Photo detective

We linked to this blog about dating old photos a few years back, but its worth revisiting. Maureen Taylor posts photos submitted by readers and points out clues to when they were taken. Great photos and interesting discussion.There are archives back to 2007, and photos are also archived by decade and by subject and type of photo.

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

After 3 years, RAOGK is back in business. The original site ran from 1999 until the passing of its founder in 2011. Volunteers from all over the world offer their assistance with genealogical research. You can find a volunteer to help, or become a volunteer yourself.

Free translation services

We found this article on a database for Swedish language newspapers published in the U.S. that will be available late 2015. That got us to thinking about where foreign language documents might be translated. Here are some places to go for free translation(by an actual person, not a computer):

Multiple language:

freelang.net 
cucumis.org
linguanaut.com

Russian: russian-lang.ru           
               free-translator.russian-translation-pros.com


French: sylang.com (French language site)

Just make sure you read the rules before submitting your request- most limit the number of characters or words you can send at one time.

My cousin, the Virgin Mary

Just in time for Christmas is this post from the Barking Up the Wrong Tree genealogy blog(scroll down to the Dec 22nd post):

 http://buwt.blogspot.com/

Parish records from Ireland

Those with Irish ancestors may be interested to know that  some 400,000 Irish parish records will become available online, for free, in the summer of 2015. As this article from Catholic News says, you'd have to travel to Ireland to have access otherwise. Thanks to ResearchBuzz for passing this along.

GSHC Newsletter

Here are some highlights from Links and Bridges, the newsletter of The Genealogy Society of Hernando County:

The Genealogy Interest Group has set its schedule for Dec-Oct. They meet at 11 a.m. the West Hernando branch library:
Dec 9th              June 9th
Jan 6th               July 14th
Feb 10th             Aug 11th
Mar 10th             Sep 8th
Apr 14th             Oct 13th
May  12th

.....Go to italiangen.org/records-search/deaths.php for a database of New York deaths compiled by the Genealogy Federation of Long Island.....try elephind.com for millions of articles from more than 2700 historical newspapers....  The Polish Genealogical Society of America has a website for anyone with Polish connections to Chicago.

Visit  http://gshc.tk/  to learn more about the Genealogy Society of Hernando County.

More Free Webinars

These will be broadcast on the 2nd Tuesday of each month by the Illinois State Genealogical Society. Time: 8 pm CENTRAL TIME (9 pm here). The content is not limited to Illinois. You can see the schedule here.