Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
GenealogyBlog.com has published a commentary about an article in The Daily Sentinel about Colorado closing off access to various public records. They posted this: folks, I hate to say this, but I don’t hear much of an outcry from the genealogical community about the loss of so many records that are key to our research. … Read more
In the Belleville News-Democrat (Southern Illinois and St. Louis), there is an article by Jay Schwab, Glass negatives of family photos become treasure, which is something I’m very interested in, as are most genealogists who are lucky enough to have the chance to rescue old family photos. It’s about a lady, Nelda Schlesinger, who has done a lot to preserve over 150 glass plate negatives.
According to an article from The Daily Telegraph from a few weeks back, 1837Online.com may go up for sale. There’s been a few high profile genealogy sites and software go up for sale in recent years. I didn’t realize that 1837Online.com was a much older business (well, relatively speaking, it was started in the 1960s) and it didn’t start out as a normal genealogy research company (although genealogy was central).
If you are curious about just what is available through NewEnglandAncestors.org and The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, then do not be curious anymore – starting today and going through Wednesday, you will have free access to this Register Database. It includes NEHGS issues back to 1847.
The main site is www.newenglandancestors.org, and if you are getting any kind of errrors, you might want to try back later – chances are their website will be hammered by genealogists who are curious.
Great article at the Grand Forks Herald (ND), Historic Preservation 101: Tips to improve the odds, about a topic that doesn’t get covered enough – preserving old buildings. Peg O’Leary, the Grand Forks Historic Preservation Commission coordinator, and Dale Bentley, who is the executive director of Preservation North Dakota, mention some good ideas and information if you want to get involved with preserving an old building that you are interested in.