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Gena Philibert Ortega's Blog – June 2012 Archive (9)

MyHeritage releases SuperSearch - a state of the art search engine for family history

Cutting-edge search engine powers breakthrough discoveries, adds color to family history and establishes the popular family network as a leading player in the historical content market

PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – June 25, 2012: MyHeritage, the most popular family network on the web, today announced the official launch of SuperSearch, a powerful new family history search engine for helping families around the…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 25, 2012 at 12:57pm — No Comments

FamilySearch has a Growing Need for International Indexers

Growing Need for International Indexers

18 June 2012

Growing Need for International Indexers
More than 120 projects are currently available from countries outside the U.S., representing 16 languages. Since the first of the year, new projects have been launched from…
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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 20, 2012 at 8:50am — No Comments

MyHeritage hits one billion profiles

 

PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – June 11, 2012:…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 12, 2012 at 8:57am — No Comments

New Yorkers can now search for their roots in the newly indexed 1940 U.S. Federal Census for New York and three state censuses dating to 1892, exclusively on Ancestry.com.

PROVO, UTAH – (June 6, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, has announced an exclusive offer for New Yorkers to jump start their family history research.  Starting today, a valuable select group of record collections, provided through a partnership with the New York State Archives and Library, are now available free to New York state residents at…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 6, 2012 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Major New Online Database at SFGenealogy

SFgenealogy is excited to announce a new major database available online:



The database currently includes over 305,000 burial records for the Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma (1887-2001). In the future, other…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 6, 2012 at 9:13am — No Comments

Genealogy Jamboree Streamed Sessions Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Paula Hinkel - Southern California Genealogy Jamboree



We're making the last big reveal leading up to this weekend's Genealogy Jamboree.



In keeping with SCGS's tradition of delivering exceptional genealogical education over the Internet, we are proud to announce that the 2012 Genealogy Jamboree will offer ten streamed sessions over two days,…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 6, 2012 at 9:12am — No Comments

Royal Household Staff Records 1660-1924 now online

ROYAL HOUSEHOLD STAFF RECORDS GO ONLINE FOR THE FIRST TIME

  • Discover who served Britain’s Kings and Queens from King Charles II to King George V, at findmypast.co.uk
  • ‘Chocolate Maker to the Queen’, ‘Keeper of the Lions in the Tower’ and ‘Moletaker’ among some of the most extraordinary roles



Have you ever wondered who works in a Royal Household, or whether you might have a…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 4, 2012 at 9:48am — No Comments

Publication of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Art of One-Name Studies book

In April 2012 the Guild of One-Name Studies published "Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Art of One-Name Studies" as a guide to the running of a one-name study. The book is a collection of helpful advice and information gathered from the Guild Wiki, and was published immediately before the Guild’s 2012 Conference in order to complement its "Seven Pillars" theme. Copies…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 4, 2012 at 9:44am — No Comments

Free Access to War of 1812 Records on Fold3 for the Month of June

Fold3 will be opening up all of their War of 1812 records to the public for free during June. This is in commemoration of the 200thanniversary of the commencement of the war. The collection consists of more than 400,000 images including 233,000 images from the War of 1812 Pension Files never before available online. The following databases provided for free included:

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on June 1, 2012 at 8:07am — No Comments

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