{"id":751,"date":"2010-03-19T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/friday-finds-031910\/"},"modified":"2013-07-10T00:39:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T05:39:28","slug":"friday-finds-031910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/friday-finds-031910\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Finds \u2013 03\/19\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/FridayFinds.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article<\/strong> \u2013 I came across an article written by Kory L. Meyerink, entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progenealogists.com\/colonialwitches.htm\">Witches in Colonial America<\/a>.\u00a0 The article even includes a list of those accused based on several sources.\u00a0 During my own research, I found two sources that indicated that Mary REEVE Webster (wife of William Webster, who was the son of Gov. John Webster) was tried and acquitted for witchcraft in 1684.\u00a0 She does appear on the list in the article, with some additional information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/\">FamilySearch<\/a> is offering video courses on their website.\u00a0 So far, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/eng\/library\/education\/frameset_education.asp?PAGE=education_research_series_online.asp%3FActiveTab=2\">Research Series Classes Online<\/a> offers courses on the following topics:\u00a0 England Beginning Research, German Research, Ireland Research, Italy Research, Principios b\u00e1sicos para la investigaci\u00f3n geneal\u00f3gica en Hispanoam\u00e9rica (M\u00e9xico), Research Principles and Tools, Russia Research, and U.S. Research.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0 Some courses require the use of Microsoft\u2019s Silverlight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Article<\/strong> \u2013 I love the magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagomag.com\/\"><em>Chicago<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 They always have interesting feature articles related to the city, many times of a historical nature.\u00a0 In the March 2010 issue, there was an article written by Geoffrey Johnson entitled, \u201cCamera Obscura.\u201d\u00a0 The article talks about a woman photographer named Beatrice Tonnesen, who lived and worked in Chicago in the early 1900s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irish Genealogy<\/strong>\u2013 Kimberly Powell created a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.about.com\/od\/ireland\/tp\/irish_databases.htm\">12 Top Web Sites for Researching Irish Ancestors<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.about.com\/\">About Genealogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irish Genealogy<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/\">Ancestry<\/a> has published the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.ancestry.com\/search\/db.aspx?dbid=1772&amp;o_iid=43021&amp;o_lid=43021\">Ireland, Famine Relief Commission Papers, 1844-1847<\/a> collection.\u00a0 For more information, refer to Ancestry\u2019s blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ancestry.com\/ancestry\/2010\/03\/17\/personal-accounts-of-the-irish-famine-now-online\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ancestry+%28Ancestry.com+blog%29&amp;utm_content=Bloglines\">Personal Accounts of the Irish Famine Now Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,300],"tags":[390,349],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","tag-location-ireland","tag-friday-finds","cat-25-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-c7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}