Ruth’s Recommendations

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

The Findmypast blog has a post regarding “Start Your Family Tree Week” in the UK although I think it can be done in North America as well. It goes from 26 December through 1 January. They are running a competition and provide you with some prompts to start your research.

The Intrepid Band blog had a post called “Mrs. Seacole at Christmas” which looks at the experiences of Mrs. Seacole a nurse in the Crimean War.

Chris Paton of the British GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS) blog is holding a competition. The winner receives a copy of his book “Irish Family History Resources Online.”

Are there any postings in the last week that you think need to be on this list? Let me know in the comments below.

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Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

The findmypast.ie blog has a post called “Irish Burial Records and Gravestones” where they look at the rituals for burials in Ireland.

Marian’s Roots and Rambles had two interesting posts this week. The first was “Heritage Gift: The Deck of Cards has Arrived.” She described in an earlier post how she designed a deck of cards using family photographs. Well the cards have arrived and now she tells us what she thinks of the whole process.

The other post is called “You’re Researching but Are You Reading?” which looks at the importance of reading about the research methods and the importance of the methodology books to genealogy.

Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter had a post called “Elizabeth Shown Mills’ New Website” where he talks about Elizabeth’s new website that has links to many articles she has written.

Chris Paton has decided to discontinue writing his Scottish GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS) blog. He will keep the blog online as an archive. You can read about the news and events of Scotland and Britain on his blog “British GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS)”

Are there any postings in the last week that you think need to be on this list? Let me know in the comments below.

©2011 – Blair Archival Research All Rights Reserved

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

Stardust ‘n’ Roots has a post called “Location! Location! Location! — A Question Answered.” This post looks at the importance of knowing where your family actually lived and not just a country or county where they might have lived.

Stardust ‘n’ Roots had another post called “Sometimes Less is More” where he looks at how he went through his family database and actually deleted people to make it very much smaller. He kept a back up of the old file but is now working with the newer leaner family tree. This could be just the thing to help us focus our research.

Mick at the British & Irish Genealogy blog had a post called “Family & Local History Quiz Book Launch” which announces the launch of his new book. This would make a great Christmas gift for the family historian.

Chris Paton at the British GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS) blog had a post called “The last convict ship down under” where he talks about his tour of the ship called the Edwin Fox. You will find pictures and a video diary.

Chris also had a post on British GENES called “Locating London launches” where he looks at the new website called Locating London which “allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque’s 1746 map.” Go and read more about this new resource.

Untold Lives the blog from the British Library had a post called “The Spy who Came in from the Heat” which looks at the British surveillance of Johannes Emil Schwarz Von Berk during the Second World War and the India Office Records relating to the surveillance that are held in the British Library.

Free Genealogy Resources has a post called “7 Mistakes that Are Holding Your Genealogy Back.” These are mistakes that we all need to regularly remind ourselves not to do.

Are there any postings in the last week that you think need to be on this list? Let me know in the comments below.

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