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U.S. Content Update: Alabama State Census & Returns from U.S. Military Posts
Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 The Alabama State Census was released a few days ago, becoming the second completed World Archives Project collection to be made available to the public. As with all completed World Archives Projects, the index is viewable free of charge! Thank you to the many contributors who keyed in the names, races… Read more
Military Records on Ancestry.com: Webinar
Every hero deserves to be found. Learn how to find yours in a free, one-hour webinar about our military records on May 19th, 8 P.M. Eastern Time. Three of our U.S. record specialists will walk you through our military records—the largest online collection of military records available—and show you what we have available for… Read more
Planning a Perfect Family Reunion: Webinar
Do you have a family reunion or get-together on the horizon? Looking for ideas on locations? Food? Activities that will engage everyone, young and old? We’re hosting a webinar this Thursday, May 14th, 8 P.M. Eastern Time, on how to plan the perfect family reunion. Guest speaker George Morgan, author of Your Family Reunion:… Read more
New German Records
German records have long been requested by our members. It is estimated that almost 1 in 6 Americans have German heritage. These records are very hard to acquire. Since they are hard to acquire we are particularly excited about a new very large collection featuring some more recent records from Germany. We just released today the German Phone Directories… Read more
New MyCanvas features: Layout switching, photo swapping, better panning
Last weekend I took my niece and nephew to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, UT. Since it was my first visit, I was trying to view the exhibits in a systematic fashion to make sure we didn’t miss anything. In the special Amazon exhibit, I spent five minutes trying to get my little niece… Read more
U.S. Content Update: WWI Draft Cards
Just a quick note to explain what was included in the update to World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. We added or repaired records and/or images for the following rolls: KENTUCKY Lexington City, Stalion, Carl – Z Lincoln County, A – Z Livingston County, A – K KENTUCKY Lexington City, C – Staley, George… Read more
Learn how to make family tree posters and more
Last night’s MyCanvas webinar, “Creative Gift Ideas for Moms, Dads & Grads,” included step-by-step demonstrations for creating family tree posters, photo family tree posters, photo books and graduation posters. If you missed the live presentation, you can view the archived version at your convenience. The first half of the presentation covers family history products (family… Read more
Working with text boxes in MyCanvas
In keeping with our “freedom of expression” philosophy, the MyCanvas publishing service provides many different tools for editing and manipulating text in a book, poster or calendar. We give you so many options that you may not be aware of some of them, even if you’re an experienced MyCanvas user. In MyCanvas you can: Position… Read more
Huge new content addition for more recent years
We are launching huge new content additions over the next few weeks. We are excited because it helps provide records from 1935 to today. We have great census and vital records from 1930 and before but more recent records are difficult to acquire. These new records are being provided in 4 major releases. First, we launched a 1940 census substitute. This… Read more
U.S. Content Update: 1880 Census Images, 1935-1945 City Directories, Improved Obituaries Collection & Iowa State Census Fix
Here’s a summary of today’s U.S. Content releases: 1880 U.S. Federal Census Over 99% of the 1,085,847 images were replaced today with higher quality images scanned from earlier generation microfilm. We’re looking closer at the images left to be replaced. In many cases, the improvement in quality is the difference between completely illegible to complete… Read more
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