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- GenWeekly, Vol. VI, No. 46 4:15am Nov 13
- What Are the Confederate Amnesty Papers? 4:00am Nov 13
- Genealogy of Communites: Intentional Communities in the Next Century 3:00am Nov 13
We always appreciate hearing about those little known and untapped genealogy resources -- this is the way we expand our knowledge and our family tree at the same time...
In the final article of her Genealogy ofCommunitiesseries, Judy Rosella Edwards explores communities of the recent past and looks to the future: "Genealogy of Communities: Intentional Communities in the Next Century." One point made was the increase in international and cross-cultural marriages...
An articleon USAToday.com, "Arlington National Cemetery, alive with history in new book," highlights a new book by Robert Poole, former editor of National Geographic...
Utopia, the ideal society envisioned by Sir Thomas More in his book of the same name, was then and continues to be an imaginary place. Nonetheless, societies persist in believing it's attainable, and the quest has continued throughout history...
In her latest article on the uses of death, dead, and dying in everyday language, Jean Hibben suggests many of the phrases and terms we use relating to death "never were alive in the first place." The article, "Lexicons of Lost Lifestyles: In Passing, Part III," the author explores the origin of...
Everyone is delighted with digitizing of records going on at FamilySearch, and opportunity to access the FamilySearch Labs and browse the records as they are released. Rita Marshall, in her article "FamilySearch Indexing: Want Free Indexed Records Online...
Those new to family history will soon find, one surest ways to expand your family tree is to expand your genealogy education. More and more opportunities and resources for learning are becoming available...
So maybe Grandpa didn't run off and join the circus, after all. Maybe he ran off and joined a faith-based community. In many cases family members did abandon families to join some sort of community or communal organization...
Naming conventions are a fascinating study, and knowing more about a culture's naming conventions can contribute to family history...
Most genealogists want to know the full story of a family and do want to account for all family members, even those with questionable occupations. In her article, "Genealogy of Communities: Prostitution," Judy Rosella Edwards explores the task of researching this very elusive community...
We might think of the National Archives as containing a static body of information, and genealogists anxiously await each new set of records scheduled to come online. What we might not realize is that in the U.S. (and probably so in other countries as well), the repository is not static at all...
Census lists are continually revealing, and sometimes it's a good idea to go back and revisit census records we have already researched. In days past, we tracked where we had been in our research, so we would not go back and tread the same ground...
As published Friday in the Tribune Star, FamilySearch has announced that it has posted the Rhode Island state censuses for 1905 and 1935, the New York state censuses for 1892 and 1905, and the Minnesota state census for 1885...
We all have brick wall ancestors or event dates that just can't be found. In his most recent article, "Keeping your eye on the road -- not!" Larry Naukam suggests not only thinking outside the box but outside the neighborhood...
