Weekly Genealogy Picks: Dec 9 to Dec 15

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.

• Bill LeFurgy at The Signal promotes Raising Digital Preservation Awareness to Combat Placency and Fear

• In The Bloggers' Best Selections Diane Boumenot at One Rhode Island Family solicited submissions of 'favorite' posts from other genealogy bloggers.

• The controversial Martin Luther King Jr. memorial transcription, which misquoted the Civil Rights leader, will be removed instead of corrected. (Source: CNN)

• Tamura Jones at The Modern Software Experience takes a look at the Genealogy Communities that have been created on the Google+ network in the past week since Google introduced the Community feature.

• In a recent patent filing, "Apple outlined a system that analyzes the characteristics of an image's subject and uses the data to create a 'faceprint,' which can then be matched with other photos to determine a person's identity." [Source: Apple Insider]

• In Why can't the media get the facts straight in Connecticut, Charles Apple,  at The Visual Side of Journalism discusses the issues with 'breaking news reporting' and how reporters handle constantly changing facts. I thought I noticed some parallels in his description of news research to that of genealogy research. We too can make a mistake when we try to reach a conclusion before our research is complete.

Other Weekly Lists

• Beth's Genealogy News Corral at Genealogy Insider 
• 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 Professional Personal 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

• Dec 16 - Las Posadas/Posadas Navidenas - Dec 16 (evening) to Dec 24 (evening) (Christian - Spanish)
• Dec 17 - Saturnalia (Roman)
• Dec 17 - Wright Brothers Day (US)
• Dec 18 - International Migrants Day
• Dec 20 - International Human Solidarity Day
• Dec 21 - Pancha Ganapti - Dec 21-25 (Hindu)
• Dec 21 - Forefathers' Day (Plymouth, MA)
• Dec 21 - Yule - Northern Hemisphere / Litha - Southern Hemisphere (Pagan)
• Dec 24 - Christmas Eve (Christian)
• Dec 25 - Christmas (Christian)
• Dec 26 - Kwanzaa - Dec 26-Jan 1
• Dec 26 - Boxing Day
• Dec 26 - Zarathosht Diso (Zoroastrian)
• Dec 28 - Holy Innocents (Christian)
• Dec 30 - Freedom Day (Church of Scientology)
• Dec 30 - Feast of the Holy Family (Christian)
• Dec 31 - New Years Eve