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WorldVitalRecords.com Reaches 100,000 Daily Page View Milestone!!!

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Yesterday (June 5, 2007) was a big day for WorldVitalRecords.com. Last night, WorldVitalRecords.com reached past the 100,000 page view mark for a total of 101,627 page views. WorldvitalRecords also had 10,487 unique visitors yesterday to its site.

David Lifferth, President, WorldVitalRecords.com was so excited about this milestone. He said, “Now that we have surpassed this important milestones, let’s hope to quickly put these numbers in the rear view mirrors and climb to even greater heights.”

And that is exactly what we plan to do! If you visited WorldVitalRecords.com for the first time yesterday, “WELCOME!” If you contributed to the 101,627 page views, “THANK YOU. We hope those pages contained the information you needed.”

Oh, and FamilyLink.com has also surpassed the 5,000 member mark after its beta launch a little over a month ago. If you haven’t enrolled in this new free social, genealogy network, sign up at http://www.familylink.com. Connect with other genealogists from around the world today!

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Ermatinger’s York Factory Express Journal Database Free To Access Until June 14, 2007

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Shown above: Edward Ermatinger

Ermatinger’s York Factory Express Journal is WorldVitalRecords.com’s newest database. The database will be free to access until June 14, 2007.

The database contains records of journeys made between Fort Vancouver and Hudson Bay in the Years 1827-1828.

Ermatinger’s York Factory Express Journal is part of Quintin Publications’ collection, as is available at WorldVitalRecords.com through its recent partnership. Click here to read the press release about the partnership between Quintin Publications and WorldVitalRecords.com.

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Genealogy and Family History in China

Monday, June 4th, 2007
Culture of China

When I was in high school, I heard a talk about China. A fact was mentioned during the talk that seemed to indicate that 1/4 of the world’s population spoke Mandarin. I immediately thought that I should learn the language and have something to do with the people of China sometime in my life. I dreamed that I would one day influence the Chinese people in a positive way through use of media.

That dream began over 25 years ago. I did take a class in Mandarin in college but it was difficult for me to learn the language. I took a history course on China. I worked in Los Angeles for a couple of prominent Chinese business people.

I now work for WorldVitalRecords.com, this fast-growing Internet genealogy company. WorldVitalRecords.com now has two web sites. The first web site is an online database of genealogical and historical resources found at WorldVitalRecords.com. The second site is a free social networking site for genealogists and family historians called FamilyLink.com. Our goal is to help every genealogist in the world be more successful. This means that the Chinese people are included in that goal. There has got to be some interest in genealogy in China!

For the next couple of weeks I will be researching to find out any connections with genealogy and China. I want to know who does genealogy in China, to what extent online genealogy has permeated the market, how a social networking site for genealogists should be adapted to fit the culture, and any other information that would be helpful.

And why am I doing this? Whitney Ransom, our Director of Corporate Communications, and I (Director of Content Acquisition) will be going to China in two weeks from today! Although we will be going there mainly for a vacation, I want to maximize my time while I’m in the country. This dream of positively influencing the Chinese people just won’t go away. And I think that connecting people through family history and genealogy can have such an amazing effect on people’s lives.

So…if you have any ideas, suggestions, information that relates to genealogy and family history in China, please contact me at yvette@worldvitalrecords.com.

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Parish/Town Guide to the Province of Québec and The Notaries of French Canada 1626-1900 Databases Now Online at WorldVitalRecords.com

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Parish/Town Guide to the Province of Québec and The Notaries of French Canada 1626-1900 databases are now available at WorldVitalRecords.com. These databases will be free to access until June 8, 2007.

Robert J. Quintin, former founder and president of Quintin Publications created these databases. WorldVitalRecords.com’s recent partnership with Quintin Publications has made these databases available on its site. In addition, thousands of Quintin’s databases will soon be available at WorldVitalRecords.com. To learn more about the partnership between Quintin Publications and WorldVitalRecords.com, click here

Click on the links below to access the databases:

Parish/Town Guide to the Province of Québec This guide was created by Robert J. Quintin, as well as the revised and augmented edition. It was designed to prevent wasting time looking for ancestors in the wrong town at the wrong time. Quintin said that this guide will save researchers many hours of research by helping them focus on the correct parish in the correct town during the correct time period. Four different lists designed to make genealogical research in Québec much easier are currently available. This database contains 1) a chronological listing of pre-1901 Catholic Churches, 2) an alphabetical listing of parishes by town, 3) an alphabetical listing of parishes by the patron saint of that parish, and 4) an alphabetical listing of parishes by county.

The Notaries of French Canada 1626-1900 - These records were also created by Robert J. Quintin. It contains a handy listing of the notaries that practiced in French Canada. The database lists notaries 1) alphabetically, 2) chronologically and 3) by the area served. Quintin said that this guide will save the genealogist many hours of valuable research time by helping them find the most logical notaries who most likely will have the records for which they are searching.

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