Argentina 1895 Census Part 4

A comment posted on my one of my last posts concerning the 1895 Census caught my attention. The comment read: "The site says that altho...

FamilySearch and The Generations Network Reach Agreement

I think most people have heard about this by now, but yesterday I received the following email from the Generations Network (parent company ...

Spanish Variant Spellings and Interchangable Letters

Have you ever heard the saying: "There is more than one way to skin a cat.?" I believe a similar saying could be said in genealogy...

Argentina 1895 Census Part 3

Introduction I thought I would spend some time and read through some mailing lists/groups to see if anyone was talking about the Argentina 1...

Second Class Now Available on RootsTelevision

Well, the classes from the FHL Hispanic Genealogy and Family History Conference (October 19th and 20th) are now trickling in on RootsTelevis...

1895 Argentina Census Now Online part 2

This last week of work has been interesting. I've had a handful of people come into my office and express their surprise at the number o...

1895 Argentina Census Now Online

Having the the Mexico 1930 National Census images available online was a pretty significant event for Hispanic genealogy. For the first time...

Roots Television and FHL Hispanic Genealogy Conference Update

I imagine many of you are wondering why the FHL Hispanic Genealogy Conference classes have not been posted on Roots Television . Having aske...

FamilyHistoryLive Hispanic Online Conference

I've been excited to see so many people vote on which classes they would like to see presented online via FamilyHistoryLive.com . I have...

Nicaragua FamilySearch Indexing Project Launched

I haven't felt very much excitement in the Hispanic genealogy community for the Nicaragua (Managua) Civil Registration indexing project ...

Back from Peru

Last week was busy, here is a recap of my week: I attended the genealogy and heraldry congreso presented by the Instituto Peruano de Investi...

More Mexico IGI Batch Numbers Added...

If you are reading this, and you still haven't visited the Mexico IGI batch number wiki you are missing out! If you have been to the si...

FHL Hispanic Conference Classes and Roots Television Update

Update We should be begin seeing the classes online at: http://www.rootstelevision.com starting next week. Some of the English classes will...

A Tale of the Numbers...

First Things First I have been tempted to wait a few more days to do another post, but blogging is addicting and I thought I would throw som...

Hispanic Family History Conference Online

One of the emails that I received asking that the FHL transmit or record the classes from the recent Hispanic genealogy conference was from ...

Hispanic Family History Conference Review

I think the announcement that Roots Television was going to record several of the classes, and the rain/snow showers kept a lot of people a...

Mexico IGI Batch Number Experiment

I am probably the worst genealogist in the world when it comes to research logs and keeping track of where I have searched, especially when ...

FHL Hispanic Conference and Roots Television

Thanks to some faithful and diligent genealogy / family history enthusiasts out there I have some good news to report. About two weeks ago m...

Central America Genealogy

I was sifting through my posts today and realized that I really haven't posted anything specific to Central America. Understanding that ...

FamilySearch Press Release - 4 Oct 2007

I just received this news release via email this morning. I hope you find it as interesting as I do...hopefully those of you that use family...

Somos Primos Newsletter

If you haven't subscribed to the monthly Somos Primos Newsletter (online...subscription is free), then you are missing out. The newslet...

PARES - Portal de Archivos Españoles

Hands down the best website for Spanish genealogy is http://www.pares.mcu .es The website has great genealogical information and online rec...

My IGI Videoette

I have tested the 'new features waters' of Blogger, and put together my first 'videoette.' I thought I would put together a ...

Hispanic and Mexican Family History Classes Online

Last weekend I taught a couple classes at a genealogy conference in Austin, Texas. I briefly mentioned that there were some online genealogy...

FamilySearch Wiki Beta Launched

If you haven't heard yet, the FamilySearch Wiki (beta version) was launched about a week ago. The site is available for anyone to brows...

FamilySearch Presentation at the Nosotros Los Tejanos Genealogy Conference

Many of the people that attended my class "Discovering the FamilySearch Treasure Trove" at the Nosotros Los Tejanos Genealogy and ...

WorldVitalRecords.com and Familias-Argentinas.com.ar Partnership Announced

WorldVitalRecords.com and Familias-Argentinas.com.ar have teamed up. This is great news for anyone with Latin American ancestry...finally so...

1930 Mexican Census Indexing Project

I hope everyone is ready to help out with the indexing of the 1930 Mexican census. If you haven't already heard, the census is one of th...

Dispensas Matrimoniales

It's been a busy past few weeks. I transferred to a new position in the Family History department, and I started teaching at BYU again.....

Hispanic Family History and Genealogy Conference at the FHL

I really wanted to get to marriage dispensations, however, I promised that I would update update everyone about the annual Hispanic Family H...

Expedientes Matrimoniales Continued

I felt bad last week for having to cut my post short, however, it was probably getting a little long so maybe it was a good thing I was havi...