Ruth’s Recommendations

Here are my favourite blog posts from this past week.

Marian Pierre-Louis of Marian’s Roots and Rambles had a post called “Google+ Hangouts are Fun!” where she talks about her experiences using the Hangout option on Google+.

Michael Seery of The Enniskerry Local History blog has a very interesting post entitled “The Leicester Arms Hotel” where he use images and several basic records to examine the changes that took place in the town. The records go from 1641 to the twentieth century. This type of process is a fun exercise that you might want to try in your own town or a town where your family lived.

Elyse Doerflinger of Elyse’s Genealogy Blog has a post called “Microsoft OneNote vs. Evernote (Part 1)” where she compares the two note-taking programs. She continues her examination of OneNote here.

In the post “New Generations of Genealogy” The Ancestry Insider gives us a synopsis of D. Joshua Taylor’s Keynote Address at the 2011 BYU Family History Conference. The address was called “Genealogy in Prime Time: Family History’s Next Generation.”

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings put the Ancestry commercial to the test in his post entitled “Ancestry.com “You don’t even have to know what you’re looking for…” – Post 1” he tries out the premise with a member of his own tree. It looks like he is going to do more trials but he has also challenged us to test the premise. Here is part two and part three. He will be posting more on this subject.

James Tanner on the Family Search Tech Tips blog had a post this week called “Data, back it up, migrate it or lose it!” It describes the importance of regularly moving your data to newer versions. It also discusses how and where to back up your data.

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.

Kerry Scott of the Clue Wagon blog had a post called “The Old Dogs of Genealogy.” I loved the picture she had attached to this posting. Kerry examines how genealogists have embraced Google+ and other new technology.

Sharon Lippincott of The Heart and Craft of Life Writing had a post called “How Will They Ever Know?” It discusses how to describe and write about activities that were common in your day but that your children or grandchildren have never experienced.

The Ancestry Insider blog had a post called “Ancestry.com Allows Image Citations” which describes the process he went through to attach a citation to an image he had uploaded to his family tree on Ancestry.com.

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.

Carole Riley of the Social Media and Genealogy blog had a post called “Can Google+ replace Facebook and Twitter?” It was a very good comparison of the social media giants.

Paul Stuart-Warren’s blog Paula’s Genealogical Eclectica had a very good post called “Vacation on a budget” where she provides a different view point on a family history vacation.

Deborah Large Fox writes “Help! The Faerie Folk Hid My Ancestor’s” her post called “Genealogical Soil” was a heartfelt memory of visiting her family’s farm in Ireland.

Geniaus aka Jill Ball had a humourous post called “Dear Santa” which was a Christmas list of what she would like to see in the new Google+

The NLI (National Library of Ireland) Blog had a post called “A lesson on the limits of the internet” which was a great reminder that you will not find it all on the internet.

Kerry Farmer of the Family History Research blog posted “Check multiple names and also multiple indexes” which shows us the differences found in the indexes of subscription websites and the importance of searching for variant spellings of names.

Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter had a good post called “PortableApps.com: Portable Windows Software on a USB Flash Drive” You can travel with the contents of your computer on a portable device and use it on any Windows computer. He also cautions people about the possibility of loosing the tiny flash drives.

Chris Paton of Scottish GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS) told us about the “The Family History Show on YouTube.” This is put together by the editorial team of “Your Family History” magazine in England. The first installment is an interview with Titanic survivor Millvina Dean.

Brenda Dougall Merriman’s blog post “(Almost) Silent Sunday” tells us of the joys and some pitfalls of the genealogy road trip.

The Enniskerry Local History blog has a post called “Summer Reading/Viewing” which provides many different suggestions for reading, surfing the net and visiting. Unfortunately you have to be in Ireland to visit the places he suggests. Enniskerry is a town in County Wicklow. My cousins were married in the local church just down the road from the Powerscourt Estate. I will have to keep an eye out for the book “The Irish Country House: It’s Past, Present and Future.”

Pue’s Occurrences the Irish History Blog had a post called “Irish history and historians on Wikipedia” where Juliana Adelman talks about the inaccuracies that can be found in Wikipedia. She has set a challenge to everyone to try and make the pages on Irish history more accurate. Links are provided to pages that relate to Irish history. Remember to back up your information with sources and to research several sources to make sure it is accurate before you put it online.

Happy Reading!

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