25 May 2007
More Web Site Service
Providers Team with FamilySearch
Popular
web sites available for free through local Family History Centers
Footnote (www.footnote.com)
Footnote
is a subscription-based website that features searchable, original
documents that provide users a view of the events, places and people
that shaped the American nation and the world. The site will have over
25 million digital images by the end of 2007. Footnote is currently
working with FamilySearch to index the American Revolutionary War
Pension files. Additional projects with FamilySearch are under
development.
Individuals
with Footnote subscriptions will be able to sign in with the same
Footnote username and password they use at home in order to save,
annotate, and upload content.
Godfrey Memorial Library (www.godfrey.org)
Godfrey
Memorial Library has an extensive collection of essential resources to
assist genealogical and historical research. Resources include
newspapers, city and business directories, vital records, printed
census records, state, county, and local histories, as well as numerous
family histories, family bible records, and service and pension records.
Heritage Quest/ProQuest (www.heritagequestonline.com)
Heritage
Quest online includes the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images
from 1790 to 1930 including names and indexes for many of the sets.
Users will be able to find people and places located in over 20,000
published family and local histories and PERSI, an index of over 1.9
million genealogy and local history articles. Other online databases
include Revolutionary War Pension, Bounty-Land Warrant Application
files, and the Freedman Bank Records.
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Access to
this service will be limited to 1,400 family history centers in
Kindred Konnections (www.kindredkonnections.com)
Kindred
Konnections has over 230 million pedigree linked names with submitter
information. The online pedigrees are not merged, but maintained by
individual patrons. There are additional databases of birth, marriage,
death, and census records that are automatically searched along with
the pedigree linked data. Segments of pedigrees can be downloaded.
World Vital Records (www.worldvitalrecords.com)