- Ancestry Insider discusses Ancestry Content Publisher. While The Insider jokingly describes it as a secret program, some may recall that GeneaMusings discussed it last week, and Modern Software Experience a few days prior.
- Ruth Blair at The Passionate Genealogist shares a list of Historical Audio and Video Collections
- Beth VanVliet at ProGenealogists discusses Family Legends: Fact or Fiction? - and how the research that reveals the family legend to be fiction, may also uncover the truths that led to the legend.
- Lisa Morguess at Life As I Know It shares a report her 9 year old son gave on their Family History.
- GenealogyBlog discusses September 11, 1857 and the Utah Mountain Meadows Massacre. "For many Church members, the Mountain Meadows Massacre is especially poignant since some of its participants, along with so many of the early Utah Mormons, had suffered similar pains and loss at the hands of mobs and militia not very many years before." If anyone wonders what those 'similar pains' were - I suspect it's at least a partial reference to the Missouri-Morman War of the 1830s which you can read more about at Missouri Digital Heritage.
- Heather Stecklein at Museum Minute discusses the preservation of digital scrapbooks.
- GenealogyBank announced that they added 134 million newspaper articles this month, and its newspaper collection now contains over 1 billion records. (And this doesn't include their great collection of obituaries.)
- Back issues of Ancestry Magazine (1994-2010) can be found on Google Books. (hat/tip: GenBlog) [Note: Prior to 1994, the magazine was called Ancestry Newsletter, and these issues don't appear available.]
- James Tanner, an attorney and a genealogist, at Genealogy's Star has a series this week on Copyright, Fair Use, and the Genealogist. (Part One | Part Two | Part Three)
- Levi Sumagaysay at Good Morning Silicon Valley discusses the current status of the ongoing legal fight over Google Books.
- Ancestry.com changed their subscription rates recently, and their stock took a tumble. The Motley Fool discusses whether the tumble is justified.
- Facebook has recently made some changes, obviously in response to the new competition from Google+. Marian Pierre-Louis at Marian's Roots and Rambles asks: How Do You Feel About Followers on Facebook?
- I am personally drooling over the SanDisk Memory Vault discussed at PetaPixel. That is, if the claim is true that the backup drive really does have a 'proven ability' to "preserve data uncorrupted" for 100 years. Of course, knowing how difficult it is to find a computer today with a 5.25 floppy drive, preserving the data isn't everything.
- Matt Ryan at Mobile Lifestyle asks What Will Phones Look Like in Five Years
- Dinosaur Comics discusses Degrees of Information
- Webcam 101 for Seniors (hat/tip: Geneabloggers)
Other Weekly Link Lists
- Susan Petersen's Around the Blogosphere at Long Lost Relatives
- Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's Genealogy Round Up at MSS's Roots World
- Deb Ruth's Follow Friday Gems at Adventures in Genealogy
- Elizabeth O'Neal's Best Bytes at Little Bytes of Life
Thanks for the mention John.
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