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Census Reveals Unexpected News About Ancestors of Governor

The United States Census, from any year, holds a wealth of information for genealogists. Recently, someone looked at the 1930 Census and discovered that the Governor of New Mexico has grandparents who came to the United States illegally. This information doesn’t match well with some of the Governor’s political choices. There are a lot of genealogy websites that have recently added a collection of the United States Census, or that have made additions to their existing census archives. There is a law that prohibits public use of the census for a total of seventy-two years from the original date that … Continue reading →

Archives.com Adds Collection of U. S. Census

It is always a good thing when a genealogy website adds collections of records to its website. Archives.com has just added a full set of the U. S. Federal Population Census indexes to its collections. Data from the census is extremely useful for genealogists. Archives.com is a family history website. They have more than 1.5 billion historical records available to genealogists who use their service. The website first launched in 2009, and it has a tendency to team up with other genealogy websites in order to add new collections of records to their database. This is one of the more … Continue reading →

Ancestry.com Buys Archives.com for $100 Million

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Ancestry.com Inc., which has one of the most popular genealogy websites, Ancestry.com, is buying Archives.com. This purchase will allow Ancestry.com to reach a portion of the genealogy market that the Archives website was able to acquire. Are you using either of these genealogy websites? Ancestry.com started as a publishing company in 1983. They are now the world’s largest online resource for family history. They have more than 1.8 million paying subscribers worldwide. They have more than 9 billion historical records. There are more than 115 million photographs, scanned documents, and written stories on the website, and there have been 34 … Continue reading →