Weekly Genealogy Picks

Weekly Genealogy Picks -- September 26th to October 2nd
from genealogy blogs, newspaper articles and elsewhere
 [being posted a little bit later on Sunday than usual.]

• Lawyer and Genealogist, James Tanner, at Genealogy's Star discusses the difference between copyright infringement and theft.

• Twenty Years ago, on October 3, 1990, Germany was reunified.  A memorandum containing the telephone conversation between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and US President George H. W. Bush was posted at the National Archive's Document of the Day.

• Kory Meyerink at ProGenealogists explains to a client the cost of copying a document.

• The Ancestry Insider explains when gloves should be worn when handling documents.

• Locally, both the St. Louis City Mayor and the St. Louis County Executive seem to be in favor of merging the two governments, reconciling what is known locally as The Great Divorce of 1876.  If it were put to a vote, and passed, it would not only probably be great for St. Louis in general, but make things easier for genealogists, since City/County government records would be reunited for the first time in over a century.

• While architectural history isn't genealogy, I've found many genealogists have interest in the towns our ancestors lived in, and how they have changed over the years.  Locally, Vanishing St. Louis has an entry illustrating an architectural nightmare.  How a neoclassical bank became an orange brick rectangle, as well as the ironic use the building is being used for today.

Press Releases
(In some cases multiple blogs have posted these press releases, but I have chosen one representative.)

LexisNexis' US Serial Set is available at NARA research facilities - (DearMyrtle)

Blogging/Social Networking/Technology

Tamura Jones at Modern Software Experience illustrates the Twitter Redesign

Other Weekly/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 

• Genealogy Round Up - from Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak at Megan's Roots World

• Links - from Liz Haigney Lynch at Ancestral Archaeologist

• Genealogy News Corral - from Diane Haddad at Genealogy Insider

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

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

•  October 2010 Calendar of Events - from Miriam Robbins Midkiff at Ancestories

Amanuensis Monday: September 27th 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.]

• Leslie Ann - Ancestors Live Here
• Lisa - Are You My Cousin?
• Valerie C. - Begin with Craft
• Belinda Blades - Blades and Handy Clippings from the Past
• D. Kay Strickland  - D Kay S Days
• Randy Seaver - Genea-Musings
• Anonymous - In Deeds
• Susan Petersen - Long Lost Relatives.net
• Anonymous - Nolichucky Roots
• Heather Wilkinson Rojo - Nutfield Genealogy
• Lisa Wallen Logsdon - Old Stones Undeciphered
• Laila Christensen - Slekt og Slikt
• Martin Hollick - The Slovak Yankee
• Stachia - The Wandering Vine
• John Newmark - TransylvanianDutch

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