From The Generations Network:

PROVO, Utah, June 27 /PRNewswire/ — The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced two new additions to the Ancestry network of sites in France and Italy — Ancestry.fr and Ancestry.it.

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From The Generations Network:

PROVO, Utah, June 26 /PRNewswire/ — Ancestry.com, the world’s leading online family history resource, today launched more than 7.5 million names in U.S. Indian Censuses, the largest online collection of Native American family history records. Taken by the Bureau of Indian affairs, the censuses document some 150 years of Native American family history. These censuses create an intimate portrait of individuals living on all registered Indian reservations between 1885 and the 1940s.

The U.S. Indian Censuses are among the most important documents for tracing Native American family history — as well as the place to for anyone with Native American ancestry to begin searching for their heritage. Representing more than 250 tribes from some 275 reservations, schools and hospitals across the United States, the censuses typically recorded names, including Indian names, ages, birth dates, tribe, reservation and more.

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I knew I’d seen this somewhere, and I meant to go looking for it again. In my spare time. Ahem. Fortunately, I just stumbled upon it.

If you’re using the digital component of the, and you’re a Legacy user, there’s a quick way to find your next MRIN or your next MRIN-extension. When you go to put a number in the Source Citation Detail Box, click on the magnifier next to the File ID box.

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There’s a good tip at Dead Fred’s newsletter about how to handle photographs. Dead Fred’s newsletter, Relatively Speaking, is free, and can be subscribed to with only your name and email address. Dead Fred is a good source for searching old photographs, or submitting your unknowns for possible identification.

A small aside …

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Sandusky Daily Star – September 25, 1901:

GOT OFF EASY

Charles W. Smith, the colored man, who followed another man in an effort to collect a debt of 35 cents, and was arrested before serious trouble resulted, had a hearing last evening. At first he denied that a blow had been struck, but later, he changed his mind and pleaded guilty. He was fined a dollar and costs.