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 http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/02/report-from-who-do-you-think-you-are-live-in-london.html
  February 25, 2011 Report from Who Do You Think You Are? Live! in London
  Today the long-awaited Who Do You Think You Are? Live! expo, in association with the Society of Genealogists' Family History Show,
  opened at the Olympia Exhibition Hall in Kensington, a section of London. As expected, the crowds were huge.
  The annual Who Do You Think You Are? Live! expo always focuses primarily on the exhibitors and this year was no exception. The exhibits hall was perhaps the size of four    
  basketball courts and was jam packed with people, all looking at the exhibits offered by commercial exhibitors and non-profit, local societies alike. The aisles were crowded    all day long; there never was any "down time" when the crowds thinned out or when the noise level subsided. Read the article………

Dick Eastman of http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/ 
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/02/-how-to-install-a-web-server-on-your-home-pc.html
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
Once upon a time, such as last week, the normal method of placing a web server online was to pay money to a hosting service and to use that company's servers and high-speed Internet connections. Indeed, that is still the most popular method, and I would recommend it for any serious projects where you want industrial-grade reliability and performance. However, you have other options as well. For instance, you can install a web server on your home computer and let others in your home or even around the world access your web pages. You can even do this while you simultaneously use the same computer for other purposes, such as surfing the web, reading and writing email messages, writing Word documents, or even playing games. Best of all, you probably can do this without spending a dime. Read the article…….

 

http://www.datapeoplegraphics.com/photo-restoration-services.html
New Digital Photo Restoration
DataPeople Graphics specializes in digital photo restorations, repairing of old photos with quality photo retouching if needed. Destructed photos can be reconstructed quickly so that old photos could bring life like new experience.

 

For more genealogical resources visit:
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet  http://www.cyndislist.com/

http://sites.google.com/site/gedcomviewcompare/
GEDCOM View and Compare (GVC) is a software to handle files of the GEDCOM (GEnealogical Data COMmunication) format. The current version of GVC (v1.0) offers the following features:

• Visualization of differences in the data of persons included in two GEDCOM files.
• Creation of new GEDCOM datasets comprising either the difference (i.e. the persons missing in one of the two files) or the union (persons missing AND persons available in both files).
• Creation of XML data from the GEDCOM source: original data and the data sets created with GVC
• Save GEDCOM and XML data sets to disk
• Display data in XML in table form via pre-defined stylesheet

Target group of "GEDCOM View and Compare" are persons who are interested in genealogical research and who have to handle genealogical data of more than one source or who maintain geneolagical data in several places - for instance if you keep family trees in more than one internet provided genealogy services like familysearch.org, ancestry.com, etc.

From my perspective, version 1 has the required set of functions to process genealogical data from two sources to be able to find out differences and synchronize the data sets. This was my primary intention when starting the project. Nevertheless, I have a couple of ideas what could be added to the feature set of GVC. If you like the program and you have your own ideas what could/should be added or changed, feel free to use the comment feature on this page.

 

http://www.slaegtenshistorie.dk/
Professional Danish genealogy research-team provide help with your family history.

 

http://www.ukrgenealogy.com
Ukrainian Genealogical Research Bureau Genealogical services in Ukraine and others countries, search for relatives in Ukraine, finding of the information about history of your family in Ukraine, creation of a family tree, the family emblem, research in archives, museums, search for places in Ukraine, excursion accompaniment.

 

Vienna, February 14th, 2011
New at GenTeam:
New Mailing-List for the lands of the former Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy
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During the last years, many mailing-lists have been started, mostly for a small part or crownland of the monarchy – and often for both languages: English and German.
According to the motto “connecting genealogists”, we have now started a new mailing-list at GenTeam for all lands of the former Austrian Monarchy. Queries in English and German should connect you with genealogists anywhere in the world.
For use, start the new registration for the mailing-list at www.GenTeam.at (not equal with the registration for use of the databases!). Only a username and a password is necessary.
The list will be represented by
Mrs. Mireille Trauner (familienforschung@chello.at),
Mrs. Traude Triebel (Traude.Triebel@inode.at),
Mrs. Leopold Strenn (leopold.strenn@yahoo.de),
and Prof. Harold Chipman (chipman@time4com.com).
If you have any question, please, don’t hesitate to ask me directly at kontakt@GenTeam.at
With kind regards,
Felix Gundacker
Genealogist
Pantzergasse 30/8
A-1190 WIEN
Tel = 0043 676 40 11 059
email: kontakt@GenTeam.at
If  youare not interested to get any additional email from GenTeam, please, send a short email with „unsubscribe from GenTeam“ to kontakt@GenTeam.at.findmypast,co,uk

