Major Changes in the 1940 Census Indexed States!

Major Changes in the 1940 Census Indexed States!

NEW RECORDS ADDED AT FAMILY SEARCH

This week a new class of records from Allegheny County were added

PENNSYLVANIA PROBATE RECORDS 1683-1994

and records were added to  PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS

The  probate records are searchable, but no index.

If He Owned Land, There’s a Deed

If He Owned Land, There’s a Deed

PICASA AND A CELL PHONE

 

PICASA AND A CELL PHONE   is an interesting article telling you how to use your cell phone and Googles free photo editing software Picassa to edit the photos you have taken.

This could be a great tool when working in courthouses taking photos of your familys documents.

Newest Genealogy Records on the Internet

Newest Genealogy Records on the Internet  

I just found this type of link and decided to post it and see how this method of adding information will work.

DAUGHTER OF CIVIL WAR VETERAN

 

In an article dated June 23, 2012 a daughter of a CIVIL WAR VETERAN had died.  I thought the article was interesting because I had no ideas that children of the Civil War were still living.

BELFAST TELEGRAPH

 

BELFAST TELEGRAPH has quite a few categories of pictures and post cards from Ireland about 100 yeas ago, including pictures from the Titanic.

FACES OF PREJUDICE

 

The WASHINGTON POST has a story about a new exhibit at the NATIONAL ARCHIVES has an photographic exhibit taken circa 1908 at Ellis Island.  Looks like a good show if you visit Washington DC.

MEETING LAST NIGHT

 

Last evening was the meeting of the NORTH HILLS GENEALOGIST    They usually have have great meetings and the meetings are open to the public, you need not be a member. 

The topic was “ What’s New At Family Search?”    The title sounded uneventful and I did not plan to go but I did and am I glad.   The speaker was Shelli Nye, who is a member of the North Hills group and is a member of the LDS Church.   She also works at the LDS Family History Center Church in Cranberry.

BYU LIBRARY SITES which is a link to the Brigham Young University Library, which is different from the LDS Library in Salt Lake City.    If you click on the link it takes you to a site with massive resources.  The Pay sites ($$$$) you have to be in the library to access them.   You could spend a day searching this site and I will put the link under resources.

The main topic was What’s New,  I had no idea what was in the works.   Family Search is working on a Family Tree which they hope to debut this fall.   Members of the LDS Church as well as non members are permitted to submit their Family Trees and enter the information.   The plan is to coordinate trees with all users and you should be able to find other people who are also claiming ancestors to the same person.   You may be able to contact them if the person who submitted the information gave permission to share.

People who are still living will not be visible due to privacy considerations,  you can designate someone to be able to view your information.

What is required is your registration and password.  If you have done research or indexing you will already have your ID and password, which now will be used throughout the system.   This looks very exciting and I am waiting its debut.   You can send Shelli an email at   cranberryfhc@ gmail.com. 

HAPPY FATHERS DAY

 

Happy Fathers Day to everyone.  Here is a link from the US Census bureau.

FATHERS DAY INFORMATION FROM THE US CENSUS

DRUM ROLL

This is an initial post for our group.   It seems that everyone has a web presence and I decided to give it a whirl and see what we could do.  

I have started with a few links to places that may be of help to anyone who is interested in Genealogical Research.  I have no ideas of who and what we will post, perhaps it will just be a site with our name or perhaps it will grown into a place where everyone in our group can post topics about their family history.

There are a few other ideas I have in setting up this blog.  I would like to have a place for our members to post the names of our ancestors we are following.

We are not able to do research requests because we are a small group and not equipped to  do that.  I am also considering a Facebook presence.   I will just have to see how and where it goes.