Archive for August, 2005

Genealogy Research and the Colorado State Archives

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

If you are doing research in and around Colorado, you need to visit the Colorado State Archives. It’s really starting to pick up. They are providing more and more online indexes to their collections.
You may search this index by name and record type, county, or time span or a combination of [...]

Misc. Tidbits.

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

If you’d like to read a good review of just what Linkpendium.com is (a genealogy site we mentioned recently, that has over two million links), head over to the Lebanon Daily - James M. Beidler has written up a summary of just what the two million links are and how useful they can be.
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Genealogy - Not Just for People Part II

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Three weeks ago, I pointed out a twenty four year-old article from Mother Earth News, about people tracing the genealogy, as it were, of their homes.

An article by Kimberly Powell popped up this weekend at About.com, that is either brand-new, or has been updated recently, about this very topic.

Google Desktop 2.0 beta

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

If you are a Windows user, and have a lot of information, and let’s face it, being a genealogist you probably do, whether it’s photos, documents in various formats (text, word processor, Adobe Acrobat/PDF, etc.), as well as important email, you might want to give Google Desktop 2.0 (beta) a quick look.

Shelby Foot and Fredericksburg, Virginia

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

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Stars dig up surprises with their ancestors

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Another good genealogy article by Jim Gilchrist, at Scotsman.com (The Scotsman) about how popular genealogy is becoming, especially in the celebrity world.

Search for Md. ancestors reveals old memories, new bonds

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Good story at MSNBC.com, by Sudarsan Raghavan, about how tought it can be for some people to research their family’s history. It goes into detail about a delicate area that many people don’t want to discuss - slavery, and how it can impact genealogy research for some folks, as well as how far we’ve [...]

Family Tradition: Reunions

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Jay Wilson, in the The Decatur Daily, wrote a good article about how important family reunions are, and some of the problems they face (the younger family members aren’t always as enthusiastic about them as some of us older folks).