One of the sessions I am teaching at this June’s virtual GRIP course Beyond Digging Deeper: Sources Methods, and Practices, is “Mining the Written Words of Repositories, Societies, and their Staff.” A perfect example of this is one of the electronic newsletters I receive from the Minnesota Historical Society. Via that I learned about this […]
The Brookings Register (South Dakota) of 18 March 2025, carried an article “South Dakota’s historic Doane Robinson papers digitized, put online.” This amazing collection includes a wide array of correspondents and other material related to this well-known historian and author. The finding aid is excellent, and I was able to search by names and places. […]
I really enjoyed presenting this webinar last Friday. If you don’t have a Legacy Family Tree Webinars membership, you can still watch (or rewatch) it FREE through April 18th. https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/neglected-gold-in-older-genealogical-and-historical-periodicals/. We are lucky to have webinar hosts Marian and Geoff to guide us and I appreciate Legacy Family Tree Webinars and MyHeritage for making this […]
A news release in the Pipestone County Star from 11 April 2025 brings some welcome research news about free online newspapers. Pipestone County is in southwestern Minnesota, borders South Dakota, and is surrounded by several other Minnesota counties. The newspaper database currently holds the years 1879-1916 and the plan is to add additional years via […]
My parents didn’t take my sisters and me to the library when we were children. My paternal grandmother unknowingly made up for that with many gifts of books for me. Once I was old enough to ride my bike about a mile to the Highland Park branch of the Saint Paul Public Library system, I […]
Press Release from the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG). “A Matrimonial Advertiser:” Tracing the Treacherous Trail of an Early 20th-Century Romance Scammer by Sharon Hoyt, CG. Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 8:00 p.m. (EDT) Research on a man’s mysterious second marriage identified his wife as a romance scammer who preyed on Civil War veterans. This […]
April 9, 2025. Wednesday evening free Webinar. 7:00 p.m. EDT, 6:00 pm CDT. Hosted by the Virginia Genealogical Society. My topic is “The WPA Era: Free Records Boon from the Government.” The presentation includes a section related to the New Deal and WPA activities in Virginia and details to find books, records, indexes, and online […]
The War of 1812 U.S. pension records have been on subscription site Fold3.com for many years. It’s an ongoing project that began under the auspices of the former Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the U.S. National Archives. FGS embarked on a fund-raising project to ensure these were digitized and then remain FREE for researchers. […]
If you live in the Great Lakes region in either Canada or the U.S., this course has some superb education for you. If some or all of your ancestral families resided in the region, this course will assist you in learning more about them. If family members worked in the region, this course will fill […]
The Chicago and North Western Historical Society is truly becoming more known as a trailblazer in the preservation of a variety of records, maps, and equipment. Its new building is at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, McHenry County, Illinois. A 14 March 2025 press release tells of how the C&NWHS organization is preserving much […]