I saw over at Legacy News that the Philadelphia Passenger Lists from 1800-1945 are now online and easily accessed at Ancestry.com. These are passenger lists from the National Archives and Records Administration. A fairly significant genealogy resource if you are having trouble finding where your ancestors came in at, and the usual suspects don’t turn up anything (NY, Boston, New Orleans, etc.).
According to an article from The Daily Telegraph from a few weeks back, 1837Online.com may go up for sale. There’s been a few high profile genealogy sites and software go up for sale in recent years. I didn’t realize that 1837Online.com was a much older business (well, relatively speaking, it was started in the 1960s) and it didn’t start out as a normal genealogy research company (although genealogy was central).
Schelly Talalay Dardashti has an article in Ynetnews, Cutting-edge genealogy: A genealogy about-face as savvy people change the way we research our families, about how genealogy research is being changed and updated to take advantage of the latest and greatest in computer technolgoy. It’s mainly about MyHeritage.com – a genealogy site devoted to facial recognition for genealogists. One of the most interesting of the new technologies that are or will be soon be, at genealogists’ disposal.
If you are curious at just what it takes to digitize over a million books, TechReview.com has an article by Kate Greene that you may want to read. It mentions the two major scanning projects going on – Google’s cooperative efforts with Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library, and the Million Book Project at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. While Google is secretive about how they are doing, the article discusses the Million Book Project’s efforts and resources.
arstechnica has news of movies from the United States National Archives being distributed through Google Video. Right now there are just over 100 movies that are going to be made available, with more following. You can view the movies here. Genealogy related? Not necessarily, but historically it’s very interesting.