Genealogy News
The Texas Czech Genealogical Society (TCGS) invites you to attend the January 25, 2025 in person event “From the Czech Lands to Texas” at the Caldwell Civic and Visitor Center. You do not have to be a TCGS member or of Czech heritage to attend. Everyone is welcome. Detailed information and registration forms are on the TCGS website https://www.txczgs.org under “Events” https://txczgs.org/
NARA has announced some new features in the Advanced Search. Researchers can now search the Catalog for all contributions: Tags, Comments, Extracted Text, and Transcriptions, and the page where the contribution is found is highlighted with a green box around the thumbnail and a link to the page. These improvements should make it easier to search the NARA catalog.
FamilySearch recently added 49.8 million new records from 49 countries including over 22 million additions to the United States City and Business Directories. This FamilySearch Blog article has more information and links.
Save up to 50% through December 2024 with the RootsMagic Holiday Special! Check out their sale here. Be sure to use the code HOLIDAY2024.
UPDATE - RootsMagic issued an update today, December 9th, to fix the Relationship Chart issue. For RootsMagic 10 users - According to a reply from the @rootsmagician to a post in the RootsMagic Users Facebook Group, do not run the Relationship Chart report or else you will lose data you subsequently add or edit in that session. An update with a fix will be released soon.
My Heritage announces the publication of four huge new collections of
names and stories extracted from newspaper pages on OldNews.com. The new
collections, containing more than 3.4 billion records, are searchable on
MyHeritage, with the full images of the newspaper pages available on OldNews.com via direct
links from MyHeritage. Additional collections still to be published in
December 2024 will collectively add more than 10 billion records to
MyHeritage’s historical database, expanding it by 50%!
Registration is now open for the Research Like A Pro With DNA Study Group facilitated by Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer with Family Locket Genealogists. Click here for more information and early bird registration. The Spring 2025 sessions start February 5th.
Sale extended through Dec 7th! American Ancestors Cyber
Monday Sale ends December 2, 2024. Enjoy $30 off a new membership.
Sale extended through Dec 8th! Get 50% off a full
year’s webinar membership (new memberships only) at Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
Learn more here. Offer expires December 6,
2024.
Newspaper.com is offering 40% off new Publisher Extra subscriptions now through December 8, 2024. Click here for details.
Fold3 Cyber Week Sale – 40% off now through December 8th for new memberships. View offer here.
Learn new skills with virtual on-demand Encore sessions from the 2024 TxSGS Family History Conference! Conference access is available for purchase through December 31, 2024 for access through February 2, 2025. Click here for details and to register.
FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records at https://www.freebmd.org.uk/. The database was last updated on Wed 27 Nov 2024 and currently contains 295,385,672 distinct records (397,999,729 total records). On Tue 26 Nov 2024 FreeBMD users did 206,777 searches. (More information)
The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA: Y-DA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA by Roberta Estes is now available in full color. More information is available at the FamilyTreeDNA Blog.
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