12 Genealogy Things You Need To Know This Morning, Tuesday, 24 Sep 2013

Genealogy Things, Tuesday, 23 Sep 2013

• MS Office has a webinar today: Office Mobile for Android Phones. 
• The Archivist of the United States will be hosting a Google+ Hangout on Air and will be answering questions today. Ask questions via Google+ and Twitter with the hashtag #AskAOTUS.
• MyHeritage is hosting a free webinar today -- Family History Puzzle: Find the Holes in Your Research.
• Do you have Eastern European roots? Randy has a great review of the special edition magazine, Tracing Your Eastern European Ancestors, on his blog Genea-Musings.
• Don't miss yesterday's episode of Monday's with Myrt. I had the privilege of joining Myrt, Russ, and her whole gang yesterday on her weekly roundup of news that crosses her desk. Great topics were discussed yesterday.

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• What do you use to bookmark your most visited research sites? I've used Diigo since 2009, and I love it. {And it's what I turn to for my research and for tweeting out research tips.} Yesterday, Diigo announced a new site design and new features.
  
• On his blog British Genes, Chris lists additions to Durham Records Online.
• Findmypast.com (US) announced the addition of the below listed newspapers to its British and World Newspaper Collection. Here is a direct link to their collection on findmypast.com for your researching pleasure. Also, on theirblog findmypast Ireland has been doing a series on these newly added Irish newspapers to help you out with using them.

The Belfast Morning News – 1857-1882
The Belfast Newsletter – 1828-1900
The Cork Examiner - 1841-1926
The Dublin Evening Mail – 1849-1871
The Freeman’s Journal – 1820-1900
The Sligo Champion - 1836-1926

• On her blog GenVines, Janell gives us the latest updates to records on fold3.com. including Civil War records, Homestead records, etc. Check out all the latest additions.
• Ancestry.com updated its Cheddar Rate Book, 1865 collection yesterday with 800 records for those looking for cheese, I mean, ancestors who paid rates in each parish to support the sick, poor, roads & church maintenance, and other parish expenses in Cheddar, Somerset County, England.
• Do you have roots in Utah? On the GenealogyBank blog, Thomas Kemp shares with us 2 sources of online Utah information for family history researchers.
• And? Did you catch Genealogy Roadshow last night on PBS? It was fantastic, IMO. I love the format which mirrors the format of the ever-popular Antiques Roadshow. If you didn't watch it last night, it's available now on the PBS iPad/iPhone app under Featured Programs {it's alphabetized so just scroll down and tap}. And if you don't have an iOS device it's available on their website. {Direct Link: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365079236/ } Or? I embedded it below for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

~Caroline

Other mornings, other things that just might light your candle. {Or not.}

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