How Cool is Cuil?
A new search engine launches every few months, and it's hard to say if Cuil, which launched yesterday to mixed reviews (see here and here), is really going to be...How Long Has it Been?
How long has it been since you looked at some of your older research? Revisited your notes and files? Examined your source citations (or lack thereof?). All genealogists, even the...Swan’s Island, Maine Genealogy & Local History Goes Up in Flames.
Tom Kemp reported this morning that the Swan’s Island, Maine library burned to the ground very early Thursday morning. A lot of historic documents, pictures, art, and genealogy went up in flames… Read more at Tom’s blog. See the July 25, 2008 article in the Bangor Daily News.Do Queries Still Work? CNN Reports That They Do…
July 24th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Everton's, Everton's Genealogical Helper - Online Edition, Television
The Genealogical Helper is the only popular genealogy magazine that continues to publish genealogical queries. The founder of the company started publishing them in 1947, and we’ve seen no reason to halt… Internet or not… Now comes the news that a Query placed in The Genealogical Helper helped bring together a family separated by [...]
WebTree.com Launched by FamilyLink.com
The following News Release was written by FamilyLink.com staff: 8.4 million ancestors added to community in three weeks PROVO, UT, July 21, 2008 — FamilyLink.com announced the beta launch of WebTree.com, an innovative and fun family tree building community that has added 8.4 million ancestor names in the past three weeks. “WebTree.com adds a much needed family tree [...]Many Periodicals & Vertical Files Could Use indexing…
Randy Seaver wrote a very thought-provoking blog today titled: Indexing Periodicals, Manuscripts, Collections, Etc. He identifies a problem that’s always existed - only now there are possible solutions. Along the same line, a decade ago, Ron Bremer produced a database called something like “Library Resources.” Since Ron traveled a lot - doing seminars all over the [...]1891 Canadian Census Launches Online at Ancestry
Although the following news release was written for a Canadian audience, who might be subscribing to Ancestry.ca specifically, keep in mind that anyone with an Ancestry World Deluxe membership can access this data at Ancestry.com. I spent a few minutes on the sites this morning (both Ancestry.com and Ancestry.ca), and although I was able to [...]GeneTree Adds Y-Chromosome DNA Testing
The following News-Release was written by GeneTree staff: GeneTree Adds Y-Chromosome DNA Testing Option to Trace Paternal Line Ancestors, Research Surnames and Connect with Present Day Relatives Addition of New Test Means GeneTree Participants Can Now Conveniently Tap into the World’s Largest and Most Diverse Databases of Linked DNA and Family History Information Using Both Y-Chromosome (Paternal [...]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 [...]