FamilySearch's Full-Text Search

This is a reminder to myself to always check back on resources periodically to see if there's more that has been added--either feature-wise or the underlying data.  I'd played around with FamilySearch's Full Text Search when it first came out, but for someone who didn't have ancestors in the United States before the twentieth century, it wasn't very helpful.  But Amy Cohen recently posted on her blog about a success she'd have.  I was still skeptical given that Amy's family had come to America much earlier than mine, but I was pleasantly surprised that it found records that were not indexed and which I hadn't found before.

Adoption Record for Jacob Soupcoff, 1904.  Via FamilySearch's Full Text Search

Ukrainan Online Records - Use the Duck!

More and more records from Ukrainian archives are being scanned and made accessible online, but they are not all consolidated in one place.  This means that if you have a particular citation within a branch of an archive in Ukraine, you may not realize it's already been scanned and is easily accessible for you from home.  But there's a portal that has made finding online records much more straightforward.

Record found via DuckArchive