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