Archive for the ‘Ancestry.com’ Category.
7th July 2007, 01:18 pm
While writing up my last post I decided to see what else was new in the world of land records on Ancestry and I found out that I REALLY NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION!!! On June 24, 2007, Ancestry.com added a collection called U.S. County Land Ownership Atlases, c. 1864-1918. This will make life so much easier! I already have access to all the local atlases I need, but it can be difficult to find an obscure atlas from a state you’ve never been in. This will help especially when I’m doing research for others. Plus, it’s just plain interesting to go through old atlases. If you don’t think so then you’re just weird…
7th July 2007, 01:05 pm
I should be on top of these things, but I’m exceptionally lazy and it’s always easier to let others do the work… I just read at the Genealogy Blog that Ancestry.com has posted a new collection: U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858. A brief search for some of my relatives turned up a big pile of nothing, but that generally happens when I’m in a hurry and I hope to have a chance to take a closer look at the collection soon. The images I looked at, however, look great and this is a very welcome collection!
27th June 2007, 10:07 am
Good news for French and Italian genealogists! The Generations Network is expanding its Ancestry sites to France and Italy:
At launch, Ancestry.fr and Ancestry.it will offer access to Ancestry’s unrivaled global collection of more than 5 billion names and 24,000 databases and titles. The new sites will also provide a networking platform for users to collaborate and connect with other site users globally, build an online family tree and upload irreplaceable content from personal archives such as photographs, stories and shoebox keepsakes. [Read more]
This brings the number of Ancestry sites to seven.
22nd June 2007, 05:07 pm
Randy Seaver recently posted about finding townships and EDs on Ancestry census images and it reminded me of something I’ve found very useful.
When you are viewing a census image at Ancestry you will see something like this near the top of the page:
Continue reading ‘Searching Census Records by District’ »
19th June 2007, 09:00 pm
The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com, has entered an exclusive partnership with Sorenson Genomics to STEAL YOUR SOUL!!!
By taking a simple cheek-swab test and comparing results against DNA profiles in a test-results database, virtually anyone can uncover genealogical associations unimaginable just a few years ago. Users can easily connect with and discover lost or unknown relatives within a few generations, as well as gain insight into where their families originated thousands of years ago. [Read more]
It’s all part of the recent conspiracy to use genealogy as a means to collect our DNA for the database. “What database?” you say? THE database! It’s all part of the PLAN! They’re in it with Google, you see. They’re collecting all our data and running secret experiments on us. My bet is they plan on selling this information to the ALIENS!
