Gena Philibert Ortega's Blog – June 2012 Archive (9)

Cutting-edge search engine powers breakthrough discoveries, adds color to family history and establishes the popular family network as a leading player in the historical content market

PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – June 25, 2012: MyHeritage, the most popular family network on the web, today announced the official launch of SuperSearch, a powerful new family history search engine for helping families around the…

Growing Need for International Indexers

18 June 2012

PROVO, Utah & LONDON & TEL AVIV, Israel – June 11, 2012:…

PROVO, UTAH – (June 6, 2012) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, has announced an exclusive offer for New Yorkers to jump start their family history research.  Starting today, a valuable select group of record collections, provided through a partnership with the New York State Archives and Library, are now available free to New York state residents at…

SFgenealogy is excited to announce a new major database available online:

• San Francisco Colma Cemetery Index
  
  http://www.sfgenealogy.com/php/cemetery/cemeteryindex.php

The database currently includes over 305,000 burial records for the Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma (1887-2001). In the future, other…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Paula Hinkel - Southern California Genealogy Jamboree



We're making the last big reveal leading up to this weekend's Genealogy Jamboree.



In keeping with SCGS's tradition of delivering exceptional genealogical education over the Internet, we are proud to announce that the 2012 Genealogy Jamboree will offer ten streamed sessions over two days,…

ROYAL HOUSEHOLD STAFF RECORDS GO ONLINE FOR THE FIRST TIME

• Discover who served Britain’s Kings and Queens from King Charles II to King George V, at findmypast.co.uk
• ‘Chocolate Maker to the Queen’, ‘Keeper of the Lions in the Tower’ and ‘Moletaker’ among some of the most extraordinary roles

Have you ever wondered who works in a Royal Household, or whether you might have a…

In April 2012 the Guild of One-Name Studies published "Seven Pillars of Wisdom: The Art of One-Name Studies" as a guide to the running of a one-name study. The book is a collection of helpful advice and information gathered from the Guild Wiki, and was published immediately before the Guild’s 2012 Conference in order to complement its "Seven Pillars" theme. Copies…

Fold3 will be opening up all of their War of 1812 records to the public for free during June. This is in commemoration of the 200^thanniversary of the commencement of the war. The collection consists of more than 400,000 images including 233,000 images from the War of 1812 Pension Files never before available online. The following databases provided for free included:

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