Friday Finds – 11/02/12

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

New-to-Me Blogs

• Out of My Tree, Barbara J. Starmans
• Rootsonomy, Jim Heddell
• Ancestral Breezes, Jen Baldwin
• (Mis)Adventures of a Genealogist, Cinamon Collins
• Megan Smolenyak @ Huffington Post
• Scott Phillips @ Huffington Post
• Onward To Our Past, Scott Phillips

Online Articles/Posts

• Cyndi’s List Versus the Rip-off Artist, Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Copyright and Copy Wrong, Mocavo Genealogy Blog
• Our American Family, A Family History Program, My Ancestors and Me
• Dark Alleys of Chicago History Bus Tour 2012, Chicago Genealogical Society
• Build a Document Library at Scribd, Moultrie Creek Gazette
• Ancestry.com Has General Land Office Record Collection, Genea-Musings
• Avoiding Five Common Research Errors, Rootsonomy
• Be On Alert: Your Ancestors Are Here!, WikiTree
• Why Aren’t You Having Fun With Your Family History Research?, The Ancestor Hunt
• Imagine This: A List of All Genealogy Conferences, Ancestral Breezes

Print Articles

• “The Ideal Genealogy Software Applications,” Michael Hait, Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, September 2012.

Websites & Resources

• Historical US Newspapers on the Internet – Listing of online newspapers, prepared by Bowling Green University Libraries.
• Love to Know Genealogy – Informational site about genealogy covering a variety of topics.  Also has several forms and charts
• BYU Independent Study Online Courses – Various genealogy and family history topics, as well as a variety of other non-genealogy topics including gardening and personal finance.
• Landmarks Illinois – “Landmarks Illinois is the state’s leading voice for historic preservation. From the rubble of the 1971 demolition of Adler and Sullivan’s masterpiece old Chicago Stock Exchange Building, Landmarks Illinois rose to become a 2500 member statewide organization.”

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