The Lansing State Journal (Michigan) has an article by Hugh Leach that covers the Library of Michigan and some of the resources available to genealogists in and around Michigan, as well as kind of a general overview of how genealogy has changed because of computers and the internet.
Over at Sci-Tech Today, there is an interesting article from the Associated Press, Colonial Skeleton Stumps Archaeologists, about trying to identify remains from Colonial America in the 1600s. I’ve read another article in a magazine that mentioned some genealogy work that was done in England to find his sister (as you’ll see, they thought they had found her, and took DNA samples, however they turned out to be wrong.
I saw over at Legacy News that the Philadelphia Passenger Lists from 1800-1945 are now online and easily accessed at Ancestry.com. These are passenger lists from the National Archives and Records Administration. A fairly significant genealogy resource if you are having trouble finding where your ancestors came in at, and the usual suspects don’t turn up anything (NY, Boston, New Orleans, etc.).
Good editorial from Keith Jensen, Associate Publisher of the Madison Daily Leader, about South Dakota officials closing off public records - Editorial: State officials rushed to judgment on open records.
Connie Lenzen has written another excellent article in The Columbian (Clark County, WA), Genealogy Today: Citing sources key to credibility, about the importance of citing your sources when doing your genealogy research. Connie uses a good analogy - comparing it to that of a sixth-grader doing a science project.
Interesting donation to a library - according to The Lincoln Journal (Lincolnton, GA), Wells W. McCorkle has donated copies of Civil War era letters written by John McCorkle to his wife and sister.
Kathryn D. sent me the following message concerning a new book coming out from the The California Genealogical Society
100 Years Later: Long-Lost Letters Give a Fresh Look at the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake And Fire
The California Genealogical Society announces a new book published to coincide with the earthquake’s centennial year. Dorothy Fowler’s work, A Most Dreadful Earthquake: A First-Hand Account of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire presents the vivid personal letters of a young San Francisco woman to her sweetheart in Schenectady.
As we are coming up on the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, many of you who have genealogy research that deals with this event (and it was a major event, and has probably caused more than a few brick walls) maybe interested in this, or even just joining the California Genealogical Society.
GenealogyBlog.com has published a commentary about an article in The Daily Sentinel about Colorado closing off access to various public records.
They posted this:
folks, I hate to say this, but I don’t hear much of an outcry from the genealogical community about the loss of so many records that are key to our research. The baby [...]
