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• Today (Sept. 10) marks the 20th anniversary of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum opening
  in 1990. More than 35 million people have visited the museum, which highlights the
  immigrant experience and the growth of America during the peak immigration years of
  1880 to 1924. You
  can read more about the museum on the Ellis Island website.

For help searching online for your Ellis Island ancestors, download our Ellis
Island Web Guide from ShopFamilyTree.com or use the book The
Family Tree Guide to Finding Your Ellis Island Ancestors (on sale for $12.99).

• Pay-per-view genealogy website ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk was
  officially relaunched with a new look and and new search features, including search
  results plotted on maps, to make it easier for you to find ancestors. The site offers
  records dating to the beginning of civil registration in Scotland in 1855, as well
  as parish records dating back as far as 1538.

• FamilySearch’s army of volunteer indexers have started work on the 1930 census,
  currently the most recent US census available to researchers. As with several other
  FamilySearch census indexes, volunteers will start with Ancestry.com indexes and create
  a second comparison index from scratch, then arbitrate discrepancies to reduce errors.
  FamilySearch also will extract additional fields of census data for improved searchability. You
  can read more about this project on the FamilySearch blog.