Category Archives: Resources

Back in April I wrote Are You Up for the Challenge? discussing the project that FGS is working on to digitize the War of 1812 pension files. In that post I reported that Indiana Genealogical Society stated a matching program where they will match contributions […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.

There are so many factors that take us away from our passion for genealogy:  lack of time and money, limited access to records, and other obligations.  All of these suck the motivation right out of us and when we do find time or some extra […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve learned or found.

Ancestry has a new collection, just in time for the 4th of July.  You can now search the Sons of the American Revolution applications, which are indexed by all of the names found in the lineage of the application.

A law passed in May 2010 allows for Illinois adoptees to request their original birth certificates without a court order.  Those who were born before 1 January 1946 have been able to request their birth certificates since the law was enacted.  Those born after 1 […]

As many of you know, the Federation of Genealogical Societies is working to raise money in order to digitize the War of 1812 pensions.  The goal is to raise $3.7 million and to have the digitization of records completed in 2015. You can help by […]