11 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Friday, 31 Jan 2014

1/31/2014

Today's Things

Yahoo Mail was hacked. Learn all about it and how to prevent it from happening to you on Forbes.com.
If you are a genealogy blogger or news media, the NGS is asking for applications for official Social Media Press designation for their 2014 conference which will be held in Richmond, Virginia, May 7th-10th. Read more about it on the Upfront NGS Blog.
On Genea-Musings, Randy lists his top 10 free US genealogy resource sites.
Yesterday, USGenWeb volunteer contributors uploaded 191 files yesterday for various counties in the following US states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming.
And Genealogy Trails volunteer contributors uploaded various records for Texas and Georgia.
Have Kansas ancestors? In honor of Kansas' 153rd anniversary of statehood, GenealogyBank.com's blog spotlighted 125 Kansas newspapers.

Not to be outdone, Ancestry.com released their new research guide for researching in Kansas.
Don't forget the helpful (but small) collection of online databases for Kansas on FamilySearch.org. And then, of course, what's really helpful for those researching in Kansas, is their Kansas Wiki Page. [LOTS of good stuff there no matter where you research.]
From Chris Paton on The British GENES Blog: 1901 English and Welsh Census are Now Online & he gives a little background on the collection which is very helpful.
Yesterday, Ancestry.com updated their databases of indexed records for The Netherlands (BMD), and these are from FamilySearch.org. So don't forget this important tip before diving in.
Here's a short video from Findmypast with a look at their new collection of British in India records from The British Library [Direct link for those who cannot view the video below: http://youtu.be/CecyUb_M3fk ]:

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