Friday’s Family History Finds

The best Family History Finds this week:

Family Stories

Betty Corrigall: A Woman the Church Would Not Bury by Paul Chiddicks on The Chiddicks Family Tree

I Was Told My Grandfather Was an Orphan. A DNA Match Revealed a Different Story by Debra Dezarn on MyHeritage Blog

Do I Have the Right to Say Goodbye? by Jenny Hawran on Like Herding Cats

Research Resources

What I Learned from Nellie Block’s AR 2 by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree

Tech News

Google Maps Now Makes You Log In to See These Key Features by Jake Peterson on Lifehacker

Loathsome Jargon: Hard Take-Off by Steve Little on Vibe Genealogy

Genetic Genealogy

Building a Genealogical Case with DNA: Samuel Tanner of Texas by Melvin Collier on Roots Revealed

Methodology

Using Steve Little’s Genealogy Research Assistant V8 to Develop a GPS Proof Summary by Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings

Could They Be Related to Doc Holliday? by Doris Kenney on A Tree With No Name

From Chaos to Clarity: How Merging & Separating Identity Techniques Identified David Dewitt’s Father by Jan Joyce on Family Locket

Education Is for Everyone

What is a “Congregate Setting” at a Cemetery? by Nancy Gilbride Casey on Leaves on the Tree

Almshouse and Poorhouse Terminology by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt

New videos on International Institute of Genealogical Studies’ YouTube channel — Upper and Lower Canada marriage bonds, DNA, deciphering handwriting, Mayflower ancestors, and Eastern European and Jewish records by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte

The Long Silence: What the Black Death Did to Scandinavian Genealogy by Arik Hesseldahl on Arik Tries Genealogy

Women in Wartime – Sepia Saturday by Scot Sue on Family History Fun

Keeping Up with the Times

AI safety for family historians: what the genealogy world isn’t talking about by Denyse Allen on Chronicle Makers

Weekly Online AI Q&A from the BYU Library Family History Center by James Tanner on Genealogy’s Star

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