NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON ANCESTRY

The following records are show as new and updated on Ancestry.com today.

Happy ancestor hunting.

Ancestry Records

	Title	Collection	Records	Activity
	New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons, 1788-1870	Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills	53,757	Updated
	Web: Greenville County, South Carolina, Obituary Index, 1914-1992	Birth, Marriage & Death	268,932	Updated
	New Mexico, World War I Records, 1917-1919	Military	110,254	New
	Iowa, Marriage Records, 1923-1937	Birth, Marriage & Death	611,511	New

ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY NEWSPAPER COLLECTION

If you have any ancestors in Illinois you may find some information about them on this site.  Note that they have the microfilm of the newspapers for sale or interlibrary loan.  Click on the picture to go to the website.

Happy ancestor hunting.

900 MILLION NEW INTERNATIONAL RECORDS ON ANCESTRY.COM

Here are some of the first results from the agreements made by FamilySearch.org with Ancestry.com and the other large genealogical database companies:

To see more information about this project, click on the picture below and then click on the new link "NEW GLOBAL RECORDS" in the upper right of the home page.

To see some of the records that have been added, click on the picture of the card catalog page below.  Ancestry shows 11 pages of new records in the card catalog.

Look for more new records to be added in the future.  This should increase the number of "shakey leaves" on our family trees in Ancestry.com.  I will keep you updated on this website.

Happy ancestor hunting.

Coming Soon to Ancestry.com Search—More Control Over Your Results!

This was just posted on Ancestry.com Blog - Keep an eye out for this new feature - It should help with our searches.

Posted by Ancestry.com on February 24, 2014 in Ancestry.com Blog

 A new sliding control is coming to the Ancestry search function over the next couple of weeks. Located in the upper-left corner of the search results page, it will make it easy to quickly broaden or narrow your search results. Don’t see the search results you were expecting? Simply drag one or more sliders from left to right to quickly modify your results. The slider position shows how closely your search terms should be matched. With all the sliders to the left, your results are matched at the broadest level, and moving one or more sliders to the right will display more exact matches. - See more at: http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/02/24/coming-soon-to-search-more-control-over-your-results/#sthash.kiI4N6oa.dpuf

NEW RECORDS ON ANCESTRY TODAY

The following records are shown as NEW on Ancestry.com today.

Happy ancestor hunting.
Ancestry Records

• Washington, County Deaths, 1891-1907
• Belgium, Antwerp Police Immigration Index, 1840-1930 (in French)
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966
• Vermont, Enrolled Militia Records, 1861-1867

CROWDSOURCING

 

Crowdsourcing is a new word that we hear in many genealogical circles. It is sometimes hard to grasp the real meaning about what crowdsourcing means. To me it is collaboration: the act of working together with one or more people in order to achieve something. Us senior citizens remember in the 1980's the mailing lists, message boards and groups/communities that we used for communication in the early days of computers. This FamilySearch Blog (click here) is an excellent article that reminds us that the information that was put on these lists, boards and groups are still in existence today and are a valuable tool for genealogy research. Do not overlook these sources because of all the more modern way of crowdsourcing.

Happy ancestor hunting.

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON ANCESTRY

The following records are shown as new or updated on Ancestry.com.  Sorry that these are not linked but when there are this many on Ancestry, I have not determined a way to copy the links with the entire list.

Happy ancestor hunting.
Ancestry Records

NEW Canada, Seafarers of the Atlantic Provinces, 1860-1899

283032

Yesterday

UPDATED Liverpool, England, Catholic Confirmations, 1813-1920

80889

Yesterday

UPDATED Liverpool, England, Catholic Marriages, 1754-1921

132996

Yesterday

UPDATED Liverpool, England, Catholic Baptisms, 1802-1906

475547

Yesterday

UPDATED Liverpool, England, Catholic Burials, 1813-1988

619201

Yesterday

UPDATED Sweden, Indexed Birth Records, 1870-1941 (in Swedish)

10657173

Yesterday

UPDATED Manchester, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1985

917791

Yesterday

UPDATED Manchester, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1541-1812

1186882

Yesterday

UPDATED Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930

1437698

Yesterday

UPDATED Manchester, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915

1702491

Yesterday

NEW Newfoundland, Canada, Index of Birth, Marriage & Death Notices from Newspapers, 1810–1890 ...

41143

Yesterday

NEW California, Death and Burial Records from Select Counties, 1873-1987

130157

Yesterday

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON FAMILYSEARCH AND ANCESTRY

The following records are shown as added or updated on FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com today.

I post the updated and added records for FamilySearch and Ancestry on this blog each time I find they have added or updated records.  I check both sites daily and post them as soon as I find them.  The purpose of this is to give the followers of my blog an easy way to know when records are added.  I have found several newly digitized records for my ancestors in Arkansas and Louisiana that I would not have to known to look for without keeping up with these additions.  If you see a new or updated record for an area that you are researching, click on it and see what you find.  If you have found or do find any records, why not make a comment on the blog?

