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Free Access to Ancestry's Historical Newspaper Collection Thru June 19th
From the Ancestry’s 24/7 Family History Circle Blog: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Ancestry has added 20 million images to its Historical Newspaper Collection—doubling the collection in siz… more »
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Free Access to Ancestry's Historical Newspaper Collection Thru June 19th
birminghamgenealogy wrote 1 month ago: From the Ancestry’s 24/7 Family History Circle Blog: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Ancestry … more »
African American Military Service Resources
birminghamgenealogy wrote 1 month ago: Tina Sansome, BellaOnline’s Genealogy Editor, has posted a links and several titles to read if … more »
Ancestry.com's Military Collection Free to Access thru May 31st
birminghamgenealogy wrote 2 months ago: From the Press Release: Free Public Access on Ancestry.com To commemorate the NARA-Ancestry.com agr … more »
FamilySearch Labs Record Search Now in Pilot
birminghamgenealogy wrote 2 months ago: I have posted about the data FamilySearch is placing online for free previously - the only requireme … more »
Significance of family history
indianajane wrote 2 months ago: This post is from my main blog, but I thought that it would be good to post it over here, too. I kne … more »
Getting Children Involved in Genealogy
birminghamgenealogy wrote 3 months ago: It can be tough to illicit the same excitement we have for learning more about our ancestors in othe … more »
NARA adds Immigration Records to Online Databases
birminghamgenealogy wrote 4 months ago: Thanks to Dick Eastman for mentioning this on his blog. NARA has added indexes to some pre-1900 pass … more »
Free Access to Select Records during Black History Month
birminghamgenealogy wrote 5 months ago: February is designated as “Black History Month”. In recognition of that some of our fav … more »
African American Lives 2 This Week on PBS
birminghamgenealogy wrote 5 months ago: This is the week. The long awaited second installment of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s 2006 series … more »
Slave Insurance - who knew?
birminghamgenealogy wrote 6 months ago: While reading one of my favorite newsletters this morning, I discovered something that I didn’ … more »
Merry Christmas
birminghamgenealogy wrote 7 months ago: The holiday season is upon us. All of us on the BGS Board wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy … more »
Ancestry.com 1year subscription for $29.95??
birminghamgenealogy wrote 7 months ago: Ok, I don’t know how long this is going to last. NothingButSoftware.com has Family Tree Maker … more »
Searching Extracted Marriages and Births at Familysearch.org
birminghamgenealogy wrote 8 months ago: On the ALJEFFER List at Rootsweb recently, the issue of searching for marriages at the LDS familysea … more »
New Footnote.com Special Offer
birminghamgenealogy wrote 9 months ago: I blogged about Footnote.com back in August when they were offering $10 off the regular subscription … more »
Wallace State's Robert Scott Davis honored
birminghamgenealogy wrote 9 months ago: From the Birmingham News online: Robert S. Davis, director of the Family and Regional History Progra … more »
Updated Review of FTM 2008
birminghamgenealogy wrote 9 months ago: In September Melissa Paulk, BGS Hospitality, submitted a review of the new Family Tree Maker 2008 pr … more »
Reminder - NARA Fees to Increase October 1st
birminghamgenealogy wrote 10 months ago: Fees at NARA to get great-grandpa’s pension file, bounty land warrant, and land entry file (al … more »
New UDC Chapter to form in Hoover
birminghamgenealogy wrote 10 months ago: From BGS member, Bette Ward: A new United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is being formed in Hoov … more »
September 22, 2007 Meeting - History vs. Genealogy
birminghamgenealogy wrote 10 months ago: The Birmingham Genealogical Society meets the fourth Saturday of each month (ex. Nov. & Dec.) in … more »
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