In continued follow-up to my guest blog post on WorldCat.org, Amy (We Tree) and I appear in today’s e-newsletter from OCLC! Another hoo-rah to genealogy! Some of you who participated in the meme the week for which Worldcat was the topic are also featured. Read the newsletter to see if you were one. Very cool. […]
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While browsing the news feed from my alma mater, Emory University, I happened upon a blog post about recent research from their Dept. of Psychology. The news release describes research demonstrating that youth who know stories about their relatives show higher levels of emotional well-being. The study was conducted with 66 14-16 year olds who
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The Allen County Public Genealogy Center crew is doing it up! They’ve started adding another collection of NARA microfilm to the Internet Archive. I’ve already posted about the following two collections Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards 1907-1933 (M850) Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (M881) The
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This is just one of those totally geeky librarian moments you’re about to read about. Two days ago, the Open Library project announced a soft-launch of their new interface. The Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive with a goal to have one page for every book. I am a fan of the
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Well now! Here’s another example of how much penetration genealogy is getting. As I was uploading a document to Scribd.com, I saw that they have now added a designation under their Research category for genealogy! That was not there a few weeks ago when I last uploaded a document and needless to say I
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Last month I posted about the Allen County Public Library adding NARA microfilm records to the Internet Archive. In following my RSS feed, today I saw that they began adding another set — the Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War (M881). The Compiled Service Records are available
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What can I say? I’m a librarian, these types of announcements make me happy 🙂 Megan Smolenyak posted on her weekly round-up that the back issues of Ancestry Magazine are now available in Google Books. Ancestry announced in January that the magazine would be discontinued, so how great it is now to have access
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The topic of the first Carnival of African-American Genelaogy prompts us all to consider our individual roles in slave research. Luckie, our gracious carnival host, provides four topic areas to choose from for this initial go-round. I have chosen to blog about the following: As a descendant of slaves, have you been able to
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Back in October, I posted about my desire to see more genealogy societies and organizations leveraging webconference technology. For those of us that may be interested in attending but aren’t able to physically make it, I wondered if there would be a push from any group to do this kind of e-conference activity.
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Until you mail it back. A census message from President Obama. Make sure you complete your census form! Look for it this month. You can explore the form here – it is only 10 questions so won’t take you too long. 🙂
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