Ever wanted to try out a genealogy website without making a year long commitment? Well right now, through to Saturday, January 25th, Findmypast is offering 25% off a variety of subscription packages!
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Big genealogy events tend to bring big genealogy announcements, and the one that was announced on Day 1 at Who Do You Think You Are? Live comes from Findmypast who launched their “Six Counties in Six Months” project. Starting with Wiltshire …
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Leading family history website, Findmypast, has just announced that their entire collection of birth, marriage, death (BDM) and census records will be completely free to search from 12-15 January! So what are you waiting for?
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The following is a press release from MyHeritage, dated 8 July 2015 with some VERY, VERY BIG...
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Have you ever had a query about your Ancestry subscription, or have a problem with your Family Tree Maker program? Ancestry’s customer support team are there to help, and here’s their contact details …
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FamilySearch, the world’s biggest website of genealogical data (which by the way is all FREE), celebrated their 15th birthday yesterday. Can you believe that it’s been around that long already?
Read More2 Companies, 5 Years and 1 Billion Genealogy Records. The big news that hit the genie world this week is the announcement that Ancestry.com and FamilySearch have come to an agreement to digitise over 1 billion records from FamilySearch’s Granite Mountain vaults, and genealogists worldwide are going to be the winners.
Read MoreThe world’s best genealogy website FamilySearch, has just added another 19 million, that’s right 19 M-I-L-L-I-O-N more indexed records and images to its free online searchable database. Austria, Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Italy, Ivory Coast, NZ, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, US, UK, Venezuela and Wales are all covered
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Have you heard of the BillionGraves Project? If you haven’t yet, you will soon … as they really are leading the way with a new way to photograph and transcribe cemetery headstones worldwide. And in doing so, it’s making millions of cemetery records readily available to the public.
Read MoreHow do I activate the free Ancestry subscription that came with Family Tree Maker? This is a question I get asked regularly, so felt that it will be useful to put it as a blog post …
Read MoreWe’re not quite at the end of the month, yet July has been a has been a BIG, BIG month for new genealogy records online, particularly with the big players in the field. Military records, Wills, Business records, Convicts, Civil Registrations, Parish Registers, Directories, and Cemetery records
Read MoreNews just in is that the NSW Registry has removed the wildcard search facility from the their interenet index search. This is bad news for all researchers, which of course includes family historians. Ann could be listed as Ann, Anne or Annie. With the wildcard the search provided a search for Ann* and it would bring up all possibilties …
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