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• Origins.net, which has genealogy
  records subscription sites for British and Irish records,
  plus a Scottish research site,
  has launched a new records image viewer. It’ll allow easier searching, including for
  users on Macs.

  To test it out, Origins.net is inviting you to browse
  the Children’s Employment Commission of 1842 records free. The viewer requires
  the free downloadable Java plug-in, which most browsers have pre-installed. (You
  can access the Origins.net image viewer Help page here.)

• FamilySearch has updated the historical records search at FamilySearch.org with more
  records for Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican
  Republic, England, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain
  and the United States. You
  can check out the list of updated databases here.

• Meanwhile, FamilySearch has extended the deadline to submit presentations for its RootsTech 2013
  conference to June 30. If your presentation has to do with “limited, late-breaking
  technology research,” you have until Oct. 15. Visit
  RootsTech.org to download the submission guidelines and submit applications to present.

• The Indiana Historical Society‘s (IHS)
  Midwestern Roots conference takes place Friday and Saturday July 20 and 21 in Indianapolis.
  Attendees can choose from more than 30 sessions from presenters including genealogy
  blogger and tech guru Dick Eastman, GeneaBloggers founder
  Thomas MacEntee, Hey America, Your Roots Are Showing author Megan Smolenyak
  Smolenyak, findmypast.com‘s Joshua Taylor
  and other well-known genealogy experts. There’ll also be a book fair and marketplace.

  Full conference registration costs $150 for non-IHS members—but the early bird price
  ends next Wednesday, June 27. Click
  here to learn more and register.