 

Findmypast.co.uk

Over 14,000 new Middlesex memorial inscriptions published

We have just published 14,262 new memorial inscriptions for Middlesex on findmypast.co.uk
These new records cover the period 1399 to 1992, making them some of the oldest records in our parish records collection.

 

233,000 new Australian burial records
You can now search 233,160 burial records for Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, Australia on findmypast.co.uk

http://genealogy.about.com/od/pennsylvania/tp/pa-genealogy-online.htm?nl=1
Pennsylvania Genealogy Online
Databases & Web Sites for PA Family History Research
By Kimberly Powell, About.com Guide

1. Philadelphia Death Certificates, 1803-1915

Over 1.5 million Philadelphia death certificates have been indexed and made available online for free by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and thousands of volunteers. Digital images of most certificates are also online for free viewing and download, although you may have to register/login to view them

2. Published Pennsylvania Archives at Footnote

Digitized images of the pages in the Published Pennsylvania Archives series are online for free browsing and searching at Footnote.com (no subscription required for this particular collection). The entire series consists of 138 published volumes (in 10 series) of early Pennsylvania government records transcribed and printed by the Commonwealth, including military, tax, land, naturalization, marriage and baptism records, plus ship passenger lists and other items relevant to both genealogy and history in Pennsylvania.

3. State Library of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Genealogy Collection

The digital Pennsylvania Genealogy Collection online for free from the State Library of Pennsylvania includes the Pennsylvania Necrology Scrapbook of obituaries clipped from Pennsylvania newspapers between 1891 and 1904 (including many Civil War veterans) and the Harrisburg Newspaper Index with marriages and deaths from four Harrisburg area newspapers 1799 to 1827. Other free online Pennsylvania genealogy databases from the PA State Library include PA Civil War Regimental Histories and a number of digitized PA historical newspapers

4. Philadelphia Marriage Index, 1885-1951

FamilySearch has over 1.8 million names in its free online collection of Philadelphia marriage indexes. The transcribed information includes the name of the brides and grooms, along with the year of the marriage and the license number. With the license number you can obtain a copy of the original marriage licenses - marriages from 1885-1915 are available on microfilm at the Family History Library and Family History Centers, while marriages from 1916 forward can be obtained from the Philadelphia City Hall.

5. Land Records at the Pennsylvania State Archives

Scanned land records, viewable online from the Pennsylvania State Archives include Warrant Registers, Copied Survey Books, Donation Lands, Indexes of Selected Original (Loose) Surveys, Depreciation Land Register and Old Rights (Index) for Philadelphia and Bucks and Chester counties.

6. Pennsylvania Marriages 1885-1889

Since September 30, 1885, marriages in Pennsylvania have been recorded by the county Clerk of the Orphans Court or the Marriage License Clerk in each PA county. For the years 1885 through 1891, the state's Department of Internal Affairs also maintained a Record of Marriages, with semi-alphabetically arranged entries for both brides and grooms. Images of these records through the year 1889 are available for free online viewing in PDF format from the Pennsylvania State Archives.

7. Google News Archive - Pennsylvania Newspapers

The Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are just two of the major Pennsylvania newspapers available online for free in digitized format from Google News Archive. The search function for the older Pittsburgh papers is terrible, so don't by any means rely on a surname search to find ancestors. If you can locate a death date from a tombstone or other death record, then directly browse the papers from the prior few days page by page for your ancestors. You can often find an index on the first page of each paper with the issue page number for "obituaries" and/or "death notices."
More: Google News Archive Tips for Genealogists

8. Historic Pittsburgh

Anyone with ancestors living in Western Pennsylvania should explore this free collection of historical books, documents and other resources relating to the history and genealogy of Western PA. Free online records include indexed U.S. census schedules for the city of Pittsburgh and Allegheny City (1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880); over 18,000 historic photographs of people and places; historic Pittsburgh and Allegheny County real estate and survey maps; full text copies of over 1200 books about Pittsburgh published in the 19th and early 20th centuries; and digitized copies of 125 historic Pittsburgh city directories.

