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By Ms Jones from California, USA (Our (Almost Traditional) Thanksgiving Dinner) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
My Thanksgiving dinner didn’t look a thing like that! My sister and I talked our mom into doing a “Day-After-Thanksgiving” dinner. We did that in a busy year past and loved it! My mom made homemade breads for turkey sandwiches and she was able to make all of the food ahead of time instead of cooking all day. It was a great dinner and day. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! I hope you are well stuffed and feeling loved 🙂
Holiday Sales!
- “Black Friday Genealogy Deals” and “Genealogy Bargains for November 27th” both by Geneabloggers
- “Black Friday Special – FREE Genealogy E-Books by Thomas MacEntee” – on Geneabloggers – how could you pass this up?
- “Holiday Bargains” on Maureen Taylor’s website, the Photo Detective
- Holiday Bundles on books from the New England Historic Genealogical Society at AmericanAncestors.org
- RootsMagic Holiday Sales – This is the genealogy program I personally use – try them for free first to see if it’s something you’d want to purchase! Sale ends Dec 19th so plenty of time to decide 🙂
Blogs/Articles
- “Read the Directions” by Judy G. Russell at the Legal Genealogist – ever wonder what something means in a census? Reading the census-taker directions will tell you!
- “Looking for Descendants of the Orphan Train Riders” By Dick Eastman on his blog (EOGN) – I am a bit bias in posting this as it’s about the society I’m a board member of, but I do want it to reach as many people as we can! 🙂
- “Mapping Wars Or Other Events” on Worldwide Genealogy – a very neat way to map military movements using Google maps. I will have to give this a try!
- “Mapping the Census” by Judy G. Russell – works well with the first article I posted!
- “2016 ESM’s QuickLessons Study Group” on Dear Myrtle – this looks amazing!
- “Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories Returns for 2015” – for all you bloggers!
- “Menus of the 1850s and 1860s” on EOGN – it’s just a neat thing to see! And check out the list of breakfast wines 🙂
Media
- The Board for Certification of Genealogists has posted some recent webinars online! Go here to find out how to access “Applying the Standards to International Research” by Melanie D. Holtz, C.G. and “Do You Have the Reflexes You Need to Become Certified?” by Harold Henderson.
- “Genetic Genealogy for Beginners” on the Young and Savvy Genealogists YouTube channel – it was originally posted in January but still a good resource!
Resources
- FindMyPast Friday’s new records:
- Irish Newspapers
- London, Watermen in Royal Navy 1803-1809
- London, List of Watermen, 1827
- London, Watermen, Birth Register of Contracted Men, 1865-1921