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Re: Books - digital free access

bluemesa159 — 2013-04-05 17:30:23Z

Another great FREE source is http://openlibrary.org

I've found dozens & dozens of older (mid 1800s) Vital Records books out there.

Re: Illinois WW1 Draft Cards on Ancestry.com!

zangj1111 — 2013-03-28 15:28:44Z

familysearch.org is listing the draft cards, you can volunteer your time and they will triple check your accuracy

Family Trees & Genealogies

TonyDiNobile — 2013-03-10 21:07:27Z

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Familiy-Trees-Genealogies/616...

This Page Is For Those Who Already Enjoy Looking Into Their Family History(Genealogy) And Those Who Would Be Interested In Doing So.

cemeteries on line.

jean11894 — 2013-02-26 08:56:51Z

www.deceasedonline.com

I have found a great many of my ancestors burial information and locations from this site.

Useful website

goureebeg — 2013-02-24 07:10:47Z

This site www.BMDnotices.com may well help in family searches especially the Census section for 1901 and 1911 in Ireland. Remembrance Garden pages too are FREE if you wish to use.

mennonite genealogy search engine

pennermi1 — 2013-02-15 07:34:09Z

I've created a free search engine for Mennonite genealogy. It indexes Mennonite obituaries, censuses, immigration, cemetery, and such from relevant sites across the web.

It was launched last month. It's called MennoTree. Its at http://mennotree.com

It contains both Prussian/Russian and Swiss Mennonite lineages, but there seems to be much more available on the Prussian/Russian side.

Hoping for feedback.

Thanks,
Michael Penner

Re: Statistical Atlas of the Ninth US Census

dsmith3733 — 2013-01-26 09:19:55Z

Thank you for posting this. I've only spent a few minutes looking at it so far, but it looks fascinating and I look forward to browsing through it.
DeeAnn

Re: Ingeneas.com

genit1 — 2013-01-15 15:21:47Z

Thank you!

Re: Ingeneas.com

Hopeful_Helper — 2013-01-15 15:19:14Z

From Library and Archives Canada (www.collectionscanada.gc.ca) -

inGeneas
Organization:
inGeneas
Description:
The inGeneas Database contains Canadian passenger and immigration records for the period 1748 to 1903. This information is extracted from various sources such as census records, loyalist lists, lists of settlers, etc.
Subject:
Resource centre, Web site

Scope
Country:
Canada

Contact Information
URL:
http://www.ingeneas.com/
Address:
Box 38010, 1430 Prince of Wales Drive, OTTAWA, ON K2C 3Y7
Email:
contact@inGeneas.com
Language:
English

I couldn't load the page. Might be down for maintenance or could have been withdrawn from use.

HH

Re: Ingeneas.com

genit1 — 2013-01-15 14:15:55Z

Really a good answer!

Re: Ingeneas.com

O_Lorelei — 2013-01-15 14:04:01Z

never heard of this website,
wheredid you find it.

Ingeneas.com

genit1 — 2013-01-15 11:19:02Z

Is this website closed - Ingeneas.com?

Re: "Cyprus Family History & Genealogical Group" on Facebook Groups

janetsale60 — 2013-01-14 18:14:19Z

Dear Anthony,
I know this is a different slant on your request for help with cyprus genealogy but here goes-.
We wouldn't even pretend to know about records for cypriots but it is my husband that runs the web site www.gravestonephotos.com and we live in Limassol
Have a look and if you think we can help with anything please get in touch.
Janet Sale

Keyes, North, Cruzen - Millard Stipes, 1914

Ben_Stipes — 2012-12-28 17:02:12Z

Does anyone have an original copy of the above book? The full title is "Genealogy and History of the related Keyes, North, and Cruzen Families with a sketch of the Early Norths of England". I'm trying to locate/document family "margin notes" from the original generation and descendants who received the book and may have added Birth/marriage/death or other family data as the book was passed down through the generations.

Original books located to date have green cover and a publication date of 1914. Millard published the book himself in Jamesport, MO

Also - does anyone know the total number of copies Millard published?

If you are unfamiliar with the book...It is available at no cost in the Brigham Young Library digital collection at:

http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/

My family line is through John Daniel Stipes - Page 293 in Millard's book. He and family moved from Harpers Ferry, WV to Slater, MO about 1875) Also searching any Connection with Stipes or Stipe of Harpers Ferry, WV or Missouri.

Thanks for any help or information.

"Cyprus Family History & Genealogical Group" on Facebook Groups

kypreo6 — 2012-11-28 14:55:01Z

Hi everyone,

I have just recently created a Cyprus Family History & Genealogical Group, with the aim of helping researchers to identify what genealogical resources exist in Cyprus. For those, who are resident in Cyprus, and are keenly interested in history and genealogical research, and who would like to volunteer to help transcribe records and identify what records exist for their local parishes/town/village please feel free to pop an email through. You will need a good working knowledge of Greek and English.

As you would know, the district registries, can often be very difficult to obtain information about what sources/what birth/death books still exist in their collections or indeed in even replying to emails/letters/or telephone calls. This rarely happens.

As such, with the collaboration of others, we would be able to find out what records still exist, and or help transcribe local older records which are often in a bad state before they are completely ravished by the effects of time.

If anyone is interested in helping to form a Genealogical Society for Cyprus, or indeed in volunteering to help create a database of records/sources for Cyprus, please feel free to contact me or visit the Facebook group:

"Cyprus Family History & Genealogical Group."

Kind Regards,

Anthony

Re: what are some research websites or databases?

ClarkeWolfe — 2012-11-27 18:12:15Z

You can use Heritage Quest Online for Free. I just found the site. However you must have a local library card. Then where the site says Access from home, click that area and enter the letters and numbers under the bar code on the card.
Hope I have helped you.

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness is back!

jackhonour — 2012-05-25 20:56:50Z

I've just seen that after a long closure, the website is back. Http://raogk.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Acts_of_Genealogical_Kind... . It has all the volunteers on but the email addresses have been lost so currently very few are linked up. If you ever volunteered, or have had contact with somebody else who did, get in touch with them so they can relink your email address up again.

So it is very much a work in progress - I noticed there are no links to the England page yet and even when you find it through search, the first page doesn't load but it's back, take a look!

Jack

Help Offered.... Free :-)

JPWhitelam — 2012-05-15 00:13:54Z

Hi,

I'm in the process of setting up a website offering to help family history researchers and those looking for relatives they've lost touch with in England.

If you know of anyone who might want some help please pass this link on.. it's free, it can't do any harm to ask :-)

https://sites.google.com/site/ukfamilytracer/

Thanks

JPW

Find that village

tedduxbury7 — 2012-03-05 19:43:35Z

Check out this site for maps from the middle 1800s and lots more info

http://www.british-history.ac.uk

Re: "Find A Grave" a great resource for genealogists!

christopherdavis3 — 2012-02-20 08:02:08Z

We just reached 14,000 photos on our family tree project. I'd say about 20% of it is from collaboration with volunteers from Findagrave. So much progress can be made from the help of the larger community. Excellent stuff. I agree Margie!

Re: what are some research websites or databases?

MichelleJM88 — 2012-02-17 15:40:04Z

ok great to know thanks!!

Re: what are some research websites or databases?

srmckissick1 — 2012-02-17 04:20:08Z

http://www.findagrave.com/
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Main_Page

I use these 2 a lot! But be careful on Find A Grave, you never know if some people purposely put fake crap on there. Everything I have found on my family has been accurate, though.
I imagine they do that on WeRelate too but I haven't heard complaints

Re: Automated Genealogy issues

border_reiver1 — 2012-01-23 13:20:53Z

I have a problem with their transcripts of the 1911 census in that although it says 100% complete there seems to be stuff missing. Looking for surname Thirlwell gives few good hits but on Ancestry there are more. I only have a UK Ancestry sub so can't see the details of the Canada entries, though I still haven't found the expected individuals.

Statistical Atlas of the Ninth US Census

tuta23 — 2012-01-13 13:12:54Z

I thought this may be of some interest to one or a thousand of you guys...

I also couldn't find it previously linked to either.

http://www.radicalcartography.net/index.html?9thcensus

Re: what are some research websites or databases?

Hopeful_Helper — 2012-01-13 13:12:25Z

Also look at family history society websites, government archives, local and state libraries.

HH

Re: what are some research websites or databases?

MichelleJM88 — 2012-01-12 03:26:21Z

Thank you so much!! i'll check them out.

Re: what are some research websites or databases?

