Blogs/Articles
- “New to Ancestry: Criminal and Prison Records from Chester County, Pennsylvania” by Jasmine Rockow on Ancestry’s Blog
- “Research Like a Pro, Part 4: What’s the Plan?” by Diana Elder on her blog The Family Locket
- “The Laws of Time and Place” by Judy G. Russell on her blog The Legal Genealogist
- “The Day My Ancestors and Chocolate Tried to Kill Me” by Roberta Estes on her blog DNAeXplained – what a crazy (and terrifying) adventure!
- “Quick Tip – Two New Netherland Articles Published” by Yvette Hoitink on her blog Dutch Genealogy
- “Using Spousal Surnames and DNA to Unravel Male Lines” by Roberta Estes on her blog DNA eXplained
- “Becoming an Accredited Genealogy Professional – Diana Elder, AG” by Diana Elder on her blog The Family Locket
- “How To Browse the Census by Location” by Amy Johnson Crow on her blog
- Lots of sales on Genealogy Bargains this week!
- “AncestryDNA Just $69 USD Plus FREE SHIPPING” – sale ends on the 15th!
- “50% Off Select Digital Downloads at Hack Genealogy Boot Camp!” sales goes until August 31st!
- “Summer DNA Sales End Soon! Get’em While They’re Hot!“
- “FREE DOWNLOAD: Digitization Options for Family Photos Including Slides, Film Negatives, and Home Videos” – through August 13th!
- “Genealogy Bargains for Friday August 11 2017“
Media and Education
- “Episode 202 – ‘The Great Grandfather That Never Was’ / ‘The Archive Lady’ on What You Might Find Behind Closed Doors” by Ryan Bennett on his blog Extreme Genes
- “Great Genealogy Education! Save 50% on Legacy Family Tree Webinars Membership through August 13th!” by Lisa Alzo on her blog The Accidental Genealogist
- “Genealogy Connection #027 – Bruce Buzbee, Technologist and RootsMagic CEO” on the Genealogy Guys Podcast
- “BCG Offers Free Webinar: ‘Analyzing Probate Records of Slaveholders to Identify Enslaved Ancestors’ by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG” – on SpringBoard – This coming Tuesday, August 15th, at 8pm EST!
New and Updated Resources
- Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has the new and updated record listings for FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com,
- FindMyPast Friday’s New and Updated Records includes:
- Billion Graves Cemetery Indexes
- Middlesex Monumental Inscriptions 1485-2014
- North West Kent Burials
- New York Researcher
- The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
- From Dick Eastman’s Blog:
- “40,000 ‘Lunatics’ – the Scottish Indexes Genealogy Website Enables People to Discover the True Lives of their Ancestors“
- “Digital Library of Georgia Adds New and Previously Digitized Newspaper Titles to its Recently Released Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) Website“
- “Carlisle Indian School Cemetery Information is now Available Online“
- “FreeCEN Offers a Free-to-Search Online Database of the 19th Century UK Censuses“
- “The Internet Archive 78 RPM Records Archive is now Online“
- “TheGenelaogist Releases 650,000 Additional Parish Records for Nottinghamshire“