Archives for May, 2013

More from the UK


Update: We have released the review image sets for the Children’s Employment Commission- Appendix to the Second Report of the Commissioners 1842.  We have updated the instructions and examples for the Clergy List 1897 project – please note the changes to the Residence Location field helps.   Today we have two new projects with a […]

New Project


For some reason I can’t seem to get the idea of cheese out of my mind any time the Cheddar Rate Book project is brought up!  (Yes, the name for cheddar cheese did originate from Cheddar, you can read about it here.)  I believe this may be the smallest project we have launched to date – […]

The impact of a few hours time.


Last week I was in Las Vegas at the National Genealogical Society Annual Conference.  While there we assist with searches, share tips about using Ancestry, and talk to many, many researchers.  In one such conversation with Michael Brenner, a past President of the Southern Nevada Jewish Genealogical Society, I asked him if he was familiar […]

New Projects!


Today brings us 3 new projects, North Carolina, Native American Census, Selected Tribes, 1894-1913, Newport Pagnell Vaccination Register 1909-1927 and U.S., Album of Criminals, 1906.  These projects are all smaller with only 1000 image sets between them. The North Carolina, Native American Census, Selected Tribes, 1894-1913 collection contains census books enumerating Cherokee Indians residing in communities and counties within the Cherokee […]