A new blog post from Ancestry.com reports that the company has now made all scanned images (more than 3.8 million) of the 1940 U.S. Census available on their platform. The company also points out that they’ve indexed all of the names found in the 1940 Census for two states, Nevada and Delaware, and made those […]
Ancestry.com Begins Roll Out of a 1940 Census Database That’s Searchable by Name
Filed by on April 9, 2012
New Podcast from Library and Archives Canada Looks at the "Lest We Forget" Project
Filed by on March 28, 2012
The second podcast in the LAC “Your History, Your Documentary Heritage” series. From the Program Blurb: In this episode we’ll examine the Lest We Forget project. Since 2001, Library and Archives Canada has been supporting the initiative to connect youth to Canada’s history by making military service files available in person and online. Each year, […]
Massachusetts: "A New Window on Bay State’s Vital Records"
Filed by on March 21, 2012
From The Boston Globe: Locked away in town vaults and basements for years, the historical records date to 1620 and include the scribblings of town clerks from days of yore and the names of Clara Barton, Paul Revere, John Hancock, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. The old public records are slated to go online Tuesday, […]
New Online, Free: Archives.com Partners with W.E.B. DuBois Institute to Publish the Patriots of Color Database
Filed by on February 25, 2012
From the Announcement: Archives.com [has launched] the Patriots of Color Database. Archives.com is bringing this collection online for the first time, compiling years of research facilitated by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. These records unveil new and invaluable information about some of the men and women […]
National Archives Announces Website for Free 1940 Census Release Online on April 2, 2012: 1940census.archives.gov
Filed by on February 22, 2012
From NARA: The National Archives, with its partner Archives.com, [has] launched its new website www.1940census.archives.gov in preparation for its first-ever online U.S. census release, which will take place on April 2, 2012, at 9 a.m. (EST). The public is encouraged to bookmark the website now in order to more quickly access the 1940 census data […]
Ireland is Digitizing and Making Military Records Available Online
Filed by on January 4, 2012
From The Irish Times: Lieut Gen Seán McCann, chief of staff of the Defence Forces, has launched a new website – militaryarchives.ie – which is designed to appeal to professional and amateur historians and genealogists as well as members of the public who are simply hoping to fill in gaps in a family tree. The […]
Reference: 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development
Filed by on September 22, 2011
From the WDR 2012 Web Site: The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development finds that women’s lives around the world have improved dramatically, but gaps remain in many areas. The authors use a conceptual framework to examine progress to date, and then recommend policy actions. Report Summary Full Text Charts See Also: […]
Archives.com Begins Providing Access to Some U.S. Census Data & Pledges Money For More Digitization
Filed by on September 1, 2011
From an <a href=”http://www.archives.com/blog/press/archivescom-adds-the-us-census.html”>Archives.com Blog Post:</a> Today, Archives.com announces the addition of the U.S. Federal Census, the single most valuable collection of U.S. historical records. The U.S. Census collections were made available by FamilySearch International, the world’s largest genealogy organization, as part of a joint effort to introduce more records to family historians worldwide. In […]
