Ruth’s Recommendations

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

Marian’s Roots & Rambles had a post called “A Simple Gift for Non-Crafty Family Historians” where she takes you through the process of creating a deck of cards for the family historian.

She also had a post called “Analyzing Records from Family Bibles” where she looks at the information found in her new acquisition of the Edwards family bible.

The Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society blog had a post entitled “Unregistered Cemeteries in Ontario” where they are calling on people to contact the Ontario government to change the laws relating to unregistered cemeteries. They are also calling on people to look for unregistered cemeteries in their area and to put them on the list so that they are not overlooked in the future.

The Society of Genealogists blog had a post called “The British Newspapers Archives is now available online” where they look at what can be found and how to search the records.

Geneabloggers started their Christmas Advent blog posts on December 1st. There is a different theme posted every day. If you have ancestors from down under in Australia then you might find the Advent posts of Cassmob and Geniaus of interest.

Greta of Greta’s Genealogy Blog is presenting this year’s theme in her own unique way.

The Family History Writing blog has a post called “The Importance of Review and Revisit” which reminds us to go back and look at the old photographs that are just sitting in a box and see if we can find out something new about them.

The Family Recorder has a post called “Cause papers 1300-1858: disputes in the north of England” which looks at the records that were created through the “diocesan courts in the Archbishopric of York.” If you have someone in the north of England then you might want to have a look at these records that now have an online searchable catalogue.

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.

Marian’s Roots and Rambles had a post called “Data Overload: How to Create a Better System.” Marian realizes that the organizational system she had in place isn’t working as well as it used to so she is looking for advice to help her create a new system.

Help Me With My Family Tree has a post called “Searching for Militia Records.” Nick is sharing some of the things he has learned researching British militia records.

Genea-Musings has a post called “File Sharing and Brick Walls – Russ Examines My Database.” Randy is receiving help from a fellow blogger with one of his brick walls. Russ is sharing the process of using Family Tree Maker 2012 to help solve some of Randy’s brick walls.

Irish Genealogy News provides us with some good news in a post called “1926 census possible online in 2016.” The title says it all but go in and read the post to get further details.

It’s that time of year again and Geneabloggers is having their Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011. A different blog topic relating to Christmas will be posted by participating blogger’s everyday from the first of December through to Christmas Eve.

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 had an interesting post called “Traditional Irish naming patterns” written by Fiona Fitzsimons of Eneclann. If you have Irish ancestry this is something you definitely have to keep in mind. She uses a case study as an example.

The Ancestry Insider had a post called “Ancestry.com’s Vital-ity” where they share some interesting finds in a new release of databases.

Marian Pierre-Louis of Marian’s Roots and Rambles had a post called “The Mystery Heirloom has Arrived!” Don’t we all wish we had an heirloom like that arrive at our door!

Amy Coffin of The We Tree Genealogy Blog has shared her experiences in self publishing The Big Genealogy Blog Book with a post called “Self Publishing Your Genealogy Work: My Experience.”

The Untold Lives blog of the British Library had a post this past week called “Indian princess in suffragette march” Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union and was a well-known suffragette. This is part of her story.

This week is Thanksgiving for my US readers so here is “A History of the Humble Pumpkin Pie” from Christina Morin at Pue’s Occurrences The Irish History Blog.

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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