8 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Saturday, 1 Mar 2014

3/1/2014

Today's Things

March is Women's History Month. On her blog Gena's Genealogy, Gena starts it out with a month-long series called Telling Her Story where she features a book a day that will inspire you to discover more about your female ancestors. Here is her first selection. Were any of your female ancestors involved with this organization?
Likewise, Lisa Alzo, the Accidental Genealogist, has kicked off her popular Women's History Month series for genealogy bloggers -- Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women's History Month.

The Legal Genealogist points out the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services upcoming History and Genealogy Webinar Series.
According to this press release there is a potentially helpful new DNA-related iPad app now out called DNAMatch which helps genealogy researchers with their DNA matches. And here's a link to the DNAMatch website for further information and screenshots.
This week, My Genealogy Hound has added more biographies to their online free database website for the following US states: Illinois, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri.
DeceasedOnline.com, an online database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK and the Republic of Ireland, has now added subscription services.
This week, Newspapers.com has added quite a few new pages to existing newspaper databases as well as new newspapers to their online subscription collection.
Yesterday, USGenWeb volunteer contributors uploaded 82 files of various types of records for various counties in the following US states: California, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

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