GeneaBabble

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!

Here’s a great version of “I’m My Own Grandpa” done by the Muppets. The Muppets, by the way, are responsible for a brief period of mental instability brought on by Manamana. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Out of curiosity and boredom I did a search for genealogy on Youtube the other day. Among some interesting tutorials I found the following which illustrates the consequences of our lineage system:

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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.

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:

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