 

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The latest newsletter has a lot of interesting articles.February 25, 2011
www.rootstelevision.com
Genealogy Videos: Families and Festivities
Og thinks the very best thing about the holidays is all the time we get to spend with family - immediate relatives and those far-flung who gather only rarely. It's a great chance to simply be together, to share food and good times. It is also a wonderful opportunity to learn new genealogy lore and family stories from relatives that are spending time with.
Did you have a large family gathering? Were there second, third or even fifth cousins in attendance? Who can even keep track of the details of these distant relationships anyway? For a better understanding of cousin relationships turn to the 23andMe Relative Finder video on Just What is a 5th Cousin?
Next on our featured list is the heart-warming tale "My Name is Dovie," where Dovie Thomason-Sickles tells of how the gift of story, Christmas in the pueblo, and a coming baby brought her home
Holidays can really bring forth all kinds of wonderful memories, for a nice nostalgic video try, Can You Remember.
Family gatherings not exactly your cup of tea? Well we've got something for you too - the Family Survival Kit - tips from the Central Christian Church on surviving the holidays.
Happy Watching!
Og
RootsTelevision.com

http://www.findmyancestry.info
Sunshine Coast Family Genealogy Research. Based in Queensland, Australia. Research undertaken for a small fee
and setting up of a family tree online for clients. Specialising in Lancashire and Yorkshire, Cheshire any other
counties in the UK.

http://ed4becky.net/homepage/?page_id=19
A Wordpress plugin that creates one or more pages of family history using data imported from a Gedcom file.

http://www.vikingroots.com/ 
Genealogy news and articles from Norway, in English.

http://www.ancestraldeeds.co.uk/
Ancestral Deeds Research & Transcription. Professional Service based in London (England), with a
special interest in early research, including transcription of old documents and translation of Mediaeval French and Latin.

 

Genealogy

From Kimberly Powell, your Guide to Genealogy Ancestry.com Discontinues Expert Connect Was it not working? Many professional genealogists and customers I know say that it worked very well for them. Why, then, is Ancestry.com discontinuing the service? Are they planning to use the genealogists they acquired with ProGenealogists, Inc. to offer a similar in-house service? Search for Sources, Not Just Surnames There are literally hundreds of thousands of record groups online that aren't available via a straight Google search. Make it a point to check Web sites for all of the repositories likely to hold records relevant to your research locality and time period for digital images, databases and other online research resources. http://genealogy.about.com/od/newspapers/tp/newspapers_online.htm?nl=1 Historical Newspapers.

New Zealand Ancestry

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ancestry.com.au/NewZealand

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Search Through Millions of Profiles With Smart Research Technology

www.myheritage.com

Your UK Family History

Find your family history just by selecting your surname.

www.your-family-history.com

Trace your ancestry

Discover your ancestry, find long lost relatives, family tree search.

www.genebase.com

Family History - NZ

Find Family History near you with the find a Business Directory

www.finda.co.nz

 

http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/glossary/Dictionary-of-Old-Occupations-Index.html
Dictionary of Old Occupations: A-Z Index Free online dictionary explaining well over a thousand

Dick Eastman writes:.

The following announcement was written by FamilySearch.org:

old occupations, trades and professions.

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/12/new-records-added-to-updated-familysearch-website.html

Searchable U.S. Social Security Death Index Now Available
The new-look FamilySearch website now has some new records to match. Nearly three million new digital images were posted this week, helping family historians researching their ancestors in Canada, Spain, Venezuela, and the United States. The U.S. Social Security Death Index is also a new addition to the site, with over 7 million indexed records. You can search all of these records and more at FamilySearch.org.

