Week in Review

Below are some noteworthy news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

• Jasia at CreativeGene has published the 108th Carnival of Genealogy - the theme was Food.  The theme for the 109th edition will be Our Ancestors' Place of Worship - deadline September 1st.

• Quick Response (QR) Codes are being placed on headstones, providing those with smartphones a link to a website with more information about the deceased. (hat/tip: Lee Drew)

• Denise Levenick at The Family Curator shares five tips for creating the perfect Dear Photograph picture.

• The student newspaper staff at Florida Atlantic University put together an issue of the newspaper "80s-style" without any computers. (How to Have a Paper Ball) (How To Build a Newsroom Time Machine)  

•  Kathryn Doyle at CaliforniaAncestors reports we are approaching the 100 year anniversary of Women's Suffrage in California.  Descendants of California Suffragists are being sought for participation in the festivities.

•  "Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art." (full article) (hat/tip GenealogyBlog)
  

• The granddaughter of author Shalom Aleichem (Solomon Rabinovich) recently turned 100.  She was interviewed by the New York PBS. (hat/tip: Jewcy)

Watch the full episode. See more Metrofocus.

• A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name. (DNA testing was involved) (Video is 96 minutes)

• While not directly related, those interested in blogging, and those interested in writing family histories do need to consider copyright concerns.  The "Fair Use Doctrine" in US copyright law can be confusing. - Neil Netanel of the UCLA School of Law recently published a paper concluding that court application of Fair Use has changed significantly over the past couple decades.

Other Weekly Link Lists

• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings
• Deb Ruth's Follow Friday at Adventures in Genealogy 
• Megan Smolenyak²s Genealogy Round Up at MSS Roots World