Happy New Year to Everyone!

The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Christmas Past by Ellen Thompson-Jennings on Hound on the Hunt

Success in Finding Death Record Gives Closure on Lost Child Almost 100 Years Later by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family

The Public Universal Friend by David Fredette on Vita Brevis

Research Resources

Poor Relief Records – Not Just for Poor Folks by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy

Tech News

Even the FBI Says You Should Use an Ad Blocker by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

The National Library of Australia Is Threatening to Pull the Plug on Trove by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

Genetic Genealogy

The Year in Genetics by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

Evaluating Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches by Louis Kessler on Behold Genealogy

Methodology

Finding George in the 1860 US Federal Census AND Examining Tennie’s Claim That She Is George’s Niece, both by Marie Cooke Beckman on MarieB’s Genealogy Blog

I took on this challenge in 2022 and learned interesting details about the subjects I chose:
12 for ’23 by Jacqi Stevens on A Family Tapestry

A Lot of Genealogical Challenges Lately by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star

Education Is for Everyone

Rules of Posting Genealogy Information Online by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

For the Would-Be Scholars by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist

Preserving Christmas and Other Greeting Cards by Melissa Barker on A Genealogist in the Archives

Keeping Genealogy Goals Attainable by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History

Top 10 Genealogy Articles of 2022 by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree

Looking Ahead to 2023 Genealogy Priorities by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree

64 Genealogy Items to Collect from Your Home by Kenneth Marks on The Ancestor Hunt

Keeping Up with the Times

January 1, 2023 Is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 Are Open to All! by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

Santa in a 1568 Map? by Nancy Loe on Sassy Jane Genealogy

Santa Claus Did, Too, Exist. . .Here’s Historical Proof by Kathleen Brandt on a3Genealogy