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.

• Michael Hait at Planting the Seeds shares Ten Lessons Learned from the Other Side of the Microphone - from his experience as an audio-visual technician. 

•  The article is a few months old, but The Economist discusses how many countries are moving to censuses based on government databases instead of going door-to-door. (hat/tip: JewishGen Blog)
  

• The Ancestry Insider discusses Those Darned Non-English Indexers. Ancestry.com apparently utilizes indexers in China, who sometimes make some humorous mistakes.

• A new UK television show, Guess the Relative, is seeking people from around the world who believe they have British roots.

• Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak writes about the recent changes at Footnote and the Google News Archive for The Huffington Post.

•  Lee Drew at Family History with the Lineagekeeper discusses Password Security in Genealogy and Your Life.

•  Tim Forsythe at AncestorsNow discusses "large interlinked genealogy tree websites" in The Really Big Tree Co.

•  Judy Wilkenfield, at Provenance, begins a powerful post, Evidence, with the words: For 68 years, my father was seeking the answer to the question, what happened to his mother, sister and brother during The Shoah? What was their final destination?

On the Lighter Side

• Michael John Neill at RootDig posts a humorous computer-error parody: These Ancestors cannot be displayed.  

• Beloit College has released their annual Mindset List.  This is a list of 75 facts about the incoming class of college freshman.  For example: The Communist Party has never been the official political party in Russia.
  
  Other Weekly Link Lists
  
  • 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
  • Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
  • Elizabeth O'Neal's Best Bytes at Little Bytes of Life
  • Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's Genealogy Round Up at MSS Roots World
  • Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog