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Ancestry.com Posts Italian Vital Records, 1870-1937, for the Piemonte Region

August 26th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Ancestry.it, Computer Tech, Databases, Digital Online Content, Italian Research
It was announced this last weekend that Ancestry has posted Civil Registration Records for the Piemonte Region of Italy, 1870-1937. These records can be accessed at Ancestry.com, if the subscriber has a World Deluxe subscription. In checking them out, I found that many records start in 1866. I even located Viganella birth and deaths records [...]

Ancestry.com and JewishGen Align to Provide More Online Access to Millions of Jewish Historical Documents

August 20th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Computer Tech, Databases, Digital Online Content, Jewish
Partnership Enables Broader Research of Jewish Ancestry Through Powerful Search Tools in One Centralized Location CHICAGO – Aug. 19, 2008 – The Generations Network, Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com, and JewishGen, a non-profit organization dedicated to researching and promoting Jewish genealogy and an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the [...]

Ancestry.com to Digitize Delaware Records

August 7th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Databases, Delaware, Digital Online Content
According to an article found at Delaware Online, it looks like we may be seeing digital records from the Delaware Public Archives in the near future. Following is an excerpt: Working on a deal with Ancestry.com, a subscription- based online genealogical search company, McCabe hopes to get many of the state’s records digitized and make them [...]

Ancestry Extends Global Reach to China, Providing First Online Access to Family History Records in World’s Largest Internet Market

August 6th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, China, Computer Tech, Databases, Digital Online Content, Jaipu.cn, TGN
The following news release was written by The Generations Network. Exclusive Partnership with Shanghai Library Gives 1.3 Billion Chinese and 38 Million People* with Chinese Heritage Internationally the Chance to Explore Their Family History PROVO, UTAH – Aug. 6, 2008 – The Generations Network Inc., parent company of the global network of Ancestry family history Web sites, [...]

Ancestry.com and FamilySearch to Collaborate on U.S. Census Indexes

July 21st, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Census - U.S., Computer Tech, Databases, Digital Online Content, FamilySearch
It seems that the hatchet has now been buried. Ancestry and and the LDS-operated FamilySearch are once again cooperating on the U.S. census. This makes a lot of sense to me, as the indexes coming out of the volunteer-driven FamilySearch labs program are not only of superior quality (made in America vs offshore), but have [...]

Ancestry Offering Webinar on the New Search - Wednesday, July 30

July 17th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com
Ancestry’s new “Search” has been discussed quite a lot on the blogs lately. I got a chance for input, as I had the opportunity to beta test the early versions of the search. Now that it’s available to the public, it seems appropriate that Ancestry help us all understand how to best use it. And [...]

Ancestry.com Posts the Civil War Army “Official Records”

July 6th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Civil War, Databases, Digital Online Content
I see that Ancestry.com has posted the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion. Although the series can be found online in other places on the web, I’m happy to see that Ancestry has posted the data. It gives us another index, as well as digitized images. So [...]

The Generations Networks Sues Millinnia & BTH2 for a Cool $1,000,000.

June 19th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Blog Roll - Ancestry Insider, Software, TGN
It seems that the folks at The Generations Network aren’t happy with the packaging of their competitor’s product. They are claiming trademark infringement in the design of the box used for the recently released Legacy Family Tree Version 7. According to a blog posted by the Ancestry Insider, there is a long list of similarities [...]

Ancestry Newspaper Collection FREE Through June 19

June 13th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Newspaper Research
Ancestry.com has announced that their newspaper collection is FREE through June 19. Fully searchable,the collection comes from NewspaperArchive.com and includes all kinds of newpapers, most from the 20th century. I searched on the name “Meitzler,” a very few of which included my family member, although 51 separate newspaper titles included the name. This is pretty [...]

Candidates’ Ancestors Speak Through Them Even Today

May 21st, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Election 2008, National Archives of the U.S.A.
WASHINGTON — They were a sailor, a bookkeeper and a factory worker, men of humble roots and distant times whose kin would run for president in 2008. Although they are long gone, these three are heard about on occasion through the voices of their descendants - John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now there’s another [...]