The best Family History Finds this week:
Family Stories
Accident or Murder? The Death of William Shoults by Auntie Jen on Auntie Jen’s Family Trees
When Names and Dates Were People We Knew by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry
Digging Deep to Find My Roots by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree
Chance Meeting Between Oklahoma Men with Pennsylvania Ties by Susan Posten on Posting Family Roots
Go Look It Up! by Nancy on My Ancestors and Me
She Owned a Cottage by Lucy H. Anglin on Genealogy Ensemble
Research Resources
RLP 171: Print Resources for African American Research by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket
More Resources for Irish Research for Family History Month by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots
Mastering Chronicling America’s Advanced Search by Kenneth Marks on The Ancestor Hunt
Tech News
3 Most Common Design Mistakes When Creating a Family History Book by Prudence on The Creative Family Historian
Internet Archive Releases RefCat, the IA Scholar Index of Over 1.3 Billion Scholarly Citations by Jefferson on Internet Archive Blogs
Genetic Genealogy
AutoSegment Triangulation Cluster Tool at GEDmatch by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
Why Users Should Consider Where DNA Testing Data Ends Up by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
Methodology
Genealogy Lessons from History by History Explorer on A Genealogist’s Path to History
Expanding Your Research Horizons by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry
Ask Yvette – Is My Last Name Dutch? by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy
Education Is for Everyone
Autumn Family History Courses from the NIFHS by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES
Try This Cousin Bait Trick on Find a Grave by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
How Many Genealogically Significant Records Have Been Digitized? by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star
Genealogy Fair and a Scottish Conference – both Virtual This Weekend(ish) by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte
Curate by Sharing “Double Prints” Snapshots by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
Inheriting the Copyright by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
THE Genealogy Show Announces Speaker Schedule by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte
Research Finds in the Graveyard, Part 1 by Leah Grandy on Atlantic Loyalist Connections
Archivists and Genealogists Working Together by Nancy Loe on Sassy Jane Genealogy
Keeping Up with the Times
Taking a Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) Course by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy
A Montana Man Has the Oldest DNA Native to America – And It Alters What We Know About Our Ancestors by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
Great list as always 🙂
Thank you for the shout-out! It was fun writing about my mother-in-law Jewel. A future post will be about some great Oklahoma maps I found in my research for the series.