Archive for September, 2005

Genealogy Based Card Game - “Six Generations”

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Press Release (Yahoo): Six Generations - A Card Game for All Ages.
www.sixgenerations.com

Introduction to Soundex

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Adam G. Carstensen wrote an article, An Introduction to Double Metaphone and the Principles Behind Soundex for the “Business Intelligence Network”, that explains the background and history of Soundex:
Immigrants to the United States had a native language that was not based on Roman characters. To write their names, the names of their relatives, or the [...]

Meet Roy Turnbaugh, Retiring State Archivist (OR)

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Who’s Roy Turnbaugh you might ask? Peter Wong in the Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) explains

Strong Family Ties

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Family reunions help forge strong bonds, an article in The Republican (Springfield, MA), by John P. O’Connor (a family historian at Connecticut Valley Historical Museum Genealogy Library at the Quadrangle in Springfield), reinforces one of the benefits of strong family ties through family reunions

“Video Business Very Personal”

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

In the Telegraph-Forum (Bucyrus/Crawford County ,Ohio), Slav Kandyba writes about a local business that records family memories for future generations

Couple Digs Cemetery History

Monday, September 19th, 2005

In the Fond Du Lac Reporter (Wisconsin), Patty Brandl writes about a couple of genealogists who documented a local cemetery (in Ripon).

Keeping a Promise

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Linda Girardi writes in the The Beacon News Online (Chicago) about a promise a woman made to her father concerning their family history and his genealogy research

Tracing History

Monday, September 19th, 2005

More media coverage of genealogy and its continuing popularity (and even increase in popularity) - Daniel Taylor in the Bristol Herald Courier (Bristol, Virginia), writes about one woman’s path to genealogy and how she ended up working as a volunteer in a local historical society: