NoteWorthy Reads #19

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For me, Noteworthy Reads are articles, websites, or blog posts I found this week which are fascinating, interesting and/or helpful, and occasionally “wacky” or “wonderful” will likely sneak in as well. It’s not going to be a “best of” post because I don’t have the knowledge to make that determination. I don’t even promise that the articles & blog posts will be written that week – just that I found them that week. When I can,  I’ll review the posts to determine which entries should be put in my Resource pages; the rest will still be available through the blog's search function.

Note: Just because I list an article does not mean I endorse its contents. It just means I want to be able to find it easily in the future when I may want to consider the issue in more depth.

DNA

The Genetic History of the United Kingdom: the POBI project on YouTube.com found on the Genealogy’s Star blog 

Confused by your AncestryDNA Matches? Read This Post from Lisa Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems blog – helpful explanation

GREAT STORIES

I’m Not Who I Think I Am from the No Stone Unturned blog – fascinating story

Father’s Day – Tracking the Y DNA Line  from the DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy blog -- great story sketches of the men in her Y DNA line (those with her paternal surname); she is related to some fascinating people!

The Case of the Mysterious Disappearance of Luke Lukes from the blog of the Cousin Detective - new blog and an interesting, well-told tale 

HISTORY

Debtor’s Prisons, Class, and Patriotism in 18^th-century Ireland  from the JSTOR Daily

Desperate Struggle with and Capture of a Horse Stealer: ‘Audacious ‘Attempted Theft at Mildred Farm, March 1878  from MeldrethHistory.org.uk 

Flight of the Night Witches: World War II’s All-Female Fighting Force from Atlas Obscura - fascinating: story  a Russian all female bomber squadron who terrorized German soldiersin Nazi-occupied Soviet Union with daring night raids.

Veteran ‘Dumbfounded ‘over War Photo found at CNN.com – volunteers identifying people in over 100 photos taken by the Department of Defense of service people and civilians in the Korean War (plus link within article to website displaying all of the photos)

52 Ancestors Week 24: I Wish I Had Their Bango  from the Research Journal Genealogy blog - a disturbing piece of Hawaii's history

INTERESTING ARTICLE

Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers, Featured Genealogy Expert of the Week From Family History Daily – an interview of Thomas MacEntee, who is a genuinely nice person, very helpful, and runs the GeneaBloggers site/community of which I am a member (tap on the badge in the right margin to be taken to the Genea-Bloggers website, particularly if you write or want to write a family history blog)

Hard to Find Ancestors – Maybe They Took a Detour? from the In Search of Our Common Heritage blog 

U-M Students Uncover Story behind 19^th Century African American ‘selfies’  – fascinating.

The Story behind This Famous Photograph – remember the iconic photograph taken during the American Great Depression of 11 construction workers on a girder 840 feet above the ground?

Old Dogs, New Tricks from the blog, Parallax View  – He discusses the relationship between evidence, inference, and conjecture. His physics research background informs his genealogical research, and now, his experience with genealogical research is informing his physics research. Very interesting piece.

IRELAND

Irish Famine Archive on Migration to Canada Launched Online from Irishcentral.com – “The Digital Irish Famine Archive shares the stories of the Grey Nuns in Montréal cared for the Irish arrivals, the sick and the dying, and kept annals and correspondence of their experience. The records have since been translated from the original French, digitized and made available in an online archive.”

New Workhouse Records Reveal Rural Ireland’s Harsh Past from Irishcentral.com

Index of Free Irish genealogy E-Books, with links to open the books – approximately “4000 free books and journals on the topic Irish, Irish-American, Irish-Australian, and Irish-Canadian genealogy.”

TIPS

A Census Search Trick for Hard-to-Find Ancestors from the Genealogy Insider blog for Family Tree Magazine.

Know Your Special Census Schedules from the blog at Legacy Tree Genealogists

Using Funeral Home Records for Genealogy from the Geneosity blog – read the comments too.

Genealogy 201: How to Separate Identities – Two Men with the Same Names from the blog at Colonialroots.com – useful advice, especially if you have a family like mine which has generations of men with the same exact name.

Making Genealogical Connections – Five Ways to Get People to Share  - Not that I've ever found it to be a problem amongst genea-types, some of the generous people in the world.

TOOLS

Using the Bureau of Land Management to find your ancestor’s land:

      Thank You, BLM! from The Legal Genealogist – with instructions and screenshots

  

           and

      Ebenezer Perry Carlisle Webster’s Land Patent from Jana’s Genealogy and Family History blog-       -– with instructions and screenshots, and a bonus

Rail & River Passes from the Freedmen’s Bureau  and Unique Freedmen’s Bureau Records Reflect Rations Given to Whites and Indians from the My Ancestor’s Name blog – transportation records from the Freedmen’s Bureau are a rich source of records for formerly enslaved people. 

  

Five Reasons to Use Wikipedia for Genealogy from Rooted in Foods  

Black sheep Ancestors Database – “Free genealogical prison and convict records, historical court records, executions, insane asylum records and biographies of famous outlaws, criminals & pirates in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.”