I presented Successfully Searching for Your Family Story at both Wytheville and NGS. Here are the slides from those talks.
Searching Successfully to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com
Slides from My Talk on Using Military records on Ancestry.com and Fold3
The Ancestor Hunt has done a fun new thing with twitter hash tags on Rebel Mouse.
Try this one: https://www.rebelmouse.com/genealogy/
Rebel Mouse #genealogy tag
There is also one for #familyhistory: https://www.rebelmouse.com/familyhistory/
It’s a really interesting presentation of twitter #hash tags.
I know, I know. Enough with the resolutions.
But these are from my buddies over at Archives.com. Fun visual eye candy and I think they are useful!
The last one especially. Share what you’ve learned. If you die and it’s in boxes and no one has seen it, no one is going to publish it. Share often and freely.
A variety of articles to get you motivated and inspired for the new year.
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, courtesy of Mark Lowe: Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, which can be found in google books:
Notice the dates? These were the references that law clerks and the like used as reference in the 1800’s in the south. Want to know about what a drove-road is and what it means? The information is there.
Remember, don’t look if you just have two minutes! Trust me!
