To celebrate Valentine’s Day, MyHeritage.com is offering free access to over 440 million marriage records from today through Tuesday, Feb. 18, There are 148 collections from all around the world including: the United States, England, Germany, Canada, Italy, Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Australia and more. Marriage certificates are a great resource…
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Free access to Australian and New Zealand records
Ancestry.com Australia is offering free access to New Zealand and Australian records now through 7:59 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 16 (Eastern Standard Time). Some of the collections available include: New Zealand *Birth, marriage and death indexes *Military records *Naturalization records *City directories Australia *Convict Transportation Registers *Birth, marriage and death indexes *Record collections for each of…
Free access to Fold3 African American collection
In honor of Black History Month, the genealogy website Fold3.com is offering free access to its African American collection for the month of February. Some of the highlights of the collection include: *Danish West Indies Slavery and Emancipation*Suppression of Slave Trade and Colonization*Amistad – Federal and Supreme Court Records*Court Slave Records for District of Columbia*Board…
Free webinars offered for Black History Month
In celebration of Black History Month, Legacy Family Tree Webinars will open one free webinar each week during February from its African American Collection. The free webinars are: Feb. 1-7 – African American Genealogy Resources at the Library of Congress Feb. 8-13 – A Checklist of African American Resources Feb. 14-20 – U.S. Colored Troops…
Huntington Historical Society hosts research trip to Salt Lake City
The Huntington Historical Society will be hosting it annual Research Trip to Family History Library in Salt Lake City on Sun. April 26 to Sun. May 3, 2020. The trip fee includes: *Seven nights at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel, adjacent to the Family History Library. Hotel taxes are included. *Shuttle transportation between hotel and…
New soldiers and sailors database available for U.S.-Mexican War
The Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Park Service’s Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park have collaborated on creating the U.S.-Mexican War Solider and Sailor database. This searchable database has information on over 88,000 U.S. and Mexican veterans. Records include personal details such as hair color and occupation. Volunteers from the Federation of Genealogical…
NYS Genealogical Death Index recently updated
The New York State Genealogical Research Death Index had been updated and now includes deaths up to Dec. 31, 1969. The index starts at 1957. However, the index does not includes deaths for the five boroughs of New York City. The index provides the date of death, gender, age at death, New York State file…
Volunteers needed for digitization event
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society is seeking volunteers to help at its next digitization day on Friday, Jan. 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the organization headquarters at 36 W. 44th Street in Manhattan. The NYG&B has been able to create digital records of thousands of documents thanks to the efforts…
Volunteers sought to index land records
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society is looking for volunteers to help index New York State land records. FamilySearch.org has digitized millions of original pages from county offices across New York State. The entire project is expected to take several more years. If you would like to index these records, you will need to…
‘Finding Your Roots’ returns in January
The PBS series “Finding Your Roots” with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will return with new episodes on Tuesday nights in January. Jan. 7 – Sterling K. Brown, Jon Batiste and Sasheer Zamata Jan. 14 – Queen Latifah and Jeffrey Wright Jan. 21 – Terry Gross, Marc Maron and Jeff Goldblum Jan. 28 – Sigourney Weaver,…