Friday Finds – 02/21/4

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

New-to-Me Blogs

• The NextGen Genealogy Network Blog
• Genealogy With Valerie, Valerie Hughes

Online Articles

I’m about a week behind still.  Most of these are from last week.

• 6 Tips on How to Write a Family History Book Your Audience Will Love, Stories to Tell
• Friday Funny ~ A Genealogy Poem, Nutfield Genealogy
• Good News About Forthcoming Online Service for Birth, Marriages & Death Records From Northern Ireland, Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
• DNA Testing for Adoptees—AncestryDNA Has the Power to Unlock the Answers in Your Story, Ancestry.com
• Illinois General Assembly to Consider the “Access to Cemeteries Act,” Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

Website & Resources

• The NextGen Genealogy Network – “The NextGen Generation Network exists to foster the next generation’s interest in family history and engagement in our community through digital channels which virtually connect members throughout the world.”
• Amtsblatt der Königlichen Preußischen Regierung zu Bromberg: 1865 [Official Journal of the Royal Prussian Government to Bromberg: 1865] – via Google Books; other volumes also exist.
• Topographisch-statistisches Handbuch des Preußischen Staats [Topographical and statistical manual of the Prussian State] – via Google Books; published in 1889.  Whole title translates to:  Topographical and statistical manual of the Prussian State: Or alphabetical list of all the cities, towns, villages, manors, granges, mills, or other inhabited buildings, factories and land, leading its own name, with an exact description of the latter.
• birchGenealogy – Wiki, with main focus on Posen, Prussia.
• The Great Migration Study Project – “The aim of the Great Migration Study Project is to compile comprehensive genealogical and biographical accounts of every person who settled in New England between 1620 and 1640. Between these years about twenty thousand English men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic to settle New England. For a century and a half genealogists have been studying these families, and thousands of books and articles have been published as a result.”
• Chronicling Illinois – “Chronicling Illinois showcases collections and items from the vast Illinois history holdings of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.”

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