Friday’s Family History Finds

The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Those Two sets of Twins on Joy Neal Kidney

Investigating Slaves at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House by J.L. Bell on Boston 1775

‘All These Many Years’ by Jeff Record on Vita Brevis

‘Even Birds Want to Be Free’ by Aisha Francis on Vita Brevis

A Moynahan Horse Tale by Cindi on My Moynahan Genealogy Blog

A World in Miniature by Judith Batchelor on Genealogy Jude

Power by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy

A Long Search for Hercules Posey by J. L. Bell on Boston 1775

Babies Named for Political Figures on Joy Neal Kidney

Accident Prone? Aaron B. Wilkinson (1827-1897) of Portland, Maine by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on Nutfield Genealogy

Mom Kept Score, So I Keep Score Too by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree

Research Resources

Boot Hill by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy

5 Resources to Tracing Missouri Territorial Ancestors by Kathleen Brandt on a3Genealogy

New Irish Newspaper Archives Site Is Now Live by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES

4 Free Online Resources for Studying Women’s History by Julie Cahill Tarr on Julie’s Genealogy & History Hub

Rhode Island Naturalization Records by Diane Boumenot on One Rhode Island Family

Tech News

Introducing VirtualHistorians.com by Alona Tester on Gould Genealogy & History

How to Enable Zoom’s New Live Transcriptions by Brendan Hesse on Lifehacker

Technology That Is Cool by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist

How to Use Google Photos for Organizing Memories by Selin Tagmat on Organizing Photos

Genetic Genealogy

After the Y-DNA Test by Ann Raymont on DNAsleuth

Methodology

Last Tokens of an Almost Forgotten Life by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry

Power: Was Thomas N. Davey V.P. of Empire District Electric Company? by Lisa S. Gorrell on My Trails into the Past

Ham Crawford Connection by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy

What Is the Maiden Name of Ann (–?–) Seaver? – Part 4 AND Part 5, both by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Redoing the Research for Ancestors in Printed Genealogies by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree

Education Is for Everyone

Record Seek by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy

The U.S. Army’s Remarkable Camel Corps of the 1850s on JSTOR Daily

Adding That Image Citation by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist

The Omission of Women in Family Trees – Part 2 by Francois Desjardins on Genealogie et Histoire du Quebec

What the Stone Says by Christopher C. Child on Vita Brevis

Tombstone Tuesday – Vacant Chair with Shoes Grave Marker by Karen on Karen’s Chatt

I love these books:
Searching Beyond the Ordinary by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star

Civil War Genealogy: Following Gordon from Capture to Death by Amie Bowser Tennant on The Genealogy Reporter

It’s All About Location! by Donna Moughty on Irish Genealogy

Keeping Up with the Times

RootsTech Connect Song Contest Winners Announced by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

My New Book: Getting Started in Chinese Genealogy by Linda Yip on Past Presence

My Highlights at RootsTech Connect 2021 by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy

Ancestry Wins Dismissal of Yearbook Database Lawsuit by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

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