Thursday, December 27, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Genealogy for food lovers
Followers of the Armchair Genealogist blog have submitted these family recipes. The blog's author invites readers to submit their own. No doubt someone from Hernando County can serve up a good old Cracker recipe, or maybe something more ethnic? This blogger is partial to beef stew, like Mom used to make it.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Personal History writing prompts
If you are interested in putting your own personal history in writing for your descendants, here's a list of weekly writing prompts from the Olive Tree Genealogy blog. The author began the list in January, and there's 50 prompts, to date. In case you didn't know, the library offers Personal History Workshops at all branches throughout the year. Check our events calendars for dates, times, and locations.
Friday, December 7, 2012
Other sources of genealogical data
We return again to the What's Past is Prologue blog for this brief article on "unusual resources" for genealogy.
We like the blog- colorful, informative, well laid out, and well-written. Helpful for newbies like us.
We like the blog- colorful, informative, well laid out, and well-written. Helpful for newbies like us.
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Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree
From Ted.com in 2018.
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Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the mail moved slowly and some citizens had to travel a good distance to check for mail...
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Newspapers. com, which is available to library card holders from the library's website, has added 450 more papers from 15 states and 3...
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Over the course of U.S. history, county boundaries and names changed, and large counties were broken up into smaller ones. In 1883, for exam...