NoteWorthy Reads #20

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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 have the time 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.

This entry is a little longer than my usual because I have decided to put my Noteworthy Reads series on hiatus for six weeks while I deal with some non-genealogical things, so I included everything I had pending in this post rather than holding some for a future post as I sometimes do (so as not to overwhelm). While I have decided to give myself a partial blogging vacation, I am only suspending the Noteworthy Reads posts. I do anticipate putting up 3 or 4 regular blog posts on my family history in this timeframe (and, hopefully, I will find a fantastic find for Crestleaf’s blogging challenge this month). So please check in occasionally to see what is new. Noteworthy Reads will be back in mid-August.

CANADA

It’s Not Just Loyalists! (A Misleading Title on Ancestry) from the Olive Tree Genealogy blog – an invaluable database of Canadian citizens who filed claims for losses in Upper Canada after the war of 1812 mislabled! 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright Infringement or Common Occurrence?  from the My Ancestors and Me blog – read the comments as well.

FUN

James Bond the Genealogist, 007 from originsItaly.com

Virtual Volunteering, Retirement Project 2.0  – my kind of fun, at any rate. I would love to do this after I retire!

I Would've Put a Bird on it but I Couldn't Find the Right Address from the It’s a Beautiful Tree blog - She's such an entertaining writer! Her adventures in finding the homes of her great-grandmother and great-great grandmother. She had the addresses, but sometimes that isn't enough. ;)

GREAT STORIES

  

“Where Do I Come from?”  from the DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy blog -- Great story of DNA testing and genealogical research coming together to find an adoptee’s birth family

Grandma Foster and Her Apprentice by A Southern Sleuth – what happened to a daughter whose mother died young?

Britain’s Most Famous 1700s Sailor Spent Four Years Disguised as a Man  from Atlas Obscura

W75: Harold Wareham – Missionary from the Branches of My Tree blog - his ancestor was a missionary to Africa in the early 20^th century, and this account is fascinating (I particularly appreciated his argument to the missionary society as to the reasons he thought it would be good to have a woman around the house in Africa -- the missionary society wished him to leave his wife at home. He won.)

Lavinia Warren: Half of the 19^th Century’s Tiniest, Richest Power Couple from Alta Obscura 

  

HISTORY

Patrick and Sarah Henry: Mental Illness In 18^th-Century America from O Say Can You See? the blog of the national Museum of American history. 

The American Civil War, Then and Now from theGuardian.com – interactive photographs of Civil War sites.

WWI Centennial: Women at War from mentalfloss.com – fascinating article

Farmers: The Unsung Heroes of America  from the blog for ancestry.com

Isolated Reminders of Old Epidemics from NYTimes.com - kinda sad

Michigan and Ohio Almost Waged War Over… Toledo? from Fallintoyesterday.com – I’ve lived in Michigan and Ohio, how did I not know this?

INTERESTING ARTICLE

Why Sharing Your Family History Online Helps You Find Your Ancestors from The Handwritten Past blog – I’ve found it to be true myself!

Sorry I Don’t Get It from the Legacy Family Tree blog – how searches that don’t help still help enough.

Think Outside the Search Engine from the It’s a Beautiful Tree blog – great story about how she blew through her brick wall.

IRELAND

Over 300,000 New Historical Irish Newspaper Articles Go Online from Irishcentral.com

The Green Redcoats: the Story of the Kilmainham Pensioners from Irishcentral.com - covers 10,000 men from the late 18th century through the early 20th century; could be quite helpful

  

SCOTLAND

The Letters of Dr. William Cullen (1710-1790)  from the Historical Medical Miscellany blog – discusses a new resource for those interested in people’s health in the mid-1700s. Dr. Cullen was a fellow at the Royal College of physicians of Edinburg who received thousands of letters from places all around the world from people querying about their health; his letters have been transcribed and digitized, and are searchable.

  

TIPS

Why You Can’t Find Great Grandpa’s That the Registration from the Olive Tree Genealogy blog 

Was Your Ancestor a Miner? Mining Resources For Genealogists from the Genealogy's Star blog 

Cheat Sheet: Table of Wars and Ages of Serviceman from ongrannystrail.com

Recording Internet Database Searches (in Legacy) from the Ancestoring blog

  

Small-Town Publications May Hold Memories from the Tampa Tribune website  

Genealogy 101: Genealogical Assumptions, Part Two from colonialroots.com

CHECK THOSE RECORDS CAREFULLY – Look What I Found! from the Michigan Family Trails blog  

Learning from the Inventory from the blog of The Shy Genealogist – you can learn a lot about an ancestor from the inventory of his estate.

52 Ancestors #25: Working with Land Patents and Plat Maps from the Tangled Roots and Trees blog

TOOLS

In Need of a Hard to Get Record? This Smart New Site Will Help You Find It  from Family History Daily/ - free site brings together the digital holdings of multiple libraries, public and academic, including, but not limited to: digital books, magazines, scanned items, sound recordings, maps, and other ephemera. It is fully searchable, and can be read online, or viewed in thumbnails and downloaded in PDF, image format, or plaintext. I’ve got to explore this place!

Google for Genealogy: Finding Ancestral Inventions with Patent Search  from the Genealogy Insider blog for Family Tree Magazine

Many-roads.com – This website has an amazing collection of information on hundreds of original historical documents in genealogical sources, curated lists of links, a library of images and text that they share for free, on the Amish-Mennonite, Quakers, French-Canadians, Prussia (Germany), Jewish, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Wales, the United States. It also has developed and freely shares on this site, mega-search engine portals for the Amish-Mennonite, Jewish (Shoah), Prussian-German, Quebec (French Canada), and the Top 100 Genealogical Sites, a library of over 500 genealogy related links and a plethora of genealogical tips, videos, music, and maps. Go explore!