From The Geni Blog
Update 7:00 PM Pacific: We're back.We're taking Geni.com down for a few minutes for some maintenance.…
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Ancient Ancestry Finder™ - FREE best guess at your ancient origins.
From Ancestry.com Blog
Now members and visitors to Ancestry.com DNA can take a quick and fun quiz to discover our prediction of your ancient ancestors.…
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We’ll Be Right Back After A Short Break
From The Geni Blog
We're taking Geni.com down for a few minutes for some maintenance. Total downtime should be less than ten minutes.…
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How many billions of records are on Ancestry.com?
From Ancestry.com Blog
The size of Ancestry.com’s record collection is a fascinating topic. As of June 2009, subscribers to Ancestry.…
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Conference On Return Of Jewish Assets Starts In Prague
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel last Friday expressed anger at the opening of an international conference in Prague at the failure to ensure restitution of…
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Americans Seek Their African Roots
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
First it was Oprah Winfrey's wistful reach for the continent, now other prominent African Americans are finding their roots.…
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Ancestry.com Launches ‘My Story’ Advertising Campaign
From Ancestry.com Blog
Today we are excited to announce the launch of our new “My Story” advertising campaign, which highlights five of our customers and their incredible family…
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Happy Anniversary: Ancestry World Archives Project marks its one year anniversary
From Ancestry.com Blog
Happy 1st Anniversary World Archives Project!
We began the beta portion of the project in June of 2008, since then we have had a wonderful response from many of you including…
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NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
NASA is taking the rare step of reaching out to the public for help.…
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Anger After 20 Graves Vandalised In Blaenau Ffestiniog (North Wales) Cimetery
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
Families and community leaders have reacted angrily after up to 20 graves were vandalised at a cemetery.…
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Gale Launches Archival Slavery Reference Source
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
Gale (www.gale.com), a part of Cengage Learning (www.cengage.…
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Poland to Rebury German Civilians Found in WWII Mass Grave
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
Polish authorities will rebury the remains of more than 2,100 people, mostly German civilians, recently exhumed from a World War II mass grave found in northeastern…
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Wimbledon Fans Park In Graveyard
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
St Mary's Church in Wimbledon Village, south-west London had been charging £20 a day to park in its cemetery. The money goes to three charities.…
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Language Change Can Be Traced Using Gigantic Text Archives
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
Historical collections that include everything ever written in a dozen American and British newspapers since they started are now available electronically.…
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Scheduled Maintenance
From The Geni Blog
Update 9:40 PM Pacific: Geni.com is back online.We'll be taking Geni.com down for about 30 minutes tonight, starting at 9:00 PM Pacific.…
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Get help from experts at Expert Connect
From Ancestry.com Blog
We have just launched the beta version of a new service called Expert Connect. This new service connects Ancestry.…
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Decades-Old Letter Found In Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Wall
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
For decades, it was a secret encased in brick and plaster, undetected by the thousands who passed by each year.…
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The Kansas Historical Society Has Been Awarded Funding To Participate In The National Digital Newspaper Program
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
The Kansas Historical Society has been awarded funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program.…
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Coming soon: enhancements to the ancestry.com image page
From Ancestry.com Blog
We have been working on a few enhancements for the image page to make it easier for you to read what is on the page, and then to add your own knowledge about your ancestors to…
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Free webinar: “Genetic Genealogy Made Easy”: Wed., July 8, at 8 PM EST.
From Ancestry.com Blog
On Wednesday, July 8 at 8 PM, we’ll introduce family historians to the basics of DNA testing for genealogy.…
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ArchivePress: A New Project To Explore Practical Issues Around The Archiving Of Weblog Content
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
ArchivePress is a blog-archiving project being undertaken by the University of London Computer Centre and the British Library Digital Preservation department, funded by the…
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Baby Names: Parker, Broderick Go Old-Fashioned
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick dug into their family roots for the names of their twin daughters.…
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Ten New Family Trees Have Been Added to FamilyTreeTemplates.net
From Genealogy Blog : Genealogy News
Ten new family trees have been added to the Web site FamilyTreeTemplates.net.…
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Scheduled Maintenance
From The Geni Blog
We'll be taking Geni.com down for about 30 minutes tonight, starting at 9:00 PM Pacific. Updates will be posted here.…
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FamilySearch Alpha Design Concepts - Hot off the Press
From FamilySearch Labs Blog
We’ve been working to refine the designs of the FamilySearch Alpha project.…