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Profile: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at GenealogyBank

GenealogyBank's parent company, NewsBank inc., has an operational center in the small Vermont town of Chester that houses a huge collection of archived data—over 350 terabytes of information, more than double the information contained in the Library of Congress! Ken Picard, from the online publication Seven Days, recently wrote a fascinating article called "Information, Please" giving a behind-the-scenes look at what NewsBank does.

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Search Tips: There Are Several Ways to Find Your Ancestors

GenealogyBank offers a huge archive of newspapers, historical books and documents, and government records—793 million articles and records to help with your family research! With this much material, it can be a little overwhelming figuring out how to get started. This article explains some effective search tips to make your family history research faster and more enjoyable.

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Did You Miss the January Newsletter? GenealogyBank Adds 16 Million Records in January! A Family’s Sorrow Revealed in 1848 Newspaper Finding All the Obituaries and Death Records in GenealogyBank 100-Year-Old Woman's Obituary Provides a Wealth of Family History View Entire List ……

EOGN: Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Plus Edition

This week's newsletter contains a LOT of pictures. You can view them at http://www.eogn.com/wp/thisweek.htm

 

Ancestry.com Monthly Update [Ancestry@email.ancestry.com]

1910 U.S. Federal Census One hundred one years later, the 1910 census gets the full treatment it deserves: now all 50 states feature clearer images, a revamped index, and even more alternate names provided by other researchers at Ancestry.com. Remember 1910 is full of clues to help you with future searches – including the number of children born to and living for mothers, year of immigration and naturalization status for immigrants, and whether a Civil War veteran fought for the Confederacy or Union.

 

http://www.one-name.org/guild.html

Studying family history provides an opportunity for the individual to appreciate his or her personal involvement in the historical process. This is often a powerful incentive to becoming involved in a great deal of detailed study. Inevitably everyone has to allocate some priorities, often by restricting the research to a particular avenue.
Some try to trace all their direct ancestors, whilst others concentrate on a limited number of family lines. Several of us made a decision to find out as much as we could about the bearers of a particular surname including its proven variants.  A few of those who were in this latter group helped to organise a Conference in Leicester in 1978, which led to the formation of the Guild of One-Name Studies a year

 

http://www.politietsregisterblade.dk./index.php?lang=en

POLITIETSREGISTERBLADE.DK
This website contains a digital version of the register of inhabitants of Copenhagen which was kept by the police from 1890 to 1923. A forerunner of the ?Folkeregistret? (national register), the register is the first central registration of the entire population of Copenhagen. There is a total of 1.2 million records.

 

http://www.leicesterforum.co.uk

 Leicester Forum Community site for Leicester and surrounding areas, with sections on genealogy and local history.