December 13, 2009
November 17, 2009
Digging in the graveyard- memories of a trip back in time in Pittsburgh
September 14, 2009
We have a new site for the Jane Ison Family History Group Inc. it is at http://janeison.no-ip.org so please check it out if you have roots back to the first Australian European settlers.
August 11, 2009
June 07, 2009
War and famine are generally associated with the loss of millions of lives. However, the influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more human beings than World War I altogether. Genealogy Records show Spanish Flu Kills Millions in 1918
April 12, 2009
After much searching I found the British cemetery seven years ago; a corner of a foreign field hidden in the modern sprawl of houses and apartments that have grown up around it during the last four hundred years.
FindMyPast.com has now added the remaining English Counties (Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland) and the missing Gateshead district records into the county of Durham. Therefore all English counties are now complete and online.
Scanning of Welsh records is well underway and some data from Wales should be available in the next 4 to 6 weeks.
Details may be found at: http://blog.1911census.co.uk.
Following programmes like the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, interest in genealogy has grown rapidly in recent years. Some commercial companies charge as much as GBP30.00 for a birth certificate but each certificate costs from just GBP7.00 if you order online via Directgov.
Public information about registering births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales has moved from the GRO (General Register Office) website and is now available on the government’s supersite, Directgov, from 7 April 2009 and Free Genealogy has more information about how, when and where you can build your Family Tree without spending a fortune.
April 11, 2009
ProGenealogists has issued two lists of popular genealogy resources: the 50 most popular genealogy web sites and the 25 most popular blogs (web logs). Free-Genealogy Blog details down the first announcement covering the top 50 Free Genealogy sites on the web: Pity Free-Genealogy was not mentioned but this is a very US focused list.
This list was created in the first quarter of 2009. It was developed from a list of criteria explained in an article published in the Digital Genealogist, edited by Elizabeth Kelley Kerstens. The 2008 ranking is given in parenthesis after the website description. Sites new to the list for 2009 are marked with *.
Librarian Pro is a program for both Windows and Macintosh that helps you manage your collection of books, magazines, games, CDs, software titles, movies, and more. It helps you inventory and retrieve information quickly. It has labor-saving abilities, even the ability to use a barcode scanner.
Librarian Pro is a commercial program that sells for $29.95 (U.S. funds). You can learn more or order it or download a free 15-day trial version of the program at http://www.koingosw.com/products/librarianpro.php.
April 02, 2009
Hello All -- I posted a couple blog links here ON Feb 13 and one of them was incorrect- i wanted to make that correction :)
http://www.genwed.wordpress.com THAT'S what it should have read :) Lots of new articals since that initial post - your comments are welcome :)
March 16, 2009
Follow this and more on Genealogyflow and Twitter.
March 15, 2009
illyadaddezio, owner of Genealogy Today LLC, released FOURTEEN new genealogy transcriptions at http://LiveRoots.com (just about 7,000 names)... and name indexes are free to search!
By clicking on any county in the United States, you’ll find a Web site devoted to genealogy and research. On most sites, you can leave a query, find out about books on the county, local contacts and local repositories, and many times some types of records are posted there. Http://www.usgenweb.org
To see the videos the way they should be displayed, go to www.rootstelevision.com and start playing a video. On the bottom of the video player, there is a rectangle with arrows coming out of the corners, to the left of the volume control. If you click that icon, you will blow the video up into full-screen.
March 07, 2009
PROVO, Utah, March 5 -- The Generations Network (TGN), parent company of Ancestry.com, today announced that current Senior Vice President of Technology, Mike Wolfgramm, has been appointed the company's Chief Technology Officer. Additionally, Jonathan Young has joined The Generations Network as Ancestry.com's Vice President of Development.
March 05, 2009
After months of rumors, Google Health that it has launched a significant new feature, giving users the ability to share their medical records with designated family or close friends. Read the Full Article
Free Preview of Leading Genealogy Software Now Available to the Public
SPRINGVILLE, Utah. — March 4, 2009 — RootsMagic, Inc. today announced RootsMagic 4 public beta, the latest version of the award-winning genealogy software which makes researching, organizing, and sharing your family history easy and enjoyable. During the public beta period, all are invited to download and experience the software, free of charge.
March 01, 2009
Eastman Online talks about WDYTYA live Day 2. Worth a read
February 28, 2009
Are you at WDYTYA Live event today? I'll be hanging around the Ancestry.co.uk stand where they have a number of FREE services and listening to the live talks by Megan Smolenyak as she talks around Genealogy, Roots Television and more. Lots of people around and some eager people wanting to get started. Should be a good day
MyFamily•ology today announced the beta release of its one-of-a-kind Web-Based Family Genealogy Program. Amateur and professional genealogists are invited to help test the soon-to-be released software program before it is available to the public.
To register as a Beta Tester for myFamily•ology’s Web-Based Family Genealogy Program, please go to http://www.family-genealogy.com/subscriptions.aspx.
February 25, 2009
FamilyLink.com recently raised $2.85 million in Series B funding as social networking services continue to grow even during difficult economic times. FamilyLink.com raised its initial round of funding of $1.25 million in August 2007. MORE
Catch Cathy Pilgrim being interviewed at Roots Television.
