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July 14, 2010  We have started to work on a large gap in missing immigrant records to the USA. These are immigrants and passengers from ships that arrived in Canada from overseas, and later included airlines as well as car traffic. It included visitors as well, many of them going back and forth between the Canada and the USA. Thousands of people were processed through the border crossing point at St Albans, Vermont, as well as in the State of Washington and other locations. We are now adding links to the actual images of those border crossings records , year-by-year, from the 1800's up until the 1950's.

July 12, 2010 Another 3,000 information sources have been added in the past 4 weeks, providing instant access to more than 60,000 resources & websites in 200 countries. USA census images for 1850, 1860, 1870, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 have been added; thousands of marriages and wills for Scotland have just been added, as well as hundreds of new resources for Canadian provinces, along with new resources for England, Ireland, & Scotland, as well as dozens of other countries. No other website leads you to such an assortment of records and comprehensive coverage. Our map collection has been expanded now for Ireland (excellent county maps) and India, although 100 other countries are already online in our Maps section.  Membership allows every member to have personal attention and assistance from our website monitors who remain online to help you.

June 9, 2010 Another 6,000 information sources have been linked into our website in the past 5 weeks. Now you have instant access to more than 56,000 databases and websites, including more than 50,000 eBooks. This includes images for the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 U.S. censuses, and thousands more weblinks into Canada, the USA, the British Isles, as well as access to research resources in more than 200 countries. 

April 27, 2010: Another 4,000 information sources have been added in the past 5 weeks, providing instant access to more than 1,400,000 new pages. Our May newsletter will contain an update for selected countries, states and provinces. Information soucres now total over 50,000, spanning 200 countries. If you have not signed up for our free monthly newsletter, do so and you will receive the latest information by email on May 1st.

March 21, 2010: Continuing our work, we have added another 3,000  information sources in the past month alone. We have also added the 1930 United States census images, as well as the census of foreign personnel in about 40 countries. Several thousand people are also included in the military bases and towns in the Canal Zone, where many permanent U.S. citizens also resided. Almost 2,000 research resources were added in the last month for Canada, the British Isles, and countries throughout Europe and Asia. Members are now linked to over 46,000 research resources in 200 countries. 

January, 2010: In the past 3 months we have added more than 9,000 additional information sources. Each information source is linked to a specific website. Our first anniversary of the new website approach (200 countries) comes in April, 2010. We will have a special anniversary announcement at that time. 

Our gateway now features 37,000 websites, several thousand of our own online databases, and a growing collection of antique maps. 

July, 2009: A new category was added called MAPS. The first 1,000 antique maps were added to the website, spanning the time period from 1000 A.D. to the early 1900s. Most of the maps were greatly enhanced, to provide easy viewing under great magnification compared to the originals. The number of sourced databases was doubled during this month.

May and June, 2009: Thousands of new databases and eBooks were added, with an increasing focus on eBooks around the world.

April, 2009:  GRL.com launched its major thrust into the information world. It features an "Internet Gateway" which leads to thousands of databases through a unique "switchboard" or linage table. Here is one massive source of information about people living in the Past, as well as in the Present. The Gateway uses clear "descriptors" to inform people of what they will find, before they even start a search. These "descriptors" describe databases, lists, or information sites, as well as hundreds of rare books, all forming a virtual world "at the fingertips" of beginners and professional researchers alike.