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Archive for May, 2008

The National Archives to Digitize Part of It’s Holdings

What a great announcement! A portion of the National Archives’ massive holdings is going to be digitized by Ancestry.com and uploaded to its online subscription database. Oh happy day! Although digitizing the National Archive records will be a five-year task for Ancestry, their reward will be adding a huge dollop of vital statistics, immigration and military service data to their website. The National Archives will also receive a copy of the digitized records for use in what they are calling “archival control.” Without a doubt, that doesn’t mean free, online, public use. Too bad.

Family Bibles, The Genesis of Most Genealogy Research

The first place many people begin looking for their family’s history is in a Bible, and I’m not talking about Adam and Eve or all those begets. If we’re lucky, one of our ancestors started a tradition of writing their family’s marriage, birth and death records in their Bible. If we’re even luckier, we know where that Bible is today. If we’re Lotto-winner lucky, the information is correct. That’s right. Just because it’s in the Bible doesn’t mean it’s true. If the records were recorded as they happened, then they’re usually right. But if someone entered the who, what and when in hindsight, then Heaven help the person who relies on those names and dates to be facts. I did that and wasted nine months researching the wrong names. How can you know if the information in your Family Bible is accurate? Verify it.

Free Civil War Website Available Through June 30, 2008

Alexander Street Press has announced that it is once again allowing public access to its entire Civil War series, The American Civil War Online, through June 30, 2008. Included in this series is The American Civil War Research Database, which was open to the public in April of this year. The success of that enterprise convinced them to allow this additional period of open access. Genealogists and researchers everywhere should take this chance to use this wonderful archive.