Ian on February 27th, 2009

Free Genealogy and Family History Videos
Roots Television offers free genealogy and family history videos. Topics include Conferences, How-to, DNA, African Roots, British research, Irish family history, Hispanic roots, Libraries, Archives, Reunions, Photo Restoration and more…

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Ian on January 15th, 2009

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: [...]

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Ian on January 13th, 2009

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 [...]

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Ian on January 5th, 2009

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 [...]

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Ian on December 31st, 2008

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Ian on December 31st, 2008

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.
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Ian on December 24th, 2008

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 [...]

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Ian on December 22nd, 2008

A very Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year to all.

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Ian on December 22nd, 2008

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 [...]

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Ian on December 19th, 2008

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 [...]

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