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GenCircles Merges with MyHeritage

by SteveSunday, December 23, 2007

Pearl Street Software, maker of GenCircles and Family Tree Legends, has merged with MyHeritage.com, recently named one of the best genealogy Websites of the year 2007 by Family Tree Magazine. The first move from this merger is that Family Tree Legends (a genealogy software) and GenCircles have been made 100% free!

The merger is also bringing the "Smart Matching" technology free for GenCircles and MyHeritage users. Smart Matching is a specialized genealogy technology developed by Pearl Street Software and further advanced by MyHeritage, to connect family trees. It works by comparing millions of names, facts and tree connections - intelligently. When two family trees are connected, both their owners are informed, and benefit from the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other.

They advanced the Smart Matching technology into what they call, "Smart Matching 2.0", which covers spelling and phonetic variations, understands nicknames and name synonyms and deals better with ethnic variations.

Visit online...

GenCircles...
http://www.gencircles.com

Family Tree Legends...
http://www.familytreelegends.com

MyHeritage...
http://www.myheritage.com

O'Bits of Nebraska

by SteveTuesday, December 18, 2007

Barbara Starks announced her new website called, "O'Bits of Nebraska", where she publishes images of newspaper obituaries from Nebraska newspapers, prior to 1930. Here's her announcement...
I have been working on this project for over four years now and will continue to work on it until I feel I have covered all of the counties sufficiently in Nebraska.

Why is my site different?

O'Bits of Nebraska has the actual images of Nebraska residents from newspapers primarily before 1930. To search the database is free, although there is a nominal charge to receive the selected obit via email with payment through PayPal.
Visit O'Bits of Nebraska online at...
http://www.obitsofnebraska.com

County Roscommon Genealogy Book

by SteveSunday, December 09, 2007

County Roscommon Ireland genealogyThere's a new genealogy book available that will help you research your lineage in County Roscommon, Ireland.

Entitled, "A Guide to Tracing your Roscommon Ancestors", it's written by John Hamrock, and published through Flyleaf Press.

It's described as being filled with information on what the records contain, and how and where they can be accessed. It is well illustrated with maps and with examples of the types of records to be found. It also has en extensive listing of references to estate records, and also to family histories. There is also a comprehensive index.

The softcover book contains 161 pages, and can be purchased online for $18.50 USD...

http://www.flyleaf.ie/Roscommon.htm

Footnote.com Launches WWII Photos Collection

by SteveThursday, December 06, 2007

Footnote.com today announced the addition of thousands of US Air Force photos to their digital World War II collection. This release coincides with the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing, and contains tens of thousands of original World War II photos and documents from the National Archives. Among this collection are missing air crew reports, documents from allied military conferences and photos of Japanese air targets.

"They say that a picture is worth a thousand words," says Russell Wilding, CEO of Footnote.com. "What's exciting about this collection of photos is they also include captions that tell stories of the people and events in the photos."

Footnote.com has added these new pictures and documents as part of a much larger, ongoing effort to preserve the heroic memories and stories of the brave men and women that served in World War II and other wars.

"We are providing priceless content from our archives and libraries that is only a part of a much larger picture," continued Wilding. "While this is an extensive collection of history, we understand that many people out there have valuable pieces of history in their personal record collections within their own homes. We encourage everyone to upload their own photos, letters and documents contained in their old shoeboxes."

Footnote.com is leading the movement to preserve the documents and stories about World War II and invites everyone to join in this effort. Uploading photos and documents and creating memorial pages is completely free on Footnote.com.

To view samples of these photos and other World War II documents, visit Footnote.com at...

http://www.footnote.com

Kindo Family Tree - New Social Networking for Genealogists

by SteveWednesday, December 05, 2007

Kindo family treeA website called Kindo.com recently announced its official launch, offering genealogists a "Web 2.0" version of online family tree collaboration.

Kindo describes itself as a social network for genealogists, with an emphasis on creating and sharing your family tree. It's core feature is the collaborative family tree, and the information added by family members. But it also features family news, a family calendar, and statistics that make it easier to stay in touch with the family.

Since so many families are spread out around the world, Kindo is already in 11 languages: Swedish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Afrikaans, and English.

Kindo links...


California Genealogical Society has a Blog

by SteveTuesday, December 04, 2007

The California Genealogical Society launched a new blog last month. You can find it here...

http://calgensoc.blogspot.com/

Now you can keep up to date on the all the happenings there.

Free Alabama Genealogy Website

by SteveSaturday, December 01, 2007

Donna Causey announced her new free Alabama genealogy website, "Alabama Pioneers"...

http://www.alabamapioneers.com/

She has GEDCOM files that can be downloaded for free, Court, church, death records, etc....all free. She adds new data daily.

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A free online library of cemetery records from thousands of cemeteries across the world, for historical and genealogy research.

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What makes us Different?

Single-sourced, not crowd-sourced

Each transcription we publish comes from a single-source, be it the cemetery office, government office, church office, archived document, a tombstone transcriber. Other websites already do an excellent job of crowd-sourcing a single cemetery together. But genealogists also need to see the original records from a single source. That's what we offer.