Genealogy and History
- Michael John Neill at RootDig reminds us, despite what Ancestry's shaky leaf suggestions might say, the SSDI Last Residence is not always the Place of Death.
- The History and Genealogy Dept blog at St. Louis Public Library has been looking at Missouri's Odd Phenomena. (Part 4) (Part 5)
- Susan Farrell Bankhead at Susan's Genealogy Blog is trying to help the LA Fire Department track down some photographs of fallen firefighters.
- James Tanner at Genealogy's Star discusses the Ethics of Photo Restoration or Editing. Should we use Photoshop to add someone to a photo, take someone away, or clear up teenage blemishes? His post reminded me of something I wrote in 1987 for a college newspaper, and I blogged about back in 2003. I suspect in 10 years, or earlier, we may be having similar questions concerning video editing.
- Dick Eastman at EOGN looks at a service called 1DollarScan that offers to scan, digitize, and OCR books for a dollar. ($1 per 100 pages.)
- Joanna Geary, focusing on the privacy and social media issues, describes how she tracked down an entire family starting with one twitter post.
- Some using the Blogger platform may be interested in Google Scribe, which suggests words and phrases as you type.
- Discover Magazine's Not Exactly Rocket Science blog looks at hair-thin electronic skin, that can monitor hearts, the brain, and control video games. io9 also discusses the breakthrough.
- Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings
- Deb Ruth's Follow Friday at Adventures in Genealogy
- Liz Haigney Lynch's Links at The Ancestral Archaeologist
- Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog
- Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
- Diane Haddad's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider
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