It is common knowledge among those genealogists that I come in contact with that the FamilySearch.org Catalog has not been updated for over two years. What this means is that the millions of digitized records being added daily to the FamilySearch.org website are not in the Catalog. So where are they? I will leave that question for a …
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Database gathers information on Belgian resistance activities during WWII
Eighty years after the liberation of Belgium and the end of World War II, a new database brings together all information on the resistance activities during World War II in Belgium. The national resistance database is the result of a pilot project run by expertise centre CegeSoma and the State Archives of Belgium. On the Resistance …
Compiling Agricultural Experiments Data
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a dataset that contains data on agricultural productivity and farming techniques from 1888 to 2021. The researchers collected historical records on an agricultural experiment that has been continuously running since 1888 examining the impact of certain farming practices on maize. Studying long-term data from such agricultural …