Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Missing Persons from WWII In Europe

The Arolsen Archives has made available online information on persons persecuted by the Nazis in World War II Europe. The database includes 850,000 documents with information on 10 million names of both survivors and those that were killed.  Source: ResearchBuzz

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Phone book images

The Library of Congress has uploaded 1.7 million images from its Telephone Directory Collection. The images come from 14 states, the city of Chicago, and Washington D.C. The collection is not currently searchable by name or address, and years appear to range from the 30's to the 70's. Get more information and a link to the collection here.   Source: ResearchBuzz

Monday, November 4, 2019

Monday, October 28, 2019

Photography

First in series on photography for genealogy, from the Genalogy's Star blog.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Digitizing your photos

Here is an article from Reddit.com on digitizing your photo collection. (via ResearchBuzz)

Monday, September 9, 2019

Mayflower 400th Anniversary events


If you are one of the tens of millions of Americans with a Mayflower ancestor, or just have an interest in the subject, read here about live streaming of upcoming events to mark the 400th anniversary of her arrival in North America.

Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree

 From Ted.com in 2018.