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MyHeritage Acquires Dynastree.com Print E-mail
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MyHeritage Acquires Dynastree.com


20th February 2010 - MyHeritage.com, the company that connects families to their past and to one another, announced a significant expansion of its global family network through the acquisition of the Hamburg-based OSN Group, which operates a network of 10 market-leading family sites, including Verwandt.de (Germany), Moikrewni.pl (Poland) and Dynastree.com (USA).

By integrating these market-leading services into a single international platform, we are taking a great step towards realizing our vision of connecting families around the world,” said Gilad Japhet, founder and CEO of MyHeritage.com

“We’re thrilled to welcome millions of new families from some of the Internet’s most important markets to our platform. We look forward to offering our new members an effortless migration which preserves their privacy, and we will deliver the best that our combined network and technologies can offer to support them in exploring their family history, sharing important memories and staying connected”.

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The Birds Have Flown Print E-mail

altThe IPS Digitisation project


What is the digitisation project ?

In 2005, Siemens IT Solutions were awarded a three year contract to undertake the digitisation of birth, death and marriage records for England and Wales from 1837 to 2006. The Siemens contract expired and was not renewed in July 2008. At that point the Digitisation of Vital Events (DoVE) project was closed, as was the MAGPIE project which was intended to provide online access to the digitised indexes. The work has been in a "pause and review" stage since July 2008.

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Welcome to FreeGEN Print E-mail
FreeGEN - Free GENealogy and family history resource Community
 
Genealogy is more popular now than ever before. With the advent of more affordable computers the internet has become the number one resource for people starting out on their own personal history adventure.
 
A vast number of family historians all over the world reach the point where their research leads them to relatives from the UK or associated Islands.
This is where FreeGEN can help!
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Hidden files reveal true suffering of early suffragettes Print E-mail
Suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst (right) with Annie Kenny, 1906 (Image reference: COPY 1/494)
Suffragettes Christabel Pankhurst (right) with Annie Kenny, 1906 (Image reference: COPY 1/494)

 

 
Files uncovered at The National Archives shed new light on the hardships some women endured in their fight for the vote 100 years ago.

The two Home Office files date from late 1909 but only came to light during a recent cataloguing project. They relate to the arrest of nine suffragettes, and their subsequent imprisonment in Winson Green Prison, Birmingham.
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New online tools point researchers in the right direction Print E-mail

 

 
General Ian Hamilton, 1902 (catalogue reference: COPY 1/454)
 

Looking for records of a person? (Catalogue reference: COPY 1/454)

altThe National Archives has launched a set of more than 60 'research signposts' on Looking for records of a person, to simplify the process of researching an ancestor.

Each signpost takes a single topic - for example the census, railway workers or the Indian Army. The short, clearly written guide points you to the most useful resources, whether these are online or original documents, held at The National Archives or elsewhere.

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