Among the newly released records at FamilySearch’s Record Search are death records for Louisiana. This thrilled me, of course, for two reasons. First, we’ve been doing the brickwall series focused on the Gines family in Louisiana. Ironically, when the FamilySearch records were posted, I had just sent off to the Louisiana Secretary of State a [...]
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FamilySearch Record Search has added marriage records for Cook County, Illinois. The collection is currently what FamilySearch calls an “early access collection,” meaning that the collection is accessible though not yet entirely complete. What’s there now are records from 1900-1920. The entire collection ulitmately will go back to 1871.
[H/T to Tom Kemp at the GenealogyBank [...]
When I attended the family history seminar here the weekend before last, I heard several people talking about having signed up to do indexing for FamilySearch.org. As has been widely reported, FamilySearch.org is being expanded to include a treasure trove of genealogical information to be available free of charge. This requires a huge [...]
