The best Family History Finds this week:
Family Stories
The Baby Found on the Doorstep by Danielle Rose on Vita Brevis
The Great Chicago Fire by Lori on Genealogy at Heart
Utenai, Smilgiai Parish, Panevezys District Municipality, Lithuania by Amanda on ABT UNK
Treadle Sewing Machines by Joy on Joy Neal Kidney
Newly Discovered Record Reveals the Details of My Great-Grandfather’s Secret Divorce by Vera Miller on Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family
Who Do? 1916 Mount Carmel Bible Class by Karen Miller Bennett on Karen’s Chat
Research Resources
None!
Tech News
Ancestry ProTools Are Improving But the Elite Tree Badge Is Deceiving by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name
RLP 311: Giving Credit to AI Tools in Genealogy Writing by Nicole Elder Dyer on Family Locket
Genetic Genealogy
Lots this week about Ancestry’s enhanced Pro Tools:
AncestryDNA Pro Tools – Shared Matches of Shared Matches Are Great! by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings
Ancestry Po Tools’ Enhanced Shared Matches: Is It Worth $10 Per Month? by Rick T. Wilson, PhD on My Family Pattern
Ancestry’s ProTools – See How Much DNA Your Matches Share and Their Relationship to Each Other by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
New Ancestry DNA Enhanced Shared Matches Pro Tool Feature/Helpful and Meh at the Same Time by Annette on AK’s Genealogy Research
DNA Connections – All Those Cousins by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name
Methodology
Using All the Documents by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy
A Deep Dive in Research Mode by Teresa on Writing My Past
Education Is for Everyone
Law and Order (and A Little Disorder) in Early Grapevine by Nancy Maxwell on Grapevine Genealogy and Local History Blog
Never Let the Truth Get in the Way of a Good Story by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree
Keeping Up with the Times
Genealogy Heroes: Volunteers, Angels, and Helpers by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name
Thank you, Linda, for including my story about treadle machines. I sure enjoy your Family Stories section. That baby on the doorstep, a secret divorce, and the Who Do? Bible Class are compelling ones.
Thank you for the shout-out! That ABT UNK post on Utenai was the first in a series of five (last one to be posted later today) on sites in Lithuania related to my family history. My daughter left yesterday for a trip to the Baltics, and I hope she is able to visit some of these.
Thank you for the mention this week!
Thanks for including my “deep-dive” post 🙂