Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
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The News Journal (DelawareOnline.com), has a pretty interesting article, The Grandparent, about an 86-year-old Grandma who likes to use computers (which is an understatement):
Jean McClelland has written an article in the Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, West Virginia), Scrapbooking is popular way to preserve family history, about combining two very popular hobbies: genealogy and scrapbooking.
There is a rather unique article in the Morning Sentinel (MaineToday.com), Genealogist tries to solve Eagle head mystery, by Colin Hickey, about the head of the Maine Genealogical Society’s Taconnett Falls Chapter helping a man track down an artist from over a century ago. The hope is to build a biography of the artist, as well as the intended home of a carved eagle’s head (which originally kicked off the mystery).
The Repository, Canton Ohio, has an article by Eddie Pritchard about efforts being made to track down and clean up Stark County’s cemeteries, as well as establishing contacts for each one. If you are from that area and want to help, you may want to read the article and get in touch with some of those mentioned.