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November 04, 2004Ellis Island Site RelaunchesThe Ellis Island records site at http://www.ellisisland.org , which contains 25 million ship passenger records covering 1892-1924, has relaunched with some new features. New features include an enhanced range of...Read the rest of entry "Ellis Island Site Relaunches " here. August 23, 2004Genealogy and RSSIf you like genealogy and RSS, enjoy this site. rssGenealogy, at http://rssGenealogy.com , offers genealogy headlines from several different sources, all in one page. The feeds are divided into categories...July 14, 2004Breakdown of Obituaries in Papers by StateBig101, about which I knew big nothin', has a list of links to obituaries in newspapers broken out by state. It starts at http://www.big101.com/OBITUARIES101.htm . There's a nav bar for...Read the rest of entry "Breakdown of Obituaries in Papers by State" here. May 06, 2004Pearl Street Software Announces New Genealogy Sub SitePearl Street Software, the folks behind the Family Tree Legends software, this week announced a new subscription-access genealogy site that they claim offers over 400 million records from a variety...Read the rest of entry "Pearl Street Software Announces New Genealogy Sub Site" here. April 22, 2004Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary SitesGenealogy buffs, sharpen your pencils. Legacy.com both hosts obituary sites for newspapers and offers of a free lookup of the last 30 days' of obituaries. What's available varies a lot...Read the rest of entry "Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary Sites " here. April 14, 2004Death Index Listings Around the Country(Apparently it's Grim Genealogy Day here at ResearchBuzz. Sorry about that.) If you're doing genealogy research here in the US you'll appreciate Joe Beine's Death Indexes at http://www.deathindexes.com/ . The...Read the rest of entry "Death Index Listings Around the Country " here. Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records OnlineThe Department of Veterans Affairs announced yesterday that they've put a database of over three million veterans' cemetery records online. The records cover veterans and dependents buried in VA cemeteries...Read the rest of entry "Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records Online" here. April 08, 2004New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911The good folks at the Italian Genealogical Group have a searchable index to deaths in New York available at http://www.italiangen.org/NYCDeath.stm . There are three groups of data here; 1891 to...Read the rest of entry "New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911" here. March 23, 2004Tracking Names for Genealogy ResearchIf you're doing genealogy research on a somewhat unusual last name, you'll enjoy this site. Current event researchers will find that it may not be updated often enough to be...Read the rest of entry "Tracking Names for Genealogy Research " here. March 22, 2004Genealogy Search Help Offers Specialized Google FormsThis site doesn't offer its own search engine but some specialized genealogy search help for ancestor hunting folks. Genealogy Search Help ( http://www.genealogy-search-help.com/ ) provides a search form that'll look...Read the rest of entry "Genealogy Search Help Offers Specialized Google Forms " here. February 02, 2004Obituary Archive Allows You to Search by Name and KeywordGenealogists, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that this is an exceptionally-thorough online obituary archive, but you will have to pay for accessing the obituaries...Read the rest of entry "Obituary Archive Allows You to Search by Name and Keyword" here. January 13, 2004Genealogy and Genetics Search EngineI've seen plenty of genealogy engines that let you search names, but this is the first public one I've seen that lets you search DNA results. It's called Ysearch and...Read the rest of entry "Genealogy and Genetics Search Engine " here. November 11, 2003MyFamily.com Announces Immigrant CollectionMyFamily.com announced on November 10th the US Immigration Collection, which will be available as a subscription through Ancestry.com. Their press release says it includes "passenger lists for all of America's...Read the rest of entry "MyFamily.com Announces Immigrant Collection" here. November 25, 2002Surname Information At All-SurnamesResearching a particular surname? All Surnames ( http://all-surnames.com/ ) offers over 1900 links to various surname pages around the Web. The front page has several alphabetized links -- Aa -...Read the rest of entry "Surname Information At All-Surnames" here. October 07, 2002Burke's Peerage & Gentry Books now OnlineThe Burke's Peerage & Gentry series of books have been digitized and is now available online as a paid database of over 5,000 records. The main site is at http://www.burkes-peerage.net/...Read the rest of entry "Burke's Peerage & Gentry Books now Online" here. July 10, 2002MyFamily.com to Put WWI Draft Registration Cards OnlineMyFamily.com announced today a project to make more than 24 million WWI draft registration cards available online in indexed, digitized format. Currently 100,000 cards are available on the site; more...Read the rest of entry "MyFamily.com to Put WWI Draft Registration Cards Online" here. July 02, 2002New Database About Early Asian Immigrants to the USUC-Berkeley and the National Archives and Records Administration have teamed up to create EARS -- the Early Arrivals Records