The following was received from the Dallas Genealogical Society: Dallas, TX, May 20, 2013 – The Dallas Genealogical Society is pleased to announce its 2013 Writing Contest for original material on topics of interest to genealogists and family historians. The contest is open to members and nonmembers of the DGS. Hobbyists, transitional, and professional genealogists [...]
The following teaser is from the January 28, 2013 edition of GlobalPost.com: David Kime Jr. wanted a burger and fries at Burger King – his favorite fast food joint. The World War II veteran, who died on Jan. 20 at 88, was buried with a “Whopper Jr.” from Burger King, said the New York Daily [...]
This is what we’ve all been waiting for. It seems you can now have a sound system that plays music in one’s coffin from now into eternity… I note that the touchscreen is built into the headstone however, and is not within easy reach of the departed. The following teaser is from a December 18, [...]
Mika Bartroff has some good suggestions for your genealogical resolutions of 2013. Following is Mika’s opening paragraph. Another year has come and gone. How did you do with your family research this year? And where do you want to focus on in the coming year? Now’s a great time for reflecting on what you’ve accomplished [...]
It’s been known for some time that Cyndi Howells had serious copyright issues with another online genealogy site – and I posted about it on November 5, 2012. On December 30, Dick Eastman posted that “On December 21, 2012, Cyndi Howells filed a lawsuit against Barry J Ewell, owner of Mygenshare.com, in Washington Western District [...]
The following exceprt is from a fascinating article in the November 26, 2012 edition of National Post about the Grimm brothers and their collection of folklore, published today as Grimm’s Fairy Tales. …Two-hundred years ago, two German brothers with an interest in language published the first edition of a folktale collection they had gathered from [...]
The following snippet is from a short article posted in the October 25, 2012 edition of Coventry Telegraph. Mary Scary, Fran Pire and Frank N Stein are among the peculiar names unearthed by a family history website. Ancestry.co.uk said a study of names on its site going back hundreds of years, ranging from school registers [...]
The following excerpt is from the October 15, 23012 edition of the Mother Nature Network and printed here to get you ready for Halloween: For those who like to get their Halloween spooks by way of dark horror stories and tales of utterly demonic crime, let us introduce you to Countess Erzsébet (Elizabeth) Báthory de [...]
Scott Phillips wrote a delightful piece that was posted on the UK version of the Huffington Post. You gotta’ read this. See: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/scott-phillips/are-you-a-genealogy-geek-_b_1911846.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-ancestry . Thanks to Wilbur Hanson Kalb for the heads-up.
After operating GenealogyBlog.com for nearly 9 years, I finally got spammed bad enough to take our site down. We use WordPress to write the blog, and various plugin tools to catch the spam, and delete it – and overall, it’s working pretty well. However, sometime on Sunday we got hit with sufficient garbage that our [...]
UPDATE: Bountiful Power set a new pole back behind the houses on our corner, and we had electricity again about 5 pm on Sunday evening. We were without power for 86 or 87 hours, with nothing worse happening than a rather odd smell in the refrigerator. I’ve been out of touch of since Wednesday, as [...]
Fun Stuff for Genealogists introduced a new T-shirt at the NGS conference at Charleston, SC and it was completely sold out. It has been reprinted and available to all. “I seek dead people – I’m a genealogist” will be a hit at your next genealogy gathering! Get one today!!!
The news of the death of the typewriter has been circulating the last day or two because of a posting made in the Atlantic, which was repeating something from the Daily Mail. Then Brian Williams picked it up and ran with it on the NBC Nightly News. It’s just not true. The last typewriter factory [...]
Now here is a great source for some photos to liven up your genealogy files! Have you ever considered adding mug shots! Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in Maricopa County Arizona has gotten a lot of publicity lately for his “Mugshot of the Day” competition on the Sheriff’s Department website. However, if you’re looking for non-flattering photos, [...]
Most of us are acquainted with Franklin Day Planners – especially if we happen to live in Utah. To be seen without your Day Planner around here means you just aren’t organized. Folks live by these things. Now I see that the creator of the Franklin Day Planner has come out with a new product [...]
