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Congress approves plans for new National Archives facility

Congress has approved the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) plan to build a new 525,000-square-foot facility in St. Louis for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). GSA announced plans in June 2007 to build a facility for NARA’s National Personnel Records Center on 23.5 acres it bought at 1829 Dunn Road. NARA’s National Personnel Records Center is one of the agency’s largest operations with a central repository of personnel-related records for both military and civil service employees, including military personnel files of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Elvis Presley, Ted Williams and former Presidents George H.W. Bush and John F. Kennedy, among many other notables.

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Man arrested in eBay sale of historic documents

I came across this article from Jean-Yves BAXTER at Genealogy Blog today. According to the article, Daniel Lorello, a State employee of New York, has been arrested for stealing historic documents and selling them on eBay. He has been charged with possession of stolen property, grand larceny and fraud. His crimes were discovered after someone saw the items posted for sale on eBay and alerted the authorities. Included in the missing documents are copies of the Davy Crockett Almanacs and a letter from Vice President John C. Calhoun in 1823.

 

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National Archives Budget Increased for FY08

A press release issued by the National Archives today indicates that they will receive funding in the amount of $411.1 million this fiscal year. This represents a 20.5 percent increase over the 2007 Fiscal Year. NARA has not received regular appropriations in the past, and therefore is funded under the $555 billion 2007 Consolidation Appropriations Act.

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A 20% increase is a lot.  However, it sounds like they were overdue.  Let us know if you disagree.

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Genealogy Photo Archive

DeadFred.com is a great site with a great name!  When I last visited they were boasting over 14,000 surnames indexed and organized with photos for each. The idea is that you search by surname and find photos along with those who submitted them to link up and add to the richness of everyone’s family tree. As they put it, Trace your roots for free with our searchable database containing thousands of identified and mystery photos for genealogy enthusiasts looking for long-lost family.

 

Anyone who finds a photo of a direct ancestor that is owned by the archive will receive the photo for free.

 

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Jewish Genealogy

Saw this in Google news and thought it might be worth sharing. Looks like there is going to be more and more resources coming available for those with Jewish ancestors.

Getting to the root of family
By Molly Ritvo
Wednesday January 23 2008

 

Technology has aided genealogists in their search for family. Genealogy is a growing trend among Boston’s Jewish community With interest in genealogy growing around the world, it is no surprise that many members of Boston’s Jewish community are also eager to connect with their own histories.

“Jewish genealogy is bigger than ever,” said Newton resident Jay Sage, former co-president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston (JGSGB), an organization dedicated to the promotion of Jewish genealogical research and family history. “More and more Jews are looking for their ancestral history to develop a deeper understanding of who we are.”

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This Newsletter is Twelve Years Old!

Eastman has been at this a long time.  I thought it would be worth referencing his post here for those who want to get a grasp of where genealogy as an online pursuit has come.

In his blog-post today he writes:Boy, the time does fly! Twelve years has slipped by in almost the blink of an eye. It seems like only yesterday that I sent the first e-mail newsletter to about 100 people, mostly members of CompuServe’s Genealogy Forums.

 

None  of them knew in advance that the newsletter would arrive; I simply mailed it to people who I thought might be interested. In 1996 nobody objected to receiving unsolicited bulk mail; the phrase “spam mail” had not yet been invented. I shudder to think if I did the same thing in today’s Internet environment.

In that first newsletter on January 15, 1996, I wrote …

 

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