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• Saving Memories Forever has launched
  its new free Android
  app designed to make interviewing and preserving stories through audio recordings
  even easier. The technology allows users to build story archives they can share and
  manage through the company’s website.

• Archives.com has expanded its US Vital Records
  Collection to include 58 million records covering birth, death and marriage information
  for 21 US states. Click
  here for a full list of recently added records. 
  

• FamilySearch has added 7 million new indexed
  records and images to its collection. Notable additions include the 1.7 million+ indexed
  records and images in the Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books collection from 1592-1910;
  1 million+ records added to the United States Index to Passenger Arrivals, Atlantic
  and Gulf Ports, from 1820-1874; and the 1.3 million+ records from the United States
  General Index to Pension Files collection from 1861-1934.

• The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announces
  the creation of a new society to promote the preservation of records in the National
  Archives and Records Administration (NARA): The Society of Preservation Patriots.
  This new group recognizes donors who have contributed $250 or more to the Stern-NARA
  Gift Fund or the current Preserve the Pensions initiative, a project to digitally
  capture the 7.2 million images from the 180,000 pensions of those who served in the
  War of 1812.

Donors will receive a society pin and be listed on the FGS website. For
more information, see the Preserve the
Pensions initiative or the Stern-NARA
Gift Fund.