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• FamilySearch has announced its US Immigration and Naturalization community indexing
  project is halfway to its goal of creating a free online collection of US passenger
  lists, border crossing records, naturalization records, and other immigration
  documents. Two months into the project, 85,000 volunteers have indexed more than 15
  million records.

  FamilySearch hopes to have 30 million records indexed by the end of the year.  You
  can see what’s been indexed so far and register to help out at FamilySearch.org/immigration.

• According to Ancestry.com, actor George
  Clooney is Abraham Lincoln’s half-first cousin five times removed through
  Lincoln’s maternal grandmother, Nancy Hanks. Then men also share a home state of Kentucky:
  Clooney was born in Lexington; Lincoln, in Hardin County.

  Most genealogists understand such connections aren’t really big news—with every generation,
  each of us has exponentially more cousins, and some of them are bound to be famous
  (others are bound to be deadbeats)—but writing this little blurb let me gaze at photos
  of George Clooney.

• Our friend and frequent Family Tree Magazine contributor Thomas MacEntee
  is the subject of a recent Forbes
  article about turning your hobby into a job, which Thomas did with his genealogy
  hobby after unexpectedly losing his tech job in 2008. He’s since founded the Geneabloggers website
  and the company High-Definition Genealogy. You
  can read the Forbes article here.

• Speaking of making money doing genealogy, the Board for Certification of Genealogists
  is offering new video
  testimonials from professional researchers to help you decide if certification
  is right for you. The site also has posted an hour-long
  seminar about what you can expect from the certification process (and what’s expected
  of you).