by JL Beeken on 10-19-2007
After much pre-publicity, DNA Ancestry 
is finally here.
Since I haven’t tried this yet myself, and it’s pretty much news for all of us, I know about this much:
You buy a kit, swab the inside of your cheek, just like in the CSI shows, send it back to Ancestry and they will process your results and mail them back to you. Your results can also be added to an Ancestry database to be compared with other people’s results or be kept totally private. DNA matches are communicated anonymously.
Please open this user-friendly PDF called DNA Ancestry and read all about the process. They say it as well as it can be said.
What DNA Ancestry Tests Can Reveal
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by JL Beeken on 10-16-2007
by JL Beeken on 9-23-2007
This cleaning up frenzy I’m into can’t last forever – well, maybe it can.
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by JL Beeken on 6-28-2007
From The Generations Network:
PROVO, Utah, June 27 /PRNewswire/ — The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced two new additions to the Ancestry network of sites in France and Italy — Ancestry.fr and Ancestry.it.
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by JL Beeken on 6-26-2007
From The Generations Network:
PROVO, Utah, June 26 /PRNewswire/ — Ancestry.com, the world’s leading online family history resource, today launched more than 7.5 million names in U.S. Indian Censuses, the largest online collection of Native American family history records. Taken by the Bureau of Indian affairs, the censuses document some 150 years of Native American family history. These censuses create an intimate portrait of individuals living on all registered Indian reservations between 1885 and the 1940s.
The U.S. Indian Censuses are among the most important documents for tracing Native American family history — as well as the place to for anyone with Native American ancestry to begin searching for their heritage. Representing more than 250 tribes from some 275 reservations, schools and hospitals across the United States, the censuses typically recorded names, including Indian names, ages, birth dates, tribe, reservation and more.
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by JL Beeken on 5-31-2007
WorldVitalRecords is hopping again.
They announce that they have partnered with Quintin Publishing to put their entire CDROM library online. This is over 10,000 databases and is worth thousands of dollars if you were to buy each CD separately. This is a great library and includes such gems as Cassell’s Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland Volumes 1-6, England Maps, Ireland Maps, Scotland Maps, Handbook of Indians of Canada, Staffordshire pedigrees, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Dictionnair Topographique Du Department de l’Eure just to name a few. They have just started adding this content to the site but will continue to add these great resources to the web over the next month or so.
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