After August 31, FamilySearch will no longer accept requests for microfilm to be
sent from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City to the local
Family History Centers or affiliate libraries.
Read about it on Amy Johnson Crow's blog.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Thursday, June 22, 2017
BillionGraves.com
If you enjoy genealogy and need a reason to get out of the house, consider being a contributor to billiongraves.com . If you have a smartphone, you can download the app and then visit a cemetery and photograph graves for uploading to the website. If you don't have a smartphone, you can transcribe gravestone information for uploading. Only 66 photos have been taken at the Brooksville Cemetery, and it looks like the old Tucker Hill cemetery off Croom Road in Brooksville has not been visited yet, just to name two.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Becoming a Citizen of Ireland
If you have Irish ancestors, you may be eligible for Irish citizenship. Click here for the article from thoughtco.com
Friday, June 2, 2017
Technology for Paleography
Interested in technology that will help you decipher old handwriting?. See what they are doing in Europe at the READ(Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents) project.
Here is a paleography tutorial from England's National Archives.
This one is from Brigham Young University.
And, the U.S. National Archives needs your help transcribing documents .
Here is a paleography tutorial from England's National Archives.
This one is from Brigham Young University.
And, the U.S. National Archives needs your help transcribing documents .
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Ellis Island Research
The Statue of Library- Ellis Island Foundation is a good place to start your immigration research. The link is here .
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Buncombe County (NC) has added 50,000 names to its Slave Deeds database. To read about it and find links to the database, click here. ...
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From APNEWS.COM
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Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records. This ...