Instead of doing a written blog post, I decided to do a video to give my update on the Genealogy Do-Over this past year. Read about it on my blog post from last year for the background. My focus has been a bit different than most, as my goals are to use the Do-Over as an […]
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Late last year, Thomas MacEntee announced his new genealogy journey for the year, a genealogy do-over, and I loved the idea! The Genealogy Do-Over is an opportunity to re-visit your research processes and work diligently to improve upon the foundation you’ve created. So, as I enter my 10th year of serious genealogical research, I too
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This weekend, I had a chance to visit the Newberry Library in Chicago and I am so pleased I had the opportunity to visit! I was in town for business purposes – to deliver a presentation for work. However, I arrived early Saturday morning so that I could take advantage of the library being open
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Don’t you just love it when you visit a library and they are on the ball when it comes to using technology? I visited the Tennessee State Library & Archives yesterday and was happy to learn that they now have a digital book scanner. Scanning book pages to USB is a dream come true –
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This is a morbid post, but I have to do it! The other night while perusing my feed reader, I saw this article from the Annals of Epidemiology. (yeah, I have scientific journals in my feed reader – how else is a gal supposed to keep up with the medical literature for work! :-)) I
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As if my Memorial Day Weekend didn’t already get off to a good start, Day 2 was also incredible. Today the family and I spent time accompanied by 4 visitors from Spain. One in particular, Carol, is on the search for her family here in Nashville. Carol is the daughter of an English woman
Almost a year ago to date, I shared a quest I embarked upon to find a picture of Dwight Hillis Wilson, a former archivist at Fisk University. The Society of American Archivists was looking for a picture of him for a set of trading cards they were putting together in honor of the organization’s 75th
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Today while reading a blog post on the FamilySearch blog, a phrase they used with regard to their Research Wiki caught my eye — the blog post mentions that anyone using the wiki “need look no further” than their Research Wiki. The Research Wiki, while a great resource, is far from needing to be the
After learning yesterday that the Nashville Metropolitan Archives had a strong yearbook collection, I decided to spend my afternoon there today. I wrote to the email reference of the Archives last night and received a response that they had a print listing of the yearbooks they have available, so I requested this list upon my
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The genealogy vacation extravaganza continues! Today I spent my time at the Nashville Public Library in their Nashville Room. I came to realized I’d seriously underappreciated the resources in the Nashville Room for I learned today much more about their holdings. As with yesterday, everything I gathered today will eventually go to the TNGenWeb &
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