Notable Registrants of the World War I Draft
Monday April 30, 2007
Over 24 million American young men, born between about 1872 and 1900, registered for the draft throughout 1917 and 1918. These WWI draft registration cards reveal interesting details about these ... Read More
Free On Ancestry Shut Down
Saturday April 28, 2007
The popular Web site FreeOnAncestry.com is no more - reportedly shut down at the request of The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com. The issue appears to be the domain ... Read More
Veterans Win Right to Post Wiccan Symbol on Headstones
Tuesday April 24, 2007
The Department of Veterans' Affairs has agreed to add the Wiccan pentacle to the list of approved religious symbols that it will engrave on veterans' headstones. This followed Friday's settlement ... Read More
1819-1820 Passenger Lists Free at GenealogyBank
Saturday April 21, 2007
GenealogyBank.com has posted the complete "List of Passengers who arrived in the U.S. from 1st October 1819 to 30th September 1820" free and online at www.genealogybank.com. It is an exact ... Read More
The Busiest Day at Ellis Island
Tuesday April 17, 2007
April 17, 1907 was a landmark day in American immigration, marking the busiest day at Ellis Island, where over 11,747 individuals were processed by immigration officials through the famed receiving ... Read More
Remembering the Holocaust
Monday April 16, 2007
April 16 is Yom Hashoah, otherwise known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Take time out today to remember and learn about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Genealogy - Databases, registries, ... Read More
The Passengers of the Titanic
Sunday April 15, 2007
It's been 95 years since the majestic steamliner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank between the icy waters of the North Atlantic in the wee hours of April 15, ... Read More
Australian WWI Records Online
Thursday April 12, 2007
As "a gift to the nation," the National Archives of Australia has put its World War I service records online. This includes more than 376,000 records - 12.3 million pages ... Read More
Try Your Hand at FamilySearch Indexing
Thursday April 12, 2007
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the process of digitizing the bulk of their records as part of a project dubbed ScanStone. This will eventually make ... Read More
The DNA Stalking Debate
Monday April 9, 2007
Last week's post about the article about DNA stalking in The New York Times has prompted some interesting debate over the lengths people can/do/should go to to trace their family ... Read More
Tomb Sweeping Day
Thursday April 5, 2007
Each year, the Chinese set aside one special day dedicated to the commemoration of their deceased ancestors. Known as the Qingming festival, or "tomb sweeping day," this neat (no pun ... Read More
New Decade of UK Outbound Passenger Lists Added to AncestorsOnBoard
Thursday April 5, 2007
Another decade of passenger lists from ships leaving the UK between 1910 and 1919 is available for online research at AncestorsOnBoard.com. This brings the total number of passenger lists to ... Read More
Canadian Border Crossing Records Added to Ancestry.ca
Thursday April 5, 2007
More than 4 million names of individuals who crossed the U.S. - Canadian border between 1895 and 1956 are now available for searching at Ancestry.ca. The Canadian Border Crossings Collection ... Read More
Ancestry.com & the FHL Redux
Wednesday April 4, 2007
On April 1, free access to Ancestry.com's databases was severly curtailed at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and over 2,000 satellite Family History Centers after the Church ... Read More
Stalking Strangers for Their DNA
Monday April 2, 2007
I'm a fan of DNA testing for ancestry, but this was a new one on me. An article by Amy Harmon in today's New York Times describes genealogists and adoptees ... Read More
Genealogy Video Contest
Monday April 2, 2007
Roots Television is expanding, with new channels and the ability to upload your own videos. The rapidly growing service offers 20 channels of shows for genealogy enthusiasts - all available ... Read More
Don't We Wish ...
Sunday April 1, 2007
Mike Gould on the Bristol & Somerset genealogy list at RootsWeb posted a funny April Fools "gotcha" with just enough plausibility to reel in many a hopeful genealogist.
"Viewers of the ... Read More

