Friday Finds 23 March 2018 – The Global Tofay

Blogs/Articles

• “Timeless: Taxi Drive to NASCAR” by Crista Cowan on Ancestry’s Blog
• “Ollie Bolton’s Inferred Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup – 52 Ancestors #188” by Roberta Estes on her blog DNAeXplained
• “5 Myths about Storing Your Genealogy on the Cloud” by LynnPalermo on her blog The Armchair Genealogist
• “Ashkenazic Shared DNA Survey” by Lara Diamond on The In-Depth Genealogist
• “Quick Tip – Names Sometimes got Shortened” by Yvette Hoitink on her blog Dutch Genealogy
• “IDG Introduces GenFriends” by Terri O’Connell on the blog The In-Depth Genealogist
• “The Archive Lady: Finding Family Histories in an Archive” by Melissa Barker on Abundant Genealogy
• “Genealogy Bargains for Friday, March 23, 2018” on Genealogy Bargains
• “A Surprising Source to Find Millions of Genealogy Websites” by Amy Johnson Crow on her blog

Media and Education

• “Kickin’ it with Bill Litchman and Electric Light Orchestra” by Darcie Posz on her blog Kickin’ it with Genealogy
• “The DNA Interest Group at the University of Iowa” by Hannah Ericson on 23andMe’s blog
• “The Genealogy Guys Podcast #340 – 2018 March 16” on the Genealogy Guys Podcast
• From Dick Eastman’s Newsletter:
  • “Spring Offer from The Family History Researcher Academy: 20% off their English/Welsh Family History Course“
  • “Webinar – ‘Married at Ellis Island:’ Single Women and Immigration, 1892-1924” 1pm EST on March 27th!
• “Irish Genealogy: Research Resources and Strategies” by Thomas MacEntee on Abundant Genealogy

New and Updated Posts

• Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings has the new and updated records list for Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org
• From Dick Eastman’s Newsletter:
  • “Forces War Records Adds New Online UK Army Records“
  • “New Content Added to Montana Online Newspapers“
  • “A New Website: African American Civil War Soldiers“
• “Accessibility” by Alicia Crane Williams on the Vita Brevis, the blog for AmericanAncestors.org – covers sources for digitized books!
• “Minnesota Genealogy Resources” by Linda Stufflebean on her blog Empty Branches on the Family Tree
• FindMyPast Friday’s has their new and updated records including:
  • Gloucestershire, Bigland’s Monumental Inscriptions
  • Somerset Will Abstracts
  • Hue and Cry Police Gazette Index
  • Britain, Knights of the Realm and Commonwealth Index
  • Philadelphia Roman Catholic Diocesan Newspapers

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