TOPEKA -- The Kansas Historical Society announced a partnership with Ancestry.com on Wednesday allowing individuals with a valid Kansas driver's license free access to more than 8 million Kansas records on the popular family history website.
Users can access Kansas census records from 1865-1925, Civil War enlistment papers of Kansas volunteer regiments in 1862, 1863 and 1868, Russell County vital and probate records, selected World War I manuscripts and the Spanish-American War veterans' certificates collections.
Users can visit kshs.org/ancestry and enter their name, date of birth and Kansas driver's license number. The number is authenticated, and the user is directed to Ancestry.com.
"This partnership allows genealogists, historians and other researchers access to records with genealogical information otherwise only available when visiting the state archives in Topeka," said Pat Michaelis, state archives director.
"Our thanks to the Kansas Department of Revenue for its assistance with the driver's license validation process that makes this partnership possible."
Even If It's Convenient Not A Chance
It will cost up to $43.50 for anyone to get a 4 year Kansas State Drivers license. As a Canadian, you'll have to prove to the DMV you have a right to be in the United States to be considered for one. In Canada an International Ancestry.com subscription is $354.90 a year, which includes access to all US data.
It only costs $155.40 a year to get a US subscription if you live in the United States.
Wouldnt it be crazy if Ancestry.com did this with every state (charged $155.40 per each state), you'd need a drivers license in every state.
Plenty have access to Ancestry Library Edition. Its fine to access most databases. Maybe its not useful, if you want to tell Ancestry about indexing errors.
A trip to Topeka to look for a couple hundred records is debatable, but with a good itinerary plan for a trip to Kansas, it may be priceless driving around Kansas State with a Ontario Drivers licence for up to a year.
N.B. It's about $ 180 from Toronto to Topeka with a 3 - 5 hr stop. Around 24hrs by bus and train. Might save $20 driving by car.
It's obviously conveniant for citizens of the world who have a valid Kansas State drivers licence to use this service, but for how many hours would each individual use it in total?
I dont know if all historical societies along with each State Archive will partner on this with Ancestry.com.
From the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike to Winnipeg Beach in its heyday, from nurses in the North End to construction workers on top of the Fort Garry Hotel, the Newfoundland-born Foote shot it all. “Many of us have seen Foote photographs, whether or not we are aware of their origins.
“They have been used to illustrate everything from academic histories to posters for rock concerts.”
There are approximately 3,000 images at the Manitoba Archives but that’s just a fraction of the photographs Foote took in the more than five decades that he documented Winnipeg and parts of Manitoba outside the perimeter.
University of Manitoba Press is looking for some of the lost Foote photos and is hoping that Winnipeggers are willing to rummage through their attics and photo albums.
“Even though Foote’s most famous work is of princes and processions, his bread and butter was shots of weddings, funerals and Winnipeg’s small businesses,” says David Carr, Director of University of Manitoba Press. “And that’s what we’d like to see and possibly share with a wider audience.”
People with photos to share can contact UMP Promotions/Editorial Assistant Ariel Gordon at 204-474-8408 or
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Canada's largest loyalty program introduces changes: instant redemption and date-stamped reward miles
The AIR MILES Reward Program is bringing more flexibility and choice to Collectors with the launch of AIR MILES Cash. This new program feature will enable Collectors to instantly redeem their AIR MILES reward miles in-store towards many everyday and high value purchases like gas, grocery, drug store items and home improvement purchases at participating Sponsors starting in March 2012.
Since Wednesday of this week, AIR MILES Collectors can choose how they want to allocate the reward miles they earn across the coalition of Sponsors, to redeem towards the type of rewards they want most.
This new reward feature is in addition to the over 1,200 reward options AIR MILES offers online including merchandise, travel and more. Once the program launches, more than 10 million active Collectors across the country will be able to start redeeming using their AIR MILES Cash balance at participating Sponsors - 95 reward miles will get them $10 off instantly at checkout.
Collectors can redeem in $10 increments up to a maximum of $200 per day including taxes.
"The ability to redeem instantly is something our Collectors have been asking for and we're happy we can now make it even easier for them to get the most out of their reward miles," said, Neil Everett, Chief Marketing Officer, AIR MILES Reward Program. "We are now the only loyalty program in Canada that provides the option to redeem instantly on everyday purchases from a variety of participating retailers across multiple categories."
How it Works: To take advantage of the new program feature, Collectors simply follow three easy steps:
Collectors need to activate their AIR MILES Cash balance atairmiles.ca/cash by setting a PREFERENCE - This preference enables Collectors to select what proportion of future reward miles earned they want to go towards instant redemptions, and which proportion they want to save for Dream rewards such as merchandise, travel, leisure and entertainment. Collectors can choose to allocate all or some of their reward miles into either balance. This gives Collectors the best of both worlds: redeeming instantly towards everyday purchases at participating sponsors from their AIR MILES Cash balance while continuing to save and redeem from their Dream balance like they always have. Collectors can also change their preference at any time.
EARN towards their AIR MILES Cash balance - Once a Collector sets their preference, they can continue to earn at all Sponsors the way they always have. By setting a preference now, Collectors can start building their AIR MILES Cash balance so they are ready to redeem instantly starting in March, 2012. Collectors can check their balances on airmiles.ca, by using the AIR MILES mobile app, or through the AIR MILES Customer Care Centre at 1-888-AIR-MILES.
REDEEM instantly at participating Sponsor locations - Starting in March, Collectors will be able to redeem reward miles from their AIR MILES Cash balance towards everyday and high value purchases made at the following participating regional Sponsors:
Western Canada - Shell, RONA (spring 2012), TOTEM (spring 2012)
Ontario - Shell, RONA (spring 2012), Rexall, Metro, Jean Coutu
Note: Other sponsors will be added throughout 2012.
"We continue to evolve the AIR MILES Reward Program to ensure our Collectors are provided the best choices and options," continues Everett. "AIR MILES Cash gives Collectors the flexibility to both live for today and dream for tomorrow."
Now May Be The Not So Good
AIR MILES is also announcing that effective December 31, 2011 all AIR MILES reward miles will have a date-stamp of five years. This means that all reward miles that were posted on or before December 31, 2011 will need to be redeemed by December 31, 2016, and all reward miles posted after December 31, 2011 will have a five year timeline in which they will need to be redeemed.
No action is required by Collectors at this time, and more information will become available in 2014 to help Collectors manage reward miles well in advance of expiration.
Regular collection and redemption of AIR MILES is the best way for Collectors to get the most out of the AIR MILES Reward Program and the new AIR MILES Cash program feature is making it even easier to redeem.
For more information on these program changes, as well as a list of all regionally participating AIR MILES Cash Sponsors, visit airmiles.ca/change
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