My current job at Ancestry.com is working on improving the product we put in Libraries and Institutions. Today I’m off to the Allen County Public Library to see how the do things […]
Follow Friday: Georgia Archives Petition, Certification Posts, Legal Insights
What I’ve been reading this week: An Online Petition to Halt the Closure of the Georgia State Archives from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter County Name Changes and Abolished Counties Reflected in the […]
Tick Tock, Tick Tock

I knew this was going to happen. Between work and trying to organize my CG stuff, my blogging has fallen behind. But the clock has started. It sounds like a lot of […]
Georgia State Archives to Close To The Public
The state of Georgia has decided to close the their State Archives to the public. My understanding is that they will be the only state without a public archives. This is sad […]
Follow Friday — Nine Eleven Remembrance, Remember Our Ancestors, and Posts to Make You Think
This week we remembered 9/11 victims and relived our own experiences of the day and we remembered our family in other ways as well. 9/11 Thoughts and Remembrances Remembering Another Nine Eleven […]
Nine Eleven and December 7th
I imagine most people who are reading this remember where they were on 9/11. You don’t have to put the year, we all know what we are talking about. I live on […]
Follow Friday — Reality Television, Genealogy Police, Mary Todd Lincoln Insane?
It’s been two weeks since my last Follow Friday, so the list is long. Some really good stuff in here. If Genealogy Dominated Reality Television from The We Tree Genealogy Blog Evidence […]
Tuesday’s Tip — Two New Links You Must Check Out

We all know that family histories, local histories, indexes of vital and the sort are awesome for finding nuggets of gold. Check out FamilySearch’s Family History Books beta site: http://books.familysearch.org/ Second link, […]
Motivation Monday — I’m On The Clock!

While I was at FGS 2012 in Birmingham, Alabama I took the plunge and started my CG clock. I was being nudged. Mark Lowe said something about steel toed boots! I had […]
How Is Genealogy Like The Oldest Profession? And Other Happenings from FGS 2012

So I was at FGS 2012 in Birmingham, Alabama this week and I meant to post. Really I did. But between meeting with librarians, attending classes, spending time with old friends, meeting […]