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1. Wells, Kristie, Photo of Anne Gillespie Mitchell at RootsTech, 7 Feb 2014. Copy help by Anne Gillespie Mitchell, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], California, 2014.

Hallowed Ground! Driving Your Research! Muses! — It’s Follow Friday!

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:

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

Writing Challenges! Photographs! The Golden State! — It’s Follow Friday!

An Introduction and Recap from 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Amy Johnson Crow has challenged the genealogy blogosphere to write about 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks. Here are 3 posts to get you up to date.

Challenge: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks from No Story Too Small
52 Ancestors Challenge: Week 1 Recap from No Story Too Small
Cousin Bait and the 52 Ancestors Challenge from No Story Too Small

Some of My Favorite 52 Ancestors Posts

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #1, William George Murphy from Pine Trees and Pedigrees
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #1 — Mae Hazel Follett from Do You Know the Muffin Man?
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Catherine Conway Sawyer from Nolichucky Roots
52 Ancestors — #1 Adah Young Johnson from No Story Too Small (1904-1979)
52 Ancestors: #1 ~ Mathias Rodrigues Vasques from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Edward Colbourne from West in New England
52 Ancestors #1: Nathaniel Tucker, Poet from Tangled Roots and Trees
52 Ancestors (1) Nancy Ackley Frederick from SallySearches
January 6 — Claus Hinrich Kranz #52Ancestors from Barbara Schmidt
52 Ancestors Friday: Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) from Genea-Musings
52 Ancestors: #1 — Morris Jollett from Jollett Etc

What We Must Remember. Gettysburg. Kennedy. It’s Follow Friday

Headline from November 23, 1963. Found on Newspapers.com

What I’ve been reading this week:

Find Your Mexican Ancestors Using Obituaries from Mexican Genealogy
My Okie from Muskogee from A Southern Sleuth
Wordless Wednesday from California Genealogical Society and Library
I Have No Memories of JFK, and Why That Matters from No Story Too Small
Hundred-year old velvet hats from A Hundred Years Ago
Why You Need to Learn About Changing County Boundaries from Amy Crow, Ancestry.com

Is Your Family History Safe from Disaster from Juliana Smith, Ancestry.com

Looking Back at the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in New Online Historical Record Collection from Kristie Wells, Ancestry.com
Church Record Sunday: History of Religion in North Carolina from Gena’s Genealogy
Commemorate the Gettysburg Address and Honor the Fallen by Planting a Tree from Laura Prescott, Fold3
Four Free Websites to Find O from Genealogy Insider

And my one contribution to the genealogy world this week:

A Conflicting Evidence Case In Parts: Death Records

Ancestry Reference Desk and Roots Tech 2013. It’s Follow Friday!

I’ve not been posting for a couple of weeks. I’ve been traveling a lot. I presented to about 1000 people at the Midwest Genealogy Center’s Ancestry Day and I’m now at Roots Tech 2013.

Also, I’ve been ramping up a new blog for Ancestry.com called Ancestry Reference Desk (http://www.ancestry-reference-desk.com) My goal, is to create a teaching blog/site to help people who use Ancestry.com and Fold3 in libraries how to be more effective. But the posts and other links we put up will apply to anyone. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Here’s a few articles you may have missed lately:

Sitting Down with the Madisons from Belle Grove Plantation Bed and Breakfast
Letting the Newspapers Tell the Story from A Family Tapestry
My Hopes, Dreams, Rainbows and Unicorns for RootsTech 2013 from The We Tree Genealogy Blog (I just met Amy Coffin, who write this blog, at Roots Tech! She is as great in person as she is on her blog.)
Twenty Mules, Grandpa and Me from A Southern Sleuth
Will the Real Annie Moore Please Stand Up? from The Irish in America
Ancestry.com’s City Directories from Genealogical Musings
Looking back… and forwards from The Legal Genealogist (I was fortunate enough to hear Judy talk not once, but twice this week. She lectures as well as she writes. Oh, and she is a CGL now. 🙂 )
The Letter from The Legal Genealogist
When the Courthouse Burns from Ancestoring’s Ask a Genealogist
Archives.com Announces Weekly Livestream Videos from Archives.com

And From Ancestry Reference Desk

Ancestors from Outer Space and Constructive Criticism. It’s Follow Friday!

