It’s a holiday weekend, so you know what that means? Genealogy record websites that are usually only available by paid subscription open up some of their collections for free. Here’s where you can get access to family history resources this weekend:
MyHeritage
providing free access – from August 31 through September 2, 2013 – to all US Census records. Click here to Search Now
Ancestry
providing free access to its collection of Immigration and Travel records through Labor Day including:
One of the most popular family history websites in the world, MyHeritage, has released Family Tree Builder 7.0, an updated version of its free family tree software.
Family Tree Builder allows users to construct their family trees and decorate them with photos, historical records and more. This new version uses the company’s “Record Matching” technology, which according to Chief Genealogist and Translation Manager Daniel Horowitz, “automatically researches every individual in the user’s family tree and looks for matching historical records with high accuracy.”
A cool new feature is cross-platform synchronicity. According to a company press release, “The new version now syncs your entire family history in both directions between your computer and your family site on MyHeritage, as well as smart phones and tablets, and opens new channels for discovering relatives and billions of historical records with our advanced matching technologies. This means you can now access your family tree securely not just from your computer but also from your online family site, smart phone or tablet device, and even grow the tree and add more information and photos to it, any time and anywhere. All additions and changes will sync back to your Family Tree Builder software on your computer.”
Click here to learn more and download it for free.
MyHeritage is delighted to announce the launch of a breakthrough technology for the family history market – Record Matching.
Record Matching is designed to automatically find and match historical records (from our growing collection of 4+ billion records) to the 23 million family trees on MyHeritage…but with a twist! It’s the first and only technology to automatically search newspaper articles, books and other free-text documents.
So in addition to traditional records such as birth certificates, marriage documents, census records and many more, Record Matches of newspaper articles from our 300 year old newspaper archive, the largest historical newspaper collection in the world, can help you shed new light on the actual lives, personalities and achievements of your ancestors.
MyHeritage has released their new search engine – SuperSearch – which transforms family history research into a more global, more accessible and more engaging experience than ever before. It has been running in Beta for a few months, but it has now officially launched.
According to their press release:
“Every day, large numbers of historical records and data are being added and we also plan to have our time-saving Record Matching technology up and running in a few weeks. Watch for more information – we’ll let you know when Record Matching is live!
SuperSearch is an exciting new service that adds color to family history, improves by the day, and which positions MyHeritage as a top player in the historical content market.”
subscription open up some of their collections for free. Here’s where you can get access to family history resources this weekend:
