Weekly Genealogy Picks: March 31 - April 6

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.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star discusses Equal Rights for Ancestors. Do our ancestors deserve to be treated equally, with equal amounts of research time devoted to them?

• Diane Haddad at Genealogy Insider provides 10 Tips For Researching Genealogy in Court Records.

• Michele Simmons Lewis at Ancestoring's Ask A Genealogist compared the Old Search to the New Search at Ancestry.com in a three-part series. Parts: 1, 2, 3.

• The Missouri Secretary of State has announced that the State Archives is working with FamilySearch to create an online database of state marriage records from territorial times through 1969. (hat/tip: GenealogyBlog)

• Robert Darnton at The New York Review of Books looks at The Digital Public Library of America which is to be launched on April 18th. "The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge."

• One April First, The Ancestry Insider asked Did Your Ancestor Fall Out of the Sky?

• Poetry: Donna Pointkouski at What's Past is Prologue shares her poem Where I'm From, based on the George Ella Lyon template. [Link to my 2009 post about the template]

Other Weekly Lists

• Genealogy News Corral - Diane Haddad - GenealogyInsider 
• Fab Finds - Jana Last - Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog 
• Blog Posts for Genealogists - Michael J Leclerc - Mocavo Blog 
• Monday Morning Mentions - Lynn Palermo - Armchair Genealogist 
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Randy Seaver - Genea-Musings
• Friday Finds - Julie Cahill Tarr - GenBlog 

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

Two Week Calendar

• April 7 - Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jewish) [ Sundown April 7 - Sundown April 8]
• April 7 - World Health Day
• April 8 - International Romani Day
• April 11 - New Year (Hindu)
• April 11 - Ramayana (Hindu) [April 11-20]
• April 12 - Yuri's Night
• April 14 - Baisakhi/New Year (Sikh)
• April 15 - Yom Ha'Atzmaut (Jewish) [Sundown April 15 - Sundown April 16]
• April 15 - Jackie Robinson Day
• April 15 - Patriots' Day (US) [For those observing it on the 3rd Monday of April] 
• April 19 - Dutch-American Friendship Day
• April 19 - Patriots' Day (US) [For those observing it on the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord]
• April 20 - Ramanavani (Hindu)
• April 21 - First Day of Ridvan (Baha'i)