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Tag Archives: Research

Unclaimed Persons Solves 100th Case

Congratulations to Unclaimed Persons and all of its hard-working volunteers on solving their 100th case!
In case you are unfamiliar with Unclaimed Persons, this volunteer organization is comprised of genealogists, family historians and cyber-sleuths who use their research skills to help coroners and medical examiners located next of kin for unclaimed persons.
I highly recommend that if [...]

Review: Casefile Clues

Recently I was given the chance to look at two recent issues of Casefile Clues which is a genealogy newsletter produced by Michael John Neill.  When first contacted, I thought to myself, “Just what I need, another genealogy-related newsletter.” But was I wrong – Casefile Clues is no ordinary newsletter.  After one issue I was [...]

Save The State Library of Massachusetts Badge

Thanks to Dick Eastman of  Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and others for alerting me to this issue. If you are not familiar with the issue involving the library and its fate due to budget cuts, read Dick’s post and realize that what was achieved in saving the Michigan State Library can also be achieved in [...]

Genealogy – Goin’ Green

[This post was written as part of Blog Action Day 2009 with the theme being Climate Change.]
While most genealogy bloggers are putting up posts about how climate change has affected their ancestors, as part of Blog Action Day 2009, here are some ways in which you pursue your genealogy research and activities can affect climate [...]

NEHGS Announces New Online Journals Site

The New England Historic Genealogical Society announces the creation of a new web page on their Newenglandancestors.org site entitled Genealogical Journal Online: A National Collection:
“. . . connecting members to a number of the country’s premier scholarly journals, giving them access to some of the most important research conducted during the past 150 years. The [...]

Free Online Access to SAGE Journals

Once again, SAGE Journals Online allowing free access to their journals until October 31st.  One of my favorites is The Journal of Family History.
While some of the journals deal with very arcane subjects and on the surface there appears to be little related to genealogy, I do think a genalogist or family history author could use [...]

Protect Michigan Libraries Badge

Thanks to TK Sand of the Before My Time blog for alerting me to this badge.  If you are not familiar with the issue involving the Michigan Library and its fate due to budget cuts, check out Granny’s Genealogy blog for an overview and some info from last month’s Hands Around the Library event.
If you [...]

Genealogy Blogging Survey Results

In July 2009, GeneaBloggers gathered input from the genealogy blogging community as part of the Genealogy Blogging Survey contest.  Today we are releasing the results of the survey to give an idea of the impact genealogy blogging has had and will continue to have on the genealogy community.
Before I get started I wanted to send [...]

And the winner is . . .

Janice Tracy of Mississippi Memories blog! Janice has won a one-year subscription to GenealogyBank!
GenealogyBank is an exclusive newspaper archive for family history research which provides information on millions of American families from 1690–today. Over 3,800 newspapers provide first-hand accounts about your ancestors that simply can’t be found in other sources. At GenealogyBank you’ll be fascinated by the [...]

GenealogyBank Contest Ends Today

Don’t forget to complete our survey on genealogy blogs in order to enter into our GenealogyBank contest!  The contest ends tonight, July 30th, at 11:59 pm Central time.
You could win a year’s paid subscription to a fantastic resource for genealogists and family historians.   Personally speaking, GenealogyBank is one of the essential research tools in [...]