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The books I bought at FGS 26 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
For moderately regular attendees, a national genealogy conference is an oasis of extreme sociability in a normally quiet, if not quite solitary, life. I love conferences, but they do make it difficult...
Guest post: What Getting A Credential Meant To Me 21 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Dee Dee King, CG(sm), is a Texas-based forensic genealogist who doesn't have a blog, so I let her borrow mine during a week when FGS in Fort Wayne may monopolize my attention. Her thoughts: I made a ...
Good news from the fast-moving world of dead people 20 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Joe Beine has posted latest updates on death records. From the Midwest we have: ILLINOIS: obituary indexes from Alexander, Cook, Pulaski, Rock Island, Tazewell, and Union counties INDIANA: obituary ...
US Genealogy Writer's Market -- a quick questionnaire for editors 19 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
19 August 2013 Dear Genealogy Periodical Editors: How do genealogical authors find your publication? Genealogy periodicals—from popular magazines to state and national journals to the newsletters o...
Is genealogy ready for argument? 16 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Most of us come to genealogy thinking that we know more about it than we do. I certainly did. One tests we undergo is just how fast we can figure that out and adjust to how much there is to learn. In ...
Historical context: timelines are only the beginning 14 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
There's nothing wrong with a timeline as long as we don't confuse it with real life or real history. A list of historical events that happened to happen at the same time as our ancestors were going ab...
Shedding light on the Dark Age of American genealogy 12 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
One of the commonest problems that people bring to consultants or to professionals is how to identify people, especially parents, once they get back before 1850. The period from the late 1700s (uphea...
Sleuthing for Smiths in Alabama and Mississippi 9 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
This blog doesn't normally reach so far south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but blog rules were made to be broken. And what better time than to take note of Laurel Baty's methodological tour de force that ...
FamilySearch Books reality check 7 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
On Monday the FamilySearch blog announced that "more than 100,000 books have now been scanned and published online" at their book search site. As the result of a partnership among eight libraries, "Fa...
Researching in a strange place? Here's help 5 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Well, all places are strange once you get to know them ;-)Â Last week I was interested to find that two friends and colleagues have just published articles on this exact topic: what to do when you're ...
