Websites of Interest

GENEALOGY READING at Creative Gene
The 36th edition of Genealogy Carnival is a group of articles that have been submitted to one blog. Go to “Creative Gene”s blog and read some of those interesting genealogy related articles that you can peruse and then click on the links there (or here) to get to the original blog article. It’s also interesting to see what others are doing with their blogs. The Future of Genealogy - My Turn ; Technology: Any "Early Adopters" In Your Family Tree? ; Apple's Tree: Uncertain Future ; Our Name in History: A Review ; Loving Genealogy...For Over 30 Years! ; The Oracle of OMcHodoy: The Disappearing Doyles ; Jessica's Genejournal: One Puzzle Piece I Would Like to Solve ; I Am My Own - Well Not Quite .... ; Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan ; The Sturdy Little Red Wagon ; Rooms of My Heart: Family Reunion ; I Think I Might Have Killed My Father ; Hog Killing at Parham ; On the Menu: Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner and others.

http://creativegene.blogspot.com/2007/11/carnival-of-genealogy-36th-edition.html

Here is what Creative Gene has to say as introduction: “Welcome to the November 18, 2007 edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. This is a "carousel" edition which means that there is no specific theme. It's a kaleidoscope of colorful articles that I know you'll enjoy. We have several first-time participants this time around, welcome! If the weather in your neck of the woods is as dreary and raw as it is here in Detroit, pour yourself a steaming cup of coffee, grab a sweet and sticky cinnamon bun, and indulge your senses in good reading, good eating, and a good dose of caffeine to sustain you! Twenty-six authors, thirty-one articles. Come on... let's get on with the ride!

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Online Searchable DEATH INDEXES & Records – A Genealogy Guide

http://www.deathindexes.com

This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. You can also find information here about searching the Social Security Death Index online. Select a state or big city (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City:-)

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SNAP GENIE - - narrate or talk about your pictures that are online - free
MyFamily.com’s great free site and tool available at SnapGenie.com is worth a mention here. Especially with the family oriented holidays coming up. I’ve used it and found it amazing for everyone involved in narrating some photos or hearing the narration about the photos. Maureen Taylor wrote about it back in February 2007. Click here for Maureen’s explanation and example = SnapGenie . SnapGenie allows you to create a photo show with narration that you record over the phone.

It's very simple to use, and best of all--free. This is direct to the snapgenie websete: http://www.snapgenie.com/

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Kip's List rivals Cyndi's List

There is a new Portal of Family History Websites –which I’ll call “Kip Sperry’s A to Z Website Lists” Creator, Kip Sperry, said “I have posted a listing of commonly used family history websites alphabetically arranged from A to Z. http://home.byu.net/ks4/?sssdmh=dm13.150380 will be helpful to family history instructors, students, genealogists, and librarians as a quick listing of popular sites. I would call Kips website an alphabetical version of the famous Cyndi’s List which groups genealogy links by category.

Cyndi founded the popular Cyndislist www.cyndislist.com with 268,000 links to genealogy related websites. You can also see the real Cyndi Howells in an interview with Dick Eastman while onboard ship on a recent genealogy cruise. To see this interview go to www.rootstelevision.com - and search for the 8:54 min video title called “Cyndi’s List”

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IRISH RESEARCH

Stan belongs to an Irish research e-mail list, which you can subscribe to at the Irish Family History Foundation website www.irish-roots.net Here is the type of information you can be provided if you subscribe to their e-mail list: www.irish-roots.net

“The Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System (ORS) is a national initiative organized by the Irish Family History Foundation which co-ordinates and represents the county based genealogical centres on the island of Ireland. Over the coming months the records of other centres will become available firstly as individual county databases, and then these will be amalgamated into one Irish records database which will allow searching across all counties and sources. " We are pleased to announce the availability of the records of the Dun Laoghaire all Heritage Centre covering South County Dublin. This adds another 160,000 baptismal, birth, death and marriage records that can be searched and purchased online. Just go to our website at www.irish-roots.net and login using your existing Irish Family History Foundation (IFHF) login details or register as a new user.” At their website you can see an impressive list of links connected to Irish research, and Irish maps -dw
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Genealogy Tips from members

Stan and Harriet have been busy finding things to mention on this blog. They recommend the following genealogical resources:

1. New England Historic Genealogical Society eNews Letter - a free publication via e-mail to anyone who registers. Or it is available for free viewing from their website: http://www.newenglandancestors.org/ It has tons of wonderful information of importance to the genealogist, and of course, has an emphasis on New England. It is a very excellent weekly newsletter that arrives by e-mail. To subscribe or view back issues of NEHGS eNews, visit http://www.newenglandancestors.org/education/articles/NEXUS_eNews/enews_homepage.asp

2. UpFront with NGS - a free, monthly genealogy newsletter by e-mail, designed for members of the National Genealogical Society( website at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ ) and the entire genealogical community. Keep up with the news of the genealogy world, including information on their 2008 NGS Conference & Family History Fair in Kansas City, MO on 14-17 May 2008. To subscribe: Send a NEW e-mail message to: NGS-L-request@rootsweb.com and type only one word in the body of the message: subscribe

3. Genealogy e-mail Digest/List GeneSIG@yahoogroups.com is a free Yahoo! Group that you can subscribe to for delivery to you via e-mail on a daily or weekly basis. It is similar to RootsWeb Lists or Digests, and provides a forum for interesting topics and questions that others in the Yahoo Group might be able to answer. Yahoo Groups is also offering blogs and groups on the web..in Beta. I'm guessing that one can subscribe by sending an e-mail message to GeneSig-L-request@yahoogroups.com and type subscribe in the body of the message as you do for a rootsweb subscription, but I may be wrong.

4. And from Harriet: Harriet subscribes to a newsletter (name & address to follow if she sends it to me) and she passes on this link about military information that was mentioned in the email newsletter:
Military Personnel Files Released by U.S. Government ---- The U.S. National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) for the first time has opened all of the individual Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF) of those who served and were discharged, retired or died while in the service prior to 1946. Collectively, these files comprise more than six million records. These files are open only to the veteran him/herself, if living, or next of kin, which can be father, mother, son, daughter, sister or brother. Interestingly a surviving spouse can gain access only if not remarried. To obtain copies of records, customers may write to NPRC at 9700 Page Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63132, fax a request to 314-801-9195, or submit a request through http://vetrecs.archives.gov or on a Standard Form 180. Information about records available at NPRC is also posted on the National Personnel Records Center Homepage at http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/index.html.

Thanks Stan and Harriet. Anyone, please make a comment or ask a question at the "comment" link below. --- Donna