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FamilySearch.org and the Maryland Archives have begun a joint venture to digitize Will and Probate Records held at the Maryland Archives. This important project will ensure the preservation of these vital records and make them more readily accessible to the public.
Records from Baltimore County, Carroll County and Caroline County will will be prepared by local volunteers and digitally imaged by FamilySearch.org. These documents date from the mid-1800's to the mid-1900's.
The following "help wanted" announcement was written by the Houston Public Library:
Just as the world around us is exciting and rapidly changing, so are public libraries! If you are looking for an opportunity to be a vital member of a forward thinking, customer focused, progressive organization where you can help take library services to the next level and make a difference in the lives of people every day - the award winning Houston Public Library (HPL) is looking for you! Located in Houston, Texas, the nation's fourth largest and most culturally diverse city, the Houston Public Library serves a population of 2.2 million citizens through a network of 44 unique facilities.
HPL is currently recruiting for the following positions at the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research:
Are you passionate about history, art or science? As a genealogist, you might be an ideal candidate as an employee at many museums.
The United States has more than 17,000 museums, according to the American Association of Museums (AAM) at http://www.aam-us.org/. Whether you live in a metropolis or in the country, chances are you can find a nearby museum for a second career or volunteer position. Check your state's museum association for a list of museums and job opportunities in your region.
The following is an excerpt from the Careers Page of the web site of the New England Historic Genealogical Society:
Research Services Manager
The full-time Research Services Manager is responsible for assigning research to staff, volunteers, and contractors and assuring that output is thorough, accurate, and responsive to the requests. The Research Services Manager will supervise client billing, financial tracking, and database updates; ensuring that the research process moves forward according to established schedules.
UPDATE: Clicking on the link below now produces a new message, "This job is no longer available."
ProGenealogists.com is a subsidiary of Ancestry.com consisting of professional genealogists who specialize in genealogy and family history research. Its customers include media groups, corporations, law firms, and the general public. Now the company is recruiting a senior-level executive.
The Research Director will be responsible for all genealogical research at ProGenealogists, the official Ancestry.com research firm. The organization seeks an experienced and innovative individual who has a strong passion for genealogical research to communicate with the public while providing support to staff and clients in a corporate setting. The Research Director will design and refine training programs, evaluate research to insure quality, act as a consultant on difficult cases, and serve as lead research asset on the most challenging cases.
I have written a number of times about Mocavo, a great genealogy search engine for genealogists. You can read my previous articles by starting at http://goo.gl/r3CXo. Now Mocavo is hiring. The company is growing rapidly and is looking for a number of engineers and business development specialists. All positions are located in beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
The National Archives and Records Administration is looking for an archivist for the Jimmy Carter Library. The archivist will be responsible, along with other members of the archival staff, for planning, performing and monitoring all archival functions in a variety of media, establishing work priorities, and ensuring that priorities and work assigned to the archival staff are completed in compliance with policies, standards, and procedures.
What new services will Ancestry.com offer next to the genealogy community? My crystal ball is no better than anyone else's, but I do think a new help wanted ad on the Ancestry.com web site provides a clue. Here is an excerpt from a recent help wanted ad for a new position in Ancestry.com's San Francisco office:
Ancestry.com is seeking an exceptional candidate to join the Ancestry.com team as a Computational Biologist creating and implementing novel algorithms for genomic analysis. We are mounting a major effort to use genomics to shed light on human diversity, origins and relatedness. The successful candidate will join our efforts to develop, test and apply algorithms for defining the genetic markers that define families and shed light on genetic genealogy.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society has posted a help wanted ad on its web site, seeking a new Director of Education. The job description states, "The ideal candidate will have demonstrable expertise in genealogy and family history." It also mentions "starting immediately."
Travel is required. While not stated, I would assume the position is for a person based in Boston.
UPDATE: The position has been filled. See the follow-up article at http://goo.gl/MWxLg
WikiTree.com is seeking an experienced genealogist to be its official "Cousin Connector." This person will work from home approximately five hours a week introducing distant cousins to each other, helping them merge their ancestors, and facilitating their enjoyable, productive collaborations.
