Weekly Genealogy Picks

Weekly Genealogy Picks --August 8 to August 14
from genealogy blogs, newspaper articles and elsewhere

This week, the Geneablogging community lost one of its own.  Terry Thornton of the Hill Country of Monroe County, MS and Hill Country H.O.G.S. Webbpress blogs, and founder of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits, passed away on August 9, 2010.

Many have been posting memories and tributes.  Below are a few of them:

• What's Past is Prologue
• The Educated Genealogist
• Creative Gene
• The Graveyard Rabbit (3 posts)
• Genea-Musings
• Lincecum Lineage
• AnceStories
• footnoteMaven
• GenealogyBlog
• West in New England
• Smoky Mountain Family Historian

Most of us only knew him through the words he wrote, but those words were inspirational to many.  He was constantly encouraging others to share their stories. When he created the H.O.G.S. blog concept back in 2007, I joined up with a few modifications, and declared myself G.H.O.T.I. (pronounced 'fish.') My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends - online and off.

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• Tamura Jones at Modern Software Experience discusses Adoption in Genealogy and introduces a modified ahnenlist that accommodates both adopted and birth families.

• A joyful story of two twin adoptees being reunited after 59 years (hat tip: Leland Meitzler at GenealogyBlog)

• Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter explains the Soundex code in detail.

• The National Archives has been expanding and improving their online collection of Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs.

• Dan Curtis provides 12 ways to ensure your personal history business fails - for those tired of reading lists of ways to succeed.

• Robert at The MyHeritage Blog asks - What's in a name? - looking at some studies that have shown how names can impact success, and even life expectancy.

• Linda McCauley at Documenting the Details reminds us that a documented source isn't always a valid source.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star compares Scanners vs Digital Cameras for preserving genealogical documents.

• Daniel Hubbard at Personal Past Mediations discusses Geneanthropology and the need to understand the cultural context of our ancestor's lives.

• Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers discusses making a Facebook page for your ancestor

Other Weekly 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

•  Genealogy News Corral - from Diane Haddad at GenealogyInsider

• 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

Amanuensis Monday: August 9th 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.]

Apple at Apple's Tree
Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings
Ginger Smith at Genealogy by Ginger 
Leah at The Internet Genealogist
Barbara Poole at Life from the Roots
Anonymous at Nolichucky Roots
Heather Wilkinson Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy
Lisa Wallen Logsdon at Old Stones Undeciphered
Martin Hollick at The Slovak Yankee (2 entries)
RootsResearcher at So That's Where I Get it From
John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch
Kevin Walker at Who We Were, Are & Will Be Our Family

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