Free Virtual Genealogy Event: “Preserving Family History, Experiences, and Stories From the Pandemic.” Thursday, May 14 at 6:00 p.m. CDT online. I’ve developed this with and for the Dakota County Historical Society here in Minnesota. We are all a part of this experience through the good times and the bad times. We need to preserve […]
While reading through the Findmypast blog today, I realized that I never asked my Dad where he was on VE Day. 8 May 1945 is remembered as the day that WWII ended in Europe. 75 years ago today. I am still going to look at more of the photos and records in this huge set […]
85 years ago today, on May 6, 1935, the Works Progress Administration became a part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal programs to get the United States back to stability. It was on that date that he signed Executive Order 7034. In 1939 it was retitled the Work Projects Administration and it had many […]
I was invited to do a Guest Post on The Genealogy Squad Facebook group. It’s a private Facebook group with almost 35,000 members! Not a member? Search for it on Facebook and ask to join. You will be asked some simple questions so the administrators can be sure you are an active genealogist. My post […]
It’s easy to join MGS at https://mngs.org/. then you can be a part of the Ask MGS! You must be a member in order to join this session. Membership also provides the quarterly journal, meeting discounts, and a whole lotta webinars that are for members only.
Normally, the Library Edition of Ancestry is available only when you are at a subscribing library. Due to the current Covid-19 that has shut down our libraries, Ancestry and ProQuest have made it available in our homes through cooperating libraries. What a generous thing they have done for family historians. Today they announced it will […]
It’s been a few weeks of planning, meetings, reworking of some sessions, and now it can be announced that GRIP is going virtual in 2020. To keep students, instructors, coordinators and the directors, Debbie and Elissa safe, we are going to teach and attend online. More info will be forthcoming. For the time being, check […]
MyHeritage has a yearbook collection that is FREE, through May 23, 2020! From Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage: “Our yearbook collection consists of 290 million names in 36 million pages, from yearbooks across the U.S. from 1890 until 1979. Take this opportunity to reminisce about your own high school years or search for your loved ones […]
April 25th is National DNA Day in the U.S. and the sale prices on DNA testing are already beginning. Check AncestryDNA.com, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage, 23andMe, and LivingDNA. In a future post, I will list some helpful books and online guidance. To learn more about the origins of this commemoration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Day.
A couple weeks ago, Cyndi Ingle asked me to do an educational guest post on The Genealogy Squad (TGS) Cyndi is one of the administrators of TGS and also is the Cyndi of CyndisList.com. We talked about several ideas and this morning 15 April) I posted my tips on Native American research. Now I have […]