| Dec 21 | ABC Order is Not Your Friend |
| Dec 21 | Greetings of the Season! |
| Dec 20 | Anyone Could Have Crossed the Pond |
| Dec 20 | Video: The Basics of Paper Conservation I watched a video today that is an excellent tutorial: Basics of Paper Conservation. I wish every genealogist and every other person concerned with preserving paper documents would view this. If this information had been common knowledge years ago... |
| Dec 20 | Now Online: Albany County, New York, Marriages, Deaths & Miscellany... The following was received from Bill McGrath, TIGS Project Coordinator for the Troy Irish Genealogy Society: Announcing a New Database: West Troy Advocate Marriages, Deaths & Miscellany 1837 - 1860 A. The West Troy Advocate, a weekly newspaper, wa... |
| Dec 20 | Dallas Genealogical Society Announces Recipient of 2013 Lloyd DeWit... The following announcement was written by the Dallas Genealogical Society: Dallas, TX , December 20, 2013 - - The Dallas Genealogical Society (DGS) announces that Helen F. M. Leary, Certified Genealogist (Emeritus), Fellow of the American Society ... |
| Dec 20 | Serendipity in the Riverside Courthouse |
| Dec 19 | Is It Really A Different Source? |
| Dec 19 | Oral Family History can be Lost in Three Generations Aaron Holt, archives technician at the National Archives Fort Worth, said it is not unusual for genealogists today to have conflicting stories about an ancestor if oral history was not passed down in a deliberate way through the generations. “I te... |
| Dec 19 | Dallas Genealogical Society Announces Winners of 2013 Writing Contest The following announcement wasa written by the Dallas Genealogical Society: Dallas, TX—December 19, 2013--The Dallas Genealogical Society presented the winners of their 2013 Writing Contest with certificates of recognition and prize checks at thei... |
| Dec 19 | New FamilySearch Now Read Only |
| Dec 18 | Get An Outside Opinion |
| Dec 18 | (+) The Easy Way to Host Your Own Website The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Many of today's genealogy programs will create web pages that you can upload to a web hosting service in the Internet. This allows you to share your genealogy inform... |
| Dec 18 | Senate Passes Bipartisan Budget Agreement that Restricts Access to ... Bad news: The Records Preservation and Access Committee of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the National Genealogical Society, and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies reports that another step has been taken to ... |
| Dec 18 | FamilySearch Adds More Than 10.6 Million Indexed Records and Images... The following announcement was written by FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added more than 10.6 million indexed records and images to collections from Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, England, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, South Kor... |
| Dec 18 | MacFamilyTree and MobileFamilyTree are On Sale The Synium Software web site is running a Christmas sale: all the company's products are available at 50% off the normal prices. This includes MacFamilyTree 7, normally $49.99, now available for $24.99 and MobileFamilyTree 7 for iPad, iPhone, and ... |
| Dec 18 | Italian Prisoner of War Camp Records Available Online The following announcement was written by Forces War Records: Forces War Records, military genealogy specialists, have exclusively released the World War II Italian Prisoner of War Camp nominal rolls for you to search online. For anybody researchi... |
| Dec 18 | Insider Speaking at RootsTech 2014 |
| Dec 18 | Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center is Burglarized, Hi... Police officers are looking for the burglars responsible for stealing historic items from the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center. Police say among the items taken were silver bowls, dishes, silverware, an Indian headband and swords. ... |
| Dec 17 | Follow-up: Records Loss in Franklin County, NC Last week I wrote about the destruction of many old records, including books, boxes, loose papers, ledgers, and more in the basement of the county courthouse. The records were from approximately 1840's to the 1960's. You can read the article at ht... |