Welcome to the ninth
edition of our bi-weekly feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we provide eight tasty
bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your family
history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you to check
out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything genealogical!
We hope you found
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Researching French
ancestors? Check out this great article
by Kimberly Powell (About.com), French Actes d'Etat
Civil — How to Find & Use Them Online. From my own personal experience
with French research, I found Geneanet a great resource. I was able to identify people researching my
husband’s Alsace-Lorraine area family and also found someone who was able to
acquire some not-yet digitized and online vital records.
One doesn’t
think of 
Brethren Digital Archives available
via Internet Archive. The
Do you have ancestors who died in New
York
The ability to
overlay modern maps on old maps, and vice versa, is such an important tool in
our genealogy toolbox. Read this post, Old Map, Current
Map, Homestead - Mappy Monday on My Ancestors and Me to see how the author she used known
information and photos along with maps (old and new) to determine “where” her
ancestors lived.
Speaking of
land, Missouri Digital Heritage has a Land Patents:1831-1969 database and Beth Foulk (genealogy decoded) has a great article, Missouri School
Land Records, where she talks about this subset
of records and how valuable they are to one’s research.
Google Translate
just keeps getting better! It can now
handle more than 70 of the world’s languages.
This just increases our ability to access non-English documents (e.g.,
the documents in our ancestor’s native language) that are important to our
understanding of our emigrant ancestors. Read more about this milestone or access Google Translate.
Did a relative or ancestor served in the US field artillery? If so, check out the Field
Artillery archives, part of the
Morris Swett Library Digital Collections & Archives. Learn more about this
archive and a new catalog via this article Find
field artillery archives with new online catalog posted on www.army.mil.
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Thanks for highlighting my post about old and current maps. I appreciate it!
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