genealogy archives
As featured by Tufte, Reebee Garofalo’s Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music is now in poster form.
posted by
foster
on Friday, Jun 06, 2008
Free Online Genealogy Database Hits 150 Million Names . “Back in 1999, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invited family history enthusiasts to contribute their family trees to the Pedigree Resource File (PRF), a database housed on the Church’s FamilySearch Web site. Since then the file has grown steadily, and the Church announced this week that it has passed the 150-million-name mark, making it one of the largest free databases online.
”...The Church’s interest in family history is driven by its doctrine, which teaches that families can survive forever and that Church members have an obligation to research their family trees.”
posted by
ted
on Wednesday, Mar 21, 2007
A very interesting New York Times article on digitizing historical documents. In the article they mention the Church’s ongoing work to digitize genealogical images:
“Genealogy experts affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are fanning out, digital cameras in hand, making copies of genealogically relevant records in 200 cities around the world [...] Over the next five years, the church expects to have hundreds of millions of digital images available.”
posted by
randy
on Sunday, Mar 11, 2007