Here is a press release from our friends at FamilySearch: Major milestones include completion of massive microfilm digitization project and unparalleled RootsTech attendance SALT LAKE CITY, UT—In 2021, FamilySearch completed the digitization of its massive microfilm collection—2.4 million rolls to be exact—and welcomed over 1 million people to its first all-virtual RootsTech Connect online event. FamilySearch International noted …
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Seven Kinds of Cookies
December 31, 2021 Christmas was nearly a week ago, but we still have cookies galore at our house. That’s because my son takes after his Norwegian great grandmother. She always made seven different kinds of cookies for Christmas. He told me on Christmas Eve that he’d outdone himself this year and made eleven – that’s …
New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of 27 December 2021
Discover more family connections on FamilySearch this week in 15 million new church records from Spain, Venezuela, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, and 3 million civil registration records were added for Brazil. Collections were also expanded for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and states throughout Mexico (Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chihuahua, Distrito Federal, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, …