Welcome to the eighth
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
the past editions helpful:
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When Dick Eastman
reported 1000+ Jasper
County, Missouri Family Biographies added to My Genealogy Hound I just had to check out the website.
Currently included are resources for Arkansas ,
Illinois , Iowa ,
Kansas , Kentucky ,
Missouri and Tennessee
As more and more
documents are generated, archives, courthouses, libraries and other,
repositories are running into space issues.
Or, really, lack of space issues.
This article, York County
Archives running out of room, talks about the issues for this Pennsylvania
Neat video
from the Library of Congress: Library of Congress: Preserving past
and present for the future.
Carol Highsmith is working on a decades-long project photographing all
50 states and the District of Columbia and these images are free to be used by
anyone.
Loved this
article at The DNA Discussion, And Bob’s Your
Uncle: A Guide To Defining Great Aunts, Great-Great Grandparents, First Cousins
Once-Removed, and Other Kinfolk.
It can be so challenging to help people “visualize” how they are related
to the people they research. For most of us, once we
get to great-grandparents and start going down the various branches of the
tree, it’s easy to lose “how” we are
connected. The chart and accompanying
discussion don’t cover
every possible relationship, but it’s a great
start.
Genealogy
is an endeavor marked by persistance and thoroughness. If you want to know the
wrong way to delve into your family’s history,
read this article at Archives.com, 5
Guaranteed Ways to Mess Up Your Genealogy. I will confess that #1 plagued me in the
beginning and I quickly became much more methodical about documenting sources!
If your
family had any connections to the Port
of Los Angeles you will be interested
to know that a New archivist [is] putting
Port of Los Angeles history online as reported in dailybreeze.com. As
stated in the article ... “From handwritten
employee ledgers to black-and-white photographs, the Port of Los Angeles
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for an online genealogy course? Have Tennessee
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