Homestead Records Available at Footnote

HOMESTEAD RECORDS BECOME AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET FOR THE FIRST TIME ON FOOTNOTE.COM
Original Records Documenting the Lives of Early Settlers Offer a Unique View Into 19th Century America
Lindon, UT — September 18, 2008 – In an event held today at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Footnote.com along with several partners announced a project to make available [...]

Press Release from Footnote!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Footnote.com Takes Social Networking into the Past
Footnote.com launches Footnote Pages at TechCrunch50
San Francisco — September 10, 2008 Losing a loved one can result in a range of emotions, from the grief and sorrow to comfort, which often comes from reminiscing stories and memories with family and friends. The challenge arises when there is [...]

Pricing Changes at Footnote

I received this message the other day:
Dear Valued Footnote Member,
Thanks for making this such an exciting year at Footnote.
When we opened our doors in January of 2007 we had fewer than 5 million images on the site. Since then we’ve added 2 million images a month and have made improvements to the site. Today you [...]

Virginia Travis’ Photo is Footnote’s Featured Upload

Congratulations to Virginia Travis of Valeehill Genealogy Blog, whose photo of the 1890 reunion of the Ohio 5th Sharpshooters is Footnote’s Featured Upload for August 2008!
Virginia used the Annotations feature at Footnote to identify every individual in the photo. This feature makes it easy to use for tagging all those group photos, from military, [...]

This and That

ScanfestWOW! Thanks to the great publicity over at facebook’s Genea-Bloggers Group, we had the Best Scanfest Ever. We had three records broken! The first was a total attendance of 20, which means that in all, 20 Scanfesters participated at some point between 11 AM and 2 PM, PDT, but not all at [...]

This and That

ScanfestWOW! Thanks to the great publicity over at facebook’s Genea-Bloggers Group, we had the Best Scanfest Ever. We had three records broken! The first was a total attendance of 20, which means that in all, 20 Scanfesters participated at some point between 11 AM and 2 PM, PDT, but not all at [...]

Thanksgiving Special at Footnote.com

Footnote.com is offering a special 20% discount off their regular annual membership price during and just after Thanksgiving weekend. This promotion will run from midnight Mountain Time on Friday, November 23 through 11:59 PM on Tuesday, November 27.
For those of you who are not aware of what the Footnote site has to offer, here [...]

Thanksgiving Special at Footnote.com

Footnote.com is offering a special 20% discount off their regular annual membership price during and just after Thanksgiving weekend. This promotion will run from midnight Mountain Time on Friday, November 23 through 11:59 PM on Tuesday, November 27.
For those of you who are not aware of what the Footnote site has to offer, here [...]

Online Genealogy Class Starts Tomorrow

It’s not too late to sign up for my Beginning Online Genealogy class through the Community Colleges of Spokane’s Institute for Extended Learning! Even though the first class will be held tomorrow evening, Monday, October 1st from 6:00 – 8:00 PM, you can call the IEL during business hours tomorrow at (509) 279-6000 to [...]

Online Genealogy Class Starts Tomorrow

It’s not too late to sign up for my Beginning Online Genealogy class through the Community Colleges of Spokane’s Institute for Extended Learning! Even though the first class will be held tomorrow evening, Monday, October 1st from 6:00 – 8:00 PM, you can call the IEL during business hours tomorrow at (509) 279-6000 to [...]