Weekly Genealogy Picks: Nov 18-24

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.

• Michael John Neill at RootDig reminds us that Indexes Point, But You Have to Look at the actual record.

• Leigh Anne Ellison at Digital Preservation discusses Preserving Digital Archaeological Data

• Inspired by the new Ken Burns documentary on The Dust Bowl, Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist shares some resources for Dust Bowl images we can use. (That is, those that are free from copyright restrictions.)

• Amy Coffin at We Tree Genealogy takes issue with the term, Drive-by Genealogist.

• Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings describes the process of Pruning his Ancestry Member Tree Hints.

• Bill West at West in New England presents the submissions for the Fourth Annual Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge

Other Weekly Lists

• Julie Cahill Tarr's Friday Finds at GenBlog 
• Dan Curtis's Monday's Link Roundup at Personal Professional Historian 
• Jana Last's Fab Finds at Jana's Genealogy and Family History 
• Lynn Palermo's Monday Morning Mentions at The Armchair Genealogist 
• Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings 

Upcoming holidays - religious and secular, national and international - for the next two weeks

Two Week Calendar

• 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)
• Dec 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities
• Dec 6 - St. Nicholas Day (Christian)
• Dec 7 - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (US)
• Dec 8 - Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Christian)
• Dec 8 - Rohatsu/Bodhi Day (Buddhist) 
• Dec 9 - International Anti-Corruption Day
• Dec 8 - Hanuka - Dec 8 (sunset) to Dec 16 (sunset) (Jewish)