Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
News of Historical Interest
Kristin Netterstrom writes in the The Morning News (Arkansas) that the Bentonville Public Library has received a nice donation from the Northwest Arkansas Genealogical Society. The donation covers a lot of things that are of interest to genealogists researching that area of Arkansas.
Aileen M. Streng has an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA), Genealogy began as hobby, became more, about a great grandson finding and proving his great grandfather’s grave and making sure that it would be properly marked.
The USGS (US Geological Survey, not the US Genealogical Survey!) and Google have teamed up to provide a virtual tour of the “Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906”, and it helps put things in perspective. For many genealogists who have done research in regards to that area of California, it’s caused quite a few problems. It’s one of those major events where many important records are lost (not just genealogy-related but historical as well), people are uprooted, people died and were buried in unmarked graves, etc.
You can access it at the USGS site
WVEC (Hampton Roads, Virginia) has an article by Dionne Walker of the Associated Press, Richmond dig could reveal more on slave trade in Virginia, about the excavation of a parking lot in Richmond (VA) that could reveal quite a bit. The site is a former holding pen, jail, school, and a few other companies. Interesting to imagine that there would be that much from the 1860s, but they are talking about having to go eight feet down before getting to the Civil War layer.
I’ve been very busy the past few days, and didn’t realize that when Ancestry.com updated their site and moved a lot of their daily/weekly news and columns into their Family History Circle blog, that one of the changes they made – they dropped George G. Morgan’s ‘Along Those Lines’ column, one of the better written columns on their site.
Have no fear, he has started his own blog at ahaseminars.livejournal.com.
You can still read his older columns (they go back almost eight years) at Ancestry.com.
He has a very important column this week, and normally I don’t like to do large excerpts, but this was very interesting, at least the circumstances surrounding it. Once you read it, one might conclude that it’s a good thing that he’s writting his column on a site he controls: