Friday Finds – 04/18/14

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

New-to-Me Blogs

• My Genealogical Adventures, Chris
• Budding Genealogists, Claire Brisson-Banks
• Family Legends, Judith Copeland

Online Articles

• New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Open Access Hi-Res Maps Online, Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
• The Things We Know, The Questions We Ask, One Rhode Island Family
• A Most Unusual Criminal Execution in New London, Connecticut History
• It’s About Them…Not About Me, RootDig
• Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA – How to Locate Records from Home or in Person, Life From the Roots
• Paying Taxes…Or Not, Ancestry
• 9 Interesting Word Cloud Generators, Smashing Apps
• 9 Crucial Tips for Self-Editing Your Blog Posts (That Every Blogger Can Use), ProBlogger

Website & Resources

• Quinte Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society:  Genealogy Links – “These websites are recommended by branch members to help you get started with your family history research, whether you’re researching in the Bay of Quinte area, elsewhere in Ontario, or like many of our members, in other provinces, the USA or abroad.”
• Reymann’s Special-Karte, 1832-1870 – “Very detailed Central European maps by Gottlob Daniel Reymann (b. 1759, d. 1837).  Covers most of East and West Germany and Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Poland, northeast France, parts of Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and former Baltic states.”
• Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies – “The Institute’s mission is twofold: first, scholarly research and documentation; and second, outreach to a broader audience. Ongoing research involves faculty and students from many departments (as well as visiting scholars) examining how German-speaking immigrants and their descendants have both shaped their North American environment and been shaped by it. Outreach efforts center on bringing a better understanding of issues of German-American immigration, history, culture, and language to a general public as well as to school children.“  They have lots of resources on this website.
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission – “Our casualty database lists the names and place of commemoration of the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars.  It also records details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died “as a result of enemy action” in the Second World War.”

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