Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
I saw over at Legacy News that the Philadelphia Passenger Lists from 1800-1945 are now online and easily accessed at Ancestry.com. These are passenger lists from the National Archives and Records Administration. A fairly significant genealogy resource if you are having trouble finding where your ancestors came in at, and the usual suspects don’t turn up anything (NY, Boston, New Orleans, etc.).
Good editorial from Keith Jensen, Associate Publisher of the Madison Daily Leader, about South Dakota officials closing off public records – Editorial: State officials rushed to judgment on open records.
Connie Lenzen has written another excellent article in The Columbian (Clark County, WA), Genealogy Today: Citing sources key to credibility, about the importance of citing your sources when doing your genealogy research. Connie uses a good analogy – comparing it to that of a sixth-grader doing a science project.
Interesting donation to a library – according to The Lincoln Journal (Lincolnton, GA), Wells W. McCorkle has donated copies of Civil War era letters written by John McCorkle to his wife and sister.
Kathryn D. sent me the following message concerning a new book coming out from the The California Genealogical Society
100 Years Later: Long-Lost Letters Give a Fresh Look at the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake And Fire
The California Genealogical Society announces a new book published to coincide with the earthquake’s centennial year. Dorothy Fowler’s work, A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A First-Hand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire presents the vivid personal letters of a young San Francisco woman to her sweetheart in Schenectady.
As we are coming up on the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, many of you who have genealogy research that deals with this event (and it was a major event, and has probably caused more than a few brick walls) maybe interested in this, or even just joining the California Genealogical Society.