“Today and tomorrow, Oct. 8 and 9, mark the 140th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.” Click here to read the full post on the Newberry Library’s Genealogy News. Click here to read about the fire on the Chicago History Museum’s website.
Oh, I wish I could take part in this free tour in downtown St. Paul. Landmark Center is a beautiful old federal courthouse building that today houses various offices and cultural entities including the Ramsey County Historical Society. “Nooks and CranniesCome to the Landmark Center, St. Paul, for a Nooks and Crannies tour, Sunday October […]
The National Park Service has a website page that lists “Civil War Era National Cemeteries: Honoring Those Who Served.” The listing is by state and includes sites designated as national cemeteries. Click here to learn more about each site. This does not represent all cemeteries where Civil War related burials took place. For more listings […]
If you love books of any kind and the buildings that house them, then you want to read this Washington Post article from Friday, September 30th. Yes, you may just look at the pictures but the accompanying story is as superb. Now I want/need to go to Dublin for another reason beyond family history research. […]
Isn’t every month? Many libraries, historical societies, archives, and genealogical societies celebrate Family History Month each October with special events. What are you doing for Family History Month? I urge you to do something this month to honor the importance of family history. Need a few prompts? Here they are: Now’s the time to write […]
What a great idea. Tomorrow, Saturday October 1, 2011, the archival community in Sacramento, California is sponsoring the free Sacramento Archives Crawl. This is a neat opportunity that appeared in my news feed from the Sacramento Bee newspaper. “Four historical organizations are partnering in the crawl and include the California State Archives, California State Library, […]
I received a very special email tonight. It was about a friend’s years of work being preserved and even better, being shared. I first met fellow Minnesotans Jack and Carol Lundquist in the 1990s when they joined us on the group research trips we used to lead to the Family History Library. I would still […]
The Saturday, September 24th, the online episode of the Federation of Genealogical Society’s radio show is entitled “Your Society’s Facebook Presence.” Using a Q&A format which was popular in workshops at the recent FGS 2011 conference, host Thomas MacEntee will review some of the issues involved with making sure your genealogy society can harness the […]
Have you checked FamilySearch.org lately? Just this week alone more than 16 million digitized images have been added. As their press release says, “Among the 16 million records added to FamilySearch.org this week, over six million are from the United States, including new collections from California, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, and Vermont. Additionally, […]
October is Family History Month and the Minnesota Genealogical Society offers some opportunities for us to expand our knowledge including these: October 7-8, Edina Minnesota: North Star Conference featuring one of the Genealogy Guys, George G. Morgan, and other great speakers. October 22, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Family History Fair in conjunction with the Minneapolis Central Library […]