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The following announcement was written by Ancestry.ca:
Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading family history website, today completed the online launch of the Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 with records documenting the arrival into Canada of more than 750,000 individuals between 1919 and 1924.
The only online source for these records, Ancestry.ca now provides access to the largest collection of immigration records to Canada - more than eight million records in total - from the key growth period of 1865 to 1935.
The following announcement was written by Library and Archives Canada:
Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce that the following pages of the Canadian Genealogy Centre web site have been recently updated:
Abbreviations used in French records, Bibliography, Canadian Forces after 1918 (including Second World War), Criminal Records, Divorce, Events, First World War, Genealogical Societies, Irish, Jewish, Newspapers, North West Mounted Police, Notarial Records, Provincial and territorial Archives, Provincial land records, Reference Sites.
The following announcement was written by Vertical Horizon, a Belgium-based software company:
Antwerp, 23rd of November 2009. Vertical Horizon, the Belgium based software company announces general availability of its genealogy application MyBlood.
MyBlood has a number of unique features that make the product stand out towards its competitors:
MyBlood runs on Mac OS as well as on XP, Vista and Windows 7 with the same single source code and is fully GEDCOM 5.5 compliant
MyBlood has very strong visualization capabilities, leading to a very intuitive user interface and makes it very easy to learn
MyBlood can handle any type of media files and allows tagging of people on pictures
MyBlood integrates with Google Maps even allowing use locations and distance as selection criteria in its powerful search engine.
MyBlood can run in any language and comes out of the box in English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish.
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's Virtual Library has full color Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps online, available for download. These large scale street plans include building outlines, property boundaries, and building use, dating back to 1904.
The Sanborn Maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in urbanized areas in the United States. The Sanborn Company sent out legions of surveyors to record the building footprints and relevant details about these buildings in all major urbanized areas regarding their fire liability. The maps include detailed information regarding town and building information in approximately 12,000 U.S. towns and cities from 1867 to 1970. The detail is amazing; every building is shown and, in most cases, the name of the building's owner is also shown. You may find your ancestor's house and perhaps his or her place of business as well.
A treasure trove of priceless photographs were recently found dumped under a bridge in South Fort Worth. Among the found photographs were images of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade just moments before his assassination, a young President George H. W. Bush, Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, former Texas Gov. John Connally, and founder of the Fort Worth NAACP Chapter Dr. George Flemming.
Whoever tossed the pictures away apparently had no idea they were throwing away history.
The following announcement was written by the Ontario Genealogical Society:
Guelph, Ontario / 2009 Nov 19
Joy Trimble, President of the Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario and Don Hinchley, President of the Ontario Genealogical Society, today signed an agreement to digitize and place on line the rural histories known as the Tweedsmuir Histories.
Barack Obama's family roots reach deep into central Indiana and soon an old farm house near Kempton in Tipton County may serve as a living tribute to the President's ancestors. The President's mother, Ann Dunham, was born and raised in Kansas, but her grandfather moved there from Indiana and a historic preservationist is now at work reconstructing some of the Obama family history.
Personal Ancestry Writer II (often called PAW2U) has a new release available: version 90. The program is written by Howard H. Metcalfe and released to everyone as a free program. The following was written by Howard H. Metcalfe:
I have written a freeware genealogy program, Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II), for MacOS X. It combines most of the features of the LDS Personal Ancestral File program (PAF) for the Macintosh (for which all development stopped a few years ago after release 2.3.1), with additional features that generate web pages (in HTML), word processing files (in RTF for, e.g., AppleWorks) and desktop publishing files (in MML for FrameMaker). The generated report files include genealogical dictionaries, registers, ahnentafels and lineages—such as appear on this site—as well as some interesting text files and pedigree charts.
I have recorded a lot of video interviews where I had opportunities to talk with many of the "movers and shakers" in the genealogy world. Recently, the tables got turned. Actually, in this case, the cameras got turned around. I was interviewed.
Drew Smith is one half of the Genealogy Guys team that produces audio podcasts and nowadays includes video interviews. Drew recently took some time to interview me. Drew and I talked about newsletters, blogs, cloud computing, today's technology, and more.
The Genealogist is the flagship publication of the Society of Genealogists (in England). The Genealogist is distributed free quarterly to all members. A new video shows Else Churchill, the genealog professional at the Society, as she interviews Michael Gandy who has been the editor for the last ten years. Michael describes the sorts of articles you may find in the magazine.
Skeletons unearthed in Old Montreal will allow archeologists to travel back in time to learn more about the common-man residents of Montreal in the 1700s. The skeletons of two adults and one teenager unearthed at the steps of the Notre Dame Basilica this month are shedding light on the lives of Montrealers who walked these city streets centuries ago.
"From their bones and teeth we can determine their sex, age and size," said Gérard Gagné, a bio-archeologist with Arkéos Inc. who takes an obvious delight in deciphering the tales the dead can tell. "We can also find out what their dietary habits were like, if they smoked a pipe or not, what ailments they might have had, like fractures or tumours."
The following announcement was written by Footnote.com:
-Original records dating back to early 1700s become available on the Internet for the first time-
Lindon, UT – November 19, 2009 – Footnote.com announced today the release of their latest interactive collection of historical records: the Native American collection. Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help people discover new details about Native American history.
I have written several times about the demise of microfilm. I was therefore very interested to learn of a new microfilm manufacturing facility to be built near Ypsilanti, Michigan. ProQuest plans to hire 30 new employees and transfer some others. While the facility will be new, it apparently is to replace an existing facility that will be closed.
For many African-American genealogists, historical artifacts are valuable treasures. Some of these treasured finds were passed down through generations.
The Hotel Florence Museum in the Pullman Historic District is presenting an exhibit of photographs, documents and memorabilia brought to Chicago by black migrants. The items in "The Great Migration and What They Brought with Them" exhibit were presented by families in Chicago. The free exhibit runs through Dec. 1 at the Hotel Florence Museum, 11111 S. Forestville Ave.
The public service areas of the state Department for Libraries and Archives reopened today after being closed since Nov. 13 because of minimal damage from a water leak.
The damage was not as widespread or severe as we thought during two initial assessments on Friday night and early Saturday morning. Because of the quick action of our staff, following our disaster response plan, we were able to mitigate any severe damage," said Barbara Teague, state archivist and records administrator and the director of the department's public records division.
The following announcement was written by the National Genealogical Society:
The National Genealogical Society is sponsoring a research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City for the last week of January 2010. This is the eleventh year for this educational event and it will be co-led by Shirley Langdon Wilcox, CG, FNGS, and Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL. Both trip leaders have been active in the genealogical community for a number of years and both are former board members of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG). Each has also received APG’s Graham T. Smallwood, Jr. Award of Merit – Shirley in 1995 and Marie in 1999.
You never know what treasures may be buried among the 25,000 books that go on sale Thursday at the Georgia Archives in Morrow. Volunteers at the state’s repository for historic documents have amassed an assortment of volumes from around the country that just may include a few hidden gems.
Volunteer coordinator Dee Thompson described the genealogy books: “They are a very small percentage of the 25,000 books we’ll sell,” she said. “They may take up two full shelves. But there are some good ones, even a few rare genealogy books. And they’re not expensive, between $10 and $20. Everything this year is priced much lower than it’s been in the past.”
The following announcement was written by the Daughters of the American Revolution:
After nearly a decade of scanning, indexing, and other behind-the-scenes work by DAR members and employees, the Daughters of the American Revolution is pleased to announce the availability of the DAR Genealogical Research System on our public website. Here are the direct links:
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