IIGS Newsletter - February 2000
The Chicago Genealogical Society has a new Web page worth visiting if you have roots in Chicago and Cook County.The Ellis Island project will have a new Web page online in 2001 sponsored by Genealogy.com and Discover Card which will eventually feature immigration data. Visit the Ellis Island Foundation Web page for more information.
If you're looking for your French ancestors, check out this Web page.
Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Enterprises has announced that Canadian Birth-Death-Marriage (BDM) exchange is active again due to renewed interest (and a few more volunteers!).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a digital version of the Atlas des Deutschen Reichs published in 1833 by Ludwig Ravenstein at http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein
The National Endowment for the Humanities has launched a project called "My History Is America's History." Check it out at http://www.neh.gov/myhistory/.