The best Family History Finds this week:
Family Stories
Family Reunited, 75+ Years After the Holocaust by Lara Diamond on Lara’s Jewnealogy
Jewel Moore Gresham’s Early Years in Oklahoma, 1922-1926 by Amanda on ABT UNK
Anna’s Origins by Pam Holland on Vita Brevis
Research Resources
Find the Family Church Using the WPA Inventories by Julie Tarr on Genealogy in Action
Not the usual suspects 🙂
Free Family History Websites to Check Out by Alison Spring on The Frugal Family Historian
Tech News
The Virtual Help Desk from the BYU Family History Library by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star
Heredis 2022 Released by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star
Genetic Genealogy
Ethnicity Schmethnicity on The DNA Geed
Not Soup in 2021 Either by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
How to Group Your DNA Matches to Help Break Down Brick Walls by History Chick on Genealogical Musings
Methodology
Unfortunately, this situation is not unique to one family tree:
The Wife of James F. Purvis Is Not Sarah Garrard James by Charlie Purvis on Carolina Family Roots
John and Jane Edwards of St. Erth by Anne Young on Anne’s Family History
Abstracting the Details by Teresa on Writing My Past
Baruch Blumenfeld: Where and When Did He Die? AND Part 2, both by Amy Cohen on Brotmanblog: A Family Journey
How to Be a Family Tree Myth Buster by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree
Education Is for Everyone
The Legal Status of Women in the Netherlands in 1664 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy
Tree Progress September 2021 by Anne Young on Anne’s Family History
Reorganizing Family History, Part 2 by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
All That Foolin’ Around by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
Keeping Up with the Times
FamilySearch Completes Massive Microfilm Digitization Project (sort of) by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star
Is Microfilm Dead or Just Mostly Dead? by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star
Thanks for visiting
Regards
Anne
Thank you for the shout-out, Linda! The series with my mother-in-law’s early memories of life in rural Texas and Oklahoma, 1914-1936, will be six parts in all and continues this Sunday!