An article by Jim Gilchrist at Scotsman.com News highlights Scotland’s Family History Centre, a £1.6million effort to link the General Register House and New Register House. When it’s finished, there will be a “one-stop single point of archive access to more than 40 million digitised records.

A good article at the Townsend Times (West Townsend, Massachusetts), about their efforts to celebrate their town’s history (275 years and going strong).

Avon Valley Advocate (Northam/Western Australia):
State buys Jan’s lifetime genealogy work
NORTHAM’S Jan Goodacre has seen the vindication of 35 years’ work with the sale of her database on Western Australia’s Aboriginal genealogy to the State Government.
Price has not been disclosed but Jan admits it is a “considerable sum”.
A presentation will be made to Jan [...]

Recently Dick Eastman wrote about a website run by Illya D’Addezio, that contains a large amount of genealogy information and resources in WAP format (Wirless Application Protocol), that can be read on handheld devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.).

Jim H. sent me a link to a new site, MobileGenealogy.com that is also dedicated to genealogy and PDAs, although, unlike D’Addezio’s website, MobileGenealogy.com is geared more towards the equipment, software, and practices behind using PDAs in genealogy research. The two sites do compliment one another.

No, this isn’t a tale of following the Grateful Dead around on tour years ago. The Daily Times (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia), has an article about the Lewes Historical Society’s “Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred Cemetery Survey”, a project with volunteers dedicated to idenitifying and inventoring the historical cemeteries of the area.

If you are of Irish descent, or doing research on lines from Ireland, Library Ireland has posted A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland online.

The Montgomery Advertiser has an article about a family discovering who was buried in an unmarked grave for almost 90 years. A 100-year-old family Bible provided the first of many clues that eventually led to the grave being identified as that of a Confederate soldier.

If you want to read about an amazing family reunion, head over to Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.