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If you’re looking for your German ancestors, no doubt you’ll jump online to see what you can find. So let’s take a look at what German records the big name genealogy sites have … Continue reading → If you’re looking for your German ancestors, no doubt you’ll jump online to see what you can find. So let’s take a look at what German records the big name genealogy sites have … Continue reading → FamilySearch Adds 7.6 Million Records Online
FamilySearch have have just added over 7.6 million new records online, including new ones from Australia, New Zealand, and a big lot from The Netherlands. And remember they are all FREE! Continue reading → FREE Access to 70 Million Military Records for Remembrance Day
Findmypast are making their entire collection of more than 70 million world military records free for four days to coincide with Remembrance Day 2016. Continue reading → Free Access to All of Findmypast’s Military Records – 27 June to 4 July
Findmypast has announced that are making their entire collection of military records (65 million of them) free for eight days to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. Continue reading → FamilySearch Shutdown and Upgrade
FamilySearch have announced a major update with an outage starting from 27th June, 12 midnight MDT (US time) and may be out for up to 24 hours Continue reading → 100 Million Dutch Records Added to Ancestry
For those with Dutch roots here’s some major, huge news for you. The Netherlands Centre for Family History holds an enormous collection of records which has only previously been accessible within the Netherlands. Thanks for an agreement with Ancestry, everyone worldwide will have access to over 100 million Dutch records from their own home. The […] Continue reading → 8 Features of FamilySearch You’re Probably Not Using
FamilySearch is the world’s biggest non-commercial genealogy website, playing host to billions of records. But do you look beyond the records? Here are just 8 other facets to the FamilySearch website that you should know about and use. Continue reading → Search 10 Million Irish Catholic Parish Records for Free!
If you have Irish ancestry, this is the event that you’ve been waiting for. The release of the Irish Catholic Parish Records. Online. With images. And indexed! These records cover Irish history from the 1670s through until 1900, and contain 40 million names, from over 1000 parishes across all 32 counties of Ireland There’s no […] Continue reading → MyHeritage Uploads 46 Million Swedish Household Records
I’ll admit that this isn’t “hot-off-the-press” news. Still it is possible that some missed the accouncement a couple of months ago, so I still wanted to share, because for those with Swedish ancestry it really is HUGE news. In a press release from MyHeritage.com’s Chief Genealogist Officer and Translation Manager, Daniel Horowitz, announced indexed, searchable […] Continue reading → Ancestry’s WW1 Military Records are FREE until Remembrance Day
Take advantage of Ancestry’s offer of searching all of their WW1 records for FREE up until Remembrance Day, 11 November 2015. Continue reading → Free Access to Ancestry’s Immigration Records (2-5 October)
Findmypast had a free records weekend recently, and now it’s Ancestry’s turn, and they’re offering ALL of their immigration records free for everyone to use from 2-5 October, which at least for some Australian states, is a long weekend. So this is perfect timing! While this is only a portion of their records, there’s a […] Continue reading → Findmypast is FREE All Weekend (18-21 September 2015)!
Cancel all of your plans this weekend, and get ready for a full-on genealogy-fest as Findmypast have just announced that they are giving you FREE access to ALL of their records, all this weekend (18-21 September 2015). That’s over 4 billion records that you can search for free. Findmypast has announced that this weekend, they […] Continue reading → One Million World War II POW Records Now Online
Last week Findmypast published details of one million records of service men, women and civilians who were taken captive as POWs during World War II are published online for the first time. The publication, in association with The National Archives, marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II on all fronts on […] Continue reading → 