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Family History News…
Brightsolid today announced it is to acquire Friends Reunited Group from ailing ITV plc for £25 million, a fraction of the £175 million it originally paid for the website in 2005.
brightsolid is an online innovation business owned by DC Thomson, Dundee-based publisher of comics such as the Beano and is one of the largest privately owned media and publishing groups in the country. A key part of
[...click on headline to read full story] August 7th, 2009 | Tags: Andy Baker, Baker Md, Beano, brightsolid, Broadcaster, Census Websites, Chris van der Kuyl, Competition Authorities, Consumer Marketplace, Dc Thomson, Family History News, Family History Website, findmypast, Friends Reunited, Future Strategy, General Register Office, Genes, Genes Reunited, Innovation Business, Internet Friends, Itv, Itv News, Lord Lyon, National Archives, National Archives Of Scotland, New Focus, Old School Friends, Scotlandspeople | Category: Family History, Genealogy, Latest News, Research, Websites |
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 Genealogy News… Great news for TalkingScot members. The site is now back online. Here’s a message from the TalkingScot Administration Group: Dear TalkingScot Members TalkingScot has been successfully re-loaded to it’s old home at talkingscot.com/forum2/index.php. We thank everyone for their support and patience during our down time and look forward to seeing all of you back on the board, working furiously to catch up for lost time! Those brick walls have waited
[...click on headline to read full story] July 28th, 2009 | Tags: Administration Group, Brick Walls, Colleagues, Digg, Down Time, Friends Family, Great News, Media Networks, members, Online News, Patience, Scot, Talking Scot, TalkingScot, time machine, Twitter | Category: Genealogy, Latest News, Websites |
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 Geneaology News…
Time Machine readers who are also members and visitors to the Talking Scot geneaology website will be pleased to learn that after an abrupt disappearance earlier this month, due to the unannounced closure of the site’s former web hosts, reconstruction is well under way and the site will be up and running as soon
[...click on headline to read full story] July 25th, 2009 | Tags: Administration Group, Andrew Paterson, Current Version, Disappearance, Existing Member, Forum Software, Friends Family, Latest Forum, Member List, Member Registration, New Member, Old Style, Old Version, Reconstruction, Scot, Scots, Software Version, Taking Time, Talking Scot, TalkingScot, time machine, Web Hosts | Category: Genealogy, Websites |
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The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers – including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt – have gone online. The database of those who fought in the Hundred Years War reveals salaries, sickness records and who was knighted. The full profiles of soldiers from 1369 to 1453 will allow researchers to piece together details of their lives. Thomas, Lord Despenser is the youngest soldier on the database, whose career
[...click on headline to read full story] July 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Archers, Battle Of Agincourt, Bbc, Bbc News, Colleagues, Detailed Service, Digg, Friends Family, Henry V, Hundred Years War, Media Networks, Medieval Battle, Medieval Soldiers, News Bbc Co Uk, News Site, Salaries, Soldier, Thomas Lord, time machine, Twitter | Category: Family History, Genealogy, Latest News, Research, Websites |
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Michael McCormick – Photograph by Jim Harrison If you have the slightest interest in history, then this article from the Harvard Magazine should have you spellbound! Goelet professor of medieval history Michael McCormick (right) argues that now the written record of history meets genomics, evolution, demography, and molecular archaeology, can we discover why a million
[...click on headline to read full story] July 18th, 2009 | Tags: Anglo Saxon, Anglo Saxons, Celtic Population, Civilization, Demography, Descendants, Dominant Languages, Eighth Century, england, English Culture, Evolution, Harvard Magazine, Historians, Immigrants, Jim Harrison, Mass Graves, Medieval History, Michael Mccormick, Molecular Archaeology, Northern Outpost, Piles, Roman Empire, Rst | Category: Genealogy, Guest Contributions, Latest News, Websites |
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Feisty italian nonagenarian Clara Cannucciari who lived through the 1930s Depression in America, is rapidly becoming a global internet cookery star with her “Depression Cooking with Clara” web video series. In the series Clara shares recipes and describes, with great charm and humor, how she and her family survived and even gained weight during the Great Depression. Clara’s mini empire includes a website, a widely followed YouTube show, a DVD, and a Facebook page with
[...click on headline to read full story] June 27th, 2009 | Tags: 1930s, Clara Cannucciari, Cooking Tips, Cut Of Meat, Flour, Grandmother, Grandson Chris, Great Depression, Helping Hand, Hot Dogs, Nonagenarian, Old Grandma, Onions, Recession, St Martin, time machine, Tomato Sauce, Tv Favorites, Video Project, Video Series, World Fame | Category: Featured, Latest News, Video, Websites |
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 I’ve just found a great post on mashable.com about Glubble, the safe social network for families. As a parent, I’m always vigilant about where my children are visiting online. I don’t want to prevent them from using the internet and I’m very keen for them to learn how to do it
[...click on headline to read full story] June 27th, 2009 | Tags: Browser Toolbar, child safety, Conjunction, Enjoyable Resource, Exchange Content, Family Browser, Family History, Family Photos, Family Timeline, Glubble, Interactive Timeline, Keen, New Feature, New Features, Parents, Premium Memberships, Safer Web, Social Hub, Storage, Timeline History, Web Experience | Category: Family History, Latest News, Websites |
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 Most of us, once bitten by the family history research bug, invariably make for the internet in pursuit of top notch genealogical information.
It doesn’t take long however, to realise just how vast the ever-growing mass of online genealogical information really
[...click on headline to read full story] June 17th, 2009 | Tags: Access Databases, ancestor, ancestoral, ancestors, Compilation, Discover, Dube, Excellent Tools, Family History, Family History Research, Free Genealogy Websites, Free Websites, Genalogy, Genealogy, Genealogy Research, historic, Inaction, information, internet, National Archives, Research, Sheer Scale, top 10, Top Notch, top ten, Top Websites, Websites | Category: Family History, Genealogy, Guest Contributions, Research, Websites |
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