New Genealogical Video: Connecting Youth to Family History
This week we have a new video for our Roots Kids channel. It's Connecting Youth to Family History, courtesy of the National Genealogical Society.On our featured list for the week we start with the Sinclair/St. Clair DNA Study. Next we move on to Writing a Family History - a wonderful episode from the Ancestors serieOur final featured video of the week is Youth in Genealogy, a perfect pair to the new video of the week.
Happy Watching!
Og
RootsTelevision.com

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/11/taking-care-of-your-personal-archives/66425/
Q: Going through old photo albums and archives, I've found most of my pictures and papers are slowly decomposing. What's the best way to store personal documents?

http://www.familyhistoryexpos.com/wordpress/2010/11/weekly-tip-they-didn%E2%80%99t-all-get-here-by-ship-border-crossing-records/
When we think of immigration we often start wondering about which port our ancestor used to enter the United States. But not everyone came to America by ship. Some walked or perhaps rode in an automobile over the border from Canada or Mexico. Even though they entered a different way, they still left a paper trail.What kind of information can you find on a border crossing record?

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November 23, 2010

Genealogy Websitesgalore

http://www.Leicestershire.webs.com
Parish Registers
Complete indexed parish registers (C.M.B.) from the beginning to the early 1900's in Leicestershire.

Find it on FamilySearch
Whether your ancestors came from Argentina, Scotland, the Czech Republic, or Montana, you can access a wealth of genealogical records online for free at FamilySearch, the genealogy arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

HOT TOPICS
U.K. & Ireland - Census (405+ links)
http://www.CyndisList.com/census-uk.htm 

 

 http://www.35mmslidescanner.org
35mm Slide Scanner - Scan Old Photos Read reviews on 35mm slide scanners.

 

http://www.freegenealogytools.com/2010/11/historical-state-census-records.html
Historical USA State Census Records
In addition to well-known federal census records, many states conducted their own censuses and now make these records available online, for free. Some census records go back to the very founding of the states in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. Records can include specially-targeted populations, such as slaves, Indians or war widows.

 

http://data.genealogytoday.com/
The books and documents in this collection can reveal activities in your ancestors' lives. The information is carefully transcribed by hand, and verified for accuracy, from original documents mostly published between 1830 and 1930 -- including Masonic rosters, rural school and college catalogues, vintage telephone directories, insurance claims, tax records, church catalogues, railroad seniority rosters, fraternal group and business association memberships, farm directories and all sorts of clubs and societies!

 

http://www.suite101.com/content/fun-family-history-projects-for-children-and-families-a304276
Summer or Christmas vacation is the ideal time to get kids involved in family history. Here are some fun activities that can bring the generations closer.

 

http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2010/10/choosing-genealogy-management-software.html
I receive email from lots of people who have been working on their own for a few months who are spending hours creating custom family history Excel worksheets or Access databases. This simply won't do, since you cannot readily transfer info to genealogy websites or share with new-found cousins. I hope to save you DearREADERS similar heartache by telling you there are lots of good genealogy programs on the market today!

 

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/11/familypedia-the-biggest-genealogy-site-you-probably-never-heard-of.html
Are you familiar with Familypedia, a web site with 84,983 online articles about deceased individuals plus another 106,312 genealogy-related pages?
Familypedia is a wiki, part of the commercial Wikia site. It is a place where YOU can create articles about your ancestors and easily link them to other articles about where and when they lived. The site is primarily text-based with biographical pages about deceased individuals. In some cases, you can find pictures of individuals as well as pedigree charts, maps, and other graphics. In most cases, each deceased person has a separate web page giving details about his or her life and also containing hyperlinks to other web pages that contain information about the person's relatives. Entire families can be hyperlinked together.

 

http://www.rootstraveler.com
Roots Traveller
A Blog about everything and anything related to Genealogy/Ancestral/Roots/Heritage Travel.

 

Genealogy Websitesgalore

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/11/-how-to-obtain-information-from-the-1940-and-later-census-records.html

Rookwood Burial  Records NSW Australia are online.
Rookwood burial records now available at findmypast.co.uk . Over 233,000 burial records available to search online . It's now easier to research Australian ancestors . Records include former NSW Premier John Lang, who opened Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Peter Dodds McCormick, who wrote Advance Australia Fair

Family history website www.findmypast.co.uk has published online for the first time burial records from Rookwood Cemetery, working in partnership with the Society of Australian Genealogists.

