Thank you to 1940 US Census Index Volunteers

On Saturday, FamilySearch announced that its volunteers had completed indexing the 1940 US Census.   The remaining, unposted states are going through a quality review and will be posted in the next few weeks.  160,000 volunteers helped accomplish this monumental task....

Family Search indexing-NH births

I have to admit I’m a bit excited. FamilySearch’s indexing project has started working on NH births up to 1900. I like that I can work on a project like this that will help so many and that this is not a database that is repeated over and over on the...

Have you searched on the new FamilySearch Labs site?

I wrote a bit back about volunteering to index records for FamilySearch. See that post here. Did you know that some of the efforts by all these volunteers are already available? Best of all, they’re totally FREE and include not only the index, but scans of the...

Who was Murdoch McKenzie?

Murdoch McKenzie, our Scottish immigrant to Canada, was originally from Inverness, Scotland. At the time of the blockade of Quebec by the Americans, in 1775-76, he was one of the defenders, then 26 years old. This makes him born around 1744.  His parents' names, Murdoch and Catherine McKenzie, were listed on the record when Murdoch converted from the Protestant church to the Catholic church in Quebec, Canada on July 9, 1780. There is still no evidence of Catherine's maiden name–the true key to finding his probable family in Scotland.

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