Blogs/Articles
- “Genealogy Bargains for Friday 19 August” by Geneabloggers
- “Avoiding Distractions in Our Genealogy” by Amy Johnson Crow – great advice for those of us who often go down genealogy rabbit holes 🙂
- “Desperately Seeking a Place” by Maureen Taylor on Ancestry Blog – she’s trying to find someone who can recognize the place (or even the people) where a few photos had been taken. Can you help?
- “Crista Cowan and Searching on Ancestry.com” on The Ancestry Insider
- “Repairing Old Family Photos with Photoshop” on Dick Eastman’s blog
- New York City has an amazing looking Tenement Museum. The website for it goes over the history of the building (103 Orchard) from the 1950s onward. Watch the videos, see the documents, and read the history! It’s a wonderful website: 103 Orchard
Media/Education
- “Successfully Applying to a Lineage Society” by Amy Johnson Crow on Legacy Family Tree Webinars – free until 24 August
- Also on Legacy Family Tree Webinars – did you know there is a whole FREE category to look through? Check it out here!
- “Prior BCG Webinars Now Available at Legacy Family Tree Webinars” shared on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
- “NGS Announces a New Course in its American Genealogical Studies Series: Branching Out” by Mike Quakenbush on his website
- “Federation of Genealogical Societies Announces Upcoming National Conferences for 2019 and 2020” on Dick Eastman’s blog – make a plan now! 🙂
DNA
- “Concepts – Sorting Spreadsheets for Autosomal DNA” by Roberta Estes on her blog DNAeXplained
New and Updated Resources
- Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has the list for new and updated records on Ancestry.com!
- You can find a list of FamilySearch’s new collections update on Dick Eastman’s blog here: “FamilySearch New Collections Update: Week of August 15, 2017“
- FindMyPast Newest and Updated Records:
- Ireland, Outage Reports 1836-1840
- Middlesex, London, Old Bailey Court Records 1674-1913
- England and Wales Non-Conformist Births and Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials
