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NewspaperARCHIVE.com Partners with World Vital Records, Inc. to Increase Access to Half-Billion Records: "Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 04:39 am | Uncategorized
NewspaperARCHIVE.com (www.newspaperarchive.com), the largest newspaper database available online, has partnered with World Vital Records Inc.'s Web sites (WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilyLink.com) in a unique way to provide increased access to a half billion records from newspapers ranging from 1759-1923.
'Historical newspapers contain valuable information about our ancestors, which may not have been preserved in any other form. By making these records easily accessible, we hope they can become a part of someone's family history,' said Jeff Kiley, General Manager, NewspaperARCHIVE.com.
The uniqueness of this partnership stems from the way in which World Vital Records, Inc. will extract vital record information from the newspapers and place it on its site.
'We wanted to have vital record information from early American newspapers. NewspaperARCHIVE.com has allowed us to extract this information from their newspapers that cover the first 160-years of their collection,' said Yvette Arts, Director, Content Acquisition, World Vital Records, Inc.
With this partnership, NewspaperARCHIVE.com will provide several million pages of vital record data (approximately a half-billion online records), which will be available for subscribers at WorldVitalRecords.com . . . ."
Explore Historical Newspapers Online | NewspaperARCHIVE.com: "NewspaperARCHIVE.com is the world's largest online newspaper archive. Featuring billions of articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world, NewspaperARCHIVE makes exploring history and genealogy easy and fun. Discover fascinating news in archived newspapers hundreds of years old – including obituaries, birth announcements, sports articles, comics, and more – to fill in the life stories you are interested in. And share those stories with others through our community at OurNewspaperARCHIVE. All of our historical newspapers are full-page and fully searchable – try exploring above and discover your history today!"
IPS - Digitisation project: "This is the project to scan and digitise birth, marriage and death registration records for England and Wales from 1837 to present day.
In 2005, Siemens IT Solutions was awarded a three-year contract to undertake this work. The Siemens contract expired in 2008, by which time approximately half of the records had been digitised. A joint decision was taken by IPS and Siemens to not renew the contract. At that point the Digitisation of Vital Events (DoVE) project was closed. As a result of this closure, the project, which was intended to provide online access to the digitised indexes (MAGPIE), was unable to proceed."
IPS - Homepage: "The Identity and Passport Service is responsible for issuing UK passports and identity cards and for the registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales. It is an executive agency of the Home Office."
from findmypast.com in my email:-One of our team, Amy Sell, has started a blog to chart her research into her family’s past. She began her quest in July and has documented her progress with regular blog updates. To see where Amy’s got to, pick up some tips, or to simply read about her experiences, visit:
Amy: Finding My Past: "If there’s one thing I’ve picked up while working at findmypast, it’s definitely this tip! Honestly, ask absolutely anybody involved in genealogy and they’ll all tell you the same thing, “start with what you know”.
It’s very easy to try to run before you can walk when starting family history research (particularly if you have any juicy family rumours doing the rounds!) but the advice I’ve been given has been very clear; don’t try to work forwards from a rumoured famous ancestor, always work backwards from yourself. . . ."
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Online Dating UK • Friends Reunited Dating: "brightsolid today announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ITV plc for £25 million. The completion of the deal is subject to clearance by the competition authorities.
brightsolid is a fast growing online innovation business owned by DC Thomson, one of the largest privately owned media and publishing groups in the country. A key part of brightsolid's strategy is building businesses that link 'people and places' on the internet.
Friends Reunited is the original social network with 20.6 million members. It was launched in 2000 to put old school friends back in touch with each other and swiftly became a British media phenomenon.
Sister site Genes Reunited was launched in 2003 and is currently the UK's largest family history website with over 9 million members worldwide and 650 million names listed. Together with Friends Reunited Dating, the group attracts three million unique users per month.
The acquisition of Friends Reunited Group
would create Britain's leading genealogy business by bringing together Genes Reunited and findmypast.com (which operate the official 1901 and 1911 Census websites respectively in association with The National Archives) and ScotlandsPeople in partnership with General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon."
