Cuban genealogy

Florida International University in Miami has put has put a Cuban genealogy collection online. The source for this material is the Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza Collection held at FIU's Green Library. Here is the article from the FIU News. Thanks to ResearchBuzz for passing this along.

Genealogy Jamboree

The Southern California Genealogy Jamboree is offering free streaming of some sessions from June 5th-7th. The article about it is here. Registration and details are here.

New Genealogy Search Engine

The website Many Roads has created a free search engine that will  perform a keyword search of some the  best genealogy websites of 2015 as selected by GenealogyInTime Magazine. You can read about it and find the link here.Thanks to Geneablogger and ResearchBuzz for the information.

More help from the Florida Archives

This post on the Florida Memory blog discusses another way that the Florida Archives , which holds records of many state agencies,  can provide bits of useful information about your Florida ancestors. In this case, the records are of student farmers in the 1920's who worked on agriculture and home economics projects in a Department of Public Instruction program. 

State archives can be a treasure chest of information. Just enter "Connecticut archives" , for example, in Google or another search engine, and see what you find. State libraries are another potential source.

The Internet Archive

This article from the Genealogy's Star blog talks about the large amount of material available to genealogists on the Internet Archive.

Free people of color in Louisiana

Louisiana State University has put online a collection of letters, records, and public documents from Lousiana pertaining to free black people from from the colonial period to beyond the Civil War. The link to the article from Daily World and the archive itself is here.  
Thanks to ResearchBuzz for letting us know.

This article, published at theverge.com, talks about how the Web has made genealogical research accessible to the average citizen and transformed the way it is done. The article also looks at the history of ancestry.com,  the role of the Mormon church and its Family History Library, and the use of DNA analysis in genealogy. It's close to being an ad for Ancestry, but has a lot of interesting information.