from genealogy blogs, newspaper articles and elsewhere
- Kirsten McKinney at Hearts and Bones asks a question many of us have asked. Why do we do this? What's it all for?
- The Ancestry Insider presents a form to Rate Your Genealogical Maturity based on a Genealogical Maturity Model they developed in November.
- Geneabloggers has a list of blogger-reviews of the first episode of Who Do You Think You Are. If you missed the first episode, you can view it online at NBC.com. Next week's episode features football player, Emmitt Smith.
- Dan Curtis has some tips on how to improve your interviewing skills.
- John at Ancestry Chronicles has developed a search tool that allows you to search multiple sites at once. He discusses it here.
- A tuft of hair has been found - it is believed to be from Napoleon. (I'll support a clone, if we clone Snowball, too...)
- Jeanne Kramer-Smyth at The Spellbound Blog found some great historical posters and videos at the Census.gov site.
- Dianne Haddad at Genealogy Insider has a list of resources for getting started in genealogy.
- Amy Coffin at We Tree has an entry on using digital cameras as a notepad.
- On April 6th, the fees are increasing for ordering vital record certificates from the UK's General Register Office. The current price of 7 pounds (approx $10.61) is going up to 9.25 pounds (approx $14.02).
- For those interested in the scientific side of genetics, Science fiction author, Nancy Kress, has an entry on Epigenetics "This is the study of those proteins that determine which genes get switched on, when, under what circumstances, and how often."
- In his Best of the Genea-Blogs Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings highlights his selections for the best reads of the week.
- Apple at Apple's Tree presents her weekly reading at Weekly Rewind
- Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak provides her weekly Genealogical Round Up at RootsTelevision RootsWorld.
- Geneabloggers has a weekly list of New Genealogy Blogs and Upcoming Genealogy Blogging Events
Thanks for mentioning my search tool! Great list as always!
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