The best Family History Finds this week:
Family Stories
Lessons in Genealogical Research by Philip Grover on Vita Brevis
Allen Bowlin: Bigamy X 5 by Gwen Kubberness on Criminal Genealogy
When a Place Unlocks a Bit of History by Tony Proctor on Parallax View
Barbara’s Story by Jennifer Shakshober on Vita Brevis
Wartime Love Letters Returned to U.S. Family Thanks to Ontario Woman’s Discovery by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on The Olive Tree Genealogy Blog
Research Resources
Part 5: Tracing Your 19th Century German Ancestors – German Archives by Heidi Mathis on Family Locket
A Census, Rediscovered by Rhonda McClure on Vita Brevis
What’s New? by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots
Tech News
GEDCOM 7.0, Official by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy
Randy Majors’ “Ancestor Search” Yields Surprising Results by Cindi on My Moynahan Genealogy Blog
Working with WATO: Centimorgan Adjustments on The DNA Geek
What’s in Your Toolbox? DNA Painters cM Estimator on The DNA Geek
Genetic Genealogy
Crawford Tree Issues by Marcia Crawford Philbrick on Heartland Genealogy
Find Birth Parents – How to Find Birth Parents by Sunny Morton on Your DNA Guide
Methodology
Two Rudolf Muellers Born on the Same Day in the Same Year in the Same Place – What? by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
If a Job’s Worth Doing by Jill Ball on GeniAus
Where Was Cecil. . . by Teresa on Writing My Past
Building a Locality Guide: Geography by Cari Taplin on Genealogy Pants
Was it Mill, Mills or Milne? by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy
Education Is for Everyone
Free FutureLearn Course – Working Lives in the Factories and Mills by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES
Instruction for 1950 U.S. Census Enumerators: The Fine Print by Marian B. Wood on climbing My Family Tree
Land Records for State-Land States on Alice Childs
Free African Americans During Slavery by Lori on Genealogy at Heart
Instructions for 1950 U.S. Census Enumerators: Who to Count by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
Land Buying Age by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
Keeping Up with the Times
FamilySearch Family History Library Reopening 6 July 2021 by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings
Important news for the next 90 days:
FamilySearch Remote Access Services Solves a Mystery by Marian B. Wood on climbing My Family Tree
Stockton, California Police, Genealogy Expert Hope They Can Return Found Keepsakes to Family by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
Thanks for the shout-out 🙂
Hey John dulworth and Mary Broadway are my fifth great grandparents.