Search (EARS) database -- at http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/iber/casefiles . Several million people came...Read the rest of entry "New Database About Early Asian Immigrants to the US" here. April 13, 2002Directory of Genealogy-Related ForumsIf you want to talk genealogy, refer to gentalk.org ( http://www.gentalk.org ). Actually that's just a front page for the actual site at http://www.geocities.com/gentalk777/ . Forums are listed in three...Read the rest of entry "Directory of Genealogy-Related Forums" here. October 25, 2001Ancestry and RootsWeb.com Combine DatabasesAncestry.com and RootsWeb.com have combined their family tree databases to create one large database of family trees -- over 160 million names at this point, with an expected count of...Read the rest of entry "Ancestry and RootsWeb.com Combine Databases" here. October 23, 2001Ancestry.com to Offer United Kingdom SubscriptionAncestry.com http://www.Ancestry.com has added an United Kingdom and Ireland subscription to its genealogy service. The new collection includes 50 million names pulled from such sources as probate records, civil registration...Read the rest of entry "Ancestry.com to Offer United Kingdom Subscription" here. April 18, 2001Ellis Island Site Closes OffIf you've been trying to reach the new Ellis Island records site ( http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/ ) since yesterday, you've probably gotten a lot of "server too busy" messages, or "host not...April 16, 200117 Million Ellis Island Records Hit the WebThe American Family History Center on Ellis Island is making the big leap onto the Internet. Tomorrow the site ( http://www.ellisislandrecords.org ) will make available immigration documents of the 17...Read the rest of entry "17 Million Ellis Island Records Hit the Web" here. January 31, 2001Giant Genealogy Resource DebutsOneGreatFamily ( http://www.onegreatfamily.com/ ) launched on Thursday. Currently it has about eight million names from 41 different companies, but claims it will become the "world's largest lineage linked database." You...Read the rest of entry "Giant Genealogy Resource Debuts" here. Genealogy.com Releases Immigration RecordsGenealogy.com has created a new subscription for its users, the International & Passenger Records Subscription. The records covered in this subscription are: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Notable British...Read the rest of entry "Genealogy.com Releases Immigration Records" here. December 25, 2000Genealogy.com Adds Yet MORE MaterialsGenealogy.com last week announced nine more titles have been added to their online collection. The new titles are: Illinois, 1900 Census Records -- Information on about 4.8 million people from...Read the rest of entry "Genealogy.com Adds Yet MORE Materials" here. December 04, 2000Genealogy.com Releases Several New TitlesGenealogy.com announced last week several new titles which are now available online. The new titles are: New York, 1900 Census Data: Contains approximately 7.3 million people Kentucky, 1900 Census Data:...Read the rest of entry "Genealogy.com Releases Several New Titles" here. November 06, 2000Genealogy.com Releases 12 New TitlesGenealogy.com announced Thursday the release of 12 new titles for their online Internet Family Archives. This brings the collection up to over 24.5 million names in 35 different titles. Titles...Read the rest of entry "Genealogy.com Releases 12 New Titles" here. August 11, 2000African Ancestored Genealogy Resources at AfriGeneasAfriGeneas, at http://www.afrigeneas.com/ , has a variety of information for those doing genealogy research for ancestors of African descent. There's a beginner's guide and a guide to resources available in...Read the rest of entry "African Ancestored Genealogy Resources at AfriGeneas" here. May 13, 2000Another Cemetery Finding Aid for You GenealogistsGenealogists out there might want to check out version six of the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid at http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/ . Version five is the version that's searchable on the site; version...Read the rest of entry "Another Cemetery Finding Aid for You Genealogists" here. March 02, 2000Ancestry.Com Posts Biography and Genealogy Master IndexAncestry.com has announced the posting of the BGMI -- the Biology and Genealogy Master Index. The index contains over 550 million searchable records with biographies gathered from a variety of...Read the rest of entry "Ancestry.Com Posts Biography and Genealogy Master Index" here. February 11, 2000ObitFinderI don't want to get all creepy on you, but you genealogists out there might enjoy ObitFinder, which searches the recent obituaries of over 1200 newspapers. You can narrow your...November 22, 1999RootsWeb Launches WorldConnect ProjectRootsWeb ( http://www.rootsweb.com/ ) announced last week that they've launched the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/. The project is for hosting and sharing GEDCOM files. Over 5.5 million names have...Read the rest of entry "RootsWeb Launches WorldConnect Project" here. November 12, 1999FamilySearch Genealogy Site AnnouncedThe Latter-day Saints' genealogy site, http://www.familysearch.org/ , has announced that as of Monday, November 22, it will add 240 million new names to the genealogy database. The addition will represent...Read the rest of entry "FamilySearch Genealogy Site Announced" here. November 04, 1999 |
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