Those with an interest in the Chicago, Illinois, area may wish to take a look at this site:

http://www.chicagogenealogy.com/

FamilySearch has announced an update in the following index:

Actual images are not on FamilySearch.

FamilySearch is indicating that the following database has been updated since our last post:

Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921

The Illinois Digital Archives has a wonderful set of historical and genealogical images–including road maps from the early 20th century, Registers of Prisoners for Alton, Joliet and Menard State Prisons 1833-1908, and more.

FamilySearch has announced the following new database of images:

Denmark Census, 1834

Extant issues of the Ostfriesische Nachrichten, published in Breda, Iowa, are available online. Issues generally have good coverage from the 1880s through the 1910s. Search interface is a little clunky and the script doesn’t OCR all that well in places, but the issues are browsable.

I maintain the following genealogy blogs:

• Rootdig.com—Michael’s thoughts, research problems, suggestions, and whatever else crosses his desk
• Genealogy Tip of the Day—one genealogy research tip every day–short and to the point
• Genealogy Search Tip—websites I’ve discovered and the occasional online research tip–short and to the point?

Subscription/Unsubscription links are on the top of each page. Unsubscription links are also in each email sent.

The Center for Southwest Studies at Ft. Lewis College has a page of tips for dating U. S. postcards.

Genealogy Search Tip is sponsored by GenealogyBank.

There’s no map, but this page has a list of thirty-one stage coach routes in Texas in 1861.

It is a part of the Texas Transportation Archive which has a wide variety of material.

Genealogy Search Tip is sponsored by GenealogyBank.

The National Archives of Ireland has the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses available on their site as well as fragments for earlier years.

John Grenham on his Irish Roots blog indicates that over 15000 corrections have recently been posted to the index for 1901 and 1911.

Genealogy Search Tip is sponsored by GenealogyBank.