Welcome
to our newest 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. Use your
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you enjoy watching Season 1 of Genealogy Roadshow? If you did, and you are interested in having
your story told as part of Season 2, fill out an application.
Are
you researching Medieval and earlier Brits?
If so, you might want to check out Fancy Another Giant
List of Digitised Manuscript Hyperlinks? This master list contains details
of everything that has so far been uploaded by the British Library Medieval and
Earlier Manuscripts department, complete with hyperlinks to each individual
record.
Researching “down under” family? Check out the Biographical Database of Australia (BDA). This is a new research tool for historians
and genealogists, which contains transcripts and indexes of many original
records and published biographies of deceased individuals who arrived in or
were born in Australia
So
little time, so much I don’t know! Via
the Historical Medical Miscellany Blog I just learned that V
is for Visitation of God when seen on early death certificates.
Recently
stumbled across an online library of free public domain audiobooks, LibriVox. Remember
listening to cassette tapes while driving around town? Well, now you can just download an audiobook
to your smartphone and listen while driving!
Though no books are characterized as genealogy, there are many history
books available.
If
you know German and your ancestors survived Auschwitz, you might be interested
in Audio files of
Auschwitz survivors go online. The voices of Holocaust survivors
and Nazi death camp guards can be heard in an online audio archive of testimony
from Germany 's first Auschwitz trial half a century ago.
Speaking of World
War II, WW2enlistment.org has a World War 2 U.S. Army Enlistment Archive. The site is a searchable archive
for World War II era Army enlistment records, generally spanning the years 1938
- 1946. There are records of 8,433,326 U.S. Army soldiers, reservists, and
enlistees including enlisted men and women, foreign scouts and nationals, etc.
Like
maps? Like to create maps? Have you checked out Animaps? Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by
letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on
cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to
friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow, and speed up the
action! We’d love to see an example
created by a genealogist! If you have created an Animap, please contact [email protected].
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