Just finishing up a week of being involved in teaching for Cari Taplin’s course Following Your Ancestors in Time and Place. The week after next is my course Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills in which I teach many of the session. The experience teaching and interacting via Zoom has been wonderful this week. I […]
Have you thoroughly checked through family baby books, wedding books, anniversary books, old address books, and funeral books. These are the books that list guests and sometimes in their own handwriting. I have several of these items. If you are fortunate to have some of these books, do you know who each person is who […]
Note: this post is not all genealogical in nature, but yet, it is. My personal feelings are strong. This is long and I needed to get it written down and hopefully my family and future family heed my words and are proud of me and my words. The Fourth of July. A day of much […]
The 2021 GRIP lineup of courses has been released. Two weeks of excellent education. The weeks of June 20-25 and July 11-16 have much to offer next year. The virtual 2020 courses are a big hit. I bet you all have a question about where it will be held. The GRIP Directors, Deb and Elissa, […]
it was announced in a Press Release today that “Registration is now open for the Federation of Genealogical Societies’ Virtual Family History Conference! The virtual event will begin with FGS “Live!” on September 2, 2020, starting at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and concluding at 7:00 p.m. (EDT). In addition to the Live! event, all conference registrations […]
In case you hadn’t heard yet, I wanted to share this update from several press releases. ProQuest, in cooperation with Ancestry, has extended home access to Ancestry Library Edition. It’s been expanded to library cardholders working remotely aka from HOME! NOW remote access will be available until the end of July and will be re-evaluated […]
The Minnesota Historical was founded in 1849. I have remembered that for many years. I wanted to share some statistics about all that it holds. I found some older statistics and then the most recent ones I could find were on Wikipedia: “MNHS holds a collection of nearly 550,000 books, 37,000 maps, 250,000 photographs, 225,000 […]
My special offer of a two-hour consultation by phone or via Zoom or a Google Hangout has had success the last few months. I am not booking any in-person consultations due to the Covid-19. I love helping people get started in genealogy research, to figure out a plan to get past some issues with the […]
A press release yesterday told (if you read between the lines) that the library, state archives, and microfilm areas of the Minnesota Historical Society remain closed. The presser further stated “MNHS is recalling 64 staff, while making the difficult decision to extend furloughs for 139 staff and to lay off 176 staff, primarily those who […]
I’m sure it was a lot of work for the board to make new plans, but the Federation of Genealogical Societies 2020 conference is going virtual. It was going to be the very last FGS conference and was to take place in Kansas City, Missouri. I had four presentations on the schedule and was happy […]