Indexing continues on the 1940 US Census. FamilySearch now has 14 states searchable: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming. Ancestry.com has…
It was announced today that NBC is cancelling Who Do You Think You Are? This Friday's episode featuring Paula Deen will be the last new one for the US show…
International Jewish Genealogy Month runs from October 17th to November 14th this year, during the Hebrew month of Cheshvan. As in previous years, IAJGS is holding a poster/flyer competition. Entries…
FamilySearch and it's partners (findmypast.com and Archives.com) and volunteers (us!) have completed the indexing of six states: Delaware, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Virginia, and New Hampshire. They are all searchable by…
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW), in partnership with the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington (JHSGW), is raising funds to design, print, and distribute a new brochure…
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness is back! Begun in 1999, RAOGK was online for just over a decade, providing genealogists a list of volunteers in the US and internationally who…
This summer, the 32nd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will take place in Paris, France, 15-18 July. Early bird registration has been extended until April 10th, so if you…
If you've been trying to access the census at http://1940census.archives.gov/ and you're still having trouble, so you've been waiting for another site to have the images you need, your wait…
Fold3, formerly known a Footnote, is offering all of their World War II content free for the month of April. You can search from their World War II page. I…
MyHeritage has just announced that they have two million 1940 US Census images online, and the first searchable index. From their press release: MyHeritage, the most popular family network on…