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We Dig These Gems! New Genealogy Records Online
Millions of marriage and divorce records in the U.S. lead the pack for new genealogy records online this week. Alabama Civil War and post-Civil War records, along with British and U.S. newspapers, round out the list. Take a look! Which of your ancestors may be newly-mentioned online?
ALABAMA CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS. A Civil War-era database of soldiers (including those exempted from service, those who served in the militia or home guide and soldiers from other states who have Alabama connections) is now on Ancestry. Data was extracted from the state archives’ card file that was created throughout the 1900s. (Not an Ancestry subscriber? Click here to get started.)
ALABAMA VOTER REGISTRATIONS. Now available on Ancestry is an 1867 Alabama voter registration that was one of the first statewide records to name African-American adult male residents. Some counties’ records are missing and others did not fully include all qualified residents, but this is still a valuable record collection, with name, race, county of residence, precinct, length of residence, loyalty oath reference information and sometimes other remarks.
BRITISH NEWSPAPERS. Over 3.5 million new articles from 22 newspaper titles from England, Scotland and Wales are newly available on Findmypast.
US MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES–ANCESTRY. Ancestry has added new marriage indexes for West Virginia (1931-1970), Maine (1892-1985) and Jackson Co, Missouri (1840-1895), updated its Idaho divorce collection (1947-1964) and added a new collection of Oregon divorce records (1961-1985).
U.S. MARRIAGES–FAMILYSEARCH. FamilySearch has added hundreds of thousands of indexed county marriage records to free collections for Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Washington. Louisiana’s collection alone contains over a million entries, and Pennsylvania’s dates to the 1600s.
U.S. NEWSPAPERS. Nearly half a million digitized newspaper pages from the Oakland Tribune (1874-1975) are among the newly listed or updated collections at Newspapers.com. So are nearly 200,000 pages each from The Des Moines Register and DeKalb, Illinois’ The Daily Chronicle.
Thank you for sharing these new and updated records collections on your society Facebook pages and with your genealogy-loving friends and relatives. You’re a GEM for helping us spread the good news!
Cite Your Sources on FamilySearch with the Evernote Web Clipper: Evernote for Genealogy
Here’s how can you add family history documents you’ve grabbed with the Evernote web clipper to your tree on FamilySearch!
Recently Zooey wrote in with this question: “I’ve clipped numerous things for my ancestors [with the Evernote web clipper] that I want to put in FamilySearch. How do I do it under Documents?”
Good for Zooey for having her genealogy sources organized in Evernote–and for wanting to cite her sources on her FamilySearch family tree. Here’s how to do it:
FamilySearch Documents support the following file types: .pdf, .jpg, .tif, .bmp, and .png. Since it doesn’t currently have an “import from Evernote” feature, you’ll need to export the web clippings from Evernote and then upload them to FamilySearch.
Earlier this year I wrote an article on our blog entitled “Here’s a Cool Way to Export a Web Clipping from Evernote.” The article will walk you through exporting your Evernote web clippings as pdf files, which FamilySearch Documents can then accept as uploads.
More Evernote for Genealogy Tips on the Genealogy Gems Website:
You can find all our past articles on using Evernote for genealogy (including the one I mentioned) at the home page of our website. On the left, just under the main red menu, you will see a drop down menu called “Select Content by Topic.” Click the down arrow and select “Evernote” from the list. This will display all our past Evernote articles on your screen starting with the most recent. Or get started with these great how-tos:
How to Use Evernote for Genealogy: The Ultimate Education
Evernote for Genealogy: What It Is, and Why You Would Use It (FREE VIDEO!)
How to Use Evernote for Genealogy and Family History: Handwriting, OCR, Video and Upload Answers (FREE VIDEO!)
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Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast Episode 128 Is Ready for YOU!
Courthouse research tips, adoption search strategies, an inspiring Google search success story, an important (but little-used) U.S. record type and more are packed into the newest episode of the Genealogy Gems Premium podcast.
The Genealogy Gems Premium podcast episode 128 is ready for the listening pleasure of Genealogy Gems Premium website members!
One of our listeners sent in a question with a fascinating research problem. She’s an adoption “search angel,” someone who helps adoptees connect with birth roots. She describes her current research, which involves her own spreadsheet of FamilySearch data and an advanced Google search question on finding obituaries. I gave her some guidance that could help anyone looking for obituaries online.
That’s just the first segment in this episode of the podcast! You’ll also hear some great courthouse research tips with Gems Contributing Editor Sunny Morton, who wrote the curriculum for the Family Tree University course called Courthouse Research Made Easy. You’ll hear a letter from a listener with his inspiring “Google for genealogy” success story and a spotlight on state and regional census records. And our resident DNA expert Diahan Southard joins us to explain New Ancestry Discoveries at AncestryDNA.
About the Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast
The Genealogy Gems Premium podcast is a monthly podcast available exclusively to Genealogy Gems Premium website members. It’s similar in format to our free monthly Genealogy Gems podcast, but you get MORE news, stories, and in-depth interviews to inform and inspire your own family history research. Premium website members also have access to more than two dozen video tutorials that will also help take your research to the next step. Click here to learn more about Genealogy Gems Premium membership.
