Write your own obituary

We'd all like to be remembered in the best possible light after we're gone. Who is in a better position to present the highlights of our time on the this planet than ourselves?  This article, published by the Boston Globe and  linked on the weekly newsletter of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, talks about doing just that. There's even an ObitKit, to help you get started. Might make for an interesting, if somewhat morbid, library program.

Grave blog

Here's and interesting blog about graves and gravestones.

Social History websites

"Gena's Genealogy", a blog for women's genealogy, has posted this list of 100 social history websites to  provide some background on how our ancestors lived. A sample: What did you do in the war Grandma?;

Digital Archive of American Architecture;

How to Make Moonshine;

Old Catalogs;

and

Online Guide to Traditional Games. 

Completed 1940 Census is online!

Read about it  here. Come in and search the census at any one of the library's 4 branches(sorry- the Ancestry.com Library edition can not be accessed from home).