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• British genealogy subscription site FindMyPast.co.uk has
  released a collection of records
  from the Second Anglo-Boer War including details on 260,000 British service
  members and 59,000 war casualties. The database compiles information from more than
  330 sources, and resolves errors and conflicting information in some of those sources.
  The war was fought from 1899 to 1902 between the British Empire and the Dutch-speaking
  inhabitants of the South African Republic (Transvaal Republic) and the Orange Free
  State.

• The latest records added to the free FamilySearch
  Beta site include census records from Ghana (1982 to 1984) and Norway (1875),
  plus the Minnesota state census (1865 and 1905) and marriage records from Arkansas
  (1837 to 1957) and Idaho (1864 to 1950). You
  can see the full list of new records here. 

• The Troy (NY) Irish Genealogical Society has posted the records
  of Italian midwife Alesandra Matera, who practiced in the Troy area during
  the early 1900s. The transcribed records span 1909 to 1923 and document mostly Italian
  births, with some Syrians in later years. You can download
  the transcriptions as PDFs ordered by the father’s, mother’s or child’s last name
  (the transcriptions themselves are in chronological order, but you can use the Bookmarks
  bar in your PDF viewer to see the names in alphabetical order). Originals are in the
  archives of the Rensselaer County
  Historical Society.

• The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE) 2011 writing
  competition is open to members and—for the first time—non-members of ISFHWE this
  year. Entries are due by Dec. 31, 2010, and you’ll get a discount on the entry fee
  for submissions made before November 30, 2010. See
  the categories, judging guidelines, rules and entry form on ISFHWE’s website.
  

• The River Raisin National Battlefield Park in Monroe, Mich., site of the War
  of 1812 Battle of Frenchtown, has officially become the 393rd park in the National
  Park System. You can learn more about the site on
  the National Park Service website and at RiverRaisinBattlefield.org. 

• The National Archives and Records Administration’s National
  Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis will relocate to a modernized
  $112 million facility in North St. Louis County. It’ll take about 17 months to move
  the 100 million-plus records and 800 workers starting in May 2011. NPRC houses personnel
  records of civilian
  federal employees, as well as military
  service members after about World War I.