I’m going to leave this at the top of RandomGenealogy.com for a few days, because I think it’s very important.

Nobody wants to think about disasters, natural and otherwise, whether it’s a fire or something like Hurricane Katrina that has caused so much devastation, or even something lost during a move, but you should think about them, and think about them long before they happen if possible.

I was going to mention a “new” site (at least new in the sense of a new domain name), but now it appears I’ll mention two sites, since they are closely related.

In The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Nancy De Gennaro wrote an article, Passion for preserving the past.

J.K. Rowling’s genealogy has generated quite a bit of interest in the press. This article mentions a twist though, that Rowling is contacting historians in Hawaii about her possible ancestry.

Chuck Avery wrote a great column in The Star Press (Indiana): Confusing planning with doing.

An article by Rob Shapard in The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC), reinforces what most of already know: genealogy is addictive.
From the article:
As the years tick by, the drive that Orange County resident Louis Freeland feels to learn about his family’s past grows stronger.
Freeland, 70, has learned a great deal about that history, which includes the settling [...]

How far back can you trace your ancestry? An article in The Daily Record tries to answer that question (with surprising results):
Thousands of years ago, my ultimate grandmother eked out an existence at the foot of Mount Parnassus in Greece.
Scientists have named her Ursula and she belonged to a band of hunter gatherers who [...]

I guess the best way to explain this site is thus: This is a travel guide that your ancestors could have used almost two hundred years ago. I spent a lot of time reading through this site last night. It contains a large number of historic descriptions covering New England, from [...]