Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.
New-to-Me Blogs
- Memories in Print, Heather McCray
- TNG Blog, Darrin Lythgoe
- The Family Orchard, Joanna [Not a new blog, she, like me, moved over to WordPress.]
Online Articles
- Follow Your Instincts, The In-Depth Genealogist
- The Genealogy Community Needs More Respect or it Will Destroy Itself!, Onward To Our Past
- Already Taken the AncestryDNA test? Here Are 4 Reasons to Test Other Family Members, Ancestry.com Blog [Note: This applies to more than just Ancestry’s DNA testing.]
- All Adoption Search Stories Don’t Have Happy Endings, GenealogyBlog
- Forensic Genealogy, Revised, Anglo-Celtic Connections
- Photo Bonanza, Begin With ‘Craft’
- 12 WordPress Plugins That Automatically Watermark Images on Your Blog, Smashing Apps
- 10 Best Alternatives to Google Reader, Smashing Apps
Print Articles
- Review of Scrivener, by Robert Stanhope, APG Quarterly, December 2012. [I have been using Scrivener not only for writing projects, but for genealogy research projects as well. Robert has some great ideas…this is a must-read review!]
- “The Intersection of Professional Place and Amateur Avenue,” by Chris Staats, APG Quarterly, December 2012.
Websites & Resources
- GAR Records Project – “This is an ongoing project sponsored by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) to document the location of repositories of records of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR).”
- Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821
Upcoming FREE Webinars
| Date / Time | Webinar / Presenter / Host |
| 07/31 1 PM Central |
Direct Your Research With City Directories Maureen Taylor Legacy Family Tree |
| 08/03 12 PM Central |
Official, but Wrong: Testing the Validity of Genealogical Information in Official Records |
| 08/07 1 PM Central |
Captured For All Time: Recording Family Voices to Preserve and Pass Down Marian Pierre-Louis Legacy Family Tree |
| 08/07 7 PM Central |
Researching in the Post War Records of 1812 Craig Scott Federation of Genealogical Societies |
| 08/13 8 PM Central |
Getting to Here from There: Following your Ancestor’s Migration Trail J. H. “Jay” Fonkert Illinois State Genealogical Society |
| 08/13 1 PM Central |
Mining the Records of the Federal District Courts J. Mark Lowe Friends of the National Archives SE Region |
| 08/14 1 PM Central |
Digital Research Guidance, Research Logs, and To Do Lists: FamilySearch, Research Wiki, and Legacy Family Tree Geoff Rasmussen Legacy Family Tree |
| 08/15 8 PM Central |
Adding Photos and Stories to FamilySearch’s Family Tree Tim Cross Utah Genealogical Association |
| 08/19 7 PM Central |
Hark! Those Tombstones Are Talking to Us Linda Woodward Geiger Georgia Genealogical Society |
| 08/20 7 PM Central |
Beginning German Genealogy Research Kathy Wurth Wisconsin Genealogical Society |
| 08/21 1 PM Central |
Do More with your Photos with Templates from Heritage Collector software Kathleen Bitter Legacy Family Tree |
| 08/21 8 PM Central |
Mark Golden: A Case Study in World War II Research Mary Roddy Southern California Genealogical Society |
| 08/28 1 PM Central |
Colonial Immigrants: Who They Were and Where They Came From Mary Hill Legacy Family Tree |
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