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Ancestry.com Acquires 1000memories

 1000memories’ Online Photo Digitizing Technology Brings New Sharing

Capabilities to Ancestry.com Users (PROVO, Utah) – Oct. 3, 2012 – Ancestry.com Inc. (Nasdaq: ACOM), the world’s largest online family history resource, announced today it has acquired 1000memories Inc., the San Francisco-based startup that has been focused on helping people digitize and share the estimated 1.7 trillion paper photos stored in their albums, attics, and shoeboxes.

Founded…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on October 3, 2012 at 12:03pm — No Comments

MyHeritage releases breakthrough Record Matching technology for family history

Discoveries made easy: Millions of…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 19, 2012 at 9:27am — No Comments

Findmypast.com Expands U.S. Records Collection

Findmypast.com Expands U.S. Records Collection

Newly added records gives users access to unparalleled resources…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 1, 2012 at 8:01am — No Comments

Free Webinars from the Southern California Genealogical Society

Register today for the upcoming FREE webinars sponsored by the Southern

California Genealogical Society. The webinars are open to the public and the

original webcast is free to all.



If you can't make one of the scheduled sessions, remember that members of

the Southern California Genealogical Society can view archived sessions at

any time, day or night, from the convenience of home. A one-year single

membership in SCGS is only $35, which gives you access to the…
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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 31, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

UGA September Virtual Meeting

Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 28, 2012 at 8:26am — No Comments

New Live Radio Show to feature Authors and Historians with a Passion for New England History



MILLS, M.A. (August 20, 2012) – Professional genealogist and house historian, Marian Pierre-Louis has developed a new history and genealogy radio show called Fieldstone Common. The…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 27, 2012 at 7:53am — No Comments

North American Indexing Volunteers Invited to Join New US Immigration & Naturalization Community Project

North American Indexing Volunteers Invited to Join New US Immigration & Naturalization Community Project

More than 160,000 volunteer indexers made the 1940 U.S. Census available for searching in just five months. The project was an unprecedented success that dramatically illustrated what the genealogical community can accomplish…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 24, 2012 at 7:47am — No Comments

Federation of Genealogical Societies Debuts New Conference App

For Immediate Release

August 20, 2012

FEDERATION OF GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES DEBUTS CONFERENCE APP
Offers Updated Information On FGS 2012 Conference…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 20, 2012 at 9:29am — No Comments

Family Tree Maker 2012 Updates

Ancestry.com normally announces the newest version of Family tree Maker around this time of the year. Instead we have decided to make several key updates to the existing software, and give those updates away for free. We will be working hard this year to improve the current product and you will see these bonus features throughout the year.

 

Remember, you will need to…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 17, 2012 at 11:28am — No Comments

‘Meet The Presenters’ of Family Tree University’s Fall Virtual Genealogy Conference

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

‘Meet The Presenters’ of Family Tree University’s Fall Virtual Genealogy Conference

 

Take part in pre-scheduled social media Q&A’s to get to know your experts

For a fraction of the cost it takes to travel to–and attend–a live event, Family Tree University's Fall 2012 Virtual Conference provides attendees with an all-access pass to 15 half-hour video sessions presented by the same…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 15, 2012 at 9:18am — No Comments

Saving Memories Forever Launches Free Genealogy App for iPhone



Combined SMF iPhone app and SMF website provide a new approach to saving and sharing family history and stories through audio recordings.



ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Saving…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 13, 2012 at 11:47am — No Comments

Ancestry.com Releases Completely Searchable 1940 U.S. Federal Census

Ancestry.com Releases Completely Searchable 1940 U.S. Federal Census

A searchable index to 134 million records makes researching family history in the latest available U.S. Census dramatically easier

PROVO, UTAH – (August 3, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 3, 2012 at 10:14am — 1 Comment

Findmypast Day at FGS 2012

Explore your roots at findmypast day during FGS 2012

Join findmypast.com at the upcoming Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Birmingham, Alabama for findmypast Day.

 

Created for anyone…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on July 31, 2012 at 3:59pm — No Comments

UGA August Webinar: Finding U.S. Naturalization Records

Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on July 31, 2012 at 10:21am — No Comments

Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America

Ancestry.com Discovers President Obama Related to First Documented Slave in America

 

Research Connects First African-American President to First African Slave in the…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on July 30, 2012 at 9:12am — No Comments

Find My Past: British “David” Takes On Billion-Dollar U.S. “Goliath” For Share of U.S.’s Growing Online Genealogy Market

 

 

• Findmypast.com launches into U.S. July 24; seeks to become go-to…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on July 24, 2012 at 4:09pm — No Comments

1881 and 1891 Scotland Census Indexes Added Millions More for Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Other Countries

Those with Scottish heritage benefited this week as two major index collections were added for Scotland—the 1881 and 1891 Censuses. Other free records were also published this week for Canada, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, and the United States. Search these diverse collections and 2.8 billion other records for free at…
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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on July 18, 2012 at 8:41am — No Comments

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