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52 Weeks to Better Genealogy

The US Census & My Previous Homes

This week’s blogging prompt from Amy Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” series is “Close to Home.”  In light of the 2020 United States Census officially starting yesterday, I was thinking about my homes during the past census years and where I was at when the census came. Let me document this now for […]

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52 Weeks to Better Genealogy – Week 22 (Part II) – Find-A-Grave

In my last post, I expressed my desire for a Find-A-Grave app for my smartphone and outlined several specific features I wished to see in the app.  After posting and sharing the link, I learned from Thomas that there was an ongoing discussion on the Find-A-Grave forums, and then someone posted a link to a

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52 Weeks To Better Genealogy – Week 22 (Find-A-Grave)

A couple of months ago I read an article about a Vanderbilt Engineering student named Ben Gotow and his work developing iPhone apps.  He developed an iPhone app for artists that has sold more than 20,000 units to date, an app for a Vanderbilt informatics group that allows anesthesiologists to view what’s going on in

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Featured in OCLC News!

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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Guest Blogger on Worldcat.org!

Guess what? I’m featured as a guest blogger on the Worldcat.org blog!  While I have not yet participated in the 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy series yet this year, I was particularly interested in the goal of Week 5 – to explore Worldcat.org.  As a librarian, I’ve been familiar with Worldcat for many years and

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