Sun, 25 Jun 2006

Genealogical site digitizes millions of census records

Despite my religious (some say "religious" meaning "intense", but I'm being quite literal here) interest in genealogy, I've never seen the point in signing up for one of these kind of sites. Especially as much of the data they offer can be obtained for free elsewhere.

That just changed.

This was a massive effort, and is certainly enough to get me to give it another try. Depending on how much they're going to be charging for it, it might be worth a years membership. This could be very useful for me in filling in the "side-story" - those brothers, sisters, cousins and other family members not in my direct ancestry that I know about in one time frame but lose over the long haul due to lack of data. I don't think I can claim "lack of data" any more ...

An Internet company is adding U.S. Census records to boost its archive of searchable names to 5 billion, which it says is the most comprehensive genealogical database ever compiled.

(link) [CNN]

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On 6/25/2006 23:39:32
Stephen Williamson wrote

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