This week's news includes details about the public outcry against
the planned early closure date for the General Records Office (GRO)
in the U.K., and Ancestry.com announces a digital scrapbooking
application for members.
Listener Thomas alerts others to a number of resources for Hispanic
Heritage Month: The Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral
Research (SHAAR) (
http://members.aol.com/shhar/)
and its newsletter (
http://www.somosprimos.com);
Library of Congress Hispanic Reading Room (
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic)
and the Index to the Enciclopedia Heraldica Hispano-Americana
(
http://www.loc.gov/rr.hispanic/geneal/index_gc.html/);
HISPAGEN (
http://www.hispagen.es/portal/enlaces.php);
the Argentine Genealogy Database (
http://familias-argentinas.com.ar/us_principal.htm);
and the new portal to the Online Spanish Archives (
http://pares.mcu.es); the society, Los
Floridanos (
http://www.losfloridanos.org);
the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami (
http://www.cubangenclub.org); and
the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami (
http://www.library.miami.edu/umcuban).
George's Web Site of the Week is Griffith's Valuation 1848-1864 at
http://failteromhat.com/griffiths.htm,
which is searchable by surname
and viewable by county in alphabetical
sequence. This is a great site to help locate ancestors during
these year for which census records are not available due to
fire.
The Guys discuss methods for finding live people and some of the
experiences they have had. They then discuss "pathfinders," which
are the instructional guides found as printed guides in libraries
and/or at libraries' Web sites. They are guides to using the
various collections or working with specific resources.
George just found a digital copy of another important great-uncle's
death certificate. Can you guess where he found it? Listen for the
answer and a review of another great Web site next week!