Family Research, a site dedicated to Scottish, Irish, and English genealogy, came across an interesting article by Iain Lundy on Scotsman.com, about the world’s oldest post office.

Nancy K. Crevier has written an article for The Newtown Bee (Newtown, Connecticut) titled Former Newtown Residents Surprised By Results Of Genealogical Research, about how little things falling into place in one’s genealogy research can lead to some surprises.

On Ynetnews.com, there is a good article by Schelly Talalay Dardashti called Linking past, present and future.

Who is Sylvia Thalman? She’s an honorary member of the Miwok tribe in California (because of her genealogy work). Barbara Rodgers has written a story for CBS 5 (San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose) about Sylvia, honoring her for her efforts in preserving Miwok history

The American Library Association (ALA) has posted an update on their efforts to assess the damage caused by the recent hurricanes and flooding, across the Southeast US.

Gene Hall (of FamilyTrackers.com) has written a good article in his FamilyTrackers Blog called Genealogy Mistakes and Faux Pas for Beginners- Laugh and Learn From Mine.

If you need a laugh, The Genealogue presents their Top Ten Banned Family-History Books

In the third of a series I’m calling “Genealogy - Not Just for People”, I came across an article by Peggy Conrad in the Woodland Progress (PA) about histories of buildings.