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.

Genealogy Resources

• The MoSGA Messenger this week has linked to or discussed several sources for digitized newspapers, including: Irish Newspaper Archive, International Coalition on Newspapers, Chronicling America, the University of Pennsylvania's list of Historical Newspapers Online,  Wikipedia's list of Online Newspaper Archives, and Google News Archives.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star describes The National Reporter System and why it is a good genealogical resource. He follows up with a clarification on what is meant by Courts of Record.

Technology and Digitization

• The Library of Congress has created a new blog, Copyright Matters. Their goal is to make the Pre-1978 Copyright Office Records more Accessible. "Through this blog we hope to receive your thoughts and ideas so that we can present the records online in a way that will best suit your needs." 

• Jill Hurst-Wahl at Digitization 101 asks, is every librarian a digital librarian? 

• Dick Eastman at Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter asks, Is the Personal Computer Dead?

Hot Topic

• Leland Meitzler at GenealogyBlog reported that book vendors were not being invited to sell their wares this year at the annual RootsTech conference. DearMyrtle, Genealogy's Star, Anglo-Celtic Connections, Smoky Mountain Family Historian, and others have commented.

In the News

• Menorahs are becoming popular in Ireland, even though the Jewish population is small.

Carnivals

• The 112th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy has been released.  The topic for the next issue is A Charles Dickens Christmas.  Instructions can be read at CreativeGene. 

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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
• Deb Ruth's Follow Friday Gems at Adventures in Genealogy
• Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak's Genealogy Round Up at MSS's Roots World

Vacation

I will be taking a vacation from Week in Review through the end of the month.  I have scheduled several Amanuensis Monday posts.  Otherwise, any blogging will be light.