Genealogy Network

There are a few new entries in the User Surname Database. Feel free to
add or search for your surnames!
Search
http://usroots.genealogy.pcriot.com/index/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=41
Add
http://usroots.genealogy.pcriot.com/index/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=40

Added a page about the Geneabloggers Webring.

The Genealogy Network websites on 100webspace.net are down.
That's ok the Angelfire and the webs.com sites are up!
http://genealogynetwork.angelfire.com
http://genealogynetwork.webs.com
100webspace.net offers free webspace for one year, and then you have to
renew.

I have resolved a few things for the next year:
1) Find one one dead relatives grave.
2) Limit genealogy to one day a week.
3) Keep it simple.

Check out the database and group links.
http://usroots.genealogy.pcriot.com/index/index.php
Do you plan to join an internet genealogy group in the New Year?

NARA Launches an Online Public Access Prototype via Alltop RSS on
12/30/10
The National Archives and Records Administration’s new Online Public
Access prototype is now available to the public. The agency is asking
everyone to please try it out and to send your comments and feedback to
search@nara.gov. Quoting from the NARA announcement: The National
Archives’ flagship initiative in our Open Government plan is to develop
online services to meet the 21st century needs of the public. It is
also a key component of our agency’s Transformation Plan, to be
customer-focused and ensuring our nation’s heritage is accessible to
all. The Online Public Access prototype is the public portal that
provides access...

Dear Randy: Ancestry.com looks backward and forward via Alltop RSS on
12/30/10
I received a Dear Randy email from Tim Sullivan of Ancestry.com. Here's
the content:
It really has been an exciting year for family history. Today, there
are millions of people making more discoveries about their unique
family stories than ever before. All of us at Ancestry.com are so
pleased that you're part of our community – the world's largest online
family history resource – and we value your passion and dedication to
family history.
In 2010, we added more than one billion records focused on helping you
make more discoveries about your family history. We made it easier to
find 20th century relatives with our popular 1950 Census Substitute. We
added naturalization records from 14 states and military records
spanning 150 years, from Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land
applications to World War II prisoner of war records. And we continued
to enhance some favorite records, U.S. Censuses, with new search fields
(1790-1840) and crisper images and better indexes (1920).
We also worked hard to make it easier to search for and find all the
amazing content on Ancestry.com, with a redesigned search home page and
forms, fields and wildcards to make searches more efficient.
Looking forward, I'm just as excited about 2011. We have fantastic new
content collections like the following in the works.
From the United States:
• More naturalization records, 1795-1900s
• Improved 1930 U.S. Census
• More New York, Boston and Philadelphia passenger lists, 1820-1920
• More high school and college yearbooks, late 1800s-1900s
• More passport applications, 1906-1925
• Navy muster rolls, 1939-1948
• Confederate pension applications, late 1800s-early 1900s
• Index to early Pennsylvania land warrants, 1733-1987
From outside the United States:
• UK: London wills, 1600s-1800s
• Ireland: Improved Griffith's Valuation, 1847-1864
• UK: Parish registers, including West Yorkshire and Dorset, 1700s-1900s
• Germany: Brandenburg church records, 1700-1874
• UK: 1911 Census for England, Wales, Isle of Man and Channel Islands
• Sweden: Parish birth records, 1860-1937
• Canada: Voter records, 1935-1983
• Italy: Palermo birth and marriage records, 1820-1905
I hope you find something surprising, inspiring or intriguing in the
coming year in one of these new collections – or in the hundreds of
thousands of photographs and documents our nearly 1.4 million
subscribers are uploading and sharing every week.
I'll say again that all of us at Ancestry.com are incredibly excited
about the coming year. I hope that we can help you continue your family
history journey. I wish you many happy discoveries in 2011.
Best wishes,
Tim Sullivan
Chief Executive Officer
You can watch a short video of Tim Sullivan here.
The "What's Ahead" page on Ancestry.com has been updated. This page has
several more databases listed to be updated or added than the ones on
the list above.
For the record, there are currently 30,004 databases listed on the
Ancestry.com Card Catalog.

I have noticed that any NEW websites created on Angelfire will be
forced to use Angelfire templates in their new website makeover and
design. Anyone who had a site prior to Angelfire's makeover may still
access the "webshell". For how long? We don't know. New Angelfire users
must PAY to use the old Angelfire "webshell" that allowed for users to
compile their own HTML.

Recently posted Topics heard around Multiply genealogy groups:

- Have you ever heard of someone becoming a great uncle at 24 years of
age?
- Batch numbers at the IGI.
- Lost Ancestors - The Conservatory
- PDF documents pertaining to genealogy online:
http://www.pdftop.com/ebook/Genealogy/
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- Has anyone thought of using Google Documents and making it public as
a means of sharing genealogy information? After conducting a small
search there are a few public genealogy documents available at Google
Docs.

- New records added to Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System

Download now or preview on posterous 09232010yahoo.pdf (282 KB)

http://usroots.genealogy.pcriot.com/index/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130:yahoo-genealogy-groups&catid=3:the-genealogy-box&Itemid=2

Download now or preview on posterous surnamegroupsearchplus.pdf (158 KB)

The Genealogy Network Joomla site is current down w/ a server re-boot.
The PhpGedView site usually available for registered users is ALSO
facing issues w/ a 404 page or server configuration problems.
I am sorry for the troubole, however, this is a free website provider
and they are working on the problem. Please be patient!
Attached is a pdf file of the Surname Search in Genealogy Groups at its
last update.
When it rains it pours! The Facebook Fan page has many new links added
today with the Extended Info tab. If you haven't liked our page, please
give us a look!