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November 18, 2005Database of British Gravestone Inscriptions Available
There's a new archive of British gravestone inscriptions available. The National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions is available at http://www.memorialinscriptions.org.uk and at the moment contains information from over 200 cemeteries. (These equals about 70,000 inscriptions and 100,000 names.) There are plans...
Continue reading "Database of British Gravestone Inscriptions Available" » October 02, 2005Searching for Immigrants in the Castle Garden Database
I knew about Ellis Island, but I did not know about Castle Garden. Castle Garden was a Manhattan immigration center before Ellis Island. CastleGarden.org ( http://www.castlegarden.org/ ) allows you to search the records of 10 million of the immigrants processed...
Continue reading "Searching for Immigrants in the Castle Garden Database" » August 14, 2005Your Ancestors on a Google Map
Yes yes, I will shut up about mapping any second now. I just thought this was cool. It would be even more cool if it were do it yourself, but -- MapYourAncestors.com ( http://www.mapyourancestors.com/ ), will take a family tree...
May 24, 2005More Obits, This Time From Cleveland Public Library
The Cleveland Public Library reminded me not to forget their necrology file, for you genealogists doing research on family in Ohio. To access the file go to http://www.cpl.org/ and click on "The Necrology File" toward the bottom of the page...
Continue reading "More Obits, This Time From Cleveland Public Library" » May 23, 2005Obituaries in the Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library has a very nice index to obituaries that have appeared in the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald for two date ranges: between 1971 and 1974, and 1983 through 2002. You can search at http://www.bpl.org/catalogs/obits.htm ....
Continue reading "Obituaries in the Boston Public Library" » March 07, 2005Collection of Naturalization Cards from Saint Louis
The Saint Louis Genealogical Society now has online a collection of naturalization cards from Saint Louis, Missouri, 1816-1906. This collection includes over 93,000 records and is available at http://stlgs.org/NatSearch.aspx . The cards are for naturalizations that took place in Saint...
Continue reading "Collection of Naturalization Cards from Saint Louis" » November 04, 2004Ellis Island Site Relaunches
The 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 data fields, additional information on Ellis Island, and information on...
August 23, 2004Genealogy and RSS
If 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 including news and articles (49 feeds), items for sale (12...
July 14, 2004Breakdown of Obituaries in Papers by State
Big101, 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 the states at the top of the page, or you...
Continue reading "Breakdown of Obituaries in Papers by State" » May 06, 2004Pearl Street Software Announces New Genealogy Sub Site
Pearl 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 of sources. You may read the announcement at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040505/law141_1.html ....
Continue reading "Pearl Street Software Announces New Genealogy Sub Site" » April 22, 2004Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary Sites
Genealogy 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 as they are searching the sites they host, but there's...
Continue reading "Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary Sites" » 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 site includes pointers to death indexes divided by US state....
Continue reading "Death Index Listings Around the Country" » Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records Online
The 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 (there are 120 of those) since the civil war. There...
Continue reading "Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records Online" » April 08, 2004New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911
The 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 1894 Manhattan Only, 1895 to 1897 Manhattan and Brooklyn Only,...
Continue reading "New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911" » March 23, 2004Tracking Names for Genealogy Research
If 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 useful. NameTraq ( http://www.nametraq.com/ ) tracks news occurrences of over...
March 22, 2004Genealogy Search Help Offers Specialized Google Forms
This 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 familiar to those who do a lot of genealogy searching...
Continue reading "Genealogy Search Help Offers Specialized Google Forms" » February 02, 2004Obituary Archive Allows You to Search by Name and Keyword
Genealogists, 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 themselves. ObitsArchives ( http://www.obitsarchive.com/ ) has some nice search options;...
Continue reading "Obituary Archive Allows You to Search by Name and Keyword" » January 13, 2004Genealogy and Genetics Search Engine
I'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 it's available at http://www.ysearch.org . This search engine allows two...
