The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Family History: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree

The Great Fire of Baddow by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree

Honore Lore’s Land and His Neighbor’s Farm by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy

The Charivari by Jeff Record on The Last Aha

Railway Man, Family Man by Lucy H. Anglin on Genealogy Ensemble

Water for Sages by Jeff Record on The Last Aha

Research Resources

MyGPC Library: 800 Titles That Aid Genealogists by Nicole Dyer on Family Locket

Have You Checked for Fold3 Memorials? by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree

Map of the Week: Minute Map of Bredevoort, 1832 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy

Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name

Tech News

MyHeritage DeepStory Creates a Decent Short Audio-Visual Biography by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Wolfram Alpha by Lori on Genealogy at Heart

+ at FamilySearch Lab’s Full Text Search by Michael John Neill on Genealogy Tip of the Day

“Mary Has a Maiden Name,” But “Who Is Sarah Feather’s Mother?” by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Simple Prompts vs. Prompt Engineering: A Genealogist’s Experiment with AI by Dana on Dana Leeds

Genetic Genealogy

MyHeritage Tree Collaboration with FamilyTree DNA by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star

Track DNA Matches You Can’t Place in Your Tree by Mercedes on Who Are You Made Of?

Adopted Children’s Descendants a DNA Match? by Michael John Neill on Genealogy Tip of the Day

Methodology

A Record of Enslavement: Could This Be Mourning Iverson of Bienville Parish? by Diana Bryan Quinn on Moment in time, A Genealogy Blog

Tolchinskys in 1920 Soviet Census–And How I Have It by Lara Diamond on Lara’s Jewnealogy

A Newspapers.com Weekend – Serendipitous Discovery by Teresa on Writing My Past

James Knox Polk and Me on I Seek Dead People

Reading the Signs – A Family History Story by Janet Few on The History Interpreter

Education for Everyone

Camp Vance: Civil War North Carolina by Carol on Piedmont Trails

Picturing Historical Social Context by History Explorer on A Genealogist’s Path to History

3 Important Tips for Great Genealogy Source Citations by DiAnn Iarmarino Ohama on Fortify Your Family Tree

Keeping Up with the Times

Yep, Mondays with Myrt is back!
Mondays with Myrt Starts Again on Monday, 11 March at 12 Noon ET, 9 a.m. PT, 1600 UTC by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Theme Reveal – My Life: The Prequel (in Snapshots) #AtoZChallenge2024 by Molly C. on Molly’s Canopy