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Mark Tucker, publisher of the ThinkGenealogy blog, today awarded Legacy Family Tree version v7 with the ThinkGenealogy Innovator award. He wrote, “when the innovator award is presented for software innovation, it is for a specific feature. The innovative feature that is being recognized today is Legacy 7’s source citation templates following Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace.“
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The 1911 Census from Findmypast.com will be going live tomorrow (14 Jan 2009)
Many more counties that were unavailable on the beta site over Christmas, including Lancashire, Essex, Kent, Yorkshire (West Riding), Nottinghamshire and Herefordshire are now available. They say they will continue to scan the remainder of the census and will make the remaining counties available as soon as possible.
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MyBlood is a brand new genealogy program from Belgium. The latest available version is referred to as Alpha 2.1 this means that it is still in it’s early throes of developement and isn’t yet a commercially available product.
However, you can obtain a copy of the current version by registering on their website. As soon as you register, you are presented with download links.
MyBlood is a multi-language application. Vertical Horizon is a Belgian company, and this early version supports English in addition to the native languages Dutch and French. Belgium has three official languages, the third is German.
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The Church of Latter Day Saints, also commonly known as the Mormons, have recently released a “Pilot” website for seaching births, marriage, deaths, censuses and many other records. The greater part of the project is currently based on US data but hopefully in the near future more non-US information will be added.
Find Your Ancestors on Record Search : Search millions of indexed records for your ancestors. Browse through images of records waiting to be indexed. More records are being added every month. Record Search is still under development. This release is considered a PILOT. This means that at times Record Search will not be available while we add additional records and improve some features.
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FindMyPast have extended the beta test period (which was due to end yesterday) for a few days into the Christmas holidays - you should keep an eye on the 1911census blog to get updates on exactly when it will finish. However, do not wait too long - the beta site will not be available for much longer.
They have added 22 full counties to the beta site since last week, bringing the total number available to 26. There is a full list of the counties available on the blog or you can see them easily by looking in the “County” dropdown menu on the Person Search page on the site.
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A very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year to all.
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Doug Cox’s “Simple Family Tree” is a great little piece of Freeware that enables you to create and/or view a family tree quickly and easily. It displays ancestors and descendants of any selected individual (it reads and writes files in Gedcom format). You can enter notes, events, a second name, and marriage details for each individual.
- Note! The link to download the program is at the very bottom of the the Author’s webpage.
Highly recommended.
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A beta version of the 1911 UK census site is up and running at FindMyPast‘s website, unfortunately only Staffordshire and London are available at the moment.
I’ve just downloaded a couple of my Staffs families. The searching is free but you have to pay 10 Credits to view a Transcript of the Household or 30 Credits to view a scan of the actual page.
The costs are:
- £6.95 - 60 credits - £0.12 per credit
- £24.95 - 280 credits - £0.09 per credit
- £49.95 - 600 credits - £0.08 per credit
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