We need to do some maintenance on Footnote tonight that requires us to take the site down for a little while. Our plan is to start at 10 PM Mountain Time. The maintenance should take about 3 hours and we’ll get the site back up as quickly as we can. We apologize for any inconvenience…
With a lot of help from the great folks at Family Tree Magazine, we are pleased to introduce the first ever Footnote Webinar. This free 30-minute introduction to using Footnote covers: Records you’ll find on Footnote Searching Footnote Using the Footnote viewer Creating Footnote Pages We do our best to make Footnote easy to use…
Yesterday was a nice day at Footnote. We had as many visitors to the site as we did during the early days of the Free 1930 promotion and the site handled the traffic without a hitch. The census promotion is still bringing lots of people to the site (there are still 10 days left), but…
Over the weekend we made a few updates, restarted a server or two and banged on a few other bits and pieces around here. Those changes, combined with the passing of the initial tsunami of traffic, have left the site running much better. From what we can tell, things should be pretty much back to…
Well, the 1930 census has been free for a few days now and, as you’ve probably noticed, we’ve run into a few problems. Overwhelming traffic The biggest problem is that we underestimated how fast word would get out and just how popular a free 1930 census would be. The interest has overwhelmed our servers, which…
The 1930 US Census is one of the most powerful resources available to anyone who wants to learn more about their ancestors. During the month of August, we’re giving everyone free access to Footnote.com’s one-of-a-kind, interactive 1930 US Census. With Footnote’s interactive census, viewing, downloading and printing images from the census are just the beginning. …
Operation Valkyrie was a Hitler approved emergency scenario that set up the continuity of government and plan for the military if a general breakdown of civil order should occur, such as the Führer’s death. On July 20, 1944, in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg detonated a briefcase bomb at Hitler’s…
