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Friday Finds 1 April 2016

By Nichelle Barra

On 1 April 2016

In Friday Finds

By Siddharth Mallya (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Blogs/Articles

“DNA Discovery Inspires Author to Create the First Fully-Illustrated Children’s Book about Legendary Irish King, Niall of the Nine Hostages” on Geneabloggers – this is such a cool idea!
CONTEST! “Win a JustaJoy.com Full Membership for Family Heirloom Hunting” on Geneabloggers – click the link to find out more about the contest and how to enter
“Why You Should Download Your Files from Ancestry and Every Other Website” by Amy Johnson Crow on her blog
“Ancestry Concedes Defeat as it is Unable to Restore All of the Rootsweb Site” on Dick Eastman’s blog
“FGS 2017 Call for Presentations” on the Federation of Genealogical Societies website – 2017’s conference will be in Pittsburgh! Check out the link and submit a proposal!
“Genealogy Bargains for Friday 1 April 2016” on Geneabloggers
“Seven Tips for Writing a Family History” on Dutch Genealogy by Yvette Hoitink
“Concepts – CentiMorgans, SNPs, and Pickin’ Crab” on DNAeXplained by Roberta Estes – confused by those terms? Read this!
“5 Hidden Treasures for Ohio Genealogy” by Amy Johnson Crow on her blog
“Numbering a Genealogy 1: Immigration” on the BCG SpringBoard blog

Media

“Proof Arguments – How to Write Them and Why They Matter” by Warren Bittner and free on Legacy Family Tree Webinars until 6 April! If you’re like me and wrote down the wrong time and missed the live showing, you can still watch and learn!

Resources

“Caro, Michigan, Library Digitizing Early Editions of The Tuscola County Advertiser” – on Dick Eastman’s blog
“New FamilySearch Collections Update: March 28, 2016” on Dick Eastman’s blog
“Added or Updated Databases at Ancestry.com – Week of 20 to 26 March 2016” on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
FindMyPast Friday records:
- National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914
- Worcestershire Marriages, Burials, Baptisms
- Middlesex Baptisms 1543-1876
- Wales, Scotland, England, Canada, and the United States Billion Graves Cemetery Index

Friday Finds 25 March 2016

By Nichelle Barra

On 25 March 2016

In Friday Finds

By Frank Schulenburg (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Blogs/Articles

If you don’t have Facebook, you may have missed the fun pedigree charts that popped up all over! My feed was full of them and I created one as well, which I shared in a post yesterday. If you’d like to make one, Miriam from AnceStories created a how-to: “Birthplace Pedigree Fun” – this also includes a link to the Google doc! Have fun and share on Facebook! 🙂
“Genealogy Bargains for Thursday 24 March 2016” on Geneabloggers
“Do I Really Need to Join My Local Society? I Have No Ancestors from My Area…” by Peggy Clemens Lauritzen on her blog – such a good question and a wonderful answer!
“Loneliness in Waitrose” on the blog Fabulous Oldies by Duncan Raban – such a lovely story!
“Zeroing in On the House’s Construction Date, Part 1” on Home Scribe History – great for those of us who like House History Research
“Don’t Trust the Ancestry.com Will and Probate Record Indexes” by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings
“US Women in World War I in Photographs” on Dick Eastman’s blog

Media

“Introduction to German Parish Records” by Gail Blankenau on Legacy Family Tree Webinars – free until 30 March!
“ESM’ QuickLesson #2” by DearMyrtle – Dear Myrtle is studing the works of Elizabeth Shown Mills, beginning with her QuickLessons. Watch to learn more about citations and analysis!

Resources

“New or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org – 13 to 19 March 2016” AND “Added or Updated Databases at Ancestry.com – Week of 13 to 19 March 2016” both on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
“Florida Database of Car Registrations 1905-1917” on Dick Eastman’s blog
FindMyPast Friday‘s new records:
- Billion Graves Cemetery Index for Wales, Scotland, England, Canada, United States, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia
- British Royal Navy Seamen 1899-1924
- London, Westminster Marylebone Census 1821 & 1831

Friday Finds 18 March 2016

By Nichelle Barra

On 18 March 2016

In Friday Finds

THIS SATURDAY!!!

The South Bend Area Genealogical Society will be hosting it’s annual conference this Saturday, 19 March 2016 from 10-4pm. We have two speakers: Jeanne Larzalere Bloom and Katherine R Willson! We also have some amazing door prizes and raffle items including: DNA kits from AncestryDNA and FamilyTreeDNA, RootsMagic software, Legacy Software, 1 year subscriptions to Legacy Family Tree Webinars, My Heritage, Newspapers.com, Genealogy Gems, Fold3, GenealogyBank and more! Come check it out!

Blogs

“Genealogy Bargains for Friday 18 March 2016” on Geneabloggers – Check out the FREE ACCESS to Swedish Records at ArchivDigital!
“Repeat: An Image Citation How-To” by Judy G. Russell on the Legal Genealogist – excellent how-to!
“Don’t Burn Your Family Letters When You Declutter” AND “How to Preserve Old Letters” on Amy Johnson Crow’s blog
“Researching in Ireland” by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree – for those who have been able to find their Irish ancestors, this is wonderful!
“Great Canadian Genealogy Summit” on the InDepth Genealogist – this looks amazing!
“Finding Canada Record Collections on FindMyPast” on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
“Closing Up Shop at 23andMe and the Trap” by Roberta Estes on DNA eXplained – a must read for anyone who has used 23andMe for testing
“Generation Saga: Relatives of Annie Moore Traced” on The Irish Times – this is such a neat story!

Media

“The Private Laws of the Federal and State Governments” by Judy G. Russell – currently FREE on Legacy Family Tree Webinar until 23 March!
“Upcoming ISGS Webinars – April 2016” on the Illinois State Genealogical Society Blog

Resources

“Added or Updated Databases at Ancestry.com Week of 6 to 12 March 2016” on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
“New FamilySearch Collections Update: March 14 2016” on Dick Eastman’s blog
FindMyPast Friday‘s New Resources:
- Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions 1873-1925, History and Directories
- Irish Revenue Police, 1830-1857
- British Newspapers
- Western Australia Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes

Friday Finds 4 March 2016

By Nichelle Barra

On 4 March 2016

In Friday Finds

Charlotte Bronte – author of a favorite book, Jane Eyre –
[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Blogs/Articles

“Genealogy Bargains for Thursday 3 March 2016” on Geneabloggers
“Trip to Family History Library? Two videos and a map” on DearMyrtle – this is wonderful for those making the trip to do research there!
“Longevity Pedigree Chart” on DNAeXplained by Roberta Estes – I’ve made one of these before and it is quite interesting to see your family organized this way
“RootsWeb is Down? Well Not All of it – Updated” on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver – I’ve been getting lots of emails about this and point people to this posting.
“New Ancestry Color Options” by The Genealogy Girl
“Fearless Females Blogging Prompts: Returning for Another Year to Celebrate Women’s History Month” by Lisa Alzo on The Accidental Genealogist – I am a bit behind but I’m going to take part in this challenge this month!
“5 Tips for Finding Women’s Obituaries” by Amy Johnson Crow
“20 Years of Cyndi’s List!” on Cyndi’s List Blog This is awesome!

Media

“TLC Announces Celebrity Contributors for Spring Season of Who Do You Think You Are” on Geneabloggers – makes me wish I had cable!
Finding Your Roots next episode is available! This episode features Julianna Marguiles, Azar Nafisi, and Lidia Bastianich
“Making YDNA and mtDNA Part of Your Family History” a webinar by Diahan Southard on Legacy Family Tree Webinars – free!! and TODAY at 2PM!!!
“Family History Library Free Webinars for March 2016” on Adventures in Genealogy Education by Angela McGhie

Resources

“Ancestry.com Adds 10 Million Ireland Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915” on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
“FREE ACCESS to Irish Genealogy Records on FindMyPast” on Geneabloggers – the free access ends March 8th so take advantage while you can!
“New or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org – February 21 to 27, 2016” AND “Added or Updated Databases at Ancestry.com – Week of 21 to 27 February 2016” on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
Dick Eastman’s blog: “TheGenealogist Adds World War 2 Prisoners of War” AND “MyHeritage Adds More Than 5 Million Dutch Records to SuperSearch (TM)“
FindMyPast Friday’s:
- Ireland Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Congregational Records
- IrishNewspapers