LHSwisher — 2012-01-12 03:22:27Z

Visit Cyndi's List http://www.cyndislist.com and you'll find links to hundreds of thousands of sites. Or Linkpendium. Or the US GenWeb site, any of the state GenWeb sites, or any of the county GenWeb sites, or RootsWeb.

what are some research websites or databases?

MichelleJM88 — 2012-01-12 02:27:12Z

i used to have a list of website where i could search family history. However i don't have it anymore, does anyone know any other sites other than ancestry.com, archives.com,or familysearch.org,?

Start With What You Know!

jela1966 — 2012-01-05 13:31:52Z

I have begun a blog series of tips on genealogy based on 35 years of doing family history. Tip #1: Start With What You Know! To read the entire post, see my blog: http://dayreturn.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/the-tree-tips-for-...

Best,
James LaForest

Castle Garden Unsafe?

BrklynBridge — 2012-01-02 15:47:06Z

Attempting to do some research at Castle Garden, I was presented with a Google-generated warning that the URL is now listed ( http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost... ) as a "Reported Attack Page!". A simple Google search for "Castle Garden" will confirm that listing.

My Norton "Safe Search" says otherwise but I thought I'd post this info here for consideration/comment.

Re: free genealogy sites

paula555 — 2011-12-27 18:15:08Z

The Genealogy & History Library Links website has links to a lot of good websites for researching.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genealogyl...

Re: Does anyone know of FREE genealogy sites?

paula555 — 2011-12-27 18:06:28Z

This site has a lot of good links to follow. I keep coming back to it again and again.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genealogyl...

Re: Free searches on Families all names states of Virginia and West virginia

Ssissy9541 — 2011-12-13 22:25:37Z

This is a great site!!! I only wish other states had the same access to this much needed information. Keep up the great work! Vickie

Relatives in Russia Site

anytabenko — 2011-10-21 01:35:05Z

If you have any distant relatives who lived in Russia and would have served in WWII, there's a great site to look them up. It only shows soldiers who have served and were either lost without a trace or killed.

However, they have scanned original copies of the records which show where & when the person was born, lists one close family member and an address for that family member.

Could be a useful clue for some: www.obd-memorial.ru

A great forum for family with Russian roots: www.vgd.ru

Re: Semantic MedaWiki for genealogy? (and rodovid vs. wikitree)

gimozardo — 2011-09-28 17:46:50Z

so i asked google the difference between rodovid and wikitree, so... here i am!!!

I supose we will have to learn more about mediawiki, and publish on both systems to see and discover any difference. There's no answer about this yet. So... it seems that family's history is less popular than justin bieber.

Re: Question about www.rootsireland

jamesphughes — 2011-08-26 20:00:19Z

Ireland, as I understand, does not have many records available for free. I found a "record" of my grandparents marriage on the site but haven't decided to pay as I have heard that you don't always get a copy of a document but what is on the index. I have the ancestry Deluxe membership and they don't have the record. I even signed up for ancestry.co.uk about 2 years ago and it wasn't there either.

Question about www.rootsireland

carney412 — 2011-08-10 19:28:29Z

The website www.rootsireland has 18 million Irish records online. It is free to search, but they charge to see individual records. Does anyone know if this information is offered elsewhere (or on Ancestry.com) for free? I am looking for Irish birth, death and marriage certificates. Thanks.

Re: "Find A Grave" a great resource for genealogists!

fizzbomb — 2011-08-05 17:31:35Z

The photos ON my computer are either
a.) scans of the family photos I inherited from my mother;
or
b.) photos that I photographed myself on my camera, i.e. my creation and property.
Ergo, I do not need permission.

I thought you, and other readers, might like to know that copying photos without the photographers' permission is
a.) illegal, otherwise known as copyright infringement;
b.) prohibited by Ancestry's policy;
and
c.) prohibited by Find A Grave's policy.

What made me a cop was finding MY creations copied illegally, immorally and unethically without my permission onto Ancestry family trees. I have to do my own "policing" because people do not use the common courtesy they were taught as children: Ask before using someone's property.

Re: "Find A Grave" a great resource for genealogists!

MargieVarner44 — 2011-08-05 16:09:45Z

I saw a previous posting by you saying you have some photos in your computer!!Did you get permission? Who made you a cop???

