reclaimtherecords.org introduces the The Connecticut Genealogy Index, 5.5 million records of births, marriages, civil unions, and deaths spanning 3 centuries. Some background information about it can be found here.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023
Copyright free images
This post by the Legal Genealogist talks about the copyright-free photos of Carol Highsmith, which you can use to enhance your blog, newsletter, or family history page: https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2023/08/17/more-than-2000-more/
The photos can be found at the Library of Congress website as the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Ulster Settlers Database
This article from irishcentral.com talks about the database, which contains information on the English and Scottish who settled in Ulster between 1609 and 1641. It is currently comprised of about 14,500 names and is a work in progress. A link to the database can be found at the end of the article.
Monday, August 7, 2023
"10 Million Names" project
From prnewswire.com comes an article about the "10 Million Names Project, a collaboration between American Ancestors, family historians, African American scholars, and cultural institutions. The project will gather names of millions of persons enslaved in what is now the US from the 1500s to 1865. The data available so far can be found at 10millionnames.org/
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Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree
From Ted.com in 2018.
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Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the mail moved slowly and some citizens had to travel a good distance to check for mail...
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Newspapers. com, which is available to library card holders from the library's website, has added 450 more papers from 15 states and 3...
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Over the course of U.S. history, county boundaries and names changed, and large counties were broken up into smaller ones. In 1883, for exam...