Friday Finds – 09/06/13

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

New-to-Me Blogs

• Gone Researching, author unknown

Online Articles

• 19 August 1692, Five People Hung for Witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, Nutfield Genealogy
• Terms of Use:  Google Maps & Earth, The Legal Genealogist
• Church Record Sunday:  Church Yearbooks, Gena’s Genealogy
• A History of the Pequot War by Lion Gardiner,  Lineagekeeper
• Thankful Thursday – Putting the FAMILY in Genealogy and Family History, The Last Leaf on This Branch [spot-on, Laura!]
• How to Organize Your Research With the Power of Google Drive, Make Use Of
• The Common Mismatch [DNA], The Legal Genealogist
• Don’t Give Up the Ship!  Celebrating the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812, Always Anxiously Engaged
• I’ve Been Working on the Railroad:  Resources, Gena’s Genealogy
• Timelines as Genealogical Research Tools, Archives.com
• Slide Scanning Project, A Worthington Weblog
• Their Roots Are Showing!  Three Bay Area Celebs Find Out Who They Are, California Genealogical Society
• Amazon Soon To Offer Free & Discounted Ebooks Of Hard Copies Purchased Through Its Site, Make Use Of

Websites & Resources

• A History of the Pequot War – Book by Lion Gardiner, via InternetArchive. [Thanks, Drew!]
• The Pequot War – Information about the conflict via the website for The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut.
• Beginners Guide to Genetic Genealogy – Website-based lessons (put together by Kelly Wheaton) for learning about genetic genealogy.  [Thanks, CeCe!]
• Congregational Yearbooks – Digitized church yearbooks going back to 1854 via the Congregational Library.  “One of the library’s most frequently used reference resources is a succession of denominational yearbooks dating back to 1854. They contain lists of active ministers, necrologies (obituaries) of recently deceased ministers, church statistics, and the denominations’ annual reports.  This resource is particularly useful to churches preparing for an anniversary, genealogists, and authors researching church histories.”  [Thanks, Gena!]
• The Forgotten Photographs Project – “Within our database, you will find hundreds of lost and discarded photographs from around the country.  These photographs were collected from a number of sources; antique shops, flea markets, auctions and estate sales, and put together into one searchable database.”  [Thanks, NGS!]

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