Don’t you love word play and genealogy? If you do, there is lots of it here - the Times Argus has an article by Gordon Dritschilo, Slate museum quarries families, that talkes about museums working together to help genealogists. The Slate Valley Museum is located in Granville, New York.

I’ll be out for a few days, I’m working on a photo book for the family and it’s taking up all my time, and I’ve also been reading a very interesting book that I’ll be posting a review about when I get back.

Victor Keegan has an article in The Guardian’s technology section, Meet the ancestors - they’re coming online, about how much genealogy information is being placed online. It’s just kind of a general overview of the major genealogy sites, although with a tilt towards UK-oriented sites/companies.

Jimmy Kavanagh, of JMK Genealogy Gifts, has expanded his genealogy gift lineup, to include the following new designs:

DNA Jigsaw
Genealogy & Family History - solving the puzzle of where we come from
Family Tree Jigsaw

If you are looking for a gift for a fellow genealogist, or perhaps something interesting to wear next time you go traipsing through cemeteries, you might want to check them.

Steven Scarpa has an article for the Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), All in the Family: Middle School Teacher Traces His Roots, about a person researching their family’s history - it’s a good little article covering amateur genealogists, and one of those signs of how mainstream genealogy is fast becoming. The focus of the article, Gary O’Neil, mentions how difficult it can be at times, as well as the fact that it’s not a simple “sit down an do it in a few weekends” kind of project. It’s a positive article about genealogy and how popular it’s becoming.

Schelly Talalay Dardashti has an article in Ynetnews, Cutting-edge genealogy: A genealogy about-face as savvy people change the way we research our families, about how genealogy research is being changed and updated to take advantage of the latest and greatest in computer technolgoy. It’s mainly about MyHeritage.com - a genealogy site devoted to facial recognition for genealogists. One of the most interesting of the new technologies that are or will be soon be, at genealogists’ disposal.

Bonnie Delaney, writing in the Asbury Park Press, has an important article, Preserving history through registry restoration, that covers well, saving/preserving registries. There is who knows how much history sitting around city halls and county courthouses, that are in danger of being lost forever. The information found in various historical registers is staggering, when looked at from a genealogist’s point of view.

If you are curious at just what it takes to digitize over a million books, TechReview.com has an article by Kate Greene that you may want to read. It mentions the two major scanning projects going on - Google’s cooperative efforts with Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library, and the Million Book Project at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. While Google is secretive about how they are doing, the article discusses the Million Book Project’s efforts and resources.