Between 1981 and 1992 members of the Society of Australian Genealogists painstakingly transcribed inscriptions from headstones in Rookwood Cemetery - the final resting place for over 600,000 Australians, located in Sydney's west.

The transcriptions that resulted from that mammoth 11 year project, containing 233,160 names, have now gone online for the first time at findmypast.co.uk, so that anyone around the world can search for their Australian ancestors from the comfort of their own home. It is possible to search the records by surname, forename, inscription or year of death, and each entry shows the complete transcription and grave location.

The oldest graves in Rookwood Cemetery date back to 1867, and today it is one of the largest cemeteries in the whole of the Southern Hemisphere. It is therefore likely that many Australians would have a relative whose resting place is within Rookwood's gates and will be able to find their record in the new online database. The online records cover dates of death over the period 1798 to 1999.

Elaine Collins, Business Development Director at findmypast.co.uk, said: "The Rookwood Burials are a unique and valuable resource for anyone interested in researching their Australian family history. We're delighted to be working with the Society of Australian Genealogists to put these records online for the first time, enabling people worldwide to find their Australian connections."

Heather Garnsey, Executive Officer of the Society of Australian Genealogists, said: "The Society was delighted to work with findmypast to bring its Rookwood Cemetery Transcriptions to a new audience online. SAG volunteers transcribed Rookwood - the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere - as its contribution to the Australian Bicentenary in 1988 and the transcripts were previously only available on microfiche and CD, both long out-of-print.

Since it was opened in 1867, Rookwood has remained Sydney's most important cemetery with more than a million burials believed to have taken place there. Headstones provide vital clues for genealogists, often revealing far more than just name, age and date of death. Place of origin, religion, occupation and family relationships can all be revealed through headstone inscriptions. We'd expect many new research leads to be discovered through the availability of this material online through findmypast."

The new records can be found within the Parish Record Collection at www.findmypast.co.uk and are part of a much larger on going project with the Federation of Family History Societies to put millions of parish records online. These records are also available through findmypast.com.au, the Australia-based sister site of findmypast.co.uk.

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/11/rednotebook-a-personal-diary-and-quick-journal.html

Technology is a wonderful thing for the genealogist. This month Og Blog Newsletter focuses on several types of technology. First, we explore Photo Restoration with Eric over at Photo Grafix, and find out how to rescue our photos from their dusty hiding places in Climbing Family Trees: Preserving Pictures. For more tech fun, check out the My Heritage - Photo Tagging video.

Og also explores other types of technology, like the cool new Reunion application for iPad. Check it out if you are a lucky iPad owner. And if you are considering purchasing genealogy software, don't miss 10 Things Genealogy Software Should Do

http://genealogyblog.geneanet.org/index.php/post/2010/11/WWII-Prison-Camp-Archives-Discovered-in-Guernsey.html
A previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of Guernsey people who were deported to German prison camps during World War II has been uncovered. The file of about 200 pages had been in a wardrobe since the 1960s before being given to a Cambridge University team.
They were in Guernsey researching the story of the 2,000 people deported from the Channel Islands in 1942-43. Dr Gilly Carr said it was "the single most important resistance archive ever to emerge from the Channel Islands".

http://www.royal-westies-assn.ca/
The Royal Westminster Regiment Association Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. World War II name list, images of the regimental museum and more. 

http://ontariocanadaresearcher.squarespace.com
Ontario Canada Researcher
Ontario Canada African American Genealogy Surname Index 1800 to 1900.

http://www.libraryireland.com/names/contents.php
Irish Names and Surnames. A scholarly work on Irish names by the Rev. Patrick Woulfe, first published in1921. The book includes more than 3,500 surname entries that provide the origin and meaning of each name, as well as its English equivalents.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/11/taking-care-of-your-personal-archives/66425/
Q: Going through old photo albums and archives, I've found most of my pictures and papers are slowly decomposing. What's the best way to store personal documents?
This post was originally published on The Smithsonian Archives' blog, The Bigger Picture and republished on the National Museum of American History's "O Say Can You See?" blog. It is republished here with permission. It was written by Catherine Shteynberg, the social media and marketing coordinator with Smithsonian Institution Archives.