Ruth’s Recommendations

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

Marian’s Roots and Rambles had a post called “Facebook is Deciding What We Should See“. It is about the changes and updates on Facebook. It seems like every time you go into Facebook something new has been added and you have to go and check that the settings are set the way you want them.

Sort Your Story Genealogy Organizing Made Easy is a vendor blog. They had a post entitled “Wisdom Wednesday – Let’s Get Organized Part 1” where they provided a few tips and tell you how Sort Your Story can help.

The Fur Trade Family History blog had a post called “Indian Potatoes and other Native foods” which was very interesting. It followed Nancy’s search to find out what the Indian Potato was and the origins of Potato Mountain.

The Irish Story blog had another post about the Fenian raids. “John Boyle O”Reilly and the 1870 Fenian Invasion of Canada” was written by Ian Kenneally and tells the story of John Boyle O’Reilly a member of the Fenian Brotherhood.

Claire Santry of Irish Genealogy News had a post called “NAI cuts Genealogy Service Hours“. The Genealogy Service at the National Archives of Ireland, which is run by the Association of Professional Genealogists in Ireland, is drastically reducing their hours. This is a service offered for free to patrons of the National Archives of Ireland. This is a blow to genealogy tourism in Ireland.

If you are looking for blogs that relate to your country of interest or topic of interest then I would suggest checking out the Geneabloggers listing called Genealogy Blogs By Type. Here you will definitely find something to help you with your research and expand your knowledge base.

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 NLI Blog had a post called Hidden History written by Eimear Walsh a NLI Manuscript Student. She is working on the papers for the Headfort Estate in County Meath. The Taylour family left a lot of material. She found that some letters were written by people who sounded like they were children but were not in Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. She did a little research and found the answer. She even found a connection to a Governor General of Canada.

Pue’s Occurrences The Irish History Blog had a post entitled Living at the edge of the world by Kevin O’Sullivan. He examines the question how did they live here.

There is a new blog called TheWildGeese.com: Irish Genealogy And Family History which looks like it could be interesting.

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.

Dick Eastman wrote a post called “Copyright Myths” and while he refers to the copyright laws in the United States they are similar here in Canada.

Stardust’n’Roots had two posts of interest this week. The first one is called “Organizing My Research Using Mediawiki” and it looks at the trials and tribulations we all go through looking for an organization method that works for us. He found one in a research wiki.

The other post was called “On Not Listening to the Genealogy Gods.” He looks at four items that are regularly used in genealogy research but he has fit them to suit his own needs.

Greta’s Genealogy Blog had a post called “A Proper Place for Sentiment” where she looks at how she dealt with a natural disaster in her basement. We all need to think about the results of flood, fire, or other disaster on our personal items. What she went through makes you think about what you would do in the same situation.

The Family Cherished Blog had a post entitled “The Easiest Way to Write Family History Stories Revealed!” where she looks at her involvement in the UGA Family History Conference’s family history writing class. She shares seven tips she learned to help with the process of writing your family history.

The Irish Story Blog had a post about “The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866” that was written by Ian Kenneally. It looks at the plan, invasion and aftermath of the Fenian Raids.

Claire Santry of the Irish Genealogy News Blog has a post which tells us that “The GRO digitization project is still four years from completion.”

Shauna Hicks of Shauna Hicks History Enterprises Blog has a post called “Old Research, New Resources, Fresh Eyes” where she looks at how things have changed since she started to research her family history in 1977. She examines how online resources and revisiting old research has helped her to solve some family history problems that were caused by making assumptions. This is something we have all done and it reminds us to revisit our research and look at it from a different perspective.

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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