NOTE: This has nothing to do with today’s genealogy. However, Florida residents are invited to help preserve the history of the state and to record events that perhaps will benefit future historians and possibly even future genealogists. The Florida State Archives is asking residents to preserve hurricane history by donating your digital images of preparation, […]

New GPS (Global Positioning System) chips will be used in future cell phones that will be accurate within 30 centimeters (11.8 inches), rather than five meters (16 feet) which is typical of today’s cell phones. At least, that’s the claim chip maker Broadcom is making. While this may not seem at first to be significant […]

The following announcement was written by the folks at the Irish Genealogical Research Society: The Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) has added a further 5,000 records to the Society’s Early Irish Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes. This brings the total number of names to almost 260,000. This latest update means the Society’s exclusive collection of […]