Month: September 2020

The website, New York State Historic Newspapers, added new titles in September. New Titles Albany – The Argus Canton – Hill News New Berlin – The New Berlin Gazette Norwich – Chenango Telegram and Anti-Masonic Telegram Oxford – The Oxford Review-Times, Oxford Review, the Oxford Times and the Oxford Press The Southampton Press was updated…

Legacy Family Tree Webinars is celebrating its 10th anniversary of genealogy webinars. There will be 10 days of festivities with free webinars, door prizes and more. Beginning today, Legacy Family Tree Webinars is unlocking the top webinar from each year and making it free for 10 days. 2010 – Mapping Software for Genealogists by Geoff Rasmussen 2011…

Some good news for local genealogists — Ancestry.com is providing free remote access now through the end of the year to anyone with library cards in Nassau and Suffolk counties. Just go to your home library website, go to the database section and look if your library subscribes to Ancestry.com. As previously mentioned in another post,…

MyHeritage.com will continue its Facebook Live Sessions on Mondays and Wednesday during September. Most are at 2 p.m. Eastern time. You can participate in these sessions right from the MyHeritage Facebook page. Visit the page when the session is scheduled to start and look for the live video broadcast at the top of the feed….

FamilySearch.org recently announced that the RootsTech 2021 conference previously planned for February 3-6, 2021, in Salt Lake City, Utah, will now be held on February 25-27, 2021, as a free, virtual event online. RootsTech Connect 2021 will enable attendees to participate from around the world and will feature inspiring keynote speakers, dozens of classes in…