Not Those Kennedys

State boundary changes saved as layers that can be used in Google Earth.

Includes Rheinland-Pfalz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, and Saarland.

Wonderful post about how to use ChatGPT to parse and format information from sources in your genealogical research.

If you are interested in learning how to read old French handwriting for the purpose of extracting parish records, you may consult the French Records Extraction Guide. This resource provides basic principles, examples, and practice exercises which will enable you to identify specific parts and characteristics of christening and marriage record entries. The French Records Extraction Guide was first published in 1981 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is now available for download on this website in PDF format.

Many countries added. Great addition!

Basically, the German equivalent of Chronicling America. 

This is a fantastic discussion of WWI military rosters from Bavaria. This is Part 2 of a 5 part series of the writer’s case study on an ancestor. It provides transcription and translation of the column headers for the standard page setup. Highly recommended!

These records are the official lists of enlisted sailors assigned to different ships from 1861 to 1879. For this pivotal time in American history, the muster roll data provide not only the names, birthplaces, ages, discharges, and physical description of enlisted seamen but also information on contraband sailors, which referred to African Americans who escaped enslavement and served in the Navy during the Civil War.

FamilySearch’s digital collection of books.