If you live in the USA, PBS has a one hour show tonight, A Cemetery Special, that repeats on October 31st. I believe it’s 8:00PM EST.

Another article covering the new release of the 1861 census, this time from the BBC’s website. This is exciting news for those doing genealogy research in this area.

The Evening Telegraph mentions that there were actually three James Bonds living in Scotland at one time….so for those of you with Scottish ancestry, you might head over to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, now that the 1861 census is available.
From the article:
Previously unseen data from the 1861 census, which has been made available for the first time by [...]

A world-class ancestor hunt, an article in the Lynchburg News & Advance (Lynchburg, VA), is a very good look at how some people go about writing a book about their family’s genealogy

There is a short article in the Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME), HHave a fourth cousin? You share about 58 genes, that gives a quick explanation of DNA and genes and they relate to you (and your relatives) with a easy to follow example.

Mike Peters writes about what has to be the most traveled tombstone of all time, in his article, Traveling tombstone gets a final resting place, for the Greeley Tribune (Greeley, CO).

Rebekah Scott has an article in the Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), Women’s lack of standing hinders genealogy search, about why it can be so difficult at times to research female ancestors.

Steve Haney has another column out about Canadian genealogy, this time about Saskatchewan.