Aha! Seminars, Inc., celebrates its 20th
anniversary.
Findmypast announces a number of partnerships as part of its
U.S. growth strategy.
Findmypast announces the beginning of the release of the
largest online collection of U.S. marriages from 1650 to 2010.
Findmypast announces the launch of 10 million Irish parish
register records.
Findmypast has made its 1939 U.K. National Register browsable;
announces 6.4 million new British newspaper articles; and more than
45K new images in its PERSI collection.
RootsMagic has announced that its software will be able to
display Ancestry.com hints, search for Ancestry records, and share
data with your Ancestry tree, all from within RootsMagic.
RootsMagic has also announced that it will be adding the
ability to include hints from Findmypast.
MyHeritage introduces a new Family Tree Builder software
version 8.0 that includes rewritten internal infrastructure that
supports very large family trees (up to 500,000 individuals) and
accelerates performance.
The Suzanne Winsor Freeman Grant Committee and the Southern
California Genealogical Society have announced that applications
are being accepted for the 2016 Student Genealogy Grant. Applicants
between the ages of 18 and 23 and a current student are eligible
for the $500 cash award and a full registration scholarship to the
2016 SCGS Jamboree to be held in Burbank, California, on 3-6 June.
Application deadline is midnight PDT on 20 March 2016. Full details
are available at http://thefamilycurator.com/swf-grant/.
Ancestry.com announces the launch of 10 million Irish parish
register records.
Drew recaps the recent releases of records by
FamilySearch.
A new family history-related reality show titled Relative
Race premieres on Sunday, 28 February 2016, on BYUtv.
An eight-episode docu-series, Long Lost Family, will
premiere on Sunday, 6 March 2016, on TLC.
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Geoff asks about source and file naming conventions.
George G. Morgan and Drew Smith discuss genealogy on The Genealogy Guys Podcast
Drew Smith interviews leaders of the genealogy community on Genealogy Connection