Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
Scotsman.com’s Genealogy Clinic delves into research involving ancestors that worked the railways. A reader asked about an ancester that worked for the London and North Eastern Railway after leaving the service, and the Genealogy Clinic covered the types of records available to those looking up ancestors that worked for the railways. Excerpt: Records of the … Read more
There’s an article in the Palm Beach Post (FL) by Ron Hayes, about the Palm Beach County Genealogical Society and their quest for space – the city is planning for a new “City Center” complex that will hold the city hall and city library. Unfortunately the Palm Beach County Genealogical Society is not a part of their plans (PBCGS’s collection would take up the space the library needs for future expansion), and are going to have to find room somewhere.
Unfortunately, it looks like Kindred Matters, a daily genealogy news blog is closing down – the lady behind it doesn’t have the time for it right now (understandable, there are days where I can’t find the time to stay up on email, etc). It was a nice site, and I wish her well (and there is the possibility she will start posting to it again next year). It still contains a lot of useful information.
The Global Gazette (Canada) has news of a new TV show, Ancestors in the Attic, from History Television. If you are a Canadian (I believe it’s limited to Canadians, although they mention “Canadian connection” so I maybe mistaken), and you can sum up your genealogy story/mystery in 500 words or less, they want to hear from you.
After a few conversations with a friend of mine, I found myself taking over a small website that he started but didn’t have time for, Genealogy-blogs.org. The summary: it’s going to be a directory for genealogy blogs, media (newspaper/magazines/etc.) that have regular genealogy columnists, and for some genealogy news sites. I’m not limiting it to much, but I’m going to try and keep it focused. It’s not going to replace Cyndi’s List (I don’t think anybody could), or a site like RSSGenealogy.com. Instead it’s going to be a directory for genealogy sites that you might want to check out a on a regular basis, a few times a week.