Michigan: An Upper Midwest Researcher’s Dream. That’s my title for this free webinar on September 14th at 8:00 p.m EDT including Michigan. That’s 7 p.m. for me in Minnesota. Michigan is a state of many people: Native Americans, fur traders, French explorers, British military, and then settlers from all over the world including many from […]
Legacy Family Tree Webinars and MyHeritage are providing some fantastic free webinars plus a free genealogy conference this month. Check out the details below and let your audience know about September 2022’s live webinars: Shackles, shekels and shrapnel: the exodus to the Southern seas by Michelle Patient Changing Places, Changing Borders: Overcoming geographic challenges by […]
The U.S. National Archives has virtual and in-person presentations year-round. One of the upcoming ones is The U.S. (Virtual Only) Book Talk – Democracy’s Data: Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them, Thursday, September 8, at 1 p.m. ETRegister to attend online; watch on the National Archives YouTube ChannelData historian Dan Bouk examines the […]
I admit to being a history and preservation nerd. Add education to that and we have a need that is being supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). $31.5 million in grants to support these in the latest round of NEH grants. While huge, it’s still a drop in the bucket for what […]
I am catching up on some of my reading this weekend. A few webinars are on my list, too. Cari Taplin’s blog was my first to tackle. She has a couple of posts about https://www.cyndislist.com/ and discusses the usefulness, ways to understand it, and about reporting broken links. Even though Cyndi checks and adds a […]
That’s a big topic. A huge topic. An often-unwieldy topic. A scary topic. I have limited time to sort the years and years of accumulated boxes and tubs of paper. I still work full time in research and lecturing. Yet, I still need time to whittle down some of the stuff that surrounds me. The […]
I have been a member of The Genealogy Squad on Facebook since its inception and now one of 50,000 members. WOW! This alone is worth joining Facebook. It’s one of those groups that keeps people on task, polite, and helpful. No complaining about the census enumerator, genealogy website, grumpy courthouse clerk, or another family history […]
From the White House today! Ms. Shogan is among several nominees by President Biden for government positions. She will be the first ever woman to be the Archivist of the United States. Trudy Huskamp Peterson was acting archivist from 1993-1995. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/03/president-biden-announces-key-nominees-28/ “Colleen Shogan is the Senior Vice President and Director of the David M. Rubenstein […]
Today was the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony. I watched it on TV and wished I had been there. In July of 2009, I visited the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. What a neat experience viewing the bronze plaques and at least peeking into the library. The Giamatti Research Center is […]