Ancestry.com is working on Canadian passenger lists

I forgot to mention this; it was posted a couple of days ago. Ancesty.com is working with a Canadian group to index Canadian passenger lists. You can find out more information on ancestry's blog: http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=1488

Of course, you know what that means: another Ancestry database.

An Interesting Michigan History book

Although I read this book a few years ago, I still wanted to mention it because it deals with an unfimiliar part of Michigan's history. Tom Powers' Michigan Rogues, Desperadoes, and Cut-throats (Friede Publications: Davison, Miscigan, 2002) is, as the title suggests, about 19th Century Michigan criminals. The book only showcases a few of Michigan's criminals; however, I wanted to mention this book because of the descriptions of life in towns near the lumbering mills. I also wanted to mention this book because I plan to start posting information on doing Michigan genealogy.

Speaking of Michigan genealogy, I hope to begin posting on that topic soon.

FamilySearch Indexing

For the past several weeks I have been a volunteer with the FamilySearch Indexing program. So far, I have primarily helped with indexing the 1900 Census. Some of the handwriting has been hard to read, but most of the handwriting on the censuses images that I have transcribed and indexed were not difficult to read.

I am not a member of the LDS church. I just found about the project while searching on the internet, and I decided to volunteer.

You can find out more about FamilySearch Indexing here: http://www.familysearchindexing.org/en/index.jsp

Please note, that you will have to download FamilySearch Indexing's program in order to help index the images of that are being indexed.

More blogs listed

I've added several more blogs today. You can find these and others on the lower left side of the page. Here's the list:

• C. McNicholl's The Scottish Genealogy blog
• Daniel Morgan's Genealogy blog
• David Lambert's blog
• Family Bibles blog
• Family Research: English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy News and Articles
• Footnote blog
• Renee Zamora's Genealogy blog
• Steve Danko's Genealogy blog
• Susan E. Smith's "Midwestern Genealogist"
• Teri's Pennsylvania History and Genealogy blog
• The Genealogue
• Wally Huskonen's Ohio Genealogy blog
• West in New England
• Melissa's Australian Genealogy blog

Another blog listed

I just added another genealogy blog today:

Craig Manson's Geneablogie

You can find his blog and others on the left side of the page. If anyone has any other suggestions for blogs, he or she is more than welcome to post them.