In yet another acquisition, MyFamily.com, Inc., has acquired another company to help expand their services. They’ve acquired Encounter Technologies, which came out of the Georgia Institute of Technology Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC).
For those of you into fictional genealogy, Cassandra sent me a note about mapping out the genealogy of the characters in the Harry Potter books. J.K. Rowling, the series’ author, is a big fan of genealogy, and has included a lot of back history of the various characters.
The site is hosted at RootsWeb, and as an example, you can see Harry Potter’s family tree in Pedigree format.
Roxanne Moore Saucier has another great column in the Bangor Daily News (Maine), Be wary of ‘unsourced’ material on Web that reminds us all not to take everything we find on the internet at face value.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, my favorite online genealogy software is The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding and my favorite example of a well thought-out TNG website is Kloosterman.be.
Well, Cees Kloosterman has put together a couple of articles about Kloosterman.be,
a how-to and why they did it.
Saw this in a story at Genealogy Software News - GenoPro is adding a new feature to version 2.0 of their software (GenoPro 2.0 is in beta right now):
Political Cortex, normally a very political website (as evidenced by the name) has a very interesting genealogy story:
What follows is a very personal account of a non-political project I have been working on. It began as a quest I started some three years ago, delving into my genealogy and finally actually visiting the town in Latvia where one branch of my ancestry came from. What I found there was a Jewish population that had almost been wiped out by the Nazis and that may yet die out, fulfilling, in part, Hitler’s dream of eliminating Jews from Europe. There is one surviving synagogue in that town, though it is now a condemned building. That building has stood through 160 years of weddings and pogroms, hope and the Holocaust.
This is the story of my family’s roots in Latvia, my rediscovery of the synagogue where my great grandparents probably were married, and my ongoing attempts to save that synagogue.
After a few conversations with a friend of mine, I found myself taking over a small website that he started but didn’t have time for, Genealogy-blogs.org. The summary: it’s going to be a directory for genealogy blogs, media (newspaper/magazines/etc.) that have regular genealogy columnists, and for some genealogy news sites. I’m not limiting it to much, but I’m going to try and keep it focused. It’s not going to replace Cyndi’s List (I don’t think anybody could), or a site like RSSGenealogy.com. Instead it’s going to be a directory for genealogy sites that you might want to check out a on a regular basis, a few times a week.
Recently, while browsing GenealogyBlog.com/, I came across a very interesting Rootsweb site/page, the County Meath Ireland Genealogy Project.
