dbnews.americanancestors.orgAmerican Ancestors Database News – all the news that's fit for genealogists

May 12, 2024 Latest: Update: General Society of Colonial Wars Membership Applications, 1893-1949 Update: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 176 Update: Mayflower Descendant, Volume 70 Update: Rhode Island Roots, Volumes 43-45 Update: The Maine Genealogist, Volumes 39-41 Update: Old Stone Bank, 1844-1897, Volumes 26-29 American Ancestors Magazine, Volume 23 New Database: Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut Update: Providence, Rhode Island: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 Update: Providence, Rhode Island: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 Home Database Team Previous Posts Search Tips Transcription Challenge About American Ancestors/NEHGS Menu Search over 1.4 billion names on AmericanAncestors.org Get notified when we add new data: Enter your email address here to receive a notification when we publish a new database. Email Address: Subscribe Search this site My Tweets From Facebook: From Facebook: Latest database news and announcements: 19 Apr 2024 Update: General Society of Colonial Wars Membership Applications, 1893-1949 Today we have added five new volumes to our General Society of Colonial Wars Membership Applications, 1893-1949 database. These volumes include application numbers 2630-3469 and contain 136,367 ... 21 Mar 2024 Update: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 176 We have added Volume 176 to our New England Historical and Genealogical Register database. This update contains the 2022 Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall issues, and it adds 502 ... 04 Mar 2024 Update: Mayflower Descendant, Volume 70 We are happy to announce that we have added Volume 70 (2022) to the Mayflower Descendant database. This update adds 224 pages, 4,488 records, and 4,435 searchable names. The Mayflower ... 29 Feb 2024 Update: Rhode Island Roots, Volumes 43-45 Providence, Rhode Island, 1858; John Badger Bachelder (1825-1894). Publisher: W. Endicott & Co., New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons We are happy to announce that we’ve added ... 27 Feb 2024 Update: The Maine Genealogist, Volumes 39-41 We are very happy to add volumes 39-41 (2017-2019) to The Maine Genealogist database. This update adds over 701 pages, 11,693 records, and 11,486 searchable names. Published since 1977, ... 26 Feb 2024 Update: Old Stone Bank, 1844-1897, Volumes 26-29 We are so excited to announce that the last four volumes of Providence, RI: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 are now up! This database now contains all 29 volumes of signature books from the Old ... 23 Feb 2024 American Ancestors Magazine, Volume 23 Today we’ve added Volume 23 (2022) to our American Ancestors Magazine database. This update includes 264 pages, 2,838 records, and 2,689 searchable names. The themes for each of the new ... 22 Feb 2024 New Database: Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut Statue of Captain Nathan Hale by Bela Lyon Pratt (statue), Christopher De Coro (photograph), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons We are excited to announce a new database! Connecticut: Society ... 16 Feb 2024 Update: Providence, Rhode Island: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 We are happy to announce that the next five volumes of Providence, RI: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 are now up! This database now contains the first 25 volumes of signature books from the ... 14 Dec 2023 Update: Providence, Rhode Island: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 We are happy to announce that the next ten volumes of records of Providence, RI: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 are now up! This database now contains the first 20 volumes of signature books ... 12 Dec 2023 Ireland: The Annals of Beara, Volume Three Tourists motoring past Tunnel Cottage or Long Tunnel Cottage, Glengariff, Co. Cork. National Library of Ireland on The Commons, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons We are excited to announce ... 01 Dec 2023 New Transcription Challenge! Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! The next set of challenges are also from the Old Stone Bank in Providence, Rhode Island and it includes an entry that ... 17 Nov 2023 New database: General Society of Colonial Wars Membership Applications, 1893-1949 We are very excited to announce our new database: General Society of Colonial Wars Membership Applications, 1893-1949. This database will eventually include all applications and supplemental ... 01 Nov 2023 New database: Providence, RI: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897 We are very happy to announce a new database today in collaboration with the Rhode Island Historical Society; Providence, RI: Old Stone Bank Records, 1844-1897. This database currently contains ... 27 Sep 2023 New sketches: Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies We’re excited to announce 8 new sketches to our Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies database, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. All the sketches added during ... 22 Sep 2023 New Transcription Challenge! Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! We had 70 responses and 60 of them were in just the first two days! The research and suggestions were so helpful and we ... 21 Sep 2023 New sketches: Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784 Today we’ve added 5 new sketches and updated 1 sketch in Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in the new sketches all lived settled in Brattleboro. With this study project, ... 09 Sep 2023 New Transcription Challenge! Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! Everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! To change things up for the new set of challenges, we have added ... 31 Aug 2023 New database: Shaker Records of the Fruitlands Museum Today we’re very excited to be announcing a new database, Massachusetts: Shaker Records of the Fruitlands Museum, 1791-1918. The database features over 14,000 records from five volumes kept by ... 25 Aug 2023 New volumes: Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 We’re excited to announce that today we are updating our Rhode Island: Vital Records, 1636-1850 database with 5 new volumes, adding more than 90,000 records to search. The majority of the added ... 24 Aug 2023 New sketches: Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies We’re excited to announce 12 new sketches to our Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies database, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. We have also updated ... 07 Aug 2023 New database: On the Battlefield: Records of Soldiers, Veterans and Refugees We are very excited to announce a new database: On the Battlefield: Records of Soldiers, Veterans and Refugees. This database provides lists of soldiers of color and accompanying genealogical ... 05 Aug 2023 New Transcription Challenge! Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! Everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the ... 03 Aug 2023 New Database: Black Loyalist Directory, 1783-1788 We are very excited to announce a new database: Black Loyalist Directory, 1783-1788. This database was created from The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution, ... 28 Jul 2023 New sketches: Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies We’re excited to announce 1 new sketch and 1 updated sketch to our Boston Tea Party Participant Biographies, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. The goal of this ... 18 Jul 2023 New sketches: Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784 Today we’ve added 3 new sketches to Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784. The people profiled in the new sketches all lived settled in Brattleboro. With this study project, Scott Andrew Bartley ... 07 Jul 2023 New Transcription Challenge! Thank you to everyone who participated in the last Transcription Challenge! Everyone provided helpful feedback and suggestions! Please check out our new set of challenges by going to the ... 05 Jun 2023 New sketches: Early...