National Archives – Electronic Records
A piece of good news for future genealogists, in a press release about the National Archives announcing an Advisory Committee for Electronic Records Archives
Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
A piece of good news for future genealogists, in a press release about the National Archives announcing an Advisory Committee for Electronic Records Archives
As usual, looking for one thing, came across another. Tonight I came across The Garriott Family Genealogy Website. It’s got a very nice genealogy area, and the Descendant Trees are second to none. I’m not sure if they are using software they wrote, but it’s very simple and easy to read. An example – Francis … Read more
In the Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), Caitlin Cleary writes about an all-too-familiar topic – neglected and forgotten cemeteries, and how some are working to get them back into shape, and on the positive side, how genealogy is spurring an interest in “reclaiming” these cemeteries, so to speak. It also mentions a little bit about how Pennsylvania … Read more
If you’ve never heard the term “vestry” used in genealogy (specifically in regards to records or minutes used to record important information in churches), you should take a look at this article that Lloyd Bockstruck wrote in the Dallas Morning News. Vestry records provide helpful data In rural Virginia, boundaries between plantation owners were vague, … Read more
One of the issues I like to climb up on the soapbox and rant and rave about, is accuracy (or the lack thereof), and how more and more people are accepting anything they find on the internet as being “good enough”.