Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records

This website is a directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. You can also find information here about searching the Social Security Death Index online.

Take a look at http://www.deathindexes.com

FAMILY TREE

FamilySearch Family Tree will be replacing new.familysearch.org in the very near future.

The purposes of Family Tree are as follows:

1. To find our ancestors.
2. To preserve our work for our children.
3. To reduce duplicate research and data.
4. To converge data toward accuracy!

Family Tree is a Source Centric Open Edit model.

To learn how to use Family Tree go to www.familysearch.org/treetraining

Sign in using your LDS Account or FamilySearch Account.

Check out the Online Courses, How-to Videos, Guides and Manuals, Practice Activities, Handouts on Advance Topics and Webinar Classes.

iPAD and Family History

Links to 2 great articles

"iPad Apps for Genealogy - Tools for Mobile Genealogists" by Kimberly Powell, About.com Guide

"Using the iPad for Genealogy and Writing", by Lisa Also, Archives.com

TreeSeek.com - 9 Generation Fan Chart

Another source for the popular 9-generation fan chart.  This site goes a step further and provides some additional charts that print directly from your information nFS.  Log in with your nFS username and password and the charts are free.  Choose from a 4 (great for newly called missionaries), 9 or 10 generation pedigree chart, 4 or 9 generation fan chart or name cloud chart.  You can also select who you want to start with.  Select a close family member or simply input the pid number of any individual in nFS.  Check out the charts at TreeSeek.com.

  

Source: Logan Family History Newsletter Vol 13 Issue 1

FamilySearch Learning Center Midwest Series

Have an ancestor from the Midwest or just want to learn more about using census and vital records? The U.S. Midwest Beginning Research Series is a new online learning series available at the FamilySearch.org Learning Center. The series can help people start their family history research in the Midwest states. Check out all three lessons in the series today.

Source: FamilySearch - Dec 2011

FamilySearch to Launch Major 1940 US Census Indexing Project

The following is by Heather Whittle Wrigley, Church News and Events

FamilySearch, in collaboration with other leading genealogy organizations, will begin publishing the 1940 U.S. Federal Census online for free on April 2, 2012—and tens of thousands of indexers are needed to help make the digital images searchable online.

Unlike previous census years, the 16th population census of the United States will be released by the National Archives and Records Administration in the form of free digital images. By law, census records cannot be released until 72 years have passed.

April 2, 2012, marks 72 years to the day since the 1940 census was taken. Census records from 1790 through 1930 are currently available on FamilySearch.org.

FamilySearch will provide those images online to tens of thousands of volunteers to start transcribing the records so they become searchable. Indexers type information from the digital images into electronic forms that make the information searchable online.

FamilySearch expects the 132 million records to be indexed by the end of 2012, but meeting that deadline depends on how many volunteers work on them.

“We’re looking for 100,000 additional indexers for this project,” said Michael Judson, FamilySearch’s indexing workforce development manager. “It’s the genealogy story of the year, and there is a lot of interest both in and out of the Church.”

The 1940 U.S. Federal Census is the largest, most comprehensive, and most recent record set available that records the names of those who were living in the United States at the time the census was taken.

Many of these individuals are part of what has been called the greatest generation—people who lived through the Great Depression, fought in World War II, and lived throughout the 48 states that existed at the time.

Tens of millions of people living in the United States in 1940 are still living today, making the 1940 census a record set that connects people with recent family records. It was the first to record such interesting facts as where people lived five years before, individuals’ highest educational level achieved, and detailed income and occupation information.

 “The 1940 census is attractive to both new and experienced researchers because most people in the United States can remember a relative that was living in 1940,” said David Rencher, chief genealogy officer for FamilySearch. “It will do more to connect living memory with historical records and families than any other collection previously made available.”

Volunteers can help with the 1940 U.S. Census project online at FamilySearch.org/1940Census

Mocavo Introduces a U.K. Version of Its Genealogy Search Engine

The following announcement was written by Mocavo.com:

Our ancestors are like needles in a global-sized haystack. Many of us have zeroed in on what area of the globe our needles happen to lie, so why should we be required to search the whole thing? The Mocavo team has decided it’s time this proverbial haystack got sectioned off.

Today we’re thrilled to launch Mocavo.co.uk - a United Kingdom version of Mocavo that will search websites, blogs, records and content specifically from, or discussing, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh decent.

While Mocavo.com searches sites and blogs from around the world, and will continue to do so, Mocavo.co.uk will focus specifically on the United Kingdom, giving those who wish to narrow their search to that region the ability to do just that.

So if you descend from UK families, be sure to check out our newest addition to the Mocavo search family.

The following article is from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com/.