GenealogyBank.com adds to its historical newspaper collection

Billed as the largest online newspaper archive for family history research, GenealogyBank.com, a subscription website, has “added and expanded 32 newspapers from 23 states.” For a complete listing of the recent additions, copy and paste the following URL into your web browser:

<http://blog.genealogybank.com/2009/09/newspapers-from-22-states-go-online.html>

For a complete, state-by-state listing of GenealogyBank.com’s newspaper collection, copy and paste the following URL into your web browser:

<http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/sourcelist/>

Note: A 30-day trial subscription is available for $9.95.

New Look for FamilySearch.org’s “Record Search”

If you haven’t visited FamilySearch.org’s “RecordSearch” in the last few days, you’ll find a whole new look and feel. Version 2.0 was released September 1st and has different colors and screen layouts as well as other enhancements.

For a more complete description of the update, copy and paste the following URL into your web browser:

<http://labs.familysearch.org/blog>

See the second item - “A New Release of Record Search” by Bryce Roper.

To visit the website itself, click on “FamilySearch.org - Record Search” under Favorite Links.

50 Most Popular Genealogy Websites for 2009

Please note that the listing under Favorite Links for ProGenealogists’ “50 Most Popular Genealogy Websites” has been updated. The link now connects to a listing of the most popular genealogy websites created during the first quarter of 2009. Rankings for 2008 are shown in parentheses.

New to the top 50 are numbers “35" (Genealogytrails.com), “37” (GenoPro.com), “45” (ObitLinksPage.com), “47” (FamilyHistory101.com) and “49” (DAR.org).