7 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Monday, 28 Oct 2013

Genealogy Need to Know, Mon, 28 Oct 2013

• Looking for a genealogy group on Facebook? Katherine R. Willson created and maintains a "Genealogy on Facebook" List. Currently there are over 3000 Groups listed on her list which is available as a PDF download on her website.
• Genealogyintime.com shares with us a handy list of common occupation abbreviations and what they mean.
• Do you have roots in Ulster? On The British GENES Blog, Chris informs us of the updates to the Great Parchment Book site. Learn more about the Great Parchment Book and how it can help you with your Ulster research by visiting their site. {Their short video is incredible.}

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• The Next Web Blog shows us how Livescribe's new SmartPen works with iOS. Very handy for taking notes and drawing diagrams at libraries, courthouses, and conferences.
• The Legal Genealogist tells us what she thinks about the ethnic percentages DNA companies give us. {I happen to agree with her. They're cool, I guess. But they don't necessarily help with your research. For example, I'm mostly British, a little Irish, a little French, a little German, and a little Scandinavian and Finnish. My response to my percentages? Duh. I already knew that from my research except from my research I know how I am. What I didn't know from my research was that from my maternal haplogroup somewhere way, way, way back there my maternal line involves the Sami people, which is cool. I only have my maternal line back to Ireland in the early 1800s. And the only way I'll get to those Sami people is by doing, um, my research. However, I do have visions of Vikings swiping a Sami woman and whisking her away from her people and transporting her to Ireland. However, that's my imagination running away. Again. But, hey, I got a nice colorful pie chart that may or may not be correct. The best thing about DNA tests is the collaboration that can occur between potential cousins. However, I had no close cousins who had research done enough to be able to help me out. So for me, it's back to my research and blogging. Turns out my personal family history blog is my best cousin finder.}
• My Genealogy Hound has new additions and updates to their online biographies that include Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Missouri. You can search their site as well as browse by state, county, and family surname.
• USGenWeb volunteer contributors uploaded 159 files for the following U.S. states: Alabama, Michigan, Nevada, Virginia, and Washington. Did they upload something you've been needing for your research?

Daily Resource Spotlight: Wikipedia: List of Online Newspaper Archives ~ Easily find out where all the online newspapers are located. Just click on a location and see what's listed. Did your ancestors make these papers?

Happy Researching!
~Caroline
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