Ruth’s Recommendations

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

The Family Recorder had a post called “You know you’re a genealogist when…” It is very true and a few new ones were added in the comments section.

Irish Genealogy News has a post called “Cheaper digital options now available from Eneclann.” This is great news. I wonder how long it will take to have all their titles added to the digital catalogue.

The Ancestry Insider has a post called “Serendipity at the BYU Conference” which is a wonderful story of the magic of serendipity in genealogy. I wish something like that would happen to me sometimes.

The We Tree Genealogy Blog has a post called “1000!” Congratulations Amy on your 1000th post! I loved her look back at some of her posts.

Gena’s Genealogy blog has a post called “100 Social History Websites” What a plethora of websites to visit and add to my bookmarks!

What were your favourite blog posts this past week?

Let me know in the comments below.

Other bloggers that write their own lists are:

Genea-Musings – Best of the Genea-Blogs

British & Irish Genealogy

Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog

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Here are my favourite blog posts from the past two weeks.

The National Archives blog had three posts that were interesting. The first is called “Distress in the cotton districts 1863” which looks at the effects of the American Civil War on the cotton industry in North East England. This is of particular interest to me because I have family from Cheshire and Lancashire who were involved in the cotton industry. This post looks at the civil unrest caused by the shortage of raw cotton.

The next is “Is that all there is?” In this post the National Archives explain what they are doing to fix what they call “hopeless Wikipedia articles,” these are articles with little or no information.

The last post is “Olympics – PE kits and tuck boxes” it looks at a website called The Olympic Record. Here you can download records from the National Archives relating to the Olympics.

The Family Recorder blog has a post called “Those Places Thursday – The State of the Poor” which looks at a “useful source for family and local history” called “The State of the Poor, or An History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period; in which are particularly considered, Their Domestic Economy, with respect to their Diet, Dress, Fuel and Habitation; And the Various Plans which, from time to time, have been Proposed and Adopted, for the Relief of the Poor” by Sir Frederick Morton Eden. This document was published in 1797. This resource sounds very intriguing.

The Irish Genealogy News blog has a post called “Tipperary & Limerick witness statements released” which looks at the Tipperary and Limerick Witness Statements taken from the Bureau of Military History (1913-1931). These are personal accounts of the movement for Independence in Ireland.

What were your favourite blog posts in the last two weeks?

Let me know in the comments below.

Other bloggers that write their own lists are:

Genea-Musings – Best of the Genea-Blogs

British & Irish Genealogy

Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog

©2012 – Blair Archival Research All Rights Reserved

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

The University of Glasgow Library blog has a post called “Matriculation Index images on Flickr.” This is a set of images from the ledger of information on graduating students in the 19th century. The person who entered the names into the ledger got creative with the letters for each section.

Chris Paton of the British GENES blog has a post called “New book due soon – Discover Scottish Land Records.” This guide to Scottish land records will be a must have for anyone’s library. Congratulations on the new book Chris! I can’t wait to get my copy.

The FamilySearch blog has a post called “Capture Your Knowledge in the Research Wiki.” This post helps you to add your own knowledge to the Research Wiki at FamilySearch. The Wiki Support team is available to answer your questions. What information can you add to the FamilySearch Research Wiki?

The National Library of Ireland blog has a post called “Conserving our Newspapers” which takes you through the process of bringing an old newspaper back to life. There are pictures to show you the process and a before and after shot of a newspaper that has been revived.

Dick Eastman had a post this week called “Barking Up the Wrong Tree.” This is something we have all done and a lesson for new genealogists to learn before they make the same mistake.

What were your favourite blog posts this past week?

Let me know in the comments below.

Other bloggers that write their own lists are:

Genea-Musings – Best of the Genea-Blogs

British & Irish Genealogy

©2012 – Blair Archival Research All Rights Reserved