Recommended Reads

It has been a somewhat quiet week for blogging news.

Resources

Lost in 1939 – The Misleading Map by Sue Adams of Family Folk on Worldwide Genealogy – A Genealogical Collaboration

Rootsmapper by The Genealogy Girl

Israel State Archives Putting Collection Online by Diane L. Richard on UpFront with NGS

Facebook for Genealogy Around the World by Gail Dever on Genealogy à la Carte

Family Stories

I’ve never seen these before, anywhere. I wonder if any survive in Slovakia or Sweden?:
Two Tenancy Contracts from the 1700s by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy

Who Got the Great Jennens Fortune? by Schalene Dagutis on Tangled Roots and Trees

Help Michelle solve the mystery in this photo:
Foto Friday – What Is the Message? by Michelle Ganus Taggart on A Southern Sleuth

Technology

Where Are the Free Family Tree Maker Updates? by Keith Riggle on Genealogy Tools

When the Digital Age Makes You Scream by Tony Proctor on Parallax View

Is Blogging Dying? by Barbara J. Starmans on Out of My Tree Genealogy

For WordPress bloggers:
40 Features in Jet Pack to Love or Hate by Barbara J. Starmans on Out of My Tree Genealogy

10 Rules of Professional Etiquette for the Digital Workplace by Aaron Orendorff on Lifehacker

Methodology, News, Etc.

Picturing Your Ancestral Village by D. Prakash on Gathering Branches of My Family Tree

Top 10 Resources for Dating Old Photographs by Lisa on Lisa Lisson