Downloaded from Dick Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter CanadianHeadstones.com now Exceeds 1.5 Million Records The folks at CanadianHeadstones.com (CH) sent a note announcing that the online web site has now surpassed 1.5 Million records. The announcement states, “CH was founded in 2009 as a completely FREE archive of headstone photographs. As a Canadian non-profit corporation, CH is staffed and controlled by unpaid-volunteer Directors. As a corporation, its longevity does not depend on a single person or private control. CH is the only fully Canadian site which indexes every name on the headstones, provides the complete transcription and is fully searchable on multiple levels including the text of the transcription. “Hundreds of volunteers and volunteer groups are submitting over 800 records per day!” You can learn more or even submit your own headstone photos for others to enjoy at http://www.CanadianHeadstones.com Staten Island Historical Newspapers Now Online The New York Public Library just posted more than 9,000 pages from The Richmond County Advance online, covering the years 1886 to 1910. Find them at nypl.org/sinewspapers. This “NYPL Innovation Project” began with the scanning of the Advance from the collections of Historic Richmond Town. It is the largest batch of historical Staten Island papers ever posted to the Web — and it is changing the way we explore the Island’s past. The Advance joins the Richmond County Mirror online, which was previously posted by the New York Public Library. Historical newspapers can be useful to many different people: Genealogists seeking information about ancestors will find a treasure trove of information about the Island’s early residents. Students and teachers can learn about how national and global events affected their own communities. Scientists seeking to model changes in the climate can easily trace local weather events back to the 1800s. Historians can follow the development of Island social and political issues across the decades. Very often these newspapers are the only record left of significant historical events. You can read more about this new collection at https://goo.gl/WrVLVV Early Irish Marriage Index Reaches 80,000 Records The following announcement was written by the folks at the Irish Genealogical Research Society: The Irish Genealogical Research Society’s Early Irish Marriage Index has now been updated, with several thousand more records being added, all noted from obscure and underused sources. The database now holds reference to more than 80,000 marriages. Combining the names of brides, grooms with the various relatives mentioned in the database, the Marriage Index now notes almost 177,000 named individuals. A good many of the latest batch were extrapolated from Index of Nuns, a CD publication in 2015 by the Catholic Family History Society, which notes biographical information for about 14,000 nuns, many of them from Ireland. For many, their date of birth and parents’ names are recorded, allowing for an approximation of the year by which their parents had married Roz McCutcheon, the creator and coordinator for the BMD Indexes, said about the latest update: “I’m quietly pleased at breaking through the 80,000 barrier. With the steady help of some valued volunteers, I’m looking forward to the database soon reaching 100,000 marriages! In the meantime…I owe a big thank you to every one of my volunteers.” You can search the updated Marriage Index by following this link to the search page. An update to the Death Index was launched at the end of June. An update to the Birth Index will be launched in August. The full story is published here: http://www.irishancestors.ie/?p=7550   Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Our Soldiers are one of our greatest assets!" "Soldiers do not die until they are forgotten."