I’ve been spending some time the past few days searching images in Flickr. There are so many great pictures that people are sharing and I’ve enjoyed looking through them. I am searching Flickr for pictures relevant to my genealogical interest and I’ve been surprised to find as much as I have. Back in April of […]
A couple of months ago, someone posted a comment to my Black Nashville blog to let me know that a new book had come out. The book was the one above; the author, Sheryll Cashin, was here speaking on campus today and I couldn’t go! I’m so disappointed. But, there are plans to put her
Do you use FindAGrave? If not, you should! Thanks to a wonderful volunteer, I today received notification that a picture of my uncle’s headstone had been fulfilled. My mother has been wanting a picture of it for years now and she no longer lives in the city where he is buried. We love you and
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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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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With all the fanfare around the launch of the Cuil.com search engine, I was planning to spend a little time exploring the site. In all of 5 minutes earlier today, I had formed my initial impressions of it – that I’m not sure I like it. But, that could be me being hasty and not
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I haven’t been working on my own family genealogy much this past two weeks or so – we’ve been rather busy and I’ve been devoting quite a bit of time to a few other genealogy projects; but, tonight I took a few minutes to play around on Footnote’s website. I mentioned a couple of posts
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Being a librarian, I have been using a resource called WorldCat for about 10 years now, since I was in library school. In the past few years, the company that provides WorldCat has made it more open and available online for anyone to search and find out which libraries hold a book of particular interest.
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Holy [EXPLETIVE DELTED]! 🙂 Why am I four days late to seeing that Ancestry has added this database – NC Death Certificates 1909-1975! Original death certificates! The Ancestry blog says this is an update, so I wonder how long it’s been there?? Apparently long enough for Joe to have it added on his page. Oh,
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