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Happy Halloween!!!

Contest from Geneabloggers!!! Win a Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner Contest! Check it out for more details! Good luck 🙂

Blogs/Articles

• “Witches in Your Family Tree” by Dick Eastman – About the Salem Witch Trials
• Ever wonder about citing a newspaper article if you didn’t get it yourself? Here’s the answer from Evidence Explained.
• “Fashion Moments – Feed Sack Fabric” – by the Genealogy Lady – I found this one quite fascinating. I also wish that this still happened but then I’d need to know how to sew.
• “Another Genealogy Tragedy Averted – Using the Genealogical Proof Standard” on Legacy News from Legacy Family Tree – a wonderful example of how the GPS is used.
• “Dear Family Historian…” by Who is Nicka Smith – this is a new-to-me blog but I follow it now after reading this!
• “Mischief Night 1965” by Linda Stufflebean – I greatly enjoyed this blog post! We called the night before Halloween Devil’s Night and while I was growing up, it was NOT a good time to be out and about.
• “DNAeXplain Archives – Advanced DNA Articles” – by Roberta Estes – This is one of my go-to DNA resources.
• “The Changes at 23andMe” by the Legal Genealogist – I mentioned this last week and Judy G. Russell cleared up any confusion anyone may have about it.
• “Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic‘” – on The Guardian – an incredible story!
• “RootsTech 2016 Announces Opening Day Keynotes, Bruce Feiler and Paula Williams Madison” on EOGN by Dick Eastman
• “Join Us in November for Family History Writing Month!” by Thomas MacEntee – contests included!

Media

Did you miss the NARA Virtual Genealogy Fair? No problem! You can still watch them on YouTube! The handouts are available here.

• Virtual Genealogy Fair 2015, Day 1 of 2
• Virtual Genealogy Fair 2015, Day 2 of 2

Resources

• 1939 Register – Britain – on FindMyPast.com and will arrive on November 2nd – find out more here
• “New FamilySearch Collections Update: October 26, 2015” – on EOGN by Dick Eastman

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I’m not sure how Friday got here so quickly. I think I simply blinked and it was here!

Here’s the finds for the week!

Blogs/Articles

• “Short Circuited” by Judy G. Russell, the Legal Genealogist –  a great post about the Circuit Courts and where they are
• “Fashion Moments – Bloomers” by the Genealogy Lady
• “A Little of This A Little of That” by Linda Stufflebean of Empty Branches on the Family Tree – a great list of useful genealogy websites

Media

• “FREE Social Media Webinar Series” from the Genealogy Professional podcast by Marian Pierre-Louis
• “Podcast #33b German-American Genealogical Partnership” on der Genealoge

Resources

• “46 Million Swedish Household Records Now Available” – MyHeritage blog
• “Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research – ‘Genetic Genealogy for Professional Genealogists’” on The Genetic Genealogist
• “New FamilySearch Collections Update: October 12, 2015” on Dick Eastman’s blog
• FindMyPast Friday’s new records:
  • British Newspapers
  • Marriage Allegations and Bonds from the Dioceses of Lichfield & Coventry, Staffordshire, England
  • Burials from Auckland, Co. Durham, England
  • Additional Baptisms and Burials from North West Kent, England

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Blogs/Articles

• Great posts from Judy G. Russell, the Legal Genealogist, this week as she got ready for the 10th Annual Family History Festival at the Detroit Public Library :
  • “Laws of the Great Lakes State“
  • “Getting Ready for Detroit“
  • “DPL and BHC and…“
• Amy Johnson Crow spotlighted some of the hidden features on the new image viewer on Ancestry.com – complete with a video! “Exploring the Hidden Features of Ancestry’s New Image Viewer“
• The In-Depth Genealogist posted “Five Common Genealogical Mistakes to Avoid when Using Census Records” – wonderful tips there!
• One of my favorite bloggers, Jana of Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog posted “A New-To-Me Feature on FamilySearch” – very neat!
• Another of my favorite bloggers, the Genealogy Lady, continues her Fashion Moments series with “The Cuirasse Bodice” – a very recognizable fashion moment for me considering how much I love Victorian era movies
• The Hoosier State Chronicles posted an interesting part of Theodore Roosevelt’s tour in the Midwest in the early 1900’s – “When Theodore Roosevelt was Hospitalized at St. Vincent’s” – these little bits of history would be lost without newspapers it seems!
• Randy Seavers of Geneamusings posted about FindMyPast’s new access to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) “Searching the NYG&B Record Collection on FindMyPast” – great information!
• Dick Eastman recently posted “How to Make a Book Available to Everyone” – for those of you who have out-of-copyright genealogy/family history books that you wish to share!

Resources

• “New FamilySearch Collections Update: Week of September 21, 2015” brought to you from Dick Eastman’s blog!
• “Poughkeepsie Journal Newspapers are Now Online” another from Dick Eastman
• FindMyPast Friday’s newest records:
  • Britain, Directories & Almanacs
  • Irish Newspapers
  • NYG&B Digital Library
  • Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Parish Registers Browse 1538-1913
  • Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Baptisms 1538-1912
  • Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Banns (1754-1928), Marriages (1538-1928), and Burials (1538-1988)

Have a great weekend everyone!