Some interesting maps for Immigration Research
Maps are important tools for genealogy research. For most researchers, immigration research plays a large part in connecting our ancestors...
Relatively Curious "We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~ Walt Disney
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Disaster-proofing your memories
For my day job, I review engineering reports for a forensic engineering firm. Forensic engineering is not so much how...
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Private Voices: a unique collection of American Civil War letters
I came across a new-to-me archive of Civil War letters recently. The project, “Corpus of American Civil War Letters,” under...
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Internet Archive liberates books from 1923-1941 under obscure copyright law
Have you ever been frustrated that a book you were hoping would be digitized was just past the 1923 cutoff...
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Only the Most Interesting News for Genealogists …
I’ve added a page to this website with a pinboard-style direct, live, connection to our online collection of all completely...
February 1st is #GenealogySelfie day!
A few years back, the good folks at ConferenceKeeper (yes, that’s me, too) and Geneabloggers thought it would be...
Some interesting maps for Immigration Research
Maps are important tools for genealogy research. For most researchers, immigration research plays a large part in connecting our ancestors...
News: A hairy book, a handprint and other strange finds in Darwin’s archives
As odd as items may seem, some strange things really do provide clues to family history! Story via ABC Australia. Read...
Going to Rootstech 2018? Head straight to the Joyflips booth!
Here’s a pretty awesome bit of RootsTech news from the very cool smartphone photo scanning app, Joyflips: JoyFlips giving away...
What’s Coming From FamilySearch in 2018, and — Wow!
We just received this press release this morning outlining What’s Coming from FamilySearch in 2018, and, Wow! This is exciting!...
FindMyPast: Digitizing Catholic Church records in the US, Britain and Ireland
We just received this press release from FindMyPast.com, and the ramifications are really quite huge. Given the huge numbers of...
