Weekly Genealogy Picks and Calendar

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.

• Emily Garber at (Going) The Extra Yad discusses Serendipity and blogging
• Janice Brown at Cow Hampshire discusses ways to Promote your Blog
• Genealogy software today encourages us to enter GPS coordinates for locations. What happens if those GPS locations change? Newsround, the BBC's News for Children, reports Austalia is moving! (Slowly, yes, but GPS coordinates are off.)
• With the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Av this past week, I found the timing appropriate for Ancestry's recent addition of Niagara Falls Honeymoon and Visitor Registries
• In Challenges of Adding Sources to Family Trees Part I James Tanner at Genealogy's Star discusses the historical reality that source citations are a relatively new focus.

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

• August 22
• Flag Day (Russia)
• August 23
• European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
• August 25
• Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu)
• Liberation Day (France)
• August 28
• Women's Equality Day (USA)
• National Grandparents Day (Mexico)
• Feast of the Mother of God (Eastern Orthodox Church)
• August 29
• Beheading of St. John the Baptist (Christian)
• International Day Against Nuclear Tests
• August 31
• Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)
• September 1
• Ecclesiastical Year Begins (Orthodox Christian)
• September 2
• VJ Day (US)
• September 3
• Flag Day (Australia)
• VJ Day (Republic of China)