WOULD you like to discover more about your ancestors who left Ireland? Then you are welcome to join staff from the Mid-Antrim Museum who have organised a genealogy bus trip to The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Omagh, on Friday, June 8. Specialist staff will be on hand to introduce you to The Mellon Centre library sources available - ... (more)
The North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, features planes, trains and automobiles for a fun family getaway.
People have tracked down long distant cousins, their grandparents and great-grandparents. Some have even found themselves, a historical snapshot of the neighborhood they lived in and the people they used to know.
INFO: The book chronicles the history of Incarnate Word Order, and the union of San Antonio, Shiner and Victoria Convents in 1939.
We were all grownups this time. At the genealogy library in Alexandria, Louisiana-housed in the town's old Carnegie library building-there were nothing but adults, along with several thousand microfilms and reference books.
A Georgia research on Ex-Confederate soldiers and their families includes books, microfilm, online, and original documents.
Genealogists from all over the country spent a rare evening at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's "Lock-In" held at the main branch May 10, part of the National Genealogical Society Family History Conference.
Maine, 1940. Before lobster had settled firmly into the position of high-priced delicacy. Before the eastern-most state had realized the impact World War II would have on its shipbuilding industry. Before there was a Stephen King to tell wonderfully creepy fictional tales about the place. That was Maine 72 years ago.
And as of last night, you can search for the state’s residents by name during that moment in time in the just-launched 1940 U.S. census index for Maine on Ancestry.com.
Adding Maine to our list of fully indexed, fully searchable locations brings us up to four: Maine, Nevada, District of Columbia and Delaware. Search for resident by name to find your own family’s Maine relations. Or look for famous Mainers including future actress Linda Lavin (a toddler at the time) and Leon Bean (better known as L.L.), who’s listed as the president of a sporting goods company. Or browse through the town of Strong, Maine to see how many residents made toothpicks for a living. It was big business back in Maine in the day – and for many years to come.
If Maine isn’t at the top of your wish list of states to search, take note: more states are on deck with indexes coming very soon. And the entire 1940 U.S. Federal Census will be fully indexed and fully searchable on Ancestry.com long before the end of the year. Plus you can browse through every 1940 census image, regardless of state or territory, already on Ancestry.com. Start browsing and searching now.
Paula Deen’s great-great-great-grandfather lived through slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction just as much as Jefferson Davis and Ulysses S. Grant did. While most of our ancestors aren’t mentioned in history books, this fact is one more reason for us to look back and stake our personal claim to events that shaped the world. Learn more about what Deen discovered when she found her family’s place in historic events on the season finale of Who Do You Think You Are? airing tonight at 8/7c on NBC. Ancestry.com is a sponsor of the show.
A free update for Family Tree Maker 2012 (Windows) is now available. It contains a number of improvements and fixes of reported issues including:
When you open Family Tree Maker, you should be notified that an update is available. If this doesn’t happen, please visit the KnowledgeBase for instructions on manually downloading and installing the update.
This update includes a variety of new features and even a new report.
If you have multiple versions of the same fact, you can merge them together.
Source templates for the 1940 U.S. census have been added and there is improved support for city directories.
When you add a spouse for an individual, now you can indicate whether he or she is also the parent of the individual’s children.
In a relationship chart, an individual’s father and mother will both be included at the top of the page; shortened place names can be used; and, fonts are resized automatically so text won’t be cut off.
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