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 […]
My Mom passed away in 2008. For far too many years before that she suffered from Alzheimer’s. Far too many years. Looking back to the early 1990s we can now recognize behavior that may have been early signs. Mom was also having those small strokes that affected her behavior. We had begun to talk every […]
Am I glad? Somewhat. Am I sad? Very much so. It was a great week made even greater because of wonderful volunteers. I have some new friends. They understand me. They love research, learning, networking and working well together. We laughed, teased, and even addressed issues together and I am still smiling. This was the […]
Five days of in-depth genealogical education. Five days of networking in small groups. Five days of learning from faculty representing a wealth of knowledge. That’s SLIG 2012. Plus, of you register for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) by October 30th you save $50.00. SLIG offers multiple courses taught by some of the top […]
This is an ongoing project and fundraising effort to digitize and preserve the 7.2 million images from the War of 1812 pension and bounty land records files. Digitized because genealogists and others wanted them preserved. These files supply individual, family, military, national, state, and community history. And if we get this all funded, then the […]
And they aren’t even genealogists. Claude Peck and Rick Nelson write for the [Minneapolis] StarTribune on food, clothing trends, culture, and more. They are usually lighthearted and sometimes irreverent in their conversations. I was surprised to see their column today “Downtown library a real town hall” in praise of the Minneapolis Central Library. This library […]