Friday Finds – 11/14/14

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found, such as new blogs, interesting posts/articles, useful websites and resources, and of course upcoming webinars.

Friday Finds – 11/07/14

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found, such as new blogs, interesting posts/articles, useful websites and resources, and of course upcoming webinars.

Register for CSI-Genealogy, New Institute in Illinois Next May

I must apologize to my readers as I thought I had posted about the new Carl Sandburg Institute of Genealogy (CSI-Genealogy) that will be held in Galesburg, Illinois, May 28 to June 1, 2015.  Apparently, I did not, so here’s the scoop. Over the course […]

Friday Finds – 10/31/14

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found, such as new blogs, interesting posts/articles, useful websites and resources, and of course upcoming webinars.

Book Review – Where’s Merrill?

Title:  Where’s Merrill? Author:  Gearoid O’Neary Format:  Paperback and Kindle Published:  2013 Synopsis:  (partial, from Amazon)  Where’s Merrill? is a uniquely crafted mystery thriller based upon real life historical events. In fact, it is two inter-related stories in one novel set in different time-frames, namely […]

Friday Finds – 10/24/14

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found, such as new blogs, interesting posts/articles, useful websites and resources, and of course upcoming webinars.

Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery Series Continues With Another Great Book

Just finished reading the book The Lost Empress, the fourth in the series of Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mysteries by British author Steven Robinson.  My love of this series, and the author, started in 2011 when I read the first book in the series, In the […]

Transfer Autosomal DNA Results to FTDNA for Free…Well, Sort Of

I just discovered that you can transfer your autosomal DNA test (done through Ancestry or 23&me) for free…well, sort of.  It looks like they are reducing the price of a transfer kit from $69 to $39, which is great news.  As an incentive, they are […]