Genealogy Soup » – Vital Records http://genealogysoup.com/blog Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:35:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Betty White Hits a Home Run with SNL Genealogy Audience http://genealogysoup.com/blog/betty-white-hits-a-home-run-with-snl-genealogy-audience/ http://genealogysoup.com/blog/betty-white-hits-a-home-run-with-snl-genealogy-audience/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 19:25:27 +0000 C. Hogan http://genealogysoup.com/blog/?p=921 Betty White recently hosted Saturday Night Live and gave all of us Genealogists out their a chuckle with her census skit.  If  like me, you have poured over census sheets wondering how in the world the census takers came up with the information they did you will enjoy this video.

If you happened to miss it you can watch it below.

]]> http://genealogysoup.com/blog/betty-white-hits-a-home-run-with-snl-genealogy-audience/feed/ 0 Significant Improvements and Expansion for MyHeritage Genealogy Search Engine http://genealogysoup.com/blog/significant-improvements-and-expansion-for-myheritage-genealogy-search-engine/ http://genealogysoup.com/blog/significant-improvements-and-expansion-for-myheritage-genealogy-search-engine/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:19:05 +0000 C. Hogan http://genealogysoup.com/blog/?p=719 MyHeritage Press Release-

Our latest addition made the MyHeritage Genealogy Search Engine more powerful, as we have expanded our database to include now 1,526 genealogically relevant databases, representing more than 12 billion names.
You can get to it by going to http://www.myheritage.com/research or you can still access it directly from our software Family Tree Builder.

We have expanded our database by 150+ new sources. Some of the new sources are:
· Facebook
· Digg
· Spock people finder
· Michigan Census
· German Emigrants Database
· BMD Registers UK
· USA Gov search
· Western Michigan Newspapers
· Palatines to America
· US Social Security Death Index
· Prague Police Headquarters Conscriptions (1850-1914)
· Consolidated Index of Sephardic Surnames
· Arizona Birth and Death Certificates
· European Patent Office

MyHeritage Research accesses only genealogical resources which helps researchers find those
websites and databases most relevant to their unique family histories. This allows you a much
quicker and efficient search, so you don’t have to wade through volumes of non relevant
records.

You can perform a name search using different spelling options: Exact, Soundex, or our
unique Megadex spelling variations. Megadex allows you to choose from the most commonly
used spelling variations of last names, cutting down on the time needed to research name
variations. Read more about Megadex here:
http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/megadex.php

Using the Advanced Search option, you can add birth and death dates. Based on the
information you enter, our search engine will automatically select the databases most
relevant to your search.

There is a lot more information on the Advanced Search on our genealogy blog!

http://www.myheritage.com/blogs/genealogyblog/2009/02/easy_searching_myheritage_adv

a.html

In addition, MyHeritage allow you to store and annotate your searches for further reference.
These tools allow you to focus on the results of your search, not the mechanics.
We hope those extensions will make it easier for everyone to research their family history
and improve the family tree.

About MyHeritage
MyHeritage was founded by a team of people who combine a passion for family history with the development of innovative technology. It is now one of the world’s leading online networks for families, and the second largest family history website. MyHeritage is available in 34 languages and home to more than 28 million family members and 300 million profiles. The company recently acquired Kindo, a family social network, and is based in Bnei Atarot, near Tel Aviv, Israel. For more information, visit www.myheritage.com.

]]> http://genealogysoup.com/blog/significant-improvements-and-expansion-for-myheritage-genealogy-search-engine/feed/ 0 Stephen P. Morse – One Step Genealogical Search http://genealogysoup.com/blog/stephen-p-morse-one-step-genealogical-search/ http://genealogysoup.com/blog/stephen-p-morse-one-step-genealogical-search/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:26:50 +0000 C. Hogan http://genealogysoup.com/blog/?p=93 Often times when searching genealogical records from any given “large” database site it can be easy to get lost or not find what you KNOW should be there because of the search tools that are provided to search the site.

Stephen Morse has an incredible site he calls “A One Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy” on which he has built some very advanced search pages to search the following records:

Ellis Island, Other Ports, US Census, Canada/UK Census, New York Census, Vital Records, Calendars, Maps, etc., Foreign Alphabets, Holoc & East Europe, Genetics (DNA), Creating your own Search Applications

And More…  bookmark this one and make sure to read the How to Use this site file he has.

Even if you have searched some of the sites on your own you may want to consider giving it a try again, especially if you have come up “blank” in the past and feel confident that your ancestor should be listed.

Happy Trails..

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