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…
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…