The best Family History Finds this week:
Family Stories
The Children and Grandchildren of Caroline Blumenfeld Hoxter: Leaving Germany by Amy Cohen on Brotmanblog
Found on a Roadside Marker: My Fourth Great-Grandfather by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry
A Case of Mistaken Identity by Angela Napolitano on Vita Brevis
Research Resources
Loving the Bad Boys by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
UPLINK Website of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula History Active by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
New Ordnance Survey Maps from the National Library of Scotland by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections
Finding Treasure at a Local Historical Society on Alice Childs
Yad Vashem Partners with JewishGen on Holocaust Genealogy Database by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
Snippet: Finding NC Land by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
Tech News
Check Out the New PERSI by Cari Taplin on GenealogyPants
The Digitized David Rumsey Collection – What Now? An Update by Leland Meitzler on GenealogyBlog
How to Get Microsoft Office Suite for Free by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
5 Free Cloud-Based Apps for Creating Family History Books by Prudence on The Creative Family Historian
7 of the Best Cloud Storage Services That Are Cheaper than iCloud, GoogleOne, and OneDrive by Khamosh Pathak on Lifehacker
Genetic Genealogy
Identifying John Wilson’s Irish Origins, Part 1: Y DNA Analysis by Rick Wilson on Family Locket
Why DNA Matches Appear Closer Than They Are by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree
My Closest Unknown DNA Matches by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy
Using DNA Shared Matches by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots
Identify Your Ancestors – Follow Nested Ancestral Segments by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
Methodology
At Long Last. . .the 1921 Census for England and Wales by Teresa on Writing My Past
Favorite Find – Finding the Holy Grail of German Research, the German Home Town by Lisa Gorrell on My Trails into the Past
Thumbing Through Your Ancestor’s Books by Melissa Barker on A Genealogist in the Archives
Questions for Evaluating Genealogical Evidence by Jennifer on The Occasional Genealogist
Education Is for Everyone
Top Ten 1921 Census Tips by Jane Roberts on PasttoPresentGenealogy
Genealogy Digital File Organization by Brenda Leyndyke on Journey to the Past
How to Date Family Photographs by Sam Linnell on Family Wise Ltd.
Tips for Writing Your Memoir by Lori on Genealogy at Heart
Guild of One Name Studies Webinar Series by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES
Bite-Sized Bios for Earlier vs Recent Ancestors by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
North of Ireland Family History Society Classes for 2022 by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES
Announcing the Family History Show, Online 2022 by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter
The New Madrid, Missouri Earthquakes of 1811 & 1812 by Leland Meitzler on GenealogyBlog
Keeping Up with the Times
Change at Find a Grave by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist
Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2021 -Responses by Jill Ball on GeniAus
“Of the Time” 1950 US Census Ads & Training by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree
Thanks for including my post this week 🙂
Thanks for these links!
Grateful to be among your finds this week! Have a good weekend.
Thank you for including me! We seem to read the same blogs.
Thanks for linking to my article for this week! It was surely an eye-opener when I found it and realized that the articles were indeed talking about my great-grandparents, and that their was so many rich genealogical details I could obtain from them!
Thank you for including my post.