For more information, please look at the full description at http://goo.gl/3avKw.
ProGenealogists, a subsidiary of Ancestry.com, is hiring. The company is looking for part-time and full-time employees. Full-time positions include a "Genealogist Case Manager" (a professional genealogist) and an "Assistant Genealogist" (an entry level position) Both of the full-time positions are for employment in Salt Lake City.
Here is an excerpt from the job description for the Genealogist Case Manager:
What caught my eye, however, is the description of the company at the bottom of the ad: "Youwho is a new kind of genealogy company where the focus is on making it faster, easier, and more enjoyable to connect to your roots. Youwho recently closed a round of $5 Million in funding based on existing technology, direction, and experience of the current team. Youwho is now preparing for an initial website launch."
Can another genealogy company make it in today's market? This should be interesting to watch.
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution has posted a notice that the organization is searching for a new Executive Director. The job is based in Louisville, Kentucky.
Do you think that perhaps Ancestry.com might be planning to add a new web search engine to its list of services? The company has posted a "help wanted" ad for a contractor to "crawl relevant content for import into our web records collection" and to "help identify free online repositories of genealogical records, gather important information about these sources, and QA crawled data."
Want to work full time as a genealogist? ProGenealogists, a division of Ancestry.com, is looking for a Genealogist Case Manager and an Assistant Genealogist in Salt Lake City. ProGenealogists provides high quality and cost effective research service to genealogists, law firms, corporations, media outlets, and the general public. These are 40-hour-a-week positions and are NOT work-from-home opportunities.
I am not sure if this is a sign of an improving economy or not, but I am certainly seeing more "help wanted" ads from companies in the genealogy business. Let's hope this is a good sign.
Geni has two positions available at the company's West Hollywood, California office:
Director of Monetization
Customer Service Representative
Information about all open positions at Geni can be found at http://jobs.geni.com.
Would you like a job in genealogy? If you live in or near Provo, Utah, you may have such an opportunity. The world's largest online resource for family history is looking for help.
Ancestry.com has advertised several open positions in the company's Technical Support department. The company is offering full and part-time opportunities on several different rotational shifts.
The National Archives has posted two new senior executive positions: 1) Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services; and 2) Research Services. Applications for both positions are open through March 15, 2011.
The Research Services Executives reports to the Chief Operating Officer and is charged with providing world-class services to customers wanting to access NARA’s accessioned Federal records. This executive is responsible for integrating the scope and management of archival and preservation-related functions for Federal records currently performed by the Office of Records Services-Washington, DC and the Office of Regional Records Services. This consolidation fosters a cohesive, collaborative national program, oriented toward public access of Federal records, that relies upon collaboration of staff teams across geographic and unit-specific boundaries, and a formal management team uniting oversight of archival operations nationwide. Fundamentally, program priorities are founded upon new, formalized methods of listening to, identifying, and meeting customer needs.
The following job announcement was written by the Indiana Genealogical Society:
Job Position: Editor for Indiana Genealogist
The Indiana Genealogical Society (IGS) is looking for a new editor for Indiana Genealogist. This is a paid position. Below is of the description of the position.
The following was written by Footnote.com, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ancestry.com:
Footnote.com Chief Architect
Footnote.com is part of iArchives, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ancestry.com with offices in Lindon, UT. Ancestry.com is the world's largest online resource for family history. We have helped pioneer the market for online family history research, taking a pursuit that was expensive and time-consuming and making it easy, affordable and accessible to anyone with an interest in their family history. The foundation of our service is an extensive collection of billions of historical records that we have digitized, indexed and put online over the past 13 years. These digital records and documents, combined with our proprietary online search technologies, tools and collaboration features, have enabled our more than one million subscribers to create nearly 19 million family trees that contain nearly 1.9 billion profiles, and make meaningful discoveries about the lives of their ancestors.
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