Weekly Genealogy Picks

Weekly Genealogy Picks --August 1 to August 7
from genealogy blogs, newspaper articles and elsewhere

• Dear Myrtle, in Proving your Point, reminds us to evaluate our sources.

• Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings provides some tips on working with the Archive.org text archives.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star discusses Notes and Note Taking, and how he made it through law school without being good at taking notes, and what he is now doing as a genealogist to counter this deficiency.

• Blaine Bettinger at The Genetic Genealogist discusses Genome wide SNP scans.

• Barbara Poole at Life from the Roots asks (and answers) how three death records of the same individual can all be wrong, in some way.

• Carol at Reflections from the Fence also discusses how death certificates can have errors in them, with a personal narrative about her mother-in-law's recent passing.

• The verdict overturning Proposition 8 inspired Martin Hollick at The Slovak Yankee to wonder if someone in the future will collect all the certificates for his and his partner's domestic partnerships and marriages.

• Elyse Doerflinger at Elyse's Genealogy Blog provides some tips on writing a genealogy query at an online messageboard.

•  Schelly Talalay Dardashti at Tracing the Tribe writes about databases containing the Israeli census from 1915 and 1922 available for searching at the Israel Genealogical Society website, and recently transliterated into English.

• Tom Fiske at Genealogy Blog helps us learn from others' mistakes.  Do it Now! -- Before the Termites Get at It!

• Kate T. at Archives Next discusses Anthologize, a tool that converts blog posts into book form. 

• The National Park Service's 11th annual photo contest is underway.

• World Turn'd Upside Down has an interesting historical look at Primers in the Colonial Northeast

Press Releases
These may appear at multiple sites, but I have chosen one representation.

• Ancestry.com has acquired ProGenealogists

• Family Tree Maker 2011 is available for pre-order. 

Carnivals

• The 96th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy has been released.

• The 3rd Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy Societies has been released.

Social Networking

• Those of you who have more than one Google account will be interested in Google's announcement that you can now access more than one Gmail account at the same time in the same browser.

• Google also announces that Google Wave will likely disappear at the end of the year.

Other Weekly (and monthly) Lists
The genealogy bloggers below provide their selections for the week - many different from my own.

• Best of the Genea-Blogs - from Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings

• Follow Friday - from Greta Koehl at Greta's Genealogy Bog

• Links - from Liz Haigney Lynch at Ancestral Archaeologist

• Monday's Link Roundup - from Dan Curtis - Professional Personal Historian

• New Genealogy Blogs and Upcoming Genealogy Blogging Events - from Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers

• August Calendar of Events  - from Miriam Robbins Midkiff at AnceStories

Amanuensis Monday: August 2nd participants
[Amanuensis Monday is a weekly blogging theme I began in February of 2009, where participants transcribe letters, audio, and other documents.  Why I do this.]

Valerie C at Begin with Craft
Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings
Ginger Smith at Genealogy by Ginger
Heather Wilkinson Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy
Lisa Wallen Logsdon at Old Stones Undeciphered
Martin Hollick at The Slovak Yankee 
Chris Staats at Staats' Place
John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch

If you participated, but don't appear on this list, please, let me know.

Pet Peeves

Since I know more people read this weekly post than any other post on my blog, and since I see this error often, and saw it again just this weekend in some submission guidelines for a poetry competition, I am going to remind all my readers:

Copywrite and Copyright are both English words.  However, they have different meanings.

Copywriting is the process of creating copy to promote a person, place, or business - often copywriters are hired by companies for advertising, marketing, public relations, etc.  Copywriters write for a living, hence the word 'write' is found within the job title.

Copyright refers to the rights granted to the creator or author of a work (or assigned to someone else).  It has nothing to do with writing since copyright can refer to photographs, artwork, recordings, etc.  It has to do with legal rights.  That's how you tell the difference.

When someone uses the wrong spelling, I assume they don't know the meaning of the word, for if they did, they wouldn't get confused.