Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
An article by Rob Shapard in The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), reinforces what most of already know: genealogy is addictive. From the article: As the years tick by, the drive that Orange County resident Louis Freeland feels to learn about his family’s past grows stronger. Freeland, 70, has learned a great deal about that history, which … Read more
How far back can you trace your ancestry? An article in The Daily Record tries to answer that question (with surprising results): Thousands of years ago, my ultimate grandmother eked out an existence at the foot of Mount Parnassus in Greece. Scientists have named her Ursula and she belonged to a band of hunter gatherers … Read more
I guess the best way to explain this site is thus: This is a travel guide that your ancestors could have used almost two hundred years ago. I spent a lot of time reading through this site last night. It contains a large number of historic descriptions covering New England, from the states down to … Read more
If you are doing research in and around Colorado, you need to visit the Colorado State Archives. It’s really starting to pick up. They are providing more and more online indexes to their collections. You may search this index by name and record type, county, or time span or a combination of any of these … Read more
If you’d like to read a good review of just what Linkpendium.com is (a genealogy site we mentioned recently, that has over two million links), head over to the Lebanon Daily – James M. Beidler has written up a summary of just what the two million links are and how useful they can be. Friends … Read more