Latest News, Upcoming Conferences
Lancaster County Family History Conference is April 19-21. Check it out HERE.
The National Archives has added online genealogical presentations HERE.
Read about this year's 100 most popular genealogy sites HERE.

  WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE IS BACK ON NBC! "UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.-- January 6, 2012-- Viewers can take an up-close and personal look inside the family history of some of today's most beloved and iconic celebrities when NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" returns for its third season on Friday, February 3 (8-9 p.m. ET). The celebrities who star in the series are Martin Sheen, Marisa Tomei, Blair Underwood, Reba McEntire, Rob Lowe, Helen Hunt, Rita Wilson, Edie Falco, Rashida Jones, Jerome Bettis, Jason Sudeikis and Paula Deen."

Fantastic News! Governor Corbett signed Vital Records Bill SB-361 into law on December 15, 2011 as Act 110 of 2011. It goes into effect on February 13th, 2012. State death records more than 50 years old and birth records more than 105 years old will then be available to all at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg. However, the new law does not require that they be made available online, but now makes it legally possible to do so. We have to be vigilant in making sure the Governor and the State Archives do all they can to make sure the records are made available online and that we don't end up with the very real possibility of foot dragging or empty promises. Please visit our completely revised website for more information about this. Be sure to read Frequently Asked Questions for a detailed discussion and in particular When And How Can I Start Looking at These Records? for how these records can be put online at no cost to the taxpayer: http://users.rcn.com/timarg/PaHR-Access.htm

Have you read this news about the Social Security Death Index having cuts? Click on text
NEW!~ Autosomal DNA testing: Familytreedna.com and 23andme.com now offer AUTOSOMAL DNA, which tests your DNA for EVERY LINE for about five generations. Read more about it HERE. ALSO:  The Genealogical Society of Ireland published a newsletter detailing the various aspects of A new project – copies of the ‘Irish DNA Atlas Project Newsletter’ are available from the Society’s stand at the RDS (Stand 52A) or on-line at www.familyhistory.ie (Thanks to Dick Eastman for this tip)


Dick Eastman's FREE Genealogy Newsletter

New Irish Genealogy Site!


  GREAT NEWS! 1940 census to be FREE on ANCESTRY!

  Check out the great programs at Genealogical Society of PA
Check out a video on DNA ancestor matching!!!


There are innovative and astounding applications leveraging the new FamilySearch Tree (NFS).

Griffiths Evaluation now online at: http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/

GREAT Way to find out changing U. S. county boundaries! The following announcement was written by the Newberry Library:

The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the completion and release of its Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, a dataset that covers every day-to-day change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2000.

 Irish Church Records Online - FREE!

An 1895 marriage record for William McGushion and Dora Davis in St. Peter's Parish, Dublin, Ireland. From Irish Genealogy (www.irishgenealogy.ie)Irish Genealogy, hosted by the Ireland Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, has added a large number of new church records of baptism, marriage and death to their free Web site. This brings the total to over 2 million church records from Dublin City and counties Kerry and Carlow, plus a subset from Roman Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Cork & Ross. These records include transcriptions and, in many cases, digitized images of the original records (though these are not yet available for all online records) taken from Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland parishes, as well as a small number of Presbyterian records relating to a congregation in Lucan. Best of all, these Irish church records can be accessed online completely free of charge.

Project work is ongoing to complete the computerization and digitization of the remaining Roman Catholic records for Dublin City and the Diocese of Cork and Ross, which encompasses Cork City and all of the parishes in West Cork. The intent is to have the rest of the project completed and available online by the end of 2010.

View the church records online for free at Irish Genealogy, learn more about how to research your Irish ancestors, or view more Irish genealogy databases in 15 Top Web Sites for Researching Irish Ancestors.

   ANCESTRY MAGAZINE is now available FREE on Google Books!

Browse Ancestry issues ranging from January 2004 through February 2009 and catch up on your family history reading. 

Chronicling America Helps You Find Even More Old Newspapers

 We’re big fans of the Library of Congress’ ChroniclingAmerica site, where you can both searchdigitized newspapers published in 11 states and Washington, DC, between 1880 and1922, and search directory of historical newspaper titles by date and place.


  Find maps of many states' Census years' changes at http://www.familyhistory101.com/map_census.htm

    GREAT NEW WAY to work online with your COUSINS!
Users can upload GEDCOM files, upload and annotate scanned documents and photos, share family stories and biographies, and generate maps of ancestors' life events.

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DID YOU KNOW?
 Do you know about the Genealogy Encyclopedia? It is like Wikipedia in that you can add information to it. Read more at: http://www.eogen.com/
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