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Art Lassagne Passes

September 30th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Obituaries
Holly Hanson reports that my friend, Art Lassagne, died of lung cancer yesterday. Art was one of those guys who I could ALWAYS count on for a hug at the various genealogy conferences we attended. He operated a business called The Gold Bug. I began selling his paper maps nearly 20 years ago - and [...]

1901 London Census Is Now Live at FindMyPast.com

September 30th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in British Research, Digital Online Content, English Research
The following was written by FindMyPast.com staff: September 25, 2008: Findmypast.com today announced that the county of London, comprising over 4.6 million records has been added to its new online version of the 1901 census for England and Wales. The new records join the counties of Surrey, Gloucestershire and Somersetshire, which are already available to search [...]

Cook County, Illinois Declarations of Intent Index 1906-1929 Now Online

September 30th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Databases, Illinois, Immigration
On September 18, while my blog was down, the Circuit Court of Cook County announced that the Declarations of Intent (1906-1929) indexed database will now be online. It seems that a hacker got into the site the night before it was to launch, so it didn’t happen quite when expected, but it’s now [...]

Eastman Interviews Meitzler

September 30th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Video
About a month ago, at the FGS conference in Philadelphia, Dick Eastman conducted an interview with me for Roots Television. Megan Smolenyak emailed this afternoon informing me that the interview has now been posted. To check out the interview, click here.

Still Looking for the Identity of Boulder Jane Doe

September 30th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Colorado, DNA Research
DNA and genealogy research can often solve mysteries. However, with all the research that’s gone into the case of Boulder Jane Doe, we still don’t know who she is… The remains of a woman whose mysterious death in 1954 generated headlines across Colorado have been reburied more than four years after she was exhumed in an [...]

GenealogyBlog is Back!

September 30th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Flotsam & Jetsam
Near the end of August, I lost my blog… And I’ve not known what to do with myself ever since then. I’m addicted to this thing. We still don’t really know what happened, other than Joe Edmon and I lost access to it. GenealogyBlog was setting on a server in Texas somewhere, and Joe couldn’t get [...]

New and Interesting this Week - 28 Sept 08

September 28th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in
It seems like genealogists this week have been reading my mind. Here are several of the many interesting things I read this week that I thought you might enjoy as...

I Love Your Blog

September 24th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in
I'm extremely honored to have been chosen this past week for the "I Heart Your Blog" award by two talented genealogists: Janet Hovorka of The Chart Chick blog and Cat...

Backdoor Genealogy

September 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in
How often have you run into a brick wall in your family history research? Silly question, I bet. Which brings me to one of my absolutely favorite uses for online...

New and Interesting this Week - 21 Sept 08

September 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in
I'm amazed every day by the talent, knowledge and enthusiasm of my fellow genealogy bloggers, but it also takes a great deal of time each week to keep up with...
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