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• The new iPhone app BillionGraves.com (1BGraves)
  lets you contribute to the site’s gravestone image database while on the road. Even
  without the app, you can add transcriptions to the site’s online database. On the
  site, you can search gravestone records by person or cemetery (it looks like few stones
  are recorded yet, but you can find cemeteries listed with maps showing their locations).

• The entire 1930
  Mexico Census is now complete on FamilySearch. This indexing project started
  in September2007 and encompassed 13 million records. 

• Here’s an update on a smaller genealogy subscription site you may not be familiar
  with: Family Tree Connection,
  launched in 2003, is approaching 2 million records. The names were transcribed from
  more than 5,400 documents including Masonic lodge rosters, military rosters, insurance
  claims, tax lists, orphanage records, club and society member lists, prisoner logs
  and mug shots, school catalogs, yearbooks, railroad employee information, rural telephone
  directories, church member lists and more.
  

• Ancestry.com has
  added new US WWII Navy Muster Rolls (1938-1949) and a US Navy Cruise Books
  Index (1918-2009) to its military records collection.

• Among the New England Historic Genealogical
  Society’s (NEHGS) upcoming events is Come Home to New England, a weeklong
  educational event featuring research opportunities, individual research consultations,
  lectures and more. It takes place June 13-18 at NEHGS’s Boston headquarters. Learn
  more on the NEHGS website.