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Ohio Genealogical Society Annual Conference Call for Papers - April 25-27, 2013
The following was written by the Ohio Genealogical Society: The Ohio Genealogical Society is accepting proposals for their 2013 Annual Conference at the Millennium Hotel in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2012. Lectures will be one hour long, including a ten-minute question and answer period. Submissions for workshops, especially for Thursday afternoon, will be considered. We are specifically looking for speakers with proposals showing how technology can benefit your research. In addition, proposals are being sought in a variety of areas including beginning genealogy, Ohio-specific topics, ethnic groups (German, African American etc.), Genetics and DNA, methodology,...
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findmypast Adds 3.5 Million Plymouth and Devon, England, Records Online
The findmypast blog describes a huge new set of records added to the company's offerings: Search new Plymouth and Devon parish records covering 3.5 million people and five centuries on findmypast.co.uk These records include baptisms, marriages and burials from 1538 to 1911, making it easier than ever before to trace your Devonshire ancestors before the first census and the start of birth, marriage and death records in the 19th century. Here you can see an example of one of the records – click on it for a larger version. On 10 September 1846, young lovers from Plymouth, William Yeo, a...
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Bay Area Immigration Records, Destined for Destruction, will be Released Tuesday
Tens of thousands of old West Coast immigration records the government once sought to throw away will instead become publicly available on Tuesday at a Bay Area archive. Photographs, letters, health records, interview transcripts and other historical documents were destined for a recycling bin or a remote Midwestern storage facility. Archivists credit the advocacy of the late U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, and his successor, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, for helping to save the collection. The documents will be housed in San Bruno, at the National Archives at San Francisco, and open to the public beginning Tuesday. The...
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NGS 2013 Family History Conference Plans Announced
It is never too early to start planning! The annual conference of the National Genealogical Society was held only last week in Cincinnati but plans for next year's event have already been posted to the society's web site. The NGS 2013 Family History Conference will be held at The LVH-Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mark your calendars for 8–11 May 2013. The hotel and conference center are under one roof. The LVH is adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center, ten minutes from McCarran International Airport, and convenient to I-15 and I-515. Self-parking is free. Valet...
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Ancestry.com to Collaborate with Family History Information Standards Organisation to Define Community Standards
The following announcement was written by the Family History Information Standards Organisation, Inc.: Gilbert, AZ USA—May 17, 2012—Family History Information Standards Organisation, Inc. (FHISO) announced today that Ancestry.com, Inc. has finalized its plans to become a founding member of the organisation. FHISO is a newly-formed international organisation created to develop standards for the digital representation of family history and genealogical information. As a founding member, Ancestry.com will designate five organisational member representatives to participate with other FHISO members from the global genealogical community. Ancestry.com is the world's largest online family history resource, with 1.9 million paying subscribers. More than 10...
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St. Louis Genealogical Society Completes Indexing 1.6 Million Burials
The following announcement was written by the St. Louis Genealogical Society: St. Louis Genealogical Society Completes Indexing 1.6 Million Burials Do you know what these people have in common? Engineer, James Eads; Blues hockey player, Barclay Plager; Negro Leagues baseball player, James "Cool Papa" Bell; sports broadcaster, Jack Buck; slave, Dred Scott; poet, Sara Teasdale; educator, Susan Blow; and humanitarian, Tom Dooley? They are just a handful of the 1.6 million people buried in St. Louis City or St. Louis County, Missouri, who have been indexed by the St. Louis Genealogical Society. This unique project was completed entirely by dedicated...
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The Tables Get Turned: I Receive Visitors
When writing articles for this newsletter, I often get to visit with other genealogists. Last Friday, the tables were turned. Several genealogists came to visit me. In fact, they dropped by my motor home that is parked in an RV (recreation vehicle) resort in the suburbs of Cincinnati. The group included Daniel Horowitz, Mark Olsen, and Schelly Talalay Dardashti (all from MyHeritage.com), Pamela Weisberger (from Los Angeles), Elise Friedman and Alex Yi (from FamilyTreeDNA.com), and Chris Mueller (from Albuqerque). (Photo courtesy of Mark Olsen.) The motor home suddenly became very small with so many people inside! I am not used...
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All 1940 US Census Images and Six States' Indexes Now Published Online
The following announcement was written by FamilySearch: 20 Million Records for 21 Other Countries Also Added The 1940 US Census Community Project, which includes FamilySearch, Archives.com, Findmypast.com, NARA, and ProQuest.com, have now published browsable images online for 1940 U.S. Federal Census and the completed searchable indexes for six of the states. Online volunteer indexers have indexed 35% of the census. At current rates, they anticipate wrapping up the indexing by late summer. Follow the progress online at the1940census.com/dashboard or search the records on FamilySearch.org/1940census. FamilySearch also published new, free records online for Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England,...
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British Columbia Man Seeks Descendants of Soldier Killed in World War I
A man from Surrey, B.C., faces a big challenge unlocking a First World War mystery that's landed on his doorstep. Curtis Unger, who says he believes in honouring soldiers' memories, has recently come across a memorial plaque from the Great War. The plaque, called a Death Penny, bears the name of a 20-year-old English private named Walter Ryles. "I was thinking of framing it and putting it on a wall, but I realized that this is a memorial. It's like a tombstone. It deserves to be handed down the generations of Ryles' family," he says. Unger says he wants to...
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