- Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak at MSS Roots World has learned that the Social Security Administration has extended the FOIA restriction to 100 years.
- Chris Staats at Staat's Place compares microfilm images Scanned vs Printed
- Deb Ruth at Adventures in Genealogy shares how she has Connected on Find a Grave
- Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, The Velveteen Rabbi, recently wrote a Spiritual Will which may resonate with some family historians.
- James Tanner at Genealogy's Star in Can I Conserve My Own Pile of Documents?s?
- Lorine McGinnis Schulze at the Olive Tree Genealogy Blog in What Will You Do With Your Genealogy Research?
- Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings in Dear Randy: What are you going to do with your Genealogy-Stuff?
- National Archives to Release 1940 Census Free Online on April 2, 2012 (National Archives Press Releases)
- Digital Preservation Europe has released a series of humorous videos (hat/tip: UpFront with the NGS)
And a comic with which I identified.
I saw the above XKCD comic, and thought about changing the text to: "Never have I felt so close to another soul and yet so helplessly alone as when I Google an ancestor and there's one result: a thread by someone with the same brick wall and no answer. Last posted to in 2003. Who where you, GeneaResearcher9? What have you learned?!"
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
- Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's Genealogy Round Up at MSS's RootsWorld
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1 comment:
Thanks for mentioning the "Connected on Find-A-Grave" post. Still excited about discovering my husband's cousin. Has been a bonanza of information!
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