GenealogyBank: The Tour

Resources You'll Find Nowhere Else!

Thomas Jay Kemp

APG – NY Metro Chapter
2 June 2008
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal

• 1876
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal

• 1876
• 1876 - Centennial – The nation celebrates
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal

• 1876
• 1876 - Centennial – The nation celebrates
• 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal

• 1876
• 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories
• 1894 – Family History Library (Utah)
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal

• 1876
• 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories
• 1894 – Family History Library (Utah)
• 1920 – 2,000 published genealogies
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal

• 1876
• 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories
• 1894 – Family History Library (Utah)
• 1920 – 2,000 published genealogies
• 1972 – 50,000 published genealogies
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1724 – 1st Genealogy published - American Weekly Mercury
newspaper

• 1776
• 1791 - 1st Historical Society
• 1844 – 1st Genealogical Society
• 1847 – 1st Genealogical journal

• 1876
• 1876 - Pres. Grant calls for county, town & family histories
• 1894 – Family History Library (Utah)
• 1920 – 2,000 published genealogies
• 1972 – 50,000 published genealogies
• 1975 – 400 genealogical societies
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1976 – Roots
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1976 – Roots
• Early 70s – PC becomes affordable
• Mid 70s – Census Indexing
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1976 – Roots
• Early 70s – PC becomes affordable
• Mid 70s – Census Indexing
• 1992 – Mosaic web browser
• 1996 – Google.com
• 1997 – Ancestry.com
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1976 – Roots
• Early 70s – PC becomes affordable
• Mid 70s – Census Indexing
• 1992 – Mosaic web browser
• 1996 – Google.com
• 1997 – Ancestry.com
• 1998 – 90,000 published genealogies
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1976 – Roots
• Early 70s – PC becomes affordable
• Mid 70s – Census Indexing
• 1992 – Mosaic web browser
• 1996 – Google.com
• 1997 – Ancestry.com
• 1998 – 90,000 published genealogies
• 1998 – 6,000 genealogical societies
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 1976 – Roots
• Early 70s – PC becomes affordable
• Mid 70s – Census Indexing
• 1992 – Mosaic web browser
• 1996 – Google.com
• 1997 – Ancestry.com
• 1998 – 90,000 published genealogies
• 1998 – 6,000 genealogical societies
• 1999 – FamilySearch.org
 Genealogy Growth
1724 – 1876 – 1976 - 2008
• 2000
– Census & Books start to go online
– Use of census microfilm evaporates

• 2005 – GenealogyBank.com
• 2008 – 150,000 published genealogies
• 2008 – 10 Million genealogists
We have never had this level of
access before
 So – What is in
GenealogyBank.com ?
 So – What is in
GenealogyBank.com ?
– Over 1 Billion names
 So – What is in
GenealogyBank.com ?
– Over 1 Billion names
– Over 3,400 newspapers
• All 50 States; 1690 to today
 So – What is in
GenealogyBank.com ?
– Over 1 Billion names
– Over 3,400 newspapers
• All 50 States; 1690 to today
– Over 150,000 rare books &
documents
 So – What is in
GenealogyBank.com ?
– Over 1 Billion names
– Over 3,400 newspapers
• All 50 States; 1690 to today
– Over 150,000 rare books & documents
– Over 100 million obituaries & death
records
Sample Searches and Results
Eastern Argus
Maine: 1828-08-19 – Page 3
Baltimore Sun 28 Jan 1895
Read the News as it Happened
• Battle at Lexington & Concord
21 Apr 1775
NH Gazette & Historical Chronicle
Read about the stories when they were reported

Attack on Fort McHenry – War of 1812

Baltimore Patriot & Evening Advertiser
A Special Issue
20 Sep 1814
 Details of Passenger Arrivals

• Duluth (MN) News Tribune Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer

• 18 July 1906 13 May 1902
Family Reunions

Tacoma Daily News

10 Aug 1894

Dallas Morning News

31 Aug 1931
 Then there are the stories
we wish the papers didn’t print
Columbus (GA) Enquirer
28 Feb 1900
Rare, one of a kind documents
In memory of Solomon Snow … who was drowned
in crossing the Kennebec River from Swan Island
to Bowdoinham, August 11, 1811.

Solomon Snow is not in the published Snow genealogy;

not in the census – this might be the only record of him.
Published Government Reports
Looking for information
on Rachel (Bittinger) Platter
of Garrett County, MD

Details like this are not in

the census; not in the published
family history.
Rachel (Bittinger) Platter’s cousin – Wooly Bittinger & family – 1937
just a few years after Rachel applied for her pension
Obituaries routinely published
in government reports.
Obituaries of Report of the
Convention of American Instructors
of the Deaf
Proceedings of the twenty-first meeting of the Convention of American
Instructors of the Deaf. Held at Hartford, Conn., June 29 to July 4, 1917.
January 30, 1918. -- Referred to the Committee on Printing.
Date: 1918-01-30; U.S. Congress. Senate
Serial Set Vol. No. 7320, Session Vol. No.10
65th Congress, 2nd Session
S.Doc. 172
Quickly locate obscure documents
like this list of US prisoners in
Algiers in 1791 ….

Prisoners at Algiers. Letter in relation to

the prisoners at Algiers, communicated to the
Senate, 21st January, 1791, by the Secretary of
1st Congress, 3rd Session. Publication No. 48
War of the Rebellion Record -
1819-1820 Passenger List
Report of the Secretary of State, pursuant to the act to regulate
passenger ships and vessels, of the number of persons arriving
in the several ports of the United States, from October 1, 1820, to
September 30, 1821. April 22, 1822. Read, and ordered to lie on
the table.
Date: 1822-04-22; U.S. Congress. House
Serial Set Vol. No. 69, Session Vol. No.9
17th Congress, 1st Session
H.Doc. 134
GenealogyBank.com
– Over 1 Billion names
– Over 3,400 newspapers
• All 50 States; 1690 to today
– Over 150,000 rare books & documents
– Over 100 million obituaries & death
records
GenealogyBank.com

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We have never had this level of
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