Happy ancestor hunting.

FamilySearch Records

Title	Records	Last Updated
BillionGraves Index	5,880,760	*18 Feb 2014
Puerto Rico, Catholic Church Records, 1645-1969	Browse Images	*18 Feb 2014
South Africa, Orange Free State, Estate Files, 1951-2006	19,126	*18 Feb 2014

Ancestry Records

• Web: Wisconsin, Find A Grave Index, 1836-2012
• Web: Maryland, Find A Grave Index, 1637-2012
• Web: Louisiana, Find A Grave Index, 1700-2012
• Web: South Carolina, Find A Grave Index, 1729-2012
• Web: Stone County, Missouri, Burial Index, 1852-2005
• Web: Columbus, Ohio, Union Cemetery Index, 1847-2012

THE DOUBLE "S"

In many of the 19th century and earlier English documents you encounter in your research, you will find a letter that looks like a very odd shaped letter "p".  In this time period a double "s" was written in such a way that it resembles a odd shaped modern "p".  If you find a word that does not look right with a "p" in this location try an "ss" and see if that helps.

Thanks to my daughter Lynne Jones for enlightening me to this oddity in early American documents.  I have run across this many time when indexing records for FamilySearch.



Click on the picture below to see a larger image of some of the examples that are in FamilySearch's Indexing Help.

Happy ancestor hunting.

Online Historical Newspapers

Click on the screenshot below to look at the Penn Libraries list of free historical newspaper websites.  The website contains a huge list of websites that have historical newspapers available online.  Many of the newspapers are very old.  I found an old newspaper from Ruston that I did not know existed.

Happy ancestor hunting.

VALENTINE DAY PROJECT

This started out as a simple Valentine Day project to find out who had the longest marriage in my paternal and maternal direct line ancestors.  As always I got carried away with my spreadsheet, and worked all afternoon on it.  I think these are very interesting spreadsheets that provide many facts about my direct line ancestors in one place.  As you can see next year Esther and I will will celebrate our 54th wedding anniversary and pass my Jones' grandparents. This will give us the title of having the longest marriage in the Jones and Colvin lines.  I challenge all of you genealogist researchers to find the longest marriage in their direct lines and send me a comment on this blog.

Happy ancestor hunting.

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON FAMILYSEARCH AND ANCESTRY

The following records are show as new or updated on FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com

Happy ancestor hunting.

Family Search Records

Title	Records	Last Updated
Brazil, São Paulo, Immigration Cards, 1902-1980	Browse Images	*14 Feb 2014
New Jersey, State Census, 1885	305,188	*14 Feb 2014

Ancestry Records

• Web: Monroe County, Indiana, Obituary Index, 1899-2011
• Web: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Index to Cemeteries, 1890-1987
• Web: Ohio, MOLO Obituary Index, 1811-2012
• Web: Colorado County, Texas, Marriage Index, 1837-1886
• Web: Dayton, Ohio, Obituary Index, 1850-2013
• Web: Columbus, Ohio, Green Lawn Cemetery Index, 1780-2010
• Web: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Birth Index, 1865-2012
• New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1821-1937

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON FAMILYSEARCH AND ANCESTRY

The following records are show as new or added on FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com today.

Happy ancestor hunting.

FamilySearch Records

Title	Records	Last Updated
Australia, Index to Probate Registers, 1841-1989	Browse Images	*12 Feb 2014
Austria, Upper Austria, Catholic Church Records, 1581-1910	35,269	*12 Feb 2014
Dominican Republic, Civil Registration, 1801-2010	Browse Images	*12 Feb 2014
England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-1920	65,588,202	*12 Feb 2014
France, Auvergne, Family Genealogies by Colonel Etienne de Bellaigue de Bughas, 1400-1900	Browse Images	*12 Feb 2014
Italy, Toscana, Civil Registration (State Archive), 1804-1874	Browse Images	*12 Feb 2014
United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850	3,205,407	*12 Feb 2014

Ancestry Records

• California, Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1850-1941
• U.S., Select Crew Lists and Manifests, 1890-1961

ROOTSTECH 2014 FREE VIDEOS

 

If you are not familiar with RootsTech here is their description of the event:

"RootsTech is a global family history event where people of all ages learn to discover and share their family stories and connections through technology. At RootsTech, there is something for you, regardless of your experience in family history or your skill in technology."

This event is held each year in Salt Lake City and they have conferences and speakers during the three days of the event that cover many areas of genealogy researching, concentrating on using technology in research. After the event they put the videos of the conferences on their website. At the present time they have eighteen free videos on the site. They are all excellent learning videos - so be sure and look through them and see if you find one that interests you.

Click on the link below to view the videos.
 
Happy ancestor hunting.

https://rootstech.org/about/videos/

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON FAMILYSEARCH AND ANCESTRY

The following records are shown as updated or new on FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com today.

Happy ancestor hunting.

