FamilySearch Family Tree was created so that anyone can edit data. The reasoning is eventually each date and place fact would end up with correct information. In the last posting I found the record of my ancestor, Dewitt Clinton Halsey. To make a correction of any fact you could first click on “Open Details” which …
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You probably haven’t heard of FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT). It really isn’t a secret but FamilySearch has not made a public announcement as of yet. It is an advanced on-line linked family tree. The data in FSFT has been contributed by thousands of people over many years. It contains all the data from the old …
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I don’t know how I missed it but FamilySearch has completed posting their index to the 1940 US census. I like their index better than the one on Ancestry.com. It appears to be correct more often. Currently on the FamilySearch homepage, is a link on the upper right corner which says that “all 50 states …
FamilySearch has released their index of the 1940 census for NY State. An index has been available on Ancestry.com for almost 2 months for NY State. Other bloggers have been comparing indexes for other states and have found many differences. I have been following Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings and The Ancestry Insider who have really been …
In less than 2 months more than half of the 1940 US census has been indexed, An incredible number of volunteers have stepped up to aid in the indexing which is on Family Search, Archives.com and FindMyPast.com. States that have been completed and can be searched are: Alaska Arizona Colorado Delaware Florida Idaho Kansas Nevada …
The official 1940 census website was completed overwhelmed and experiencing many problems yesterday but appears to be working today. I noticed images of census pages load completely different than they did yesterday. Yesterday an image would load as a bunch of tiles to make up the entire image. Today an image is loaded as just …
This has been an amazing day for genealogists. The National Archives released the 1940 census and more important is that it was going to be online for free. Family Search had received copies of all the images at midnight and by 8:30 (all times eastern) they already put up all images for the State of …
Last week I received another issue of RootsWeb Review via email. In the issue is an article by Mary Harrell-Sesniak about translating Latin words in documents. She included a link to a page on FamilySearch.org with a Latin Word List. I really needed a list of German words for my research. Doing a search I …
On Family Search is an index to the 1892 NY State Census. No one is sure why New York State did a census in 1892. The State had done census on years ending in a “5″ from 1825 to 1875 but didn’t do a census in 1885. Some people think that the 1892 census was …
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I was going to write about the 1865 NY State census that is available on Family Search. I found out that I wrote about that collection in this blog in this posting in 2009 when it was added. The 1865 census isn’t indexed but if you know what Town your ancestor lived in then you …
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