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
favorite search engine with “Upfront with NGS” “Mini Bytes” or use this Google search link.
Do you have
questions, suggestions for future posts, or comments? Please post a comment or send an e-mail to [email protected].
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
We often talk about how family names morph through time. Understanding the “how” or “why” some names might have changed through time, linguistically, might help us as we research our own families. I was reminded of this when I read Linguistic Oddities
in French Genealogy
Are
you researching western Canadian ancestors? A neat resource is The Mountain Legacy Project.
Read more about the project in this Library and Archives Canada blog post,
The Mountain Legacy
Project: An Archive-Based Scientific Project.
Check
out this 100-Year-Old
Infographic Maps the Entire American Civil War. “And while its gloriously complex
form has been preserved by the Library of Congress
in great detail, instructions on exactly how to read it properly seem to
have been lost to time.” Thanks to Thomas MacEntee (via Facebook) for sharing
this.
If
you are a fan of Facebook and use it as a genealogical research tool, check out
50
Genealogy Resources Found on Facebook. Though I am
familiar with many of the listed resources, there were some new-to-me ones.
With
more and more original birth records becoming available to adoptees, this
announcement shares the other side of the coin: the right to privacy of the
birth parents. Washington
state birth parents who placed children for adoption before 1 October 1993 must
notify the health department to retain anonymity. A new law that takes
effect next July will open access to birth records. Read the full
article.
Do
you have a wee bit of Irish in you? If
so, check out Free Irish eBooks: Irish History,
Biography, Genealogy (a neat and ever-growing collection with some really useful
books, including a selection of Almanacs and Directories) and The Irish Motor
Directory and Motor Annual 1911-1912 (lists the names and addresses of
the registered owners of all vehicles from lorries and motor-ploughs to cars
and charabancs), county by county, plus the six county boroughs of Belfast,
Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Londonderry, and Waterford, in that year. Thanks to Irish Genealogy
News.).
We love newspapers! They are such a great
source for personal and/or legal information about our ancestors. It can sometimes be hard to figure out
whether a newspaper existed when and where our ancestors lived and whether we
can easily access its contents. Check
out NewspaperCat (
Identifying
photos can be so frustrating and yet so important. We’ve discovered another website, ID
A Photo, and its corresponding Facebook page, which might just help you with
those not-yet-identified family photographs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
copyright © National
Genealogical Society, 3108 Columbia Pike, Suite 300, Arlington, Virginia
22204-4370. http://www.ngsgenealogy.org.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Want to learn more
about interacting with the blog, please read Hyperlinks,
Subscribing and Comments -- How to Interact with Upfront with NGS Blog posts!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NGS does not imply
endorsement of any outside advertiser or other vendors appearing in this blog.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Republication
of UpFront articles is permitted and encouraged for
non-commercial purposes without express permission from NGS. Please drop us a
note telling us where and when you are using the article. Express written
permission is required if you wish to republish UpFront articles
for commercial purposes. You may send a request for express written permission
to [email protected]. All republished articles may not be
edited or reworded and must contain the copyright statement found at the bottom
of each UpFront article.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Think your friends,
colleagues, or fellow genealogy researchers would find this blog post
interesting? If so, please let them know that anyone can read past UpFront with NGS posts or subscribe!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Suggestions
for topics for future UpFront with NGS posts are always welcome. Please
send any suggested topics to [email protected]
No comments:
Post a Comment