Re: "Find A Grave" a great resource for genealogists!

fizzbomb — 2011-08-05 15:31:36Z

However, please remember the grave photographs on Find A Grave belong to the submitter/photographer. If you want to use them elsewhere, even on your own computer, you need written permission. Ancestry.com's Content Submission Agreement specifically states that you MUST NOT post items that do not belong to you without permission.

Re: New Irish Websites on IGP

gmlynch15 — 2011-08-03 07:01:47Z

Hi,
I just stumbled upon your entry. I look forward to checking out your website. Thanks for posting.

Regards, Ginny

Re: free genealogy sites

LHSwisher — 2011-06-15 13:51:16Z

Yes, there are some free sites. Just as on Ancestry.com, years covered may be limited. Many times this is not under Ancestry's control, but under the governmental entity that controls access to the record.

You don't say where you are located. FamilySearch.org is the biggest free site. RootsWeb is free. It's now run by Ancestry, but anything posted there is still free to access.

If you're in the US, check the GenWeb sites for the states or counties you're researching. Just Google "GenWeb" + (whatever state or county you want). Some GenWeb sites have a great deal of information; other sites have comparatively little.

If you're in the US, see if your local library provides Ancestry Library Edition, Heritage Quest or other databases. If so, it's free and all you need is a library card. Or see if a library in the area you're researching has any online databases that you can access.

www.deathindexes.com lists all the US states and tells what online death records exist on a state or county level. The site tells you if it's free or fee-based. A link near the bottom of that site says "Genealogy Records and Resources." That leads to links of other types of online records. Again, the site tells if the link is fee-based.

Automated Genealogy issues

smithshr — 2011-06-07 12:00:03Z

Is anyone having trouble with automated genealogy's 1911 census and the chat board? I signed up, was accepted, and can't seem to log back in - it appears as a message that 308,000 is enough members? Can't access 1911 census anymore either, what's up with this? It use to work?!

Thanks

genealogy.doun.org website

belzein — 2011-06-06 13:50:05Z

Hi,
I was browsing the transcription archive held at the genealogy.doun.org website and notices the last entry in the 'news' tab was from 2005. Does anyone know if this is continuing to be updated or has it been abandoned? or moved?
Many thanks,
Bana

Re: Unable to access autmatedgenealogy.com

cj_field — 2011-06-01 02:28:14Z

I've checked out the site and it's working perfectly. If you look at your subject line, you're missing an "o" in the web address. It is "automatedgenealogy.com" not "autmatedgenealogy.com".

Cheers CJ

Re: Unable to access autmatedgenealogy.com

GraceWeldon21 — 2011-05-31 17:18:08Z

Had a message on another board and thought I'd pass this along:
....... the person who looks after the automatedgenealogy site is sailing in Australia and won't be back until after the 15 June.

"Find A Grave" a great resource for genealogists!

MargieVarner44 — 2011-05-31 13:16:50Z

I remember when I was first getting started in genealogy, my neighbor who got me into it, was spending a lot of money going to different cemetaries and walking them to get info. Time consuming and costly. On "Find A Grave" you can search and imput your family if need be. I do bios on mine and relative links too. So if you know where your family are buried it is easy to add them. I have found this a valuable tool.If you find a relative and want a photo of the grave, you can request one. There are so many people there who will do it for you at no cost. Please pass this on to your fellow genealogists!!

Automated Genealogy Census Site

alreadydid3 — 2011-05-30 20:52:48Z

I've been trying to access the site for two weeks and all I get is...
Unable to open connection to database, please wait a minute or two and try again.

User lpatten@localhost has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections

It says to contact for help on their message boards but all I get trying to go there is...
phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Is everyone having this problem or is it something on my end? And/or does anyone know how to contact the people who run the site?

Re: Unable to access autmatedgenealogy.com

GraceWeldon21 — 2011-05-28 05:15:51Z

Stella,
Thanks for the reply, how disappointing this is. I did the same as you, tried to find a contact with the same results. Can only hope that this is temporary.

Re: Unable to access autmatedgenealogy.com

sstanger1 — 2011-05-27 23:02:09Z

Hi, Automated Genealogy has been down for 3 -4 perhaps more - days. No one appears to know what has happened - When it will be available. I have done a Google Search -for contact information - with 0 results/contact.
Don't know who is/was the administrator/s of the site.

May be a Wait and See situation - for now.
Many people on Message Boards and Mail Lists - have commented on same.
Cheers, Stella