One of the many things I like about NewspaperARCHIVE.com is that you can get e-mail updates when new articles are added to the archive matching your search criteria.I'm always searching for VOLLICK and FOLLICK anywhere, anytime in North America. So it's a challenge for me to remember what I've searched and where (and which individual!). So the email notification of new articles with my surnames
Forsvarets Bibliotek en realitet: "Forsvarets Bibliotek en realitet
Forsvarets Bibliotek er en realitet. De tre værnsbiblioteker i forsvaret er i gang med at blive lagt sammen til et stort moderne forskningsbibliotek med øget service til brugerne.
02-11-2009 kl. 15:10
Med Forsvarets Bibliotek vil Forsvaret forbedre serviceniveauet og øge formidlingen af viden om forsvarsrelaterede emner, bl.a. gennem brugervenlige systemer på nettet.
Øget service og vidensindsamling
Onlinekataloger og elektroniske portaler er hverdag på dagens biblioteker, og forsvaret skal følge udviklingen for at yde den bedste service til brugerne af biblioteket. Et øget samarbejde med forsvarets officersskoler og Forsvarsakademiet er også en del af det nye bibliotek. Formålet er at øge videns- og dokumentationsindsamling inden for de områder, som forskningen og officersuddannelserne fokuserer på.
Kastellet som base
Forsvarets Bibliotek vil være placeret i og offentligt tilgængeligt i Kastellet. Herudover vil der blive oprettet betjeningssteder ved officersskolerne og på Forsvarsakademiet.
Samlingerne vil indeholde litteratur fra alle tre værn og fysisk bestå af ca. 38.000 bøger og tidsskrifter. De resterende bøger bliver opbevaret i magasiner, hvor fra de vil være til rådighed 1-2 dage efter forespørgslen. Søgning foretages gennem online kataloger.
Hele sammenlægningsprocessen forventes at være gennemført i juni 2010. Men allerede fra november flytter Flyvevåbnets Bibliotek sin åbne samling ind i Kastellet, mens Marinens Bibliotek følger efter med sin åbne samling i februar 2010.
Forsvarets Bibliotek
De tre biblioteker, der nu bliver ét er:
* Det Kongelige Garnisonsbibliotek (KGB) i Kastellet, København
* Flyvevåbnets Bibliotek (FLB) i Jonstruplejren, Ballerup
* Marinens Bibliotek (MAB) på Nyholm, København
Dertil kommer Forsvarsakademiets Bibliotek (FAKBIB), som dog forbliver på stedet som betjeningssted for Forsvarsakademiets studerende og ansatte.
Forsvarets Bibliotek vil være organiseret under Forsvarsakademiet."
free birth records information: "This page is a partial listing of free online resources for finding birth records. Some of the webpages are government or library sites, while others are sponsored by religious or genealogy groups. Some sites, such as the Mormon (LDS) Family History resources and a few government sites, allow their visitors to view and download certificates for free. But, in most cases, you will need to order copies of birth certificates from the appropriate county, state, or national government office.
Many genealogy societies as well as governments and other organizations and groups are in the process of digitizing vital records, and their online databases are incomplete. That is because, rather than wait until all records have been indexed, they put the records indexed thus far online. So if you do not find what you want to find at a particular site, do check back periodically to see if the records you are interested in have been added to the database.
Many of these sites also allow you to search for marriages and deaths as well, but this page will only discuss birth indices, birth certificates, and baptismal records."
Pillars Of Faith: "What this site is about
The Rhondda is synonymous with coal. Coal brought the people to 'The Valleys'. The people brought their religion with them.
And almost as fast as houses were built to serve the ever increasing population, chapels were built to serve their faith. There is a most famous quotation that by 1905 there were 151 Nonconformist chapels with a seating capacity of 85,105 in the Rhondda Urban District.
But for the people of The Rhondda, the chapel was much more than a place of worship. Much of the social life of the people revolved around the chapel.
Yet it is not so easy to explain the reasons for the decline in chapel attendance. The decline in the mining industry played, I believe, only a small part in this. But what is for certain, one by one the congregations diminished and the chapels closed. Many fell into disrepair and many of these were demolished.The lucky ones were acquired by developers who retained the structure and put it to good use.
And this year, I heard that several chapels with a close connection to my own family were forced to close and these could also vanish in the near future.
Although I have lived all my life in The Rhondda, I can still walk down a street and pass a building without realising that a chapel once stood at that location. But I feel that their visual memory should be retained which is why I decided to make this site."
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