect-designed buildings—physics buildings named for university benefactors George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell. Both structures were designed by architect Michael Graves and boast numerous “green” features, including heating & AC systems that use natural convection currents and
Created on May 21, 2012
Lucille Conrads Mitchell (tRSSNews): Funeral arrangements are complete at the Zoeller Funeral Home for Lucille Conrads Mitchell, who passed away on Sunday in Bryan, Texas.
Created on May 21, 2012
Alamo Plaza Visitors Get Free Hugs (tRSSNews): Students from Paul Mitchell The School handed out free hugs to downtown visitors to promote niceness.
Created on May 21, 2012
Alamo Plaza Visitors Get Free Hugs (tRSSNews): Students from Paul Mitchell The School handed out free hugs to downtown visitors to promote niceness.
Created on May 21, 2012