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FamilySearch Collection Update October 30, 2013

FamilySearch has added more than 135 million indexed records and images from Brazil, Canada, England, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, and the United…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on November 4, 2013 at 8:49am — No Comments

Heartbreak & Hope: New Blog Launched to Tell the Stories of Ellis Island Immigrants

New York, NY – In honor of the reopening of Ellis Island on Monday, October 28, 2013, Statue Cruises is pleased to announce the launch…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on October 28, 2013 at 7:46am — No Comments

Vision to Action Publishing announces the release of "Christmas at the Homeplace," by William Leverne Smith, aka, Dr. Bill

Hollister, MO, October 25, 2013 -- "Christmas at the Homeplace" is the fourth book in "The Homplace Saga" series of historical fiction family saga stores set in a rural river valley in the southern Missouri Ozarks near a fictional western branch of the Current…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on October 22, 2013 at 12:28pm — No Comments

MyHeritage and FamilySearch Enter Significant Strategic Partnership to Advance Family History

TEL AVIV, Israel & SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on October 14, 2013 at 5:16pm — No Comments

National Archives (UK) burial records from closed cemeteries added to Deceased Online

The first tranche of burial records from another set of data held by The National Archives has been added to the Deceased Online website,www.deceasedonline.com.

The dataset…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on October 14, 2013 at 8:29am — No Comments

New Student Chapter - Utah Genealogical Association Is Growing

Oct 2, 2013– Salt Lake City, UT - The Utah Genealogical Association (UGA) is pleased to announce the formation of a Student Chapter to serve and support…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on October 8, 2013 at 9:28am — No Comments

Jimmy B. Parker Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Scholarship Applications Now Being Accepted

The Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy is pleased to announce we are now accepting essays for the Jimmy B. Parker Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy scholarship. Full…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 23, 2013 at 11:42am — No Comments

Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Early Bird Registration Ends Soon!

SLIG’s Early-Bird Registration is only weeks away, ending on October 31, 2013! Ensure you get yourself a spot in one of the few remaining courses. The following…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 23, 2013 at 11:40am — No Comments

FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.7 Million Indexed Records and Images

FamilySearch Adds More Than 2.7 Million Indexed Records and Images to Collections from Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and Switzerland…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 19, 2013 at 8:28am — No Comments

Ancestry.com Redesigns App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Optimized for iOS 7, Ancestry App Offers New Social Features Making Family History Easier to Engage

PROVO, Utah, Sept. 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ancestry.com LLC, the world's largest online family history resource, today announced the launch of a new, upgraded version of its…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 19, 2013 at 8:25am — No Comments

MyHeritage Announces New Feature

MyHeritage has launched today a new feature that lets you save the records you discover on SuperSearch directly to the relevant profiles in your family tree. You can also easily extract information…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 16, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

ANCESTRY.COM AND FAMILYSEARCH TO MAKE A BILLION GLOBAL RECORDS AVAILABLE ONLINE

Groundbreaking Agreement to Deliver Valuable Historical Content Over the Next Five Years

PROVO, Utah, September 5, 2013 – Ancestry.com and FamilySearch International (online at FamilySearch.org), the two largest providers of family history resources, announced today an agreement that is expected to make approximately 1 billion global historical records available online and more easily accessible to the public for the first time. With this…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 5, 2013 at 5:21pm — No Comments

Registration for the 2014 Forensic Genealogy Institute Now Open

Registration for the Forensic Genealogy Institute is open at…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on September 5, 2013 at 8:16am — No Comments

Diane C. Loosle Named Director of World Renowned Family History Library

August 21, 2013 - SALT LAKE CITY-FamilySearch today announced that Diane C. Loosle is the new director of its flagship Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. She will have the responsibility of leveraging the skills of the…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 23, 2013 at 8:53am — No Comments

FGS and RootsTech will be Held in Tandem in 2015

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 22, 2013 at 7:49am — No Comments

Ask Me Anything with D. Joshua Taylor this Thursday!

What: Ask Me Anything on Reddit with D. Joshua Taylor

When: Thursday, August 15, 2013 at Noon EDT

Ask D. Joshua Taylor, lead genealogist for findmypast.com anything! He’ll be answering your questions about genealogy, his career as a professional genealogist and anything else that may be asked.

On Thursday, August…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 12, 2013 at 10:54am — No Comments

FamilyTree Magazine: Census Search Dos and Dont's

Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 8, 2013 at 5:09pm — No Comments

WE’RE GOING TO THE PRISON AND WE’RE… GONNA GET MARRIED

17th century records published today on Ancestry.co.uk reveal nearly 900,000 ‘quickie’ weddings and baptisms

Records detail marriages from London’s Fleet Prison – the ‘Las Vegas’ marriage capital of its day
Digitised collection reveals the last of England and Wales’ unregulated wedding…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on August 8, 2013 at 8:39am — No Comments

Findmypast.com.au releases new military records ahead of WWI centenary

Gallantry and bravery of servicemen highlighted in detailed records

Sydney, 23 July, 2013: In the lead-up to the…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on July 29, 2013 at 9:50am — No Comments

Shoebox Mobile App from Ancestry.com

The Shoebox Mobile App has been recently updated and is better than ever for family historians. This free photo scanning app allows you to take high quality photos, edit, date your photos, map the location, tag family members and more. With a free registration to Ancestry.com, the mobile app will upload images directly to specific ancestors on your Ancestry.com tree. You can upload photos right at the cemetery,…

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Added by Gena Philibert Ortega on July 4, 2013 at 9:35am — No Comments