May 5, 2010
NEWS:
Findmypast.com
www.Findmypast.co.uk
has expanded its collection of British military records with the
release of the Royal Marine Medal Roll 1914-1920.
They have also announced their take over of www.worldvitalrecords.com.au
It will be relaunched as www.findmypast.com.au
(using this linked image helps makes this free
podcast possible - thank you!)
Ancestry has launched a new wiki that includes
two books - The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
and Red Book: American State, County, and Town
Sources. The wiki can be found at the Ancestry
Wiki.
The Family
Search Wiki
Ancestry also has announced that it plans on
releasing Family Tree Maker for the Mac later this year.
FamilySearch
Over 300 Million new names have been added online at the
FamilySearch Record Search Pilot
1. Go to www.familysearch.org
2. Click Search Records
3. Click Record Search Pilot
Genealogy Gems
My article Undercover Genealogy appears in the July 2010
issue of Family Tree Magazine
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Read my first post on Newspaper Research.
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Linking
Try out the free Shapes tool for creating collages like Marie
did
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Connie Williams, Califonia. Constance
Comment
Challe Talbot wrote in asking about how to approach incorrect data
in online family trees. I have some thoughts on that.
GEM: A Criminal Past
Interview with author Ron Arons about his book Wanted! U.S. Criminal Records
GEM: Google Look Alikes
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