- Elyse Doerflinger at Elyse's Genealogy Blog offers Some Thoughts for Genealogy Societies on how to react (or not react) when a 20-something genealogist shows up at a meeting, or a conference.
- Those whose ancestors migrated by ship, traveling in steerage class, may be interested in Michael J. Leclerc's post at The Mocavo Blog: Steerage Not Exactly Luxurious.
- At The Huffington Post Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak asks, and illustrates the difficulty in answering, What Race is Bruno Mars? (I thought my ancestry was diverse!)
- Granite, genealogists are familiar with mistakes such as these. However, Charles Apple of the American Copy Editors Society at The Visual Side of Journalism suggests: Before you etch it in stone, call a copy editor.
- China's Xinhua News Agency reports Confucius' family tree has been digitized.
- George Geder at Geder Genealogy announces submissions are open for a blog carnival in honor of The National Day of Listening.
- Tamura Jones at Modern Software Experience presents his own Genealogy Blog Awards for 2012.
- Mocavo has announced a Free scanning service until the end of the year
- Those who use Gmail for their email will be pleased to know you can now search for emails by their size. So if you are running out of space, finding those photographs you emailed to relatives is now significantly easier. Even if you were utilizing FindBigMail or a similar application, you will likely find Gmail's new search functions are an improvement.
- Ruth Blair's Ruth's Recommendations at The Passionate Genealogist
- Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog
- Dan Curtis's Monday's Link Roundup at Personal Professional Historian
- Beth's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider
- Lynn Palermo's Monday Morning Mentions at The Armchair Genealogist
- Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings
Two Week Calendar
- Nov 20 - Universal Childrens' Day
- Nov 21 - National Adoption Day (US)
- Nov 21 - Yule (Neopagan)
- Nov 22 - Thanksgiving (US)
- Nov 23 - Ashura (Islam) - Nov 23 (sunset) - Nov 24 (sunset)
- Nov 24 - Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom (Sikh)
- Nov 25 - Feast of Christ the King (Christian)
- Nov 26 - Day of the Covenant (Baha'i)
- Nov 28 - Ascension of Abdu'l-Bahá (Baha'i)
- Nov 28 - Birthday of Guru Nanak Dev Sahib (Sikh)
- Nov 30 - St. Andrew's Day (Christian)
- Dec 1 - Great Union Day (Romania)
- Dec 1 - National Transit Tribute to Rosa Parks Day
- Dec 2 - International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- Dec 2 - Advent - First Sunday (Christian)
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