Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
Genealogy Hints & Tips
I guess the best way to explain this site is thus: This is a travel guide that your ancestors could have used almost two hundred years ago. I spent a lot of time reading through this site last night. It contains a large number of historic descriptions covering New England, from the states down to … Read more
If you are doing research in and around Colorado, you need to visit the Colorado State Archives. It’s really starting to pick up. They are providing more and more online indexes to their collections. You may search this index by name and record type, county, or time span or a combination of any of these … Read more
If you’d like to read a good review of just what Linkpendium.com is (a genealogy site we mentioned recently, that has over two million links), head over to the Lebanon Daily – James M. Beidler has written up a summary of just what the two million links are and how useful they can be. Friends … Read more
Three weeks ago, I pointed out a twenty four year-old article from Mother Earth News, about people tracing the genealogy, as it were, of their homes.
An article by Kimberly Powell popped up this weekend at About.com, that is either brand-new, or has been updated recently, about this very topic.
If you are a Windows user, and have a lot of information, and let’s face it, being a genealogist you probably do, whether it’s photos, documents in various formats (text, word processor, Adobe Acrobat/PDF, etc.), as well as important email, you might want to give Google Desktop 2.0 (beta) a quick look.