Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
You may recall back at the beginning of August, Castle Garden’s immigration records becoming available online. Mike Nowatzki has published an articlefor The Forum (North Dakota and Minnesota) giving more information about Castle Garden
Roxanne Moore Saucier writes about how important sources are, in her genealogy column ‘Family Ties’ for the Bangor Daily News (Maine).
Steve Haney has written an article about genealogy research in Alberta, Canada, for LTVNews.com (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada), that gives a brief history of Alberta in regards to genealogy, as well as an overview of the genealogy records available.
Marina Garrison wrote a little article at 50 connect.co.uk, about publishing your genealogy research in a book.
The Digital Dark Age, an article in the Fairfax Digital by John Huxley, details the problems we may face with storing our information on media such as CDROMs/DVDROMs, only it’s from a different angle – not the problem with “digital rot” or the breaking down/physical deterioration of CD/DVDs, but rather with our descendants not being able to read the information.