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Thursday, May 31, 2007

WorldVitalRecords UPDATE

Special for the month of June (it started today) is 2 years for the price of 1! That means a 2 year membership to WorldVitalRecords.com for just $49.95.

From an email today from WorldVitalRecords.com I take the following excerpts:

"First off we announced that we have partnered with Quintin Publishing to put their entire CDROM library online. This is over 10,000 databases and is worth thousands of dollars if you were to buy each CD separately. This is a great library and includes such gems as Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland Volumes 1-6, England Maps, Ireland Maps, Scotland Maps, Handbook of Indians of Canada, Staffordshire pedigrees, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Dictionnair Topographique Du Department de l'Eure just to name a few. We have just started adding this content to the site but will continue to add these great resources to the web over the next month or so.

We also announced a partnership with the Ellis Island Foundation to provide all passenger arrivals records to World Vital Records visitors. This information is available at other locations on the web but makes a great addition to the site by providing access to 25 million records.

We have also partnered with FamilySearch to provide free access to World Vital Records from over 4,500 Family History Centers throughout the world.

And finally we have partnered with Godfrey Memorial Library to provide content that has never been available online before. We are just starting several scanning and indexing projects with Godfrey but you will start to see this data launch on the site as it becomes available.

Our social network for genealogists, FamilyLink.com, is quickly growing. We now have 4462 genealogists who have signed up from around the world. Be sure to check it out and signup if you haven't already.

Plus 6 major data collections: the Everton Online Library, the SmallTownPapers CollectionT, the Quintin Online Library, the International Parish Register Collection, the World Gazetteer Collection, and the International Marriage Record Collection. These are data sets where we have unique and valuable content.

Our special for the month of June (it started today) is 2 years for the price of 1! That means visitors get a 2 year membership to WorldVitalRecords.com for just $49.95."

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

More Than 4,500 Family History Centers Worldwide to have Free Access to WorldVitalRecords.com

"Genealogists and family historians to benefit from global collaboration

Provo, UT, May 16, 2007 — More than 4,500 FamilySearch Family History Centers throughout the world will now have free access to WorldVitalRecords.com's genealogical records and resources, as a result of an agreement signed between FamilySearch ™ and WorldVitalRecords.com.

“We are looking for a new breed of genealogy websites that are willing to work with FamilySearch to meet the needs and interests of record custodians and our patrons. WorldVitalRecords.com was uniquely positioned because of its rapid growth in the industry and potential for success, along with additional genealogical providers to fill this void. We are certain this agreement with WorldVitalRecords.com will greatly benefit a worldwide audience of genealogists with this free service,” said Paul Nauta, Manager of Public Affairs, FamilySearch ™.

WorldVitalRecords.com will provide a vast collection of genealogical materials including vital, land, immigration, and military records; newspapers, international databases, and a collection of reference material.

WorldVitalRecords.com also partnered with Everton Publishers last year to provide the Everton Genealogical Library containing numerous databases, as well as 60 years of the Everton Genealogical Helper and 150,000 Everton Pedigree Files and Family Group Sheets.

“At Everton’s we are excited about the fact that for the first time, genealogists have easy access to tens of thousands of queries, family group sheets, pedigree charts, and more from the past 60 years of the Genealogical Helper,” said Leland Meitzler, Managing Editor, Everton Publishers.

In addition to making all WorldVitalRecords.com content free, each family history centers will have access to FamilyLink.com, a new social genealogical Web site that enables individuals to connect with genealogists from more than 1,600 cities."

Above taken from World Vital Records Blog. Please read further on their blog.

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