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Panorama from Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. From The New York Public Library

Blogs/Articles

• Genealogy Bargains for Thursday 14 January 2016 – with a contest to win a copy of The Family Tree Polish Czach & Slovak Genealogy Guide – Check it out!
• “Ask Yvette – What is GenealogieOnline” – by Yvette Hoitink, a professional genealogist in the Netherlands
• “RootsTech 2016 Innovator Showdown Semi-Finalists are Announced” – on Genea-Musings by Randy Seaver
• Are you a RootsMagic user like me? A lot of people are switching over and that doesn’t always go as smoothly as we’d hope. Linda Stufflebean from Empty Branches on the Family Tree wrote about some frustrations with source citations. This then led to a three three-post series by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings about creating source citations! Check out those posts here: “Post 1: New Master Source,” “Post 2: Adding Source Details to the Master Source,” and “Post 3: Adding Master Text, Detail Text, Quality and Repository Information.”

Media

• Another episode of Finding Your Roots is on pbs.org! Check it out here

Resources

• “New FamilySearch Collections Update: January 11, 2016” on Dick Eastman’s blog
• FindMyPast Friday’s newest records:
  • England, Pollbooks and Directories, 1830-1837
  • British Newspapers Update
  • Hertfordshire, Parish Registers Browse, 1538-1988
  • Surrey, Southwark, Newington Apprentice Register 1891

By Nathaniel F (Flickr: Happy new year!) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Blogs/Articles

• “How to Set a Smart Genealogy Goal” by Amy Johnson Crow – ’tis the season for New Year Goals! Amy offers a way to make resolutions achievable.
• “Don’t Use QR Codes on Tombstones!” – by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter (EOGN) – I haven’t seen one of these myself but it is an interesting subject.
• “23andMe, Ancestry and Selling Your DNA Information” – on DNAeXplained by Roberta Estes
• “NIGR Becomes Gen-Fed” on EOGN

Media

• “Scrivener II: Beyond the Basics Mini Boot Camp” on Geneabloggers – I took the introductory course and loved it! If you’ve heard of this software and want to give it a shot, there’s a link to the introductory instruction on the link as well.

Resources

• New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEGHS) offers free access to some databases on AmericanAncestors.org during the month of January!!
• “Genealogy Bargains for Thursday December 31 2015” by Geneabloggers
• “New or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org – December 20 to 26, 2015” on Geneamusings
• “Nottingham City Burial Records Back to 1830’s Now Available on Deceased Online” and “UK Archives Digitizes World War I Hospital Diaries” and “NEHGS Offers FREE Access to Important Databses on AmericanAncestors.org during the Month of January 2016” on EOGN
• FindMyPast Friday‘s New Records:
  • PERSI Image Updates
  • Knights of the Realm Index
  • British Army, Worldwide Index 1841
  • Warwickshire Baptisms