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Friday Finds May 9th-15th

By Nichelle Barra

On 15 May 2015

In Friday Finds

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Articles/Blog Posts

“The Holocaust’s Youngest Survivors: Three People Born in a Concentration Camp on Their Incredible Bond,” This is just an incredible story.
“In Detroit, A Jewish Cemetery Survives within a GM Auto Plant” – I had no idea it existed! Interesting story.
Right in time for Mother’s Day: “1941: Inside the Demanding Life of an American Mother” – a neat picture story of what the daily life was like for a mother before the war.
The second installment of Genealogy Lady’s “Identifying Everyday Clues in Photographs” is out! Her first article can be found here and the second can be found here. There is wonderful information found in both! A must-read for those with old family photos!
Can’t get to NGS? You can follow news on Twitter by following #NGS2015GEN and you can read about day 1 from Dick Eastman (EOGN) here and day 2 here. It isn’t the same as being there, true, but at least it keeps you informed!

Videos/Webinars

“Reading Swedish Birth and Christening Records 1893” by the Swedish Genealogy Guide. Short video, only a little over 7 minutes but if you have Swedish ancestry, this is great to see what you’d be looking at when looking at Christening records!
FREE Webinars! “Make Your Ancestry Come Alive Using Your DNA” by Peter J. Roberts, which will be presented on 20 May and brought to you by the Georgia Genealogical Society. AND Judy G. Russell’s “Martha Benshura – Enemy Alien” on 20 May as well and brought to you by Legacy Family Tree Webinars.

Resources

Top 100 Genealogy Sites Mega-Search – from Many Roads. Gives the top 100 Genealogy Websites of 2015 (from Genealogy in Time) with links to everything and tells you if it’s a free or pay site. Great information to have!
FindMyPast Friday’s has new records for you! They include Dublin Workhouses Admission and Discharge Registers 1840-1919; Dublin Poor Law Unions Board of Guardians Minute Books; British Newspapers; Nottinghamshire baptisms and burials; Northern Territory Birth Index 1870-1918, marriage index 1870-1913, and death index 1870-1913. Enjoy!
Irish Lives Remembered is an e-magazine that is FREE! Check out a write up about the magazine from EOGN here and subscription information (and more about the magazine) here.
Kalkaska County, Michigan has digitized some of their newspapers and is now available on their library’s website! Check out an article by EOGN here and check out the library’s website here.
New FamilySearch records added! There’s too many for me to list here but EOGN has a lovely table of all their new records which you can find here!

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Friday’s Genealogy News May 2nd – 8th

By Nichelle Barra

On 8 May 2015

In Friday Finds

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Articles/Blog Posts

I am really enjoying D. Joshua Taylor’s new series on JSTOR Daily. This week’s is “The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 and Your Ancestors” Check it out!
There’s been a LOT of talk on social media about Ancestry supposedly just giving away DNA information to police that led to a wild goose chase. Judy G. Russell addressed the facts about this and I highly encourage everyone to read her blog post “Facts Matter!” if you are at all concerned about what happened with Ancestry.
Genealogy Lady is starting a wonderful series about identifying ancestors in photographs. Her first post is up and I highly recommend checking it out here: “Identifying Everyday Clues in Photographs Part 1“
Along with that theme of family photos, Geneabloggers posted a book review on How to Archive Family Photos – check out that blog post here!
Interested in seeing historical map collections? Well it got a bit easier to do! Check out this article from Wired about the US Geological Survey’s new online map viewer!
Have you ever just wanted to search one website for something specific but there was no search function? Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter posted a very helpful article on how to do with Google! Check it out here.

Webinars/Videos

I posted this on Facebook yesterday and wanted to post it here for those who don’t use Facebook. It’s a rare video of post-WWII Berlin in color. Amazing video! I wouldn’t even know where to start if that was my own city… it’s astonishing. Check out the video here.
I have not used FlipPal before but saw this video on easily scanning a long newspaper article and stitching it together from three scans. I’ll have to check out this device! Any of you use this?
Do you use Google Earth with genealogy? This awesome video shows you how to find your ancestor’s land by using a website called Earth Point. So neat!

Resources

New FamilySearch records! Includes Canada, Czech Republic, Indonesia, New Zealand, Peru, Philippines, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New York records. Check out the list here!
FindMyPast Friday’s posted their new records for this week: Britain County Apprentices, England, Wales, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Scotland BillionGraves Index, Victoria Parliamentary Papers, England Society of Friends records, and Surrey Southwark St. George the Martyr Workhouse Records. Check them out here!
Fold3 Offers Free Access to the World War II Collection from May 1st to the 15th! Check out more information here!
The National Library of Ireland announced that they would make available online the collection of Catholic parish register mircofilms. Go here for more information!

