9 Genealogy Things You Need to Know This Morning, Thursday, 9 Jan 2014

Today's Things

• Embrace the differences and possibilities. Here's a great read by Elizabeth Shown Mills on her website, Evidence Explained, "QuickLesson 18: Genealogy? In the Academic World? Seriously?" [Building each other up makes us all stronger.]
• If you are not going to be able to make it to Rootstech this year and you live in the New England area, Heather on Nutfield Genealogy has a bash for you.
• On The Next Web, Ben Woods has a review of the browser-based tool, Transcribe, which is for transcribing voice recordings.

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• On The Ancestor Hunt, Kenneth explains the search function is gone for these historical newspapers.
• On the MyHeritage blog, they caution to not overlook hidden clues and give some new places to search for clues.
• The Goodreader iOS app, an app that will handle just about any type of file and lets you annotate scanned documents, just got an update. [And here's how to use Goodreader.]
• Use caution with those causes of death. On the Destination: Austin Family blog, Thomas asks, "Can You Really Trust That Cause of Death?" 
• Yesterday, Ancestry.com added a new database to their collections: U.S. Dutch Reformed Church Records from Selected States, 1660-1926.
• And USGenWeb volunteer contributors uploaded 364 files yesterday for various counties in the following US states: Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, and Virginia.

Other things that might interest you. Maybe. Maybe not. But maybe.

• Did you miss the 9 genealogy things you needed to know yesterday?
• Here are 3 simple things to remember when researching online collections.
• Scan documents, read files, and annotate both with Goodreader & GeniusScan+ iOS apps.

Happy Researching!
~Caroline
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