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.

• Discussing the Genealogical Proof Standard, James Tanner at Genealogy's Star asks What is Reasonable? Where do I search?  Earlier this week, he also shared his alleged cousinship to William Shakespeare.  Though he appears to have some doubts.

• Barbara J Mathews at The Demanding Genealogist shares an experience where Wikipedia was Misled by an Online Ahnentafel

•  Randy Seaver at GeneaMusings feels Genealogical Societies Should Consider Ancestry Content Publisher

• The Illinois State Genealogical Society announces the debut of The Insider's Guide to Illinois Genealogy. 

• Irish Newspaper Archives,  one of the largest digital collections of Irish newspapers, is offering free access through December of 2011. (hat/tip: JewishGen)

• Lee Drew at Family History with the LineageKeeper shares an extensive list of archaic job titles and what they mean.

• Taco Goulooze, from It All Makes Census shares a newspaper article from 1890 headlined, The Census Killed Him.  He also shares an article concerning the 1940 census.  Apparently, for the first time in that year, they surveyed mobile homes.

• Michael Stern Hart, inventor of electronic books, and the founder of Project Gutenberg, passed away on Sept 6.

• A New York Times article discusses a recent son's discovery that he had 149 half-siblings through his sperm donor father.

Ten Years Later

Tears don't flow the same in space.  International Space Station astronaut, Frank Culbertson, shares his 9/11 story.

 (9/11/01 - taken from International Space Station - photograph source: NASA)

Other Weekly Link Lists
Several individuals who usually have posts listed below took a vacation this week.  It might have something to do with the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Springfield, IL.

• Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
• Elizabeth O'Neal's Best Bytes at Little Bytes of Life 
• Lynn Palermo's Monday Morning Mentions at The Armchair Genealogist
• Susan Petersen's Around the Blogosphere at Long Lost Relatives