Early Bird Special

"Indians, Squatters, Settlers and Soldiers in the "Old Southwest"

Don't Miss Out 

2012 Early  Bird  Registration 

Ends July 1^st

Save up to $50 on registration!
 

The Federation of Genealogical Societies invites you to the FGS 2012 Conference for the Nation's Genealogists. A number of FamilySearch activities associated with this conference in Birmingham, Alabama will enhance the experience for all FamilySearch fans who choose to attend. If you register by Sunday, July 1st you'll save up to $50 on the registration fees. Click here to register - don't delay! Remember, the early bird gets the worm, and saves money too!

FAMILY HISTORY CENTER CLOSED

The FHC is closed Tuesday, June 19 from 1 - 4 pm but we will be here in the morning 10 - 1 pm. Due to a family emergency, the FHC will be closed on Thursdays until July 12.  PLEASE check the facebook page before you come; it have any last minute changes to schedule. Link on the right side under websites.

FAMILY SEARCH AND BILLION GRAVES

On our FamilySearch blog we have been providing our readers with a lot of information about a website called BillionGraves.com which is owned and operated by AppTime, LLC. We like what they have to offer to the public and feel that they have a bright future in the field of genealogy and family history research. BillionGraves aims to provide an expansive family history database for records and images from cemeteries located around the world by engaging volunteers using BillionGraves mobile applications. Digitized images of each gravestone will be tagged with GPS coordinates to make finding an ancestor’s graves a very simple matter of using a mobile cell phone. Their database is growing every day as volunteers gather images of headstones from around the world. Their goal is to collect images and GPS coordinates of one billion graves, which we feel is a very realistic goal.

With that in mind, effective immediately, FamilySearch would like to announce that we will be adding to FamilySearch the growing indexes of Billion Graves’ database.  Find out more.

FAMILY HISTORY SUMMER SCHEDULE

Summer is here and that means vacation time.  Some of our consultants are visiting with family this month so the center schedule is below:

June 12 - Open from 10 am - 1pm; closed 1 - 4 pm
June 14 - Closed
June 19 - Open from 10 am - 1pm; closed 1- 4 pm
July   4 - Closed
July   5 - Closed
July 17 - Closed from 10 am 1pm; Open 1 - 4 pm

NORMAL SCHEDULE APPLIES TO ALL OTHER TIMES

1940 U.S. CENSUS PROJECT HALFWAY COMPLETE

The halfway point for indexing the 1940 U.S. census is fast approaching. 

Congratulations and thank you to all of the volunteers participating in this unprecedented genealogical community effort. Currently more than 20 states are at or above 85 percent complete. Six states—Delaware, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Virginia, and New Hampshire—are now indexed and searchable by name, location, and family relations. And thanks to the efforts of more than 100,000 volunteers, more states will be added in the coming weeks. Follow the day-to-day indexing status at the1940census.com dashboard and search completed states at familysearch.org/1940census.

Recently Completed Projects

Note: Recently completed projects have been removed from the available online indexing batches and will now go through a final completion check process. They will be published at familysearch.org in the near future. 

•  U.S., Indiana—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Nevada—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Texas—Deaths, 1890–1976 [Part B]
• U.S., Wyoming—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Alaska—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Arizona—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Florida—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Texas—County Marriages 1837–1977 [Part C]
• U.S., Idaho—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Vermont—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Montana—1940 Federal Census
• U.S., Veterans Pension Cards, 1907–1933 [Part A]
• U.S., Mississippi—1940 Federal Census
• Canada, Ontario—Marriages, 1869–1927 [Part B]

GOOGLE TOOLBAR AND GENEALOGY

A MUST use tool for any online genealogy and family tree researcher.

This video show you how to easily install and use a special feature on the Google Toolbar that will reduce the strain on your eyes.  VIDEO LINK

Visit my "Treasure Maps How-to Genealogy" site for tons of free genealogy helps, tips and tutorials.

HISTORICAL RECORDS ADDED THIS SPRING

RECORDS ADDED THIS SPRING LIST:  https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list


Here are the Alabama records but of course there is much more

Alabama, Births and Christenings, 1881-1930	6,841	12 Mar 2012
Alabama, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865	1,213,534	21 Apr 2012
Alabama, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865	31,582	21 Apr 2012
Alabama, County Estate Records, 1800-1996	25,297	28 Feb 2012
Alabama, County Marriages, 1809-1950	566,839	8 May 2012
Alabama, County Probate Records	Browse Images	18 May 2011
Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952	105,825	4 May 2010
Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974	1,858,819	5 May 2010
Alabama, Madison County Chancery and Circuit Court Records, 1847-1950	Browse Images	10 May 2012
Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957	1,516,339	22 Mar 2012
Alabama, State Census, 1855	34,978	12 Dec 2011
Alabama, State Census, 1866	243,781	12 Dec 2011
Alabama, Sumter County Circuit Court Files, 1840-1950	Browse Images	4 Jan 2012