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The Genealogy BlogThe free daily online genealogy nautamagazine URLLast update1 year 8 weeks agoApril 1, 201105:45
Proposals are now being accepted for the 2012 Iowa Genealogical Society Spring Technology Conference, to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, 14 April 2012.
The conference will include a full day of lectures, networking luncheons, and workshops. The focus for the Spring Conference is current and emerging technology which has the potential to improve family [...]
March 30, 201119:54
The following was received from Kathleen Hinckley, APG:
WESTMINSTER, Colo., March 30, 2011—The Association of Professional Genealogists (http://www.apgen.org) will head to Charleston, South Carolina, this spring for the 2011 National Genealogical Society (NGS) Family History Conference. Conference attendees can visit the APG booth (#117 and # 216) to learn more about hiring a professional genealogist, as [...]
12:20
The following was received from Paul Nauta, with FamilySearch:
New Free Records Online for Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain
Keep updating your wish list as FamilySearch continues to expand its online historical records. New collection additions this week represent seven European countries. Millions of records were added for the Czech Republic, France, Germany, [...]
March 28, 201114:18
Our “home away from home,” right? Any of you going to be in-house before December?? Do you really truly realize that 2011 is ONE QUARTER over and are you kicking yourself because you have not get gotten to your notes from last December? Only one cure for that: Do it. Quit putting it off. No [...]
March 26, 201123:16
The following listing is for United States Birth and Christening Records found at FamilySearch.org. The list covers 47 databases for 34 states, plus one relatively small database (abt. 21,000) covering the entire USA
Note that many of the “number of records” are marked as AFTER a specific date. That means that additional records, in some some [...]
March 24, 201102:28
When exactly was Joan Crawford born?
The short answer is: nobody knows for sure. The slightly longer answer is: probably 1904, 1905 or 1906.
Our friends at Answers.com recently asked us to look into the issue. As they put it: “Who2 has her birth year as 1904, Wikipedia and IMDB say 1905, Gale says 1906, [...]
02:08
The Aussies find the ancestry of their Premier candidates fascinating, just as Americans do with our Presidents… The following news release was written for folks living in Australia.
From links to Brisbane barmaids to law enforcement in Victoria, our future Premier boasts a colourful family history no matter who wins
Despite the stark contrast in political views, [...]
00:58
Everyne is related to the rich and famous… Most of us just don’t know how.
The online genealogy site, Ancestry.com has carried out a survey revealing 28 Irish Americans share the same Irish ancestor as President Obama. Just four years ago Obama learned of his Irish ancestor Falmouth Kearney who fled Ireland during the Great Famine [...]
00:43
In recent years, phylogeographic studies have produced detailed knowledge on the worldwide distribution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants, linking specific clades of the mtDNA phylogeny with certain geographic areas. However, a multiplex genotyping system for the detection of the mtDNA haplogroups of major continental distribution that would be desirable for efficient DNA-based bio-geographic ancestry testing [...]
March 23, 201119:07
The following article was written by my friend, Tom Fiske:
One of the dot com book companies sent me a small book of poems by my favorite author, Wendell Berry.* In one short poem Wendell described a method of doing genealogy that I thought was particularly useful. He wrote about his gratitude for [...]
16:27
The following article was written, by my friend, Tom Kemp:
Genealogists are hungry for details about the lives of our ancestors, information that can only be found in newspapers. To get to know our ancestors better—the lives they lived, their hardships and triumphs—you need to know their stories. For that kind of information, nothing [...]
12:06
Bandit passed away yesterday. He was a siamese cat that adopted us when he was just a tiny kitten. In early September of 1994, Patty and I were out at by the mailbox at our getaway place near Custer, South Dakota. Bandit was crying and hidden under a sign by the highway. He [...]
March 22, 201119:53
Don’t Marcia and I look really good? Marcia and I were in the same high school graduating class back in 1961 and we have not seen each other since……… until last Saturday. I gave a presentation to the Jefferson County (WA) Gen Soc and as Marcia lives near, she came! It was just grand. [...]
11:54
The following News Release was received from Paul Nauta at FamilySearch:
9 Million Browsable Images from 9 Countries Added This Week
New Records for Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, U.S., and Venezuela
The bounty just keeps coming from FamilySearch’s digital pipeline. Mexico collections earned the top spot this week, with nearly [...]
07:35
UPDATED 26 MARCH 2011
In the last week of February, FamilySearch posted a large index of North Carolina deaths. It covers the years 1931 through 1994. According to the website, the data comes from the North Carolina Dept. of Health, with the original documents housed at the North Carolina Department of Archives and History in Raleigh, [...]
March 20, 201113:29
I see that Eric Basir, owner of Photo Grafix, will be giving three workshops at the upcoming Federation of Genealogical Society’s Annual Conference to take place in Springfield Illinois this next September 8-10, 2011. His workshops are as follows:
Restoring Documents With Your Computer, Thursday, 11:00am-12:00pm, T-204
Fixing Faded Color Photos with Adobe Photoshop, Friday, [...]
12:52
The following is am open letter written by Virginia Shadron, chairperson of the Friends of Georgia Archives & History:
An open letter from FOGAH Chair, Virginia Shadron:
The Fiscal Year 2012 budget that passed the Georgia House of Representatives on March 11 as HB 78 includes budget reductions that could result in the [Georgia] State Archives closing [...]
12:35
The following press release was received from Rootstech/FamilySearch:
Popular Conference Makes Select Presentations Available for Free Online
11 March 2011 SALT LAKE CITY: If you missed the popular inaugural RootsTech 2011 conference, you can now at least get a sampling of what all the excitement was about. The wildly popular new technology and family history conference held [...]
March 19, 201121:25
I haven’t made a breakthrough on any of my direct-line ancestors in years. All the easy research was done years ago, and most breakthroughs are now made after extensive research. However, prompted by the need to write a review of a new search engine, and with a little flexibility & persistence on my part, I [...]
March 14, 201112:24
When we’re in Salt Lake in December it’s cold, trees are bare and no flowers are blooming. Not so in spring! Kinda wish we did our Tour in spring for Temple Square is blooming with thousands of bulbs of all sorts. Like this picture but more.
Have you been watching the days counting down? We’re now [...]
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