- The controversy over the new Martin Luther King, Jr. monument may serve as a reminder to genealogists, that just because something is inscribed in stone, doesn't make it accurate.
- The January 2012 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter can be downloaded.
- Megan Smolenyak2 at The Huffington Post covers the celebrity genealogy offerings of NBC and PBS this spring, listing all 32 celebs participating. I believe Kyra Sedgwick, who will be on PBS's "Finding Your Roots" is a distant cousin of mine through shared Stoughton ancestry, though I have no clue whether that branch of her tree will be mentioned.
- Alan Stewart at Grow Your Own Family Tree discusses Ancestry UK's launch of Parish pages.
- The National Archives (NARA) is encouraging Citizen Archivists to transcribe documents, and tag images. (H/T: Upfront with the NGS)
- In two separate posts, Dear Myrtle compares the ease/difficulty of finding the same record on FamilySearch and Scotland's People.
- Police - using Y Surname DNA test - have discovered the probable last name of a culprit. (Of course, over almost 400 years, name changes, and illegitimacy happens.) Blaine Bettinger at The Genetic Genealogist discusses the case and ethical concerns of using DNA for this purpose.
- In the world of Social Networking, the big news this week is Google's adding of Google+ posts to their search results. Levi Sumagaysay at Good Morning Silicon Valley covers the aftermath.
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
- Wndy Littrell's Follow Friday at All My Branches Genealogy
- Greta Koehl's Friday's Finds and Fun at Greta's Genealogy Bog
- Diane Haddad's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider
- Donna Pointkouski's Donna's Picks, Link Love, and More at What's Past is Prologue
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