Contest Winners and Friday Favorites for April 24th-May 1st

By Nichelle Barra

On 1 May 2015

In Friday Finds, Give-Away

First up, some posts/webinars/new resources that I wanted to share with everyone and then I’ll get to the winners of the book contest!

Posts/Articles

“Tampa Family Finds ‘Pirate Treasure’ In Grandfather’s Attic…” – WITH A HUMAN HAND! How weird (and so cool) would this be to find?
“Roadwork May Unearth Forgotten Bodies on Chicago’s Northwest Side” – Who knew construction could be so macabre?
“An Open Letter to Genealogy Societies” – I agree with this on so many points! I am hoping to start changing my own local society to meet some of these new needs. Do you notice this in your own society? I recommend doing your part to help change it so the next generation can feel welcome in the group 🙂
“Wall Street’s Slave Market” – a JSTOR article about what used to be on the corner of Wall and Pearl Streets. I had no idea!
“Don’t Take Photo Labels at Face Value” by Janine Adams at Organize Your Family History – great point about the labels that are found on old family photos!
“Area Woman Receives 125-year-old Letter from Grandfather” – I loved this story! How amazing is it that this letter survived and made it’s way back to the now 97-year old grand-daughter!
Did you know that one day, you may be able to use virtual reality to bring someone back from the dead?! I’m not sure how I feel about this… see EOGN’s article to get an idea of what this is all about!

Webinars/Videos

Dear Mrytle “DNA: Ancestry’s ‘New Ancestor Discoveries‘” – confused about this new part of AncestryDNA? Dear Mrytle and Angie Bush discuss what this all about (about 11 min. long)
“Uncover Your Scandinavian Roots” by MyHeritage – (1:23:28 video) – This one is for MyHeritage users that have Scandinavian roots.

Resources

EOGN posted a book review on Historic German Newspapers Online compiled by Ernest Thode – check it out here.
New FindMyPast records for this week: England & Wales, Society of Friends (Quaker) Births, Marriages, and Burials; Surrey, Southwark St. George the Martyr Workhouse records; New South wales, Returned Soldiers Settlement Loan Files 1906-1960; New South Wales, Closer Settlement and Returned Soldiers Transfer Files 1907-1936 and 1951; and Queensland Wills Index 1857-1940. Check it out here!

Now for the two winners of the Dear Mother, Love Daddy book giveaway!

crimsonspiral82 and ritabishop25!!

Congratulations to you both! I have already emailed the winners and their prizes will be sent out quickly.

Thank you to everyone who participated! Have a great weekend 🙂

Genealogy News April 18th-24th

By Nichelle Barra

On 24 April 2015

In Friday Finds

Last week I posted that it was a MARCH news week – March? Apparently these last few months have just flown by! And now here we are at the end of April. Here’s hoping that our last snow fall was it this past week! 🙂

I’m spending this weekend at the Indiana Genealogical Society conference! I am definitely looking forward to it and am currently at the society meeting typing this up. It’s hard to do this post ahead of time!

ALSO: Don’t forget about the book contest for Dear Mother, Love Daddy!!! Contest ends May 1st! These are two autographed copies as well! Even better!

Interesting Articles

Beach pictures from 1913 in color! These look surprisingly modern in many of them. Very neat!
D. Joshua Taylor from The Genealogy Roadshow posted an article called “The Genealogy Factor: Graveyards and Gravestones,” in JSTOR Daily. Great information!
Speaking of JSTOR, Geneabloggers is holding a contest to win a pass from JSTOR! Check out more information here on the contest and what you get.
“Don’t Call Them Bums: The Unsung History of America’s Hard-Working Hobos,” by Lisa Hix – who knew?
Instant Discoveries is from MyHeritage and is rather new – to learn more about it, check out EOGN’s write up here. It’s like adding people from other’s trees to yours like on Ancestry.com

Webinars/Videos

I’ve loved those “…through history…” videos that show things like women’s fashion, women’s make-up, etc. Well now there’s one for men! “American Facial Hair Throughout History!” Check it out here.
The Board for Certification of Genealogists posted their webinars – some are free and others are available for a modest fee. Check it out!

Resources/Records

New records on FindMyPast! Derbyshire and Persi! Check it out here – also check out their FindMyPast Friday’s – Yorkshire records, POW records, Australian records, Irish records, and US Billion Graves index.
EOGN posted about new records and maps from The Genealogist.co.uk. Check out more here.
New FamilySearch records! Check out the list here – includes records from Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, Italy, South Africa and the US.
I posted on Facebook about new Indiana records from the Indiana Genealogical Society. EOGN also posted information and you can check it out here.