Week In Review

Below are some highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star discusses Why you have to pay for free government documents

• Dear Myrtle asks us, regarding the sources we cite in our research: Did You View it Personally? 

• Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter shares a rather unique gift idea: Creative Coffins

• Bill West at West in New England releases The Third Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge

• The US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com announced earlier this month that information on 30,000 victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution is now available online at Ancestry.com and can be searched at no cost. (hat/tip: Upfront with NGS)

Press Releases

• MyHeritage Acquired FamilyLink.com and WorldVitalRecords.com (GeneaPress)
• Archives.Com Partners with FamilyTreeDNA to offer DNA testing (GeneaPress)

Humor

• From The Onion: Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree

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Other Weekly Link Lists

• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings
• Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog