Showing posts with label Labor Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Labor Day. Show all posts

Friday, September 4, 2015

NEHGS Offers Free Access on AmericanAncestors.org for Labor Day Weekend

The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) made the following announcement on their website:

Labor Day—the American Way: Working on Your Family History

Your ancestors worked hard to give you this extra day of rest—so spend it in tribute to them, uncovering more of your family history. In commemoration of Labor Day, American Ancestors and NEHGS offer a week to work FREE on your past, with FREE access to some of our most popular American Ancestors databases. In these resources containing census, tax, and voter list information, you might just find your ancestors diligently at work. Register as a FREE Guest User on AmericanAncestors.org and enjoy making new discoveries about your family history—where, unfortunately, the work is never done. Open now through Wednesday, September 9.

About Census, Tax, and Voter Lists

Census, Tax, and Voter Lists contains a range of resources to provide information about the families who resided in the New England states between the 18th and 20th centuries. Broader collections help to trace families as they moved to other areas of the United States. And a handful of European databases can assist researchers attempting to further document their family’s heritage.
Visit http://www.americanancestors.org/laborday to access these records through September 9.


Wednesday, September 2, 2015

FREE Access to Ancestry.com Records this Labor Day Weekend

This announcement was made on the Ancestry Facebook page this morning:
Ancestry has launched the largest online collection of wills and probate records in the United States, with more than 170 million pages and searchable records included from all 50 states spread over 337 years (1668-2005). This unprecedented collection launches a new category of records for family history research never before available online at this scale the United States.

Search this new collection for your ancestors today thru September 7th FREE: http://ancstry.me/1Vwe2oR.
 Not only that, but they are including ALL U.S. birth, marriage, and death records FREE.

Image: Ancestry.com
 UPDATE: Reader Rondie reported that she accessed the new Wills and Probate collection this morning and found a very short and incomplete probate record for the person she was seeking. She poked around a little and found that most of his probate papers were incorrectly indexed under another person's name—the person appearing right before him in the probate book. So, if you don't find the records you are hoping for, browse the images because they may be before or after your relative's indexed file.