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.
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. [...]
According to an article from The Daily Telegraph from a few weeks back, 1837Online.com may go up for sale. There’s been a few high profile genealogy sites and software go up for sale in recent years. I didn’t realize that 1837Online.com was a much older business (well, relatively speaking, it was started in the 1960s) and it didn’t start out as a normal genealogy research company (although genealogy was central).
Carmen Villa Prezelski has a good article in the Tuscon Citizen (AZ), Deeper genealogy dig may uncover Irish relatives, about getting into genealogy and family history research, as well as looking at Irish and Mexican/Spanish genealogy links. The Irish-Mexican links are particularly interesting – according to Prezelski, Thousands of Irish farmers, soldiers, miners and merchants resettled in Mexico in the 18th and 19th centuries. I’ve heard this mentioned before, but never thought about it.