GeneaBloggers

[Note: this is a regular feature of GeneaBloggers which highlights new genealogy and family history-related blogs as well as those recently discovered by members of GeneaBloggers. Use the Suggest A Geneablog! link in the menu bar to pass along information on new blogs.]

There are 9 newly-discovered genealogy and family-history related blogs that we’ve located this week. And we’ve hit another milestone with 801 genealogy blogs on our list! Remember to try and help out these new blogs by:

- using the Follow feature if the blog is hosted on Blogger
- adding them to your blog reader
- adding a comment on their blog saying “hi” and “welcome”

Here are this week’s new listings:

Big Brother Is Watching Me
http://bigbrotheriswatchingme.wordpress.com/
Blog type: Individual family history

“Big Brother is Watching Me” is a story by Joel Winfield Culp with Marguerite Culp. This blog is about the process of passing family stories from one generation to the other. In 1998 Marguerite went back East to her family home after the death of her mother. Weekends, she spent with her father Joel or “Bud” as he was called. His health wasn’t such that they could travel or move about, so she asked him to tell her the stories of his life. The work started Friday evenings when she arrived with groceries. After dinner, the routine was the same from week to week. He laid on the couch with his feet propped up. Marguerite turned on the recorder and the storytelling began. “Big Brother is Watching Me” begins with the story of the bus trip West that Bud took with Wilma the summer of 1982. This is the backbone of the life stories that address privacy in the modern world as well as the need of being open with those close to you and telling life stories.

Family Tree Tips
http://carolbaxter.squarespace.com/blog/
Blog type: Australian genealogy

Are you a beginner just learning how to trace your family history? Or perhaps an experienced genealogist keen to learn more? My blog is intended to assist everyone from beginners to experts. I’ll talk about specific records and record repositories as well as discussing the big picture – research principles, genealogical conundrums, and so on. Let me help you turn little acorns into large oak trees. You can join in by asking questions or making comments and suggestions along the way. I’ll add a new post each week on a Friday.

Well, so much for the best laid plans … With all my time (including some sleep time) taken up with editing the Biographical Database of Australia ready to go on-line in September and researching/writing another book, my blog has had to go by the wayside. Maybe in 2011 – unless I am so busy catching up with everything else that I’ve put off in 2009/10! Some of my ideas will be included in the other “how to” books I am going to write, although I’ve had to postpone those until 2011 as well. Occasionally I will add to the blog so have a glance every so often.

Genealogy and Me
http://genealogyandme.blogspot.com/
Blog type: Individual family history, Ohio genealogy

I guess it makes sense to begin my new Blog at the beginning! I began my journey through genealogy about 6 years ago. I was lucky because I already new the names of all my great grandparents so I had a place to start. Thanks to Ancestry’s free trial period, I quickly located the census records of my grandparents and great grandparents. For the first time, I saw the names of my grandmother’s aunts and uncles. I’m sure she had told me their names before, but I was too young then to appreciate the information she was giving me. Now, I couldn’t get enough information. Each bit of information I found led me to something else; another name, another place. I started looking through anything I could find of my grandmother’s. I found an old family Bible and inside it I found a picture of my great great grandfather in an advertisement for a kidney treatment! It was clearly the beginning of my addiction!

Genealogy Musings
http://kfaella.blogspot.com/
Blog type: Individual family history

Today I begin my first blog posting. I hope use this to organize my thoughts, share ideas, and further my genealogical research and sharing.

I have been seriously researching my family history for about 20 years. I have been interested in this topic for far longer. I remember an assignment in junior high (or maybe early high school) where I need to research at least some part of my ancestral history. I borrowed a book about the Hall family from my aunt and made a poster of my Hall line back quite a few generations. I think I still have the thing – I wish I knew where. I don’t think I understood how to read that book and it would be fun to compare what I know now with what I thought I found then.

Homegrown Kin
http://homegrownkin.wordpress.com/
Blog type: Individual family history, Missouri genealogy

You can call me Homegrown. I have an adorable small child, full of energy and the urge to mix up all my genealogy-related papers, whom I affectionately refer to as The Bug. You can email me at homegrownandthebug[at]gmail[dot]com.

For the last five years I’ve been researching Alexander, Lawrence, Powers, Newberry, Pemberton, Sanders, Kissinger, Kramer, and Fittje lines.

I live in historical Pulaski County, Missouri and I work at a local non-profit that supports a domestic violence shelter and food pantry.

If you’ve got a research request or information about my lines please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m friendly! If you’d like any help I can offer with your line, free of charge, just let me know and I’ll see what I can do. My goal is to eventually get a Master’s degree in Library Sciences and pursue genealogical research as a career…

My Genealogy Pondering
http://mygenealogypondering.blogspot.com/
Blog type: Individual family history

I have resolved to publish (in some form) the genealogy/family history of our Ruch/Siegler line during 2010. This blog will report my progress and research findings. However, don’t be surprised if I stray to other genealogy lines or topics along the way. My mind does tend to flitter around a bit.

Mundia Blog
http://blog.mundia.com/
Blog type: Genealogy industry

Welcome to the thousands of people from all over the world who have tried outmundia so far in its beta release. We’ve been excited by the response so far as you create your family tree, discover relatives and ancestors and share your family history on mundia.

To our Portuguese-speakers “bem vindo”, to our Spanish-speakers “bienvenida”, for our Dutch users “welkom”, to our Polish-speakers “witaj!”, to our Turkish users “Hoş geldiniz”, to our Ukrainian registrants “Вітаємо”, to our Russian-speakers “Добро пожаловать”, to our French-speakers “bienvenue”, to our Italian users “benvenuto/a”, to our German-speakers “willkommen” and to our Swedish users “välkommen”.

On this blog, we’ll keep you up to date on our latest feature releases, tips for using the site, bug fixes, ‘how to’ features on family history and other topics that you want to know about.

Nick Gombash’s Genealogy Blog
http://nickmgombash.blogspot.com/
Blog type: Hungarian genealogy, Individual family history

This is the first entry in my new genealogy blog I’ve recently decided to write. In this blog I’ll discuss things I come across during my research, like websites, databases, people connected to the family tree.. just things that I find useful in my daily scouring of the internet and of records.

In my first blog I wanted to discuss my family tree and the immense amount of information in my database. As of right now, writing this blog, I have 49,943 individuals in my database. I want to explain who all of these people are. In my database I of course have my direct lineage for all of my ancestors.. but I also like to research the families and descendants of the siblings of my ancestors. This is where a big portion of the individuals come from.

Unlock The Past
http://blog.unlockthepast.com.au/
Blog type: Australian genealogy

Unlock The Past is an exciting new venture that began with discussions between Shauna Hicks (Shauna Hicks History Enterprises) and Alan Phillips (Gould Genealogy & History, Archive Digital Books Australasia) in June of this year.

It started as a modest proposal to collaborate in publishing and events marketing, but has grown into a major venture. We now have a team of 23 quality speakers who have a combined portfolio of over 170 topics to offer. We hope to attract widespread sponsorship to support events and speakers.
Our broader aim is to promote history and genealogy widely throughout Australasia. A more particular goal is to increase society memberships and create greater awareness of what societies, libraries and archives can offer (it can’t “all be done on the Internet”). We will be able to give partners and sponsors a reach far beyond what most can achieve on their own. But above all we can bring expertise to researchers in ways never done before.

© 2009, copyright Thomas MacEntee

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