Who's Cathy? Cathy Pilgrim is the Director of the Newspaper Digitization Program at the National Library of Australia.
February 21, 2009
February 19, 2009
New software designed and available for free download on all Ancestry websites enables participants to take images of original records and create indexes containing key information such as name, age, date, gender and location. Ancestry websites will host those indexes, which will be free to access. MORE
February 17, 2009
Zuckerberg On Who Owns User Data On Facebook: It’s Complicated
Got data on the large Genealogy groups on Facebook. Well, even if you want to delete your profile, groups, applications etc your data is still going to be owned and available to Facebook... Seems silly. After spending so much time adding information should you continue to add info or should you just start using something else, much faster and equally as exciting - Twitter.. For more on what Facebook announced read Techcrunch article.
Ancestry.co.uk are soon to be launching a large London Record collection and have sent an email asking for help from their user base for people with London ancestry. To read up more on how to be invovled and what Ancestry.co.uk need, check out more details on the Free Genealogy blog
February 13, 2009
According to some authorities, there were two Valentines. One was a priest and doctor who was martyred in the year 269, and the other was the bishop of Terni, who was brought to Rome to be tortured and executed in 273. Others say it was the same person. Both men (or the same man) have legends attributed to them concerning love and matrimony, legends that may or may not be true. Reas Eastmans full story online today
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February 09, 2009
How can you get 2 for 1 tickets for the WDYTYA live show..
Ancestry.co.uk is giving you the chance to buy two adult tickets for the price of one - that's just £20*!
To claim this special offer, simply click here or call 0844 412 4629 and quote ANCESTRY241 today!
Now you can send fresh flowers and other real gifts, along with virtual gifts on Geni. You can even schedule your greeting or gift to appear on Valentine's Day
February 03, 2009
If you like Twitter, follow Genealogyflow on twitter, why not double your comments and post them right here on Genealogyflow.com as well.
The best of both worlds and you even get to write even more on Genealogyflow...
You can get 3 issues of Your Family Tree magazine for just 1 pound if you take out a trial subscription, saving you nearly 14 pounds compared to the shop price. Click here to go straight to the offer page while it lasts.
Who Do You Think You Are? is back on TV - Catch up on the latest BBC series and visit their WDYTYA website. Read about the stars genealogy and how they went about their own adventures including Rory Bremner, Fiona Bruce, Rick Stein, Zoe Wanamaker, Kevin Whatley
If you've had difficulty finding your relatives in the 1911 Census you'll be delighted to learn that wildcard searches have now been enabled, and that you can even use a wildcard at the beginning of a name or place
FamilySearch is going through a period of expansion. Among the latest additions to the records are Irish birth, marriage, and death entries covering the period 1864-1958, and non-Catholic marriages from 1845-1863. Records for the whole of Ireland are included up to 1921, but from 1922 onwards the records relate only to the Republic of Ireland; there are 23 million entries in all.
February 01, 2009
Scribd is a place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. More than 50 million people each month are finding or sharing documents of all sorts. Scribd accepts documents about most any topic; genealogy is but one of the thousands of topics you can find on the site. (Users are asked to not upload pornography or any materials written by others.) To read any document on Scribd, all you need is a web browser. Scribd documents are available free of charge.
To see an example of a Scribd document, you can read this article on Scribd.
Howard H. Metcalfe has released an updated version of Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II), a free genealogy program for Macintosh systems. Two versions are available: one for the OS X operating system and another for OS 9. Modelled off old Ancestral systems, PAF, it's worth a look for all your Mac fans..
You can learn more about Personal Ancestry Writer II at Lanopalera.
You might also be interested in the PAWriter Forum.
The following announcement was written by FamilySearch:
Since the last update on January 5, 2009, FamilySearch added over 40 million new records to its Record Search pilot. Individuals with international roots from Argentina, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, and the Philippines will find some nice surprises in the newly added collections. Read more here
January 24, 2009
The Maps tool on Genes Reunited is pretty cool. When you search for your ancestors on their census records you see your search results in a list but they are also plotted a map. Look out for the "show results on a map" link when searching the census records.
January 23, 2009
Genes Reunited have recently had a make-over and introduced some exciting new key features including a new mini-tree builder, a new video page, a new search function and new top tips to help members on their journey to discovering their past.
January 20, 2009
Charles River Ventures, a Waltham, Massachusetts venture capital firm, has added to its existing investment in California-based Geni Inc., a private genealogy website, with a $5 million Series C funding round, according to published reports. Charles River Ventures was joined in the Series C funding by fellow return backer Founders Fund of San Francisco, website PE Hub reports. Founded in 2006, Geni had raised $11.5 million before the most recent financing round.
January 19, 2009
Provo, Utah, Jan. 14 - Family Pursuit, a leader in online collaborative genealogy research tools, today announced the release of Private Family Trees. Designed specifically for collaboration regardless of distance or time, this unique wiki-based website is now available for private use for the genealogist who is looking for a better way to work with others. Family Pursuit’s private family trees allow researchers to share not only conclusions, but their ongoing research, sources, extractions and theories with those invited to join the trees. They are the perfect solution for sharing research with the entire family, interacting with other family genealogists, or working within a family organization or one-name study.
January 13, 2009
Records for 27 million people in England go online today at the official 1911 census website. More entries for England, Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are coming in the next few months.
