Georgia's "Virtual Vault"

If you're roots are in the Peach State, this  website might be for you.

 "The Virtual Vault provides virtual access to historic Georgia manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government records housed in the state archives".

There is a lot of information here, all free.

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).

Genealogy Society newsletter

Some notes from the July-August issue of   Links and Bridges, the newsletter of the Genealogy Society of Hernando County:
The Florida Genealogical Society (Tampa) will meet Saturday, Aug 4th and 11 a.m. at the John F. Germany Public Library in Tampa. Ann Staley will present a program on death record research sources....Irish Lives Remembered (irishlivesremembered.com) is an online genealogy community for those look for the Irish ancestors. Free to join.....
familysearch.org offers New York Probate Records 1629-1971. Covers 45 NY counties, but not indexed or searchable- browse only.
The Genealogy Society of Hernando County meets at 6:30 on the 4th Thursday of every month at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints(Mormons). The church is located at 21043 Yontz Road in Brooksville. For more information, please call Kathleen Marsh at 352-796-1623 or Bunny Ryczek at 352-796-4419.

More links to free genealogy books online

http://genealogybooklinks.com/ provides links to free online genealogy books  by state and type, plus  a extensive list of old  books on all kinds of subjects.  The quantity of material is impressive- 30,000 links, according to one review. Take a look.