Here’s what I’ve been reading this week:

Two on Archives.com

Slavery-Related Court Petitions Online Database from Genealogy Decoded

Two from The Legal Genealogist

California’s sole traders from The Legal Genealogist
The boy who lived from The Legal Genealogist

That Was Constructive Criticism, You Fool! from Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Two stories continued:

Ambush on a Revenuer from A Southern Sleuth
Treasure Chest Thursday — The Big Reveal ~ What’s In the Old Metal Tube? from Jana’s Genealogy Blog

And a couple of my posts on Ancestry.com Sticky Notes

Moonshine, Civil War, Newspapers and an Assassin. It’s Follow Friday!

What I’ve been reading and writing this week. Enjoy!

Philippina’s Choice from The Legal Genealogist
This may be why your Civil War ancestor lost an arm or leg from Poore Boys in Gray
Researching Newspapers for Genealogy for Free from The Ancestor Hunt
You Don’t Always Have To Be There: Is That a Problem? from Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog
Questions About the GPS from Ancestoring’s Ask a Genealogist
The Death of Assassin Paul Roberts from Shiloh to Caanan
Why they did it from Morning Coffee with John
Treasure Chest Thursday ~ Grandpa Debs’ Black Briefcase from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog
In the Words of Women: The Revolutionary War and the Birth of the Nation, 1765 – 1799 from Our Heritage: 12th Century & Beyond

A couple of To Be Continued posts that you should start reading:

Moonshining in Alabama from A Southern Sleuth
Treasure Chest Thursday ~ Grandpa Debs’ Black Briefcase from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog

And a little shameless self promotion, my 3 posts in Ancestry.com’s Sticky Notes this week:

Warriors, elopements, and pranks! It’s Follow Friday!

In a week where I didn’t post at all, I admire those who did even more! Enjoy.

Three from The Legal Genealogist:

Two from Shiloh to Canaan

And these gems:

The Stories Their Faces Tell from A Southern Sleuth
Family History Blogging Resources and Tips from Lorelle Teaches
Walt Whitman’s Battles of Chancellorsville: Horrific Wounds, Night Fighting, and Other “Strange and Fearful Pictures” from Mysteries and Conundrums
Workday Wednesday — From Rags to Riches from The Stephen Sherwood Letters
Another Clue Adds Another Dot from A Family Tapestry
Wednesday’s Child ~ Remembering Asbury from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog
Summer School for Robertson County Tennessee in 1888 from Kentucky & Tennessee Stories
Resources for studying historic laws from Planting the Seeds
Adding local history to your ancestor’s timeline Part II from Bridging the Past

Motivation. Inspiration. It’s Follow Friday!

A variety of articles to get you motivated and inspired for the new year.

What is plagiarism? from Genealogy Certification: My Personal Journal
Why Become Certified? Reasons Vary from Board for Certification of Genealogists
Where Were They? Turn of the Century Mark from Ancestral Breezes
The True Source from Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog
Ancestor Landing Page ~ Debs Webster Family Immigration Story from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog
In Which I Assign You a New Year’s Resolution from Clue Wagon
The curious case of the curator from The Legal Genealogist
Ellis Island Still Closed After Suffering 59 Million $ in Damage Due to Hurricane Sandy from GenealogyBlog
Samuel Grunden: Racism in Mercer Co., Ohio from Old Stones Deciphered
My Three Words for 2013: C x 3 from Ancestral Breezes
But I Don’t Know Who They Are from Desperately Seeking Surnames
Achieving Your Family History Goals by Taking Inventory from The Armchair Genealogist

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Hallowed Ground! Driving Your Research! Muses! — It’s Follow Friday!

What I Was Reading This Week:

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Conference Talk

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Writing Challenges! Photographs! The Golden State! — It’s Follow Friday!

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What I’ve Been Writing

Featured Favorite

An Introduction and Recap from 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Some of My Favorite 52 Ancestors Posts

What We Must Remember. Gettysburg. Kennedy. It’s Follow Friday

Headline from November 23, 1963. Found on Newspapers.com

Ancestry Reference Desk and Roots Tech 2013. It’s Follow Friday!

Ancestors from Outer Space and Constructive Criticism. It’s Follow Friday!

Moonshine, Civil War, Newspapers and an Assassin. It’s Follow Friday!

Warriors, elopements, and pranks! It’s Follow Friday!

Motivation. Inspiration. It’s Follow Friday!

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