Friday Finds – 08/31/12

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

New-to-Me Blogs

• Blood and Frogs Jewish Genealogy and More, Philip
• WBEZ – Chicago History Today, John R. Schmidt
• Genealogy – Southeast Michigan, Derek Davey
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• Irish Genealogy News, Claire Santry
• Grow Your Family Tree, Alan Stewart
• Historic Graves Blog
• Mystic and Stonington – A Storied Past and Present, Jean B. Evans
• Nebraska Historical Society Blog
• History Burgoo, Kentucky Historical Society

Online Articles/Posts

• If Genealogy Dominated Reality Television, Amy Coffin
• Genealogy Mysteries, Eileen Souza
• Family Tree Friday: War of 1812 Certificates of Discharge, NARA
• When Genealogy Gets Personal, Harold Henderson
• LibraryThing Tagging Tips, Lori Thornton
• Sorting Saturday—Good Source, Bad Source, Exhaustive Search, Anne Gillespie Mitchell
• Questions About Research Calendars and Analyzing the Data Part I, Michele Simmons Lewis
• I Wonder If My Mother Knew, Becky Jamison
• Great-Grandpa Was a Fugitive, Tami Koenig
• Gale Genealogy Connect Resource Provides the “How To” to Answer That Question, Dick Eastman
• How to Draw a Sketch Plan of an Historic Graveyard, HistoricGraves
• Catch Image Thieves With Who Stole My Pictures And Also Put it to Five More Uses [Firefox], MakeUseOf
• Seriously, What ARE They Looking For?, Donna Pointkouski
• Those Places Thursday – Baden, Germany, Rosanna Ward
• Who Were the Children?, Valerie Craft
• A Great Discovery, Donna Pointkouski

Print Articles

• “A Genealogical Journey,” by Brian Godfrey, Family Chronicle, Sept/Oct 2012.

Websites/Resources

• Irish Archives Resource
• Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (contains biographies on each signer)
• Irish Lives Remembered (community/forum, and free monthly magazine)
• The Family Group Sheets Project
• GeneaSearch
• Genealogy Inc.
• New York Heritage – Digital Collections
• War of 1812 Discharge Certificates, (NARA, includes information and list of soldiers)
• Historic Graves (Ireland)

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