The best Family History Finds this week:
Family Stories
Time for Baseball by Matthew Miller on Matt’s Genealogy Blog
Parents for Maria Seckel by Karen Bennett on Karen’s Chatt
A Visit to Portpatrick – Ireland’s Gretna Green by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES
A Child’s Rocking Chair, Through the Decades on Joy Neal Kidney
‘Evan Evans with a Candlestick. . .’ by Jeff Record on Vita Brevis
Another Scandalous Tale from the Down Family on Untold Lives Blog
Curtis Lore: White Plague Times Two – 52 Ancestors #329 by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
Research Resources
More Than 8 Million Records Posted to Massive World War II Soldier Database for the Former USSR AND Database Reveals Details on Citizens, Evacuees, and Soldiers from the Siege of Leningrad, both by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family
French Forts and Trading Posts of New France by Jacques Gagné on Genealogy Ensemble
Loyalists A to Z, Part 2 by Leah Grandy on Atlantic Loyalist Connections
Tech News
13 Reasonable Alternatives to Adobe’s Expensive Apps by David Murphy on Lifehacker
Best Private Search Engines to Browser the Web Privately and Anonymously by Yash Wate on TechPP
What Is SVG? Publishing Trees for Free by Tony Proctor on Parallax View
Genetic Genealogy
FTDNA – DNA Day Sale by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections
A Triangulation Checklist Born from the Question : “Why NOT Use Close Relatives for Triangulation?” by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
How Do I Figure Out if I Have a Full or Half Relationship with a DNA Match? by Robin Wirthlin on Family Locket
Methodology
A New Project . . . by Teresa on Writing My Past
Week 13: Brick Wall – Tools to Help Solve Tough Problems by Lisa Gorrell on My Trails into the Past
Bite-Sized Memories of Mary Slatter Wood by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
Lessons Learned from Watching the Pros. . . by Teresa on Writing My Past
Free Family History Mini-Class 2021: Lesson 3 by Alison Spring on The Frugal Family Historian
Spring Cleaning for Your Family Tree by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree
Belladonna and a Research Rabbit Hole: Avoiding Assumptions in Family History by Jane Roberts on PasttoPresentGenealogy
Education Is for Everyone
Tickets are £30 for a terrific line up and you can attend virtually:
48 Hours of Virtual Presentations at THE Genealogy Show by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte
Best Deal Ever: 1500 Webinars for Just $25 by Alona Tester on Genealogy & History News
Why Do You Want to Organize Your Research? by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History
A Fair Alternative by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
All About Surname, aka One Name Studies by Lori on Genealogy at Heart
Spring Cleaning: Binder Components by Cari Taplin on Genealogy Pants
Irish Genealogy Expert John Grenham Continues to Add to His YouTube Channel by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte
Identifying Ancestor Photos: Cartes de Visite AND Identifying Ancestor Photos: Tintypes, both by Lorin McGinnis Schulze on The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog
Tombstone Tuesday – Broken Flower Bud by Karen Bennett on Karen’s Chatt
Identifying Ancestor Photographs: Ambrotypes by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog
Keeping Up with the Times
And a New Law on Forensic DNA by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
Internet Archive Joins Boston Library Consortium by Chrisfreeland on Internet Archive Blog
Many thanks for including my bite-sized post in your finds! Take care.
Thanks for the mention, Linda. I modified my title after publishing (now “What is SVG? Publishing Trees for Free”) since it sounded too techie before, and techie articles are not that popular.
I’ve updated the title. Thanks, Tony.
Thanks again, Linda. I’m not sure how long this blog will last given that Google are going to drop email subscriptions to blogs in July. Nearly all my subscribers have signed up for email, which means there’ll will be a deafening silence — for me and probably for other Google bloggers too — when that date comes around.