Latest News, Upcoming Conferences



  Maximizing Ancestry.com" Radnor Library, Wayne, PA, Wednesday March 12th from 1:00 to 3:00

Learn how to navigate this valuable internet site and discover all the resources and information that it contains for family research. Sydney Dixon, a professional genealogist, will give a two part lecture series on this popular genealogy platform.  In the first lecture, she will focus on the basic search and education functions of the website. In the second lecture she will teach you how to maximize the sites resources through advanced search techniques and collaborating with other members. Radnor Memorial Library is located at 114 West Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087.

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  NGS is pleased to announce the program for the 2014 Family History Conference is now available at
http://goo.gl/KwHTix. The online version of the program is also available on the conference website at conference.ngsgenealogy.org. Conference registration opens on 1 December 2013 at
http://conference.ngsgenealogy.org/event-registration/.  A number of special events have limited seating, so register on 1 December or as soon as possible thereafter if you plan to attend these events. It is to be held in Richmond, VA.

 

Check out other Upcoming local conferences HERE

Library of Congress: Web Archives Collection has a new Presentation Home page! Click here

FREE Online Genealogy Magazine

  Read article "Are You a GOOD Genealogist or an Educated Genealogist?
  Learn about "Evidence Explained"

   BIG NEWS~! The Pennsylvania State Archives has recently signed a contract with Ancestry.com to have the original state birth and death certificates that are now open records scanned and data extracted. The contract gives exclusive online access to Ancestry for three years after which the database will be moved to the Pennsylvania State Archives website where it will be free to all. Unfortunately access to the records while they are on Ancestry will require having a subscription to Ancestry. However, the contract does require that Pennsylvania residents have free access to this particular database. How that will be accomplished has not been worked out and they are open to suggestions as to how all Pennsylvania residents and only Pennsylvania residents could have access.

While we would have very much preferred that the records be made available online for free to all immediately rather than after three years it is still much better than what we have been dealing with for over 100 years. Ancestry was apparently able to make the best deal for the Archives and the records will eventually be available online to all at no cost to the taxpayer.

For more on this please see When Will The Records Be Available Online? under Frequently Asked Questions on our website: www.pahr-access.org. Thank you for all your help. Tim Gruber (PaHR-Access Spokesperson)

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  Free eBooks for Genealogy Research

eBooks — or electronic books — exist  in a variety of digital formats and can be read on your computer, smart phone, or eReader (Kindle,  Nook, iPad, etc.). Different eReaders utilize different digital formats, but, in most cases, an eBook can be converted  to work on your device by using calibre-ebook.com.

A number of websites offer free eBooks — generally  out-of-copyright books or works made available by their authors. Categories of  particular interest to the family historian are family genealogies, compendiums of genealogical facts  (such as military records), directories, and local histories.

Sources of free eBooks for genealogical research:

FREE GENEALOGY BOOKS

 Family History Books is a collection of over 40,000 books made available by FamilySearch. All books  on this site are free and relate to genealogy.
Google Books is provided by Google. This site contains literally  millions of books. After you enter your search terms, you can limit your search  to free books by clicking “Free Google eBooks” halfway down the left side of  the page. Further down the column, you can also select a custom date range, or choose a 19th, 20th, or 21st century search.

The non-profit Internet Archive offers a wide range  of volumes. To limit a search to books, select “Texts” from the drop-down  menu labeled “All Media Types.” 
Thanks to NEGHS for this article.
The National Archives has added online genealogical presentations HERE.

NEW!~ Autosomal DNA testing: Familytreedna.com and 23andme.com now offer AUTOSOMAL DNA, which tests your DNA for EVERY LINE for about five generations. Read more about it HERE. ALSO:  The Genealogical Society of Ireland published a newsletter detailing the various aspects of A new project – copies of the ‘Irish DNA Atlas Project Newsletter’ are available from the Society’s stand at the RDS (Stand 52A) or on-line at www.familyhistory.ie (Thanks to Dick Eastman for this tip)


Dick Eastman's FREE Genealogy Newsletter

  Check out the great programs at Genealogical Society of PA
Check out a video on DNA ancestor matching

Griffiths Evaluation now online at: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

GREAT Way to find out changing U. S. county boundaries! The following announcement was written by the Newberry Library:

The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the completion and release of its Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, a dataset that covers every day-to-day change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2000.

 Irish Church Records Online - FREE!

An 1895 marriage record for William McGushion and Dora Davis in St. Peter's Parish, Dublin, Ireland. From Irish Genealogy (www.irishgenealogy.ie)Irish Genealogy, hosted by the Ireland Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, has added a large number of new church records of baptism, marriage and death to their free Web site. This brings the total to over 2 million church records from Dublin City and counties Kerry and Carlow, plus a subset from Roman Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Cork & Ross. These records include transcriptions and, in many cases, digitized images of the original records (though these are not yet available for all online records) taken from Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland parishes, as well as a small number of Presbyterian records relating to a congregation in Lucan. Best of all, these Irish church records can be accessed online completely free of charge.

Project work is ongoing to complete the computerization and digitization of the remaining Roman Catholic records for Dublin City and the Diocese of Cork and Ross, which encompasses Cork City and all of the parishes in West Cork. The intent is to have the rest of the project completed and available online by the end of 2010.

View the church records online for free at Irish Genealogy, learn more about how to research your Irish ancestors, or view more Irish genealogy databases in 15 Top Web Sites for Researching Irish Ancestors.

   ANCESTRY MAGAZINE is now available FREE on Google Books!

Browse Ancestry issues ranging from January 2004 through February 2009 and catch up on your family history reading. 

Chronicling America Helps You Find Even More Old Newspapers

 We’re big fans of the Library of Congress’ ChroniclingAmerica site, where you can both searchdigitized newspapers published in 11 states and Washington, DC, between 1880 and1922, and search directory of historical newspaper titles by date and place.


    GREAT NEW WAY to work online with your COUSINS!
Users can upload GEDCOM files, upload and annotate scanned documents and photos, share family stories and biographies, and generate maps of ancestors' life events.

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DID YOU KNOW?
 Do you know about the Genealogy Encyclopedia? It is like Wikipedia in that you can add information to it. Read more at: http://www.eogen.com/
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