We are excited about our two new class offerings starting in January of 2016:

• United States Probate Records
• United States Land Records

Please visit our page for more information and consider joining us.

GoogleBooks has a digital copy of the 1904 Citizenship of the United States by Frederick Van Dyne. Might make for some interesting reading for those whose ancestors were immigrants to the United States before 1904. 

The following database is showing as updated at FamilySearch since our last posting:

New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947

Arhchive.org is a great site that provides access to millions of books. Remember that when searching their site you are searching the titles, authors, and descriptions of the books. You are not performing a full-text search of each book simultaneously. You can search texts of digitized materials, but that is done on a book by book basis.

The US National Archives maintains several online databases of military personnel. These are generally 20th century records.

We’ve released new or updated webinars on the following topics:

• Archive.org
• Preserving Past You
• Females
• Trip Planning
• Charts, Charts, and More Charts

More details can be found here.

Connie (Ufkes) Neill (1942-2015) and Michael John Neill, December probably of 1970, taken at home of Ralph Neill, near Macomb, Illinois.

Happy Holidays from the staff of 1 here at Genealogy Search Tip of the Day. Yours truly is holding a stuffed animal and sitting on his mother’s lap in this picture from 1970.

Don’t forget to take at least one picture of yourself this holiday season and make certain to preserve it.

Future generations will be glad you did.

Just a few little idiosyncrasies in the of yearbook collection at Ancestry.com. It always pays to browse the data before searching. There’s an extra state of “Conneticut.”

It can’t be decided if the name here is Culver-Stockton, Culver Stockton, or Stockton.

Some variations on school names are not necessarily Ancestry.com’s fault. The college now known as Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, has gone by several names during its history. 

Bowen High School according to the drop-down menu is in Bowen, Illinois.

The problem is that the “Bowen High School” for whom Ancestry.com has yearbooks is in Chicago and a different “Bowen High School” from the “Bowen High School” that was in Bowen, Ilinois.