Mocavo.com, a free search engine geared toward genealogists and people interested in learning more about their family history, launches today. Mocavo.com enables the search of more than 50 billion words – including billions of names, dates and places, all within fractions of a second. Mocavo.com fills an important industry need by providing the first large-scale, free search engine for family [...]
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland is making photographic collections available through flickr, a free photo-sharing website. Wedding and family portraits shot from 1900 to 1952 by Allison Photographic Studios of Armagh are now available. The pictures were transferred from fragile glass plate negatives commonly used by photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries prior to the [...]
In honour of Remembrance Day, Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading family history website, announced the first ever online launch of the largest collection of Canadian military records related to the death and burial of soldiers who fought in the First World War. The company has also announced that select Canadian, US and British military records will be available for free from November [...]
Ancestry.com, which has the largest online collection of historical military records, today added more than 115,000 U.S. Military Academy Cadet Application Papers from West Point to its online collection of military records to commemorate Veterans Day. The West Point Application Papers include letters from applicants from 1805-1866 requesting appointment, letters of recommendation and notification from the War Department if the [...]
ObituariesHelp.org launched a new Large Family Trees Template page filled with oversized charts in nine, ten, eleven and twelve generations with more generations and designs to come – for free! Melanie Walters, founder of ObituariesHelp.org is an advocate of free genealogy and believes that resources should be made available to people. She says, “I created these free family tree templates [...]
Family history website www.findmypast.co.uk is making available online for the very first time fully searchable indexes and images of the parish registers of Wales. The project is taking place with the permission of the Church in Wales and Welsh Archive Services and findmypast.co.uk is working with FamilySearch International, the world’s largest repository of genealogical records, to digitise the records. Around [...]
FamilyLink announced that it has partnered with Historic Map Works to add more than 1.3 million maps and 100 billion names to its growing collections. According to the companies, the partnership will provide access to more than two million images that span several hundred years of American urban and rural development. Users can trace the histories of their homes, farms, [...]
The ScotlandsPeople service has been updated to include Catholic Parish Registers, which cover baptisms, marriages and deaths from 1855. New features such as maps which plot results have been added to make it easier for people overseas to understand their ancestors’ lives. Visit the site at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Source: The Herald, September 6, 2010
Civil War enlistment papers. Citizenship certificates of newly arrived European immigrants. A newspaper account of a claim jumper shot in the back. They’re all part of the millions of documents connected with homestead claims dating to the 1860s — important pieces of America’s past that now will be preserved and for the first time analyzed on a large scale by [...]
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Web site at www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ was labeled an “Editor’s Pick” in the July- August 2010 issue of Family Chronicle magazine. The listing of 6.3 million soldiers, both Union and Confederate, is complete and came from the National Archives, according to the magazine. It is a project of the National Park Service. Civil War sailors [...]
