I watched a fascinating hour long show on CNBC tonight about Google. The show was titled “Inside the Mind of Google.” Google wasn’t created until 1998. In some ways it seems like Google has been around forever. The next times the show will run are on December 24th at 4 and 8 p.m. ET and […]
The 2010 Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference is being held in Knoxville, Tennessee from 18-21 August, 2010. Who attends these conferences? People from all over the United States, Canada, and even from other countries. Among those who attend are genealogists just starting to research their families to those working on family history for decades. You […]
Today’s Washington Post carries a sobering story about a search for identity by children whose fathers have turned out to be German soldiers. As the Post says “Historians estimate that more than 800,000 children were born to German soldiers enforcing the four-year Nazi occupation of Europe, about 200,000 in France alone.” For one of the […]
Back on October 30th, I reported on the the Sequoia Genealogical Society’s collection of 7,000 books that was not going to be included in the new Tulare, California library building. Click here to read that posting. Last evening, the Tulare City Council stated support for housing the collection in the new library building. It will […]
My mother always sent Christmas cards and I loved those that arrived at our house when I was growing up. I loved to look at the return addresses and see where people lived. Very few people included a letter telling about their year and the family. Now when I receive one of those from a […]
This press release just came from the U.S. National Archives. It will be interesting to see how the projects pan out over time. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2009 COMMISSION RECOMMENDS $2.9 MILLION IN GRANTSFOR DOCUMENTARY EDITING AND ARCHIVAL PROJECTS Washington, D.C*. New Archivist of the United States David Ferriero ended his first full week […]
The Montana Historical Society has just created the Centennial Farm and Ranch Program, joining similar programs in other states. The new program, at the direction of the Legislature, is “to identify and honor the families that have kept a farm or ranch for 100 years or more.” As in other states, the designation requires that […]
Christmastime has always been important in our family. As my children were growing we started some traditions. I had traditions as I grew up. Over the next few weeks I will share some of these as part of the days leading up to Christmas. I know that both the immediate and extended family will remember […]
Sometimes privacy laws make absolutely no sense. An article was posted on the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal‘s website today that tells the story. Two researchers have undertaken the task of identifying the graves of men who fought in the Civil War. One in particular happens to have died at the Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane and […]
I love being able to sit in my home in the U.S. and read newspapers from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. I have been doing this for the last couple of hours and as usually happens when I read old newspapers, I start reading everything and forget the exact thing I was searching. But I […]