http://blog.footnote.com The official blog of Footnote.com Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:33:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The latest collection on Footnote.com is the Native American collection which was released yesterday. Working together with the National Archives and Allen County Library, Footnote.com has created a unique collection that will help people discover new details about Native American history. The Footnote Interactive Native American Collection features original historical ... http://blog.footnote.com/the-native-american-collection/ We need to do some maintenance on Footnote tonight that requires us to take the site down for a little while. Our plan is to start at 10 PM Mountain Time.  The maintenance should take about 3 hours and we'll get the site back up as quickly as we can. We apologize ... http://blog.footnote.com/site-maintenance-tonight/ We wanted to provide an update on our Holocaust Collection. Originally, we planned to have these records open to the public for only the month of October. However, due to the popularity of this collection, we have decided to keep the records open free to the public through ... http://blog.footnote.com/holocaust-collection-to-remain-free-through-2009/ Today Footnote.com announced it will digitize and create a searchable database for all publicly available U.S. Federal Censuses, ranging from the first U.S. Census taken in 1790 to the most current public census from 1930. Through its partnership with the National Archives, Footnote.com will add more than 9.5 million images ... http://blog.footnote.com/entire-u-s-census-goes-interactive-with-footnote/ Julian Noga was raised in the town of Skrzynka, Poland by his mother on her four-acre farm while his father was in the United States.  When Julian was 16 years, he left home and moved to Tarnow. In downtown Tarnow, he worked as a dishwasher at an elegant Jewish club. When ... http://blog.footnote.com/a-wwii-romeo-juliet/ The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and Footnote.com released the internet's largest Interactive Holocaust Collection today. The collection can be viewed at www.footnote.com/holocaust. The collection has over one million Holocaust related records; including millions of names and 26,000 photos from the National Archives. "We cannot afford to forget this period ... http://blog.footnote.com/the-new-holocaust-collection/ With a lot of help from the great folks at Family Tree Magazine, we are pleased to introduce the first ever Footnote Webinar. This free 30-minute introduction to using Footnote covers: Records you'll find on Footnote Searching Footnote Using the Footnote viewer Creating Footnote Pages We do our best to make Footnote easy to use (and ... http://blog.footnote.com/the-worlds-first-footnote-webinar/ Adding more than 1 million new records per month, Footnote.com will mark the month of October, designated Family History Month, with the addition of its 60 millionth image. Since its launch in January 2007, Footnote.com has partnered with organizations including The National Archives and Gannett to digitize and index valued historical ... http://blog.footnote.com/footnotecom-marks-family-history-month-with-60-million-image-milestone/ On September 21, 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed the first female associate Supreme Court Justice in Washington D.C., under the presidency of Ronald Reagan. She was a popular jurist and politician from Arizona. Read more about this monumental event at Footnote.com. http://blog.footnote.com/first-female-supreme-court-justice/ Today in History: Star-Spangled Banner penned as War of 1812 looms. Find out more about the Star-Spangled Banner and the author, Francis Scott Key, at Footnote.com. http://blog.footnote.com/today-in-history/