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Surnames
disappearing? Not something I had really
considered and, apparently in the UK
(and I’m sure also in the US
Editor’s Note: When talking with my
husband about this, I realized that my own maiden name has disappeared with this
generation. My father had daughters and
he was the only son of an only son of an emigrant who changed his name. Hence the surname I grew up is now no longer
a surname in the
The Bureau
of Land Management, General Land Office Records database now has a NEW Mapping feature for Land Documents. You can now search for land documents using a
map interface instead of filling out search criteria. Look for the "Search
Documents By Location" tab on the Search
page.
Also, for
land patent and survey details, there is a map that allows you to plot where
each description is located.
Unfortunately,
many of us have experienced or been impacted by water-damaged photographs. In my family, decades ago, a leaking roof
resulted in the destruction of an entire collection of photographs (which were then
thrown out ... sigh). More recently,
those impacted by Sandy or other recent storms have been challenged to
“recover” photographs and other items damaged by rain and/or flooding. Check out this guide produced by Flip-Pal
Mobile Scanner, Rescuing Water Damaged Photos.
Just
because records are now found freely available on a website like FamilySearch
or some other interface, this doesn’t mean that they will remain available in
perpetuity! We’ve seen newspapers move
from providing freely available archives to making content available for a
price. Well, the article Cook
County Images Disappear From FamilySearch.org tells us that even content
currently freely available on FamilySearch will not necessarily remain so.
Personal
digital archiving is critical to genealogy and family history researchers.
Though this is a serious subject, it doesn’t mean that it always has to be
serious! Check out this silly survey
from the Library of Congress, Personal Digital Archiving: How Well Do You Score? Silly it
may be but the issues it raises are really important to consider!
Researching
Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) Canada
DNA News --
More options and cheaper prices for DNA testing! Ancestry.com has now opened its DNA testing to US
non-Ancestry.com members. And, FamilyTree DNA has unveiled a $39 Y-DNA 12 test.
As
genealogists we do much writing and more and more posts on Facebook, Twitter,
or elsewhere in social media. Though
proper writing is important, it’s sometimes fun to look at the more humorous
aspects of it. Check out 8 New Punctuation Marks We Desperately Need (from
CollegeHumor)
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