The Illinois State Genealogical Society has issued the 2016 lineup for its popular and free monthly webinar series. It’s a nice variety of speakers and topics for the new year. I am pleased to share that I will be doing the one on October 11, 2016. The title is Midwestern Gems:Back Issues of Genealogical, Historical […]
Imagine the frustration of learning you were one of those foundlings left on a doorstep. You are adopted and live a good life. Through years of searching, asking questions, reading old newspapers, and never giving up the quest to find out about your birth parents, you enter our modern era of DNA testing. By testing […]
I love teaching about the many websites that have digitized books, pamphlets, articles, and more. One of these is HathiTrust. I tell the class or audience that the URL is in the handout or syllabus. They scurry to find it. I get quizzical looks. They hear me saying Hah-tee Trust, not Hah-thee. Hah-tee is the […]
Do you realize how close we are to 2016? One of the Institutes I coordinate and teach at has announced the 2016 registration dates. That would be GRIP, aka Get a GRIP, aka: The Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh once again has two weeks of courses. The first week takes place June 26-July 1. The […]
In just under two weeks, the Illinois State Genealogical Society is having its fall conference. The place is Oak Lawn, Illinois, which is a southwest suburb of Chicago and easy to get to. ISGS conferences are special to me, but to learn why, you will have to be there in person to hear the story. […]
I love good news. This news release from the Library of Congress shares some. If you haven’t used Chronicling America, head over to the website and begin searching in this FREE resource. Not every newspaper is there, but I did find a story about my Great Great Grandmother Marie Slaker falling down stairs at a […]
Are you not sure where to go next after exhausting many online resources? Do you think the are more online resources you don’t know about? Wish you had a highly experienced genealogy professional with whom to discuss your research? Want to take other courses at an institute but know you aren’t quite ready to keep […]
The International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE) has an annual writing competition that is broad in nature. Whether you write for magazines, newspapers, journals, websites, or blogs, it’s time to think about entering the 2016 Excellence-in-Writing Competition. The competition is open to both members and non-members of ISFHWE. Members of ISFHWE receive […]
What a great combination of designations for this month. In many places, the temperatures are cooling down. We aren’t going on as many picnics, to the beach, or using the swimming pool. Children are back in school. The genealogist’s minds turns to FAMILY HISTORY. October seems fitting to be both Family History Month and American […]
My FTDNA ethnic makeup is not all that different from that on AncestryDNA as shown in the preceding post except that FTDNA doesn’t show my Danish and Swedish roots. My oldest son’s ethnic makeup is 100% European and does show some Scandinavian. On Ancestry I have 7% Iberian Peninsula and this FTDNA maps shows that […]