- Jasia releases The 111th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy at CreativeGene. This edition's theme was Autumn Weddings
- Greta Koehl at Greta's Genealogy Bog explains why she Wants to Remain an Amateur
- Michael John Neill at RootDig republishes a piece he wrote back in 2000, which was definitely worth resharing. Have You...I Wonder.
- Philip Trauring at Blood and Frogs discusses Perceptions of Relationship and how much DNA (on average) we share with particular relations.
- Ginger Smith at Genealogy by Ginger illustrates How to Use Google Images to Find Your Ancestors.
- The World Vital Records blog writes about The Dark Side of Family History Research, and its Uses
- Those with Dutch ancestry, and familiar with the Dutch language, may be interested in two new websites released by Municipal Archive Amsterdam and discussed by Tamura Jones at Modern Software Experience in Dutch Militia Registers and Many Hands.
- Michael Hait at Planting the Seeds shares some tips on Managing your Blog
- For the 125th Birthday of the Statue of Liberty, NextBook Press has published an Interactive New Colossus. The New Colossus is the poem, by Emma Lazarus, which adorns the base of the statue; this interactive version contains several multimedia annotations. (hat/tip: Jewish Publication Society)
- Google announces that they have altered their search formula to increase the importance of recency.
- Ancestry Press Release: Ancestry.com and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Release First Searchable Online Records Collections From World Memory Project. (GenealogyBlog)
- UK Daily Mail: An engaged couple in South Africa discovered they were siblings just before the wedding.
- In Halloween is More Funny than Scary in St. Louis - NPR reports on the unique St. Louis Halloween tradition of forcing kids to come up with riddles and jokes. (Personally, I think other cities should adopt this tradition. But I was born and grew up in St. Louis.)
- Heather Wilkinson Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy wrote on Witches, Halloween, and Genealogy providing suggestions for those with Essex County (Salem) ancestry.
- For All Saints Day, the multiple authors behind The Catholic Gene each discuss their favorite saint in - For All The Saints.
Other Weekly Link Lists
- Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings
- Deb Ruth's Follow Friday Gems at Adventures in Genealogy
- Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
- Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog
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3 comments:
Thank you very much for the mention, John!
Thanks for the mention and the link to my story about the Salem hysteria. I truly believe that people are short changing themselves on some real genealogy gems when reading through the documents and archives on this period of history.
Thanks for the link to my article on Perception of Relation.
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