Free Genealogy Records at http://olivetreegenealogy. com/ IMPORTANT! To read posts shown here, click on blue title then click on View Original Post
Information
- Founded:
- February 1996
Notes
3 of 367 notesSee All
- Bill of Treason from 1837 Rebellion Found 5:23am Jul 2
- Footnote.com Partnership to bring more newspapers online 3:22am Jul 1
- Form 30A, 1919-1924 Canadian Ships Passenger Lists 6:36am Jun 30
Photos
2 albumsSee All
Tutorial on Reading Entries in Early Dutch Church RecordsCreated about 12 months ago
Early Dutch Handwriting SamplesCreated on June 26, 2008 at 7:58am


Footnote,com announces an exciting new partnership between Footnote and the largest newspaper publisher in the US, the Gannett Company. Gannett, publisher of 84 daily newspapers including USA Today, will be able to digitize their vast archives for the first time by working together with Footnote...


Form 30A, 1919-1924 From June 1, 1921 to December 31, 1924, individual manifests had to be completed and submitted to the immigration officers at the ports of arrival, instead of the large sheet passenger list manifests previously in use.A form had to be submitted for each passenger, including...
RECENT ACTIVITY

Olive Tree Genealogy commented on their own note Canada 150 Project.

Olive Tree Genealogy commented on their own note Caveat re 1861 Canada Census Online.

Olive Tree Genealogy commented on their own note Front Pages Free from NewspaperArchive.

Olive Tree Genealogy commented on their own note Quaker Marriage Certificate 1858.

Olive Tree Genealogy commented on their own note Great News! Complete census of Canada ONLINE.

Olive Tree Genealogy commented on their own note Getting Immigration Information from Almshouse Records.


I think it's time to feature yet another obscure set of genealogy records on one of my websites. This might very well help someone find an ancestor...


Continued from A Comedy of Errors Part 1I was now ready to fill out the online Request Form and order my ancestor's Chelsea Pensioner Records. This is where it got a bit confusing...


On April 9, I searched for an English ancestor (Thomas Blandon) on the National Archives site for UK. I found several records for Thomas and I wrote about ordering the records which were held at Suffolk Archives in Ipswich...


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 25, 2009 For Further Information Contact:Illya D'Addezio, Owner(908) 963-1277Live Roots Search Experience, Release TwoBURBANK, Calif. - June 25, 2009 - Genealogy Today announced the second release of the Live Roots search experience...


Marlina at 4:58am June 25
Good for you, Illya. You just keep growing!!!!


Pennsylvania Ships Passenger Lists begin in 1800 instead of after the Federal Legislation requiring ships Passenger lists to be kept after 1819. The arrival port of Philadelphia kept lists of names of arriving passengers whos personal luggage was over the limit set for exemption from taxes...


Many years ago, in the days of genealogy records only being available on microfilm (Remember those days? When we had to trudge to a nearby archive or library or Family History Center...


A few years ago I discovered a very interesting set of immigration records. While searching New York records on microfilm, I stumbled on a set of Almshouse Records which had the names of ships the Almshouse inmaates sailed on to America (which included USA and Canada)...
Jeanette at 2:27pm June 22
Does this record say from where it originated from?
Shereeanne at 6:18pm June 22
not sure '' i didnt mean to click on it now im stuck with it ..sorry'' .
Olive Tree Genealogy at 7:17am June 30
Yes the almshouse records are fully sourced


If you have Limerick Ireland ancestors the following will be of great interest to you! Limerick Ireland Private Papers and Business Collections can be searched online...


Limerick City Council has become the first local authority in the country toput its burial registers on-line.Burial records for the city’s largest cemetery, Mount Saint Lawrence,dating back more than 150 years will now be easily available to the public over the internetIt is now possible to...


This is very interesting - another freebie from NewspaperARCHIVE.com They've unlocked every front page of their newspapers, which means you can look through millions of unique newspaper front pages.Just tick off the box labeled "Front Pages Only", type your word or phrase into the Keyword spot and...


Lesley at 2:01pm June 14
where is the url?? the link??
Dawn at 5:56pm June 14
I clicked on -"view Original Posting" and got the page but there is no box to check for Front Pages Only.
Olive Tree Genealogy at 7:20am June 30
The button to click for FRONT PAGES only is there once you read my post and click through to the site


A source in the UK who has been doing her own transcription of the 1861 Toronto census, wrote to me to share a very interesting (but disturbing) problem with the new 1861 Canada census on Ancestry.comMy correspondent states:For the past few years I have been working on my own transcription of the...
Myra at 9:03am June 13
It would be nice if there were some way to know what projects in Canada ancestry.com is working on, so we can concentrate on the ones that will obviously need help from volunteers.
Olive Tree Genealogy at 7:21am June 30
Yes it would be nice but I doubt they would give out that kind of information


Did you know that unregistered cemeteries in Ontario exist only at the whim of the local land owner?From the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) website The Ontario Genealogical Society is aware of about 1 200 unregistered cemeteries in this province...


Great news! You can now search for ancestors in the 1861, 1871 and 1881 Canada census, plus view the actual census images.The 1861 census of Canada is now online, searchable and indexes linked to images of the actual census pages...
Jill at 2:15pm June 9
where is the internet site you can search for 1861?


Lesley at 7:42pm June 9
ANCESTRY.CA
Olive Tree Genealogy at 7:19am June 30
Jill - go to the blog post and click on the link provided to search ALL Canadian census records. Isn't it great that they are now online!


Bob Moyer brings us this new and rather exciting database which he gathered from many different sources. The Disastrous American Expedition of 1878 that included the contractors P. & T. Collins (Col...


WASHINGTON - The federal government is opening the immigration files of millions of refugees, war brides, "enemy aliens" and other foreign nationals in the USA in thefirst half of the 20th century.A gold mine for historians, genealogists, scholars and descendants, the files include private details...


The following genealogy records for St. Mary's Church, Philadelphia Pennsylvania are being transcribed by Olive Tree Genealogy volunteers. St. Mary's, built in 1763, was the second Roman Catholic institution in Philadelphia...


I was antique hunting last month and spotted a beautful ornate framed marriage certificate hanging on the wall. Closer inspection showed it to be dated 1858, New York, and apparently a Quaker (Society of Friends) Certificate...
Susan at 2:50am June 11
Could you tell us the names on the certificate? I have been researching for years to find any genealogical information I can on my Father's family and they were Quakers from New Jersey, but came originally from New York.
Cecelia at 1:04pm June 14
please share
Olive Tree Genealogy at 7:20am June 30
All you need do is click on the link in the blue title (QUAKER MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE 1858). That tkes you to the blog post where the names are given


Apr 4 through Sep 27Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson, presented in collaboration with the New Netherland Project, Albany, and the National Maritime Museum Amsterdam/Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam, will employ rare 16th– and 17th–century objects, images, and documents...


A treasure trove of First World War photographs was discovered recently in France. Published here for the first time, they show British soldiers on their way to the Somme. But who took them? And who were these Tommies marching off to die...


10 & 11 September: Finding Your New Netherland Roots: A Two-Day Workshop on New Netherland Family History...



















Olive Tree Genealogy