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Scottish Family History Centre

13 August 2005 by George Lewis

An article by Jim Gilchrist at Scotsman.com News highlights Scotland’s Family History Centre, a Â£1.6million effort to link the General Register House and New Register House. When it’s finished, there will be a “one-stop single point of archive access to more than 40 million digitised records.

Western Australia Buys Genealogist’s Lifetime Work

11 August 2005 by George Lewis

Avon Valley Advocate (Northam/Western Australia): State buys Jan’s lifetime genealogy work NORTHAM’S Jan Goodacre has seen the vindication of 35 years’ work with the sale of her database on Western Australia’s Aboriginal genealogy to the State Government. Price has not been disclosed but Jan admits it is a “considerable sum”. A presentation will be made … Read more

Genealogy and PDAs

10 August 2005 by George Lewis

Recently Dick Eastman wrote about a website run by Illya D’Addezio, that contains a large amount of genealogy information and resources in WAP format (Wirless Application Protocol), that can be read on handheld devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.).

Jim H. sent me a link to a new site, MobileGenealogy.com that is also dedicated to genealogy and PDAs, although, unlike D’Addezio’s website, MobileGenealogy.com is geared more towards the equipment, software, and practices behind using PDAs in genealogy research. The two sites do compliment one another.

A Summer Living with the Dead

18 December 200510 August 2005 by George Lewis

No, this isn’t a tale of following the Grateful Dead around on tour years ago. The Daily Times (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia), has an article about the Lewes Historical Society’s “Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred Cemetery Survey”, a project with volunteers dedicated to idenitifying and inventoring the historical cemeteries of the area.

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland

10 August 2005 by George Lewis

If you are of Irish descent, or doing research on lines from Ireland, Library Ireland has posted A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland online. Library Ireland is a great resource for researchers (and it’s free), offering a large number of out-of-print books online.