Contributions for the Heritage of Edgecombe County book are due October 15th! I have two submissions I will be making, that I started and wrote back in July. I have ancestors from Edgecombe County and I certainly want them represented. However, I have to finalize my entries – such as print out photos, list my […]
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Genealogy isn’t just for biological relationships. It can also manifest itself in academic relationships as well. This past May, I took a research ethics course. During the last week, the professor had a brief discussion on Academic Pedigrees. Of course, this piqued my interest! In class, we discussed the historical context of academic mentorship and how
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Today Google announced on their Book Search Blog that they have developed a series of partnerships in order to more fully integrate Google Books into existing websites. In the post, they highlight several advantages of this feature including “For example, suppose you’ve turned to the Books-A-Millionsite to look for a book on the history of your
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I finally added the Skype button to my blog. U can now Skype me if i’m online! Whippee! Now, I don’t suspect it will get much use. A couple of months ago I experimented with Meebo and I would get incoming messages almost every day. Maybe this is one way that I can establish better
Earlier today while reading a colleague’s blog, I came across a link to pictures showing some of the devastation from Hurricane Ike. I was moved by many of the pictures, especially these of a cemetery. I’m not sure if both pictures are from the same cemetery, but the second picture is from the Hollywood Community
Back during the genealogy games I joined the genealogy society for my area, the Middle Tennesse Genealogical Society. This week, I received my new member packet with a welcome letter an issue of their journal, the Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy & History. This society covers almost 40 counties in the middle tennesse region. In
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During the Genea-Blogger games, one of the categories involved learning how to properly format and use citations. Though I cite correctly in my professional life, when it comes to genealogy, I’d been very laid back, so this gave me an opportunity to start to clean up my citations in my trees. While doing this, I
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In case you haven’t happened across this yet, Jennifer at Rainy Day Research has a great resource that she is building – a Google Books Index. Jennifer creates a list of those books in Google Books that are public domain and focused on genealogical/historical information. As I come across books that I think would be
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