What I Was Reading This Week:

• A Family Tapestry: A Flower-Filled Remembrance from A Family Tapestry
• Following Your Favorite Blogs Using Feedly from No Story Too Small
• Quick Tips: Source Analysis 101 from Evidence Explained
• Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was) from The New York Public Library
• Journey Through Hallowed Ground and the Living Legacy Project from Ancestry.com
• 5 Steps to Driving Your Research into Focus from Ancestry.com
• 8 Reasons You Can’t Find Squat About Your Ancestors Online from The Ancestor Hunt
• A Sad Side Note from A Family Tapestry
• Militia Units and Volunteer Units — What’s the Difference from Genealogy Decoded
• Genealogy Education: There is Excellent Help Out There from Ancestry.com
• Study: Teen’s knowledge of family history a sign of social-emotional health from The Washington Post
• Skokie man learns about relatives killed in Holocaust from the Chicago Tribune
• Y’all Ain’t Gonna Believe This from a Family Cherished
• Whoops! from Ancestoring
• SLIG announces 2015 Offerings from Adventures in Genealogy Education

What I Was Writing This Week:

• Come out, come out wherever you are! The hunt for Ancestor #4: Georgia Eva Baxter’s parents.  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
• I think my great grandmother was a muse.  52 Ancestors: #3 Sarah Sudie Hamrick
• 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Summary Page

Conference Talk

• RootsTech2014: Salt Lake City, Utah : Feb 4-8
  • My Presentations and Panels
    • Online Trees: The Root of All Evil? RT 1082 : Thursday 2:30pm
    • Learning How to Tune Your Ancestry.com Search RT1386 : Friday 2:30pm
    • Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective: Extracting Stories from Military Records on Ancestry.com and Fold3 RT 1389 : Saturday 10:30am
• NGS 2014: Richmond, Virginia : May 7-10
  • I will be presenting once:
    • F320 Searching Successfully to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com:  Friday 9:30am

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

• 52 Ancestors: Week 4 Recap from No Story Too Small
• I Think My Ancestor Was in ZZ Top (52 Ancestors #4) from No Story Too Small
• 52 Ancestors: #4 ~ The Photo Album of a Civil War Veteran from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog
• 52 Ancestors: #3 Myrtle Hazel ROOP 1906 – 1997 from Opening Doors in Brick Walls
• #52Ancestors No. 4 — A family or not? From Barbara Schmidt
• 52 Ancestors: #4 — That OTHER Jollett Family from Jollett Etc
• #52 Ancestors (4) Louis Blanchette from SallySearches
• 52 Ancestors: #4 The Woolen Mill Workers from The eLuceydator
• 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #4, Celina (Cloutier) Rabideau from Pine Trees and Pedigrees
• Johan Roy Tolve Johansen (52 Ancestors #4) from Heart of Story