FamilySearch Records

Title	Records	Last Updated
Arkansas, Ex-Confederate Pension Records, 1891-1939	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Australia, Tasmania, Miscellaneous Records, 1829-1961	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
California, San Francisco, Immigration Office Special Inquiry Records, 1910-1941	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-1920	35,121,265	*11 Feb 2014
Germany, Baden, Church Book Duplicates, 1810-1869	287,965	*11 Feb 2014
Honduras, Catholic Church Records, 1633-1978	494,749	*11 Feb 2014
Illinois, Non-Population Census Schedules, 1850-1880	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Italy, Oristano, Oristano, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1940	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Massachusetts, Worcester County, Probate Files, 1731-1881	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Missouri, State and Territorial Census Records, 1732-1876	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Montana, Pondera County Records, 1910-2012	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1848-1991	158,732	*11 Feb 2014
Peru, Amazonas, Civil Registration, 1939-1997	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Saskatchewan Provincial Records, 1879-1987	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
South Carolina, Georgetown, Passenger Lists, 1904-1942	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
United States, Records of the Panama Canal Zone, 1905-1937	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Washington, Seattle, Passenger and Crew Lists of Airplanes, 1947-1954	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Wisconsin, Crew Lists of Ship Arrivals, 1925-1956	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014
Wisconsin, Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Manitowoc, 1925-1956	Browse Images	*11 Feb 2014

Ancestry Records

• 1901 England Census
• New Zealand, Registers of Medical Practitioners and Nurses, 1873, 1882-1933

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON FAMILYSEARCH

FamilySearch.org has several new and updated records listed today.

Happy ancestor hunting.

FamilySearch Records

Title	Records	Last Updated
Austria, Seigniorial Records, 1537-1888	Browse Images	*10 Feb 2014
Belgium, Hainaut, Civil Registration, 1600-1911	176,150	*10 Feb 2014
England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-1920	40,617,806	*10 Feb 2014
Spain, Cádiz, Testaments, 1531-1920	Browse Images	*10 Feb 2014
United Kingdom, World War I Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Records, 1917-1920	Browse Images	*10 Feb 2014

MILITARY RESEARCH HELP

 If you are doing military research, this would be a handy chart to have by your side.

When I did Civil War research I used this to go through my family tree and list all of the ancestors that were born between the dates and listed them. That way I had information on which ancestors I needed to look for on Fold3.com.

You can open this photo or save it to your computer so that you can enlarge to make it easier to read.

Happy ancestor hunting.

Post by Twisted Twigs On Gnarled Branches Genealogy.

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON ANCESTRY

The following record collections are show as updated or new today on Ancestry.com

Happy ancestor hunting.


FamilySearch Records

• West Yorkshire, England, Tax Valuation, 1910
• Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899
• London, England, Freedom of the City Admission Papers, 1681-1925

FAMILYSEARCH GRANITE MOUNTAIN STORAGE VAULT

This is more about FamilySearch and the work they are doing to get more family history records online. The picture is fantastic - This is a vault in the side of a Granite Mountain where they store a large part of the microfilm that they are working to get digitized and online. Click on the url link below to see a video of the history of the vault and an inside look of what is being done in the vault.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPo5BSS_AA

In GENCOM's March 2, 2014 meeting we will be discussing the FamilySearch.org website and show some tips and hints for searching the website for you ancestors' records.

Happy ancestor hunting.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/57494586-79/records-family-familysearch-online.html.csp

 

Mormon church, private companies aim to get more family history records online

sltrib.com

FamilySearch International, the non-profit organization which manages The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ genealogical records, announced Tuesday a new collaboration with commercial family history co

NEW AND UPDATED RECORDS ON FAMILYSEARCH TODAY

The following records are shown as new or updated on FamilySearch.org today.

Happy ancestor hunting

FamilySearch Records

Title	Records	Last Updated
California, San Pedro, Immigration Office Special Inquiry Records, 1930-1936	Browse Images	*04 Feb 2014
Philippines, Manila Civil Registration, 1899-1994	Browse Images	*04 Feb 2014
Spain, Diocese of Lugo, Catholic Parish Records, 1550-1930	145,405	*04 Feb 2014
Spain, Province of Tarragona, Municipal Records, 1430-1936	Browse Images	*04 Feb 2014
United States Census, 1850	3,880,420	*04 Feb 2014

FAMILY SEARCH NEWS

FamilySearch Works to Put the World’s HistoricalRecords Online in One Generation 

 "SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—FamilySearch International (online at FamilySearch.org) is leading the way in digitizing and providing access to billions of historical genealogical records by collaborating with commercial family history companies and the online community. This collaboration will carve centuries off the time needed to increase access to the world’s historical records, enabling millions more people to quickly discover, share, and preserve family memories for generations."

Click here to see the article for more information.  FamilySearch is on the forefront of digitizing records and putting them online.  This article explains what they are doing and why.  Click on the photo below to see the infographic that illustrates the information in the article.

Happy ancestor hunting.