DeadFred.com is a free, searchable, genealogy photo archive site boasting over 65,000 records of nearly 14,000 surnames.  Its unlimited database is fully searchable by various and combined detailed criteria, including: given name, surname, date range, age range, locality, photographer, photo type and keyword.  Users can search and post photos. 

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) references immigration information with an emphasis on passenger lists, ships, and emigrant databases. It is a great and growing online collective effort of over ½-million names, extracted from more than 5,000 ships.  Over 500 Guild volunteers are dedicated to the task of making the search for our ancestors’ immigration easier, with the creation of digitized ships’ passenger lists.  

Have you ever posted a genealogical query on a well-known mailing list or message board, only to watch it never receive a reply?  Posting to message boards, mailing lists, and newsgroups is a great way to connect with other researchers with similar interests, to seek information on an ancestor or locale, or to locate long lost cousins.  Getting results requires more than just a quick post of brief information.   

The Third Annual St. George Genealogy and Family Heritage Jamboree, sponsored by My Ancestors Found and volunteers from the Washington County PAF User’s Group, will be held February 9-10, 2007.  The Jamboree will be held at the Dixie Convention Center, in St. George, Utah. 

To the beginner, Family history or genealogy research may seem like an overwhelming task, but beginning research does not have to be difficult. If you’re a beginner, try the following general research principles, which apply no matter where your ancestors lived. A beginner, who gets off to a good start by following proven research steps, is likely to find greater success in their overalll family history research.

Genealogy maps are a great way to come to know your ancestors, the trails they traveled, and where they were born, married, lived, and died. Progeny Software had a new genealogy software program, Map My Family Tree, which allows you to do all of that…and more! Map My Family Tree automatically geocodes and plots all ancestral life events, in seconds, on customizable, color maps.

Bill Dollarhide has written a new “how-to” book for those getting started in online genealogy research, entitled Getting Started in Genealogy Online . A noteworthy fact: the book does not start with the Internet.

With over 78.2 million records, as of September 2006, the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is massive…and a great place to collect dead relatives. The Social Security Administration Death Master File (DMF)contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers, whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration (SSA). It is searchable online for free at several websites, including Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, RootsWeb.com, and FamilyTreeLegends.com.

Region IV of the Ontario Canada Genealogical Society presents a seminar featuring Elizabeth Kelly Kerstens, CG, CGL.  Kerstens is, probably, best known as the creator of the software program, Clooz– the electronic filing cabinet for genealogical records, and co-creator of the software program Gene Weaver for your family health history.  She is managing editor of both Genealogical Computing and the NGS Newsmagazine.