Saturday, November 04, 2006

Community Archives of UK

Community Archives: the national directory of community archives in the UK: "Welcome

This website has been set up to show the variety and quantity of community archives in the UK. It's a meeting-place where archives can publicise their work and share their experiences.

If you run an archive, please add it to the directory and join the forums. If not, discover what we mean by a community archive and look at the showcase.

genealogy Finland / Suomi

Cyndi's List - Finland / Suomi

The Genealogical Society of Finland
Genealogy
- The Genealogical Society of Finland. ... Borg: Guld- och silversmeder i Finland; Bäcksbacka: Narvas och Nyens guldsmeder (A total of 4478 names) ...
www.genealogia.fi/indexe.htm

like the polish they seem to like the latin spelling
finland genealogia - Google Search

canadian census

CNW Group: "PROVO, Utah, Nov. 2 /CNW/ -- Ancestry.ca, the leading online website for Canadian family history records, today announced it has released the first complete index of the 1851 Census of Canada.

Ancestry.ca is the only source where all publicly available Canadian census collections from 1851, 1901, 1906 and 1911 are fully-indexed and searchable online.
The launch of the 1851 Census of Canada collection allows virtually anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to access this information and view actual images of original census documents. The addition of the 1851 census to the Ancestry.ca historical records collection gives Canadians access to an additional 1.4 million Canadian names and more than 85,000 images and actual census documents.
The site also offers the only online collection of vital records from Ontario and British Columbia as well as a plethora of digital content from the United States, UK, Scotland and Wales, including the entire U.S. Federal Census Collection from 1790-1930.

'The 1851 census captures a critical point in Canada's history providing a snapshot of the country at the end of a wave of Irish famine immigrants and a few years before the creation of the Confederation,' said Tim Sullivan, CEO, MyFamily.com, Inc., parent company of Ancestry.ca.

'An estimated 80 percent of the Canadian population today is actively researching or interested in family history"

amusing ancestry error message

an amusing error message because I am logged on via my virtual PC and FTM 16

and I clicked on an email on the Mac OS via Google Mail
this also happens if you use two different browsers on the same machine


Dear Hugh,

Did you know that you're a member of the world's largest online community dedicated to family history? The Ancestry Community makes it easy to search thousands of message boards and read personal member profiles that can help you determine if another Ancestry member is researching your family history. http://www.ancestry.com/community/

better use the original http://www.rootsweb.com/

Visit the Ancestry Community:
How can you connect with another member?
Send an anonymous email through the ancestry.com connection service, which shares only your username and your customized email message. From there, you can ask questions, compare notes - and share what you learn with your family.


Ancestry.com - Too many people logged in:

" License Limit Exceeded


What does this mean?
Your account is currently being used on another computer. Your Ancestry account provides a single-user license and can only be accessed by one person at a time.

How did this happen?

1.You are still logged into your account on another computer
Solution 1 – After 30 minutes of inactivity your account will be available and you will be able to login from any computer.
Solution 2 – On the computer that is currently logged in, click the “log out” button in the upper right hand corner of the Ancestry site. Your account will then be available from any computer.

2. Someone else has logged into your account
Solution – Contact customer support at 1-800-262-3787 to reset your account and password.

If you would like to open an additional account at Ancestry, please call 1-800-262-3787."

Friday, November 03, 2006

Podunk a small, unimportant, and isolated town

About ePodunk: "At ePodunk, there's no such thing as a small, unimportant town. We believe deeply in the power of place.

ePodunk launching its first in-depth site, profiling communities across the U.S., in 2001. In August 2005, a Canada site was added. And in late April 2006, we expanded to the U.K.

ePodunk was founded by journalists with years of experience in newspapers, online publishing and demographics"

essential an advertising site with links to freebies etc..

Thursday, November 02, 2006

1837 on line is rebranded

Findmypast.com is the new name for 1837online. Same team, same values, same exceptional customer service – just a new name to show our commitment to helping you find your past.

findmypast.com - The place to start tracing your family history

and

Ancestorsonboard.com is the new microsite powered by findmypast.com, which details information about the new database featuring the National Archives' records from series BT27 Outward Passenger Lists, covering long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1960 right back to 1890.

The project, in association with The National Archives, will allow you to search for records of individuals or groups of people leaving for destinations including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA, featuring ports such as Boston, Philadelphia and New York. There are also many passengers who started their journeys in European countries.

Keep an eye out on www.ancestorsonboard.com

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Digital Genealogist

Digital Genealogist is a successor in this market to the old Genealogical Computing, which was cancelled by MyFamily Com, and which is edited by Liz Kelley Kerstens

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

no Firefox 2 on MAC yet

it has frozen many times today on Mac OS 10.4.8

so please WAIT for a bug fix BEFORE INSTALLING

Ungdomshuset - Jagtvej 69 Copenhagen Denmark

Ungdomshuset - Jagtvej 69: "Kampagnen er taget gevaldigt til i styrke siden landsretten d. 28. august i år stadfæstede byrettens dom. Med denne dom i hånden kan den skrupskøre højreorienterede frikirke Faderhuset forlange huset ryddet. Den nuværende rydningstrussel er et direkte resultat, af at politikerne i Københavns Borgerrepræsentation i år 2000 løb fra alle tidligere løfter og aftaler og solgte skødet til huset, trods massive protester fra alle tænkelige kanter. Vi giver ikke op og vi opfordrer alle til at deltage i kampen for bevarelse af vores allesammens Ungeren.
"

Monday, October 30, 2006

Mozilla Firefox 2

MozillaZine Talkback: "The Mozilla Corporation has officially released Mozilla Firefox 2 for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Coming just days after the launch of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 offers a refreshed user interface, anti-phishing protection, improvements to the built-in search feature, tabbed browsing changes, the ability to restore an interrupted session, better support for Web feeds, inline spell-checking, support for microsummaries and a number of other enhancements.

Upon starting Firefox 2 for the first time, most users will notice the updated default theme. This refines the design and usability of the theme used since Firefox 1.0 without making any jarring or radical alterations. Design proposals were solicited from three agencies: MetaDesign, Radiant Core and Raizlabs. Radiant Core's proposal was picked and developed for the finished product.

In addition to refining the look of the buttons and other visual elements, the new design tethers the Go button to the Location Bar and adds an equivalent action button to the Search Bar. Several clickable buttons (for example, the feed icon in the Location Bar and the search engine icon in the Search Bar) have been refined to make it more obvious that they are interactive.

Firefox 2's Phishing Protection feature was developed from the Google Safe Browsing feature of the Google Toolbar for Firefox using code"