We are improving our Social Networking features
As many of you are aware Familyrelatives.com was one of the first to introduce social networking specifically designed for both amateur and professional genealogists.
As part of our ongoing commitment to you and in order to enhance and develop the website we will be making a number of changes in the coming months.
We will be making it easier to invite family and friends, add photos, add important dates to your calendar which you may choose to share, we are also developing the home page to make it more informative and allow you to keep in touch with family as well as all the usual features which you have come to love and use.
As the profile side has grown beyond our expectation we need to add capacity to allow additional profiles. As we make these changes we will let you know so that you can make a note of these. We are very excited by these upcoming changes and hope that you will find them useful as an additional tool to tracking down those illusive ancestors.
The collection is part of over 650 million historic records available online to all members and visitors by way of an annual subscription of only £30.00 or US$50.00 or €35 at www.familyrelatives.com
Familyrelatives.com has added the following new records
• Corps of Royal Marines 1826 NEW
• Navy List 1847 December - 1848 March NEW
• Navy List 1848 December - 1849 March NEW
• Navy List 1882 June & December NEW
• Navy List 1913 January NEW
• Navy List 1915 January NEW
• Navy List 1918 January NEW
• Navy List 1925 January NEW
• Navy List 1929 October NEW
• Navy List 1934 January NEW
• Navy List 1938 May NEW
• Navy List 1938 August NEW
• Navy List 1939 February NEW
• Navy List 1939 August NEW
• Navy List 1940 May NEW
• Navy List 1940 August NEW
• Navy List 1941 June NEW
• Navy List 1943 December NEW
• Navy List 1943 July NEW
• Navy List 1945 July Volume II NEW
• Navy List 1945 June Volume III NEW
• Navy List of Retired Officers July 1947 NEW
• Navy List Vol.1-3 Jan 1952 NEW
• Royal Naval College Dartmouth May 1930 NEW
• Royal Navy Dartmouth September 1933 NEW
• His Majesty's Minesweepers 1943 NEW
• Whitaker's Naval and Military Directory 1898 NEW
The Familyrelatives.com blog will keep you updated with our latest genealogy news and additions including those for the GRO Birth, Marriage, Death Indexes, Military, Overseas, Parish, Census and other family history records including general historical events in the UK and the USA.
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Social networking features added to Familyrelatives.com
The team behind Familyrelatives.com have added a bundle of new innovations to the site, with the aim of encouraging family historians to work together. These “social networking” features help users to communicate with other researchers to share findings, ask for assistance or discuss particular records.
They’re all available free of charge, whether you’re a subscriber to the site or not. “It has always been our aim to provide free features and content alongside the subscription” said spokesman Robert Woods. “For the very first time you can leave your mark on history and leave comments on official records for instance where they lived, their occupation, when and where they married, did they move and what were they like – this really begins to build a picture of the individuals you are researching for everyone to share”.
Anyone who visits http://www.familyrelatives.com/ can now choose to create a profile. As well as basic data like your name and age, this lets you specify detailed information including your areas of interest and whether you’re willing to do research or perform lookups for others - ideal if the records you need to research are far from home. If you choose to make your profile public, fellow researchers can read this information, and search for people researching similar areas, and then send you messages through the site.
Familyrelatives’ developers have also added the ability to attach comments to individual records, which other users can then read. This means that if you find a birth record, for example, that relates to your great-grandfather, you can note this fact. If someone is researching the same person, they’ll see your note, and they can choose to get in touch with you. The plan is that it could lead to people finding relatives they never knew they had.
Familyrelatives.com adds 200 million USA records
To tie in with the new features, Familyrelatives.com has added over 200 million US records to its site. These collections, which are available for free, include birth, marriage, death and divorce records covering some of the largest states in the USA and Irish immigration records. Alongside these are the Social Security Death Indexes, World War II enlistment and POW records and military records for the Korean War – see http://www.familyrelatives.com/ for more information.
They’re all available free of charge, whether you’re a subscriber to the site or not. “It has always been our aim to provide free features and content alongside the subscription” said spokesman Robert Woods. “For the very first time you can leave your mark on history and leave comments on official records for instance where they lived, their occupation, when and where they married, did they move and what were they like – this really begins to build a picture of the individuals you are researching for everyone to share”.
Anyone who visits http://www.familyrelatives.com/ can now choose to create a profile. As well as basic data like your name and age, this lets you specify detailed information including your areas of interest and whether you’re willing to do research or perform lookups for others - ideal if the records you need to research are far from home. If you choose to make your profile public, fellow researchers can read this information, and search for people researching similar areas, and then send you messages through the site.
Familyrelatives’ developers have also added the ability to attach comments to individual records, which other users can then read. This means that if you find a birth record, for example, that relates to your great-grandfather, you can note this fact. If someone is researching the same person, they’ll see your note, and they can choose to get in touch with you. The plan is that it could lead to people finding relatives they never knew they had.
Familyrelatives.com adds 200 million USA records
To tie in with the new features, Familyrelatives.com has added over 200 million US records to its site. These collections, which are available for free, include birth, marriage, death and divorce records covering some of the largest states in the USA and Irish immigration records. Alongside these are the Social Security Death Indexes, World War II enlistment and POW records and military records for the Korean War – see http://www.familyrelatives.com/ for more information.
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