November 11, 2003MyFamily.com Announces Immigrant Collection
MyFamily.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 major Atlantic ports including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New...
Continue reading "MyFamily.com Announces Immigrant Collection" » November 25, 2002Surname Information At All-Surnames
Researching 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 - Ae, Gp - Gt, Mp - Mz, etc. Click on...
October 07, 2002Burke's Peerage & Gentry Books now Online
The 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/ . Access to the records is $25 for 24 hours...
Continue reading "Burke's Peerage & Gentry Books now Online" » July 10, 2002MyFamily.com to Put WWI Draft Registration Cards Online
MyFamily.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 will be added weekly. The cards will be searchable by...
Continue reading "MyFamily.com to Put WWI Draft Registration Cards Online" » July 02, 2002New Database About Early Asian Immigrants to the US
UC-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 through immigration stations in San Francisco and Honolulu between 1882...
Continue reading "New Database About Early Asian Immigrants to the US" » April 13, 2002Directory of Genealogy-Related Forums
If 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 categories: state/country, surname, and topics (cemeteries, societies, etc.) Pick a...
October 25, 2001Ancestry and RootsWeb.com Combine Databases
Ancestry.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 250 million names by the end of 2002. The two...
Continue reading "Ancestry and RootsWeb.com Combine Databases" » October 23, 2001Ancestry.com to Offer United Kingdom Subscription
Ancestry.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 indexes, immigration records and marriage/baptism indexes. Cost of the new...
Continue reading "Ancestry.com to Offer United Kingdom Subscription" » April 18, 2001Ellis Island Site Closes Off
If 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 available" messages. Starting this morning you may have gotten the...
April 16, 200117 Million Ellis Island Records Hit the Web
The 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 million people who entered the US through Ellis Island. The...
Continue reading "17 Million Ellis Island Records Hit the Web" » January 31, 2001Giant Genealogy Resource Debuts
OneGreatFamily ( 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 have two registration choices to use the site. The free...
Genealogy.com Releases Immigration Records
Genealogy.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 Families, 1600s-1900s -- Cites 149,000 records. Immigrants to the New...
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Releases Immigration Records" » December 25, 2000Genealogy.com Adds Yet MORE Materials
Genealogy.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 the 1900 Illinois census. Tennessee, 1900 Census Records -- Information...
December 04, 2000Genealogy.com Releases Several New Titles
Genealogy.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: Contains approximately 2.1 million people Virginia Colonial Records -- 1600s...
Continue reading "Genealogy.com Releases Several New Titles" » November 06, 2000Genealogy.com Releases 12 New Titles
Genealogy.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 cost between $29.99 to $59.99. The new titles include: Ohio,...
August 11, 2000African Ancestored Genealogy Resources at AfriGeneas
AfriGeneas, 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 each state (unfortunately, information is not available for each state....
Continue reading "African Ancestored Genealogy Resources at AfriGeneas" » May 13, 2000Another Cemetery Finding Aid for You Genealogists
Genealogists 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 six is so large it's only available by download. Version...
Continue reading "Another Cemetery Finding Aid for You Genealogists" » March 02, 2000Ancestry.Com Posts Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Ancestry.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 publications, including Who's Who in America , American Black Writers...
Continue reading "Ancestry.Com Posts Biography and Genealogy Master Index" » February 11, 2000ObitFinder
I 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 search by state or search by name and/or keyword. http://www.legacy.com/ObitFinder.asp...
November 22, 1999RootsWeb Launches WorldConnect Project
RootsWeb ( 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 already been added to the project during its four week...
November 12, 1999FamilySearch Genealogy Site Announced
The 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 international data from primarily Western Europe, Scandanavia, and Mexico. The...
November 04, 1999Ancestry Reaches Milestone
Ancestry.com announced today that they have over 500 million records on their site -- speaking of the invisible web! Genealogy buffs, check 'em out. http://www.ancestry.com/ ....
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