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Five Golden Rules for Growing “Healthy” Family Trees

June 29th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in
p script src=http://embed.technorati.com/embed/id3dabzpj4.js type=text/javascript/script /p pIt's a fact of life. Trees can't live without light, water, air, and food. While fancy fertilizers and high-tech bug killers are nice, all trees really need to survive are the basics and a little TLC./p...pa href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/06/29/five-golden-rules-for-growing-family-trees.htmRead Full Post/a/p

Indexing of Freedmen Letters from North Carolina Underway

June 27th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in
pA project to index Freedmen Letters from North Carolina has been added to a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://indexing.familysearch.comFamilySearch Indexing/a - absolutely wonderful news for anyone researching 19th century African Americans in that state. These records are a rich source of information on emancipated slaves, freed Blacks and Black Union soldiers, including details such as names, marriages, education and employment information, receipt of rations, health care and legal support. These records are currently being indexed by volunteers for eventual placement on the FREE FamilySearch Record Search site. If these records hold interest for you then you may want to consider donating a little of your time to help get them indexed and online faster!/p...pa href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/06/27/indexing-of-freedmen-letters-from-north-carolina-underway.htmRead Full Post/a/p

Was Your Ancestor an Australian Digger?

June 25th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in
pWas your Australian ancestor a digger? If he/she arrived in Australia during the 1850s or in Western Australia during the 1890s, it is certainly a possibility! Hundreds of thousands of new settlers descended on Australia, especially Victoria, during the 1850s after gold was discovered in 1851  near Bathurst, New South Wales, and in Ballarat, Buninyong and Bendigo Creek in Victoria. In the 1890s, the rich gold fields of Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie attracted yet another large influx of immigrants. Not only did the promise of gold lure diggers, but also tradesman, shop keepers, house servants and others necessary for a rapidly growing settlement. Learn more in stronga href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/od/australia/a/australian-gold-rush-immigrants.htmResearching Australian Gold Rush Immigrants/a/strong./p

Free at FamilySearch - 26 Million New Names

June 23rd, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in
pYet another twenty-nine new collections were updated or added this week at FamilySearch.org--with 26 million names and 1.5 million digital images! The records just added or updated include nine more indexes for the U.S. 1910 Federal Census (now 37 percent complete), plus images of Costa Rican Church Records, an updated index to French Protestant Church Records, images of some Hungarian Civil Registration records (Agauj-Torna and Szabolcs), indexes to over em4 million/em digital images from the 1930 Census of Mexico, and digitized images for several small collections from Spain, including civil registration records, Catholic church records and municipal records./p...pa href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/06/23/free-at-familysearch-26-million-new-names.htmRead Full Post/a/p

10 Top Databases for British Genealogy

June 22nd, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in
pMillions of records from England, Scotland and Wales are available online in the form of digital images or transcriptions. These can be found on literally hundreds of helpful genealogy Web sites, but the following a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/od/uk_databases/tp/top_databases.htm10 British genealogy sites/a are especially popular for their wide variety of useful records and information for anyone researching British ancestry./p

New Irish Church Records Online - FREE!

June 16th, 2010 | Comments Off | Posted in

Gone but Not Forgotten

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Dating a Cabinet Card

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Additional Chelsea Pensioners’ Service Records Available Online

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