Genealogy on Facebook

The My Ancestors and Me blog posted this article on looking to genealogy groups on Facebook as a source for research.      source: ResearchBuzz

New England Genealogy

Genealogist David Lambert shares some tips on New England genealogy in this 4 1/2 minute video. Posted by Amy Johnson Crow on her blog:  https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/new-england-genealogy/

Free stuff

With Irma bearing down on us, genealogy may be the furthest thing from our minds. But if we're lucky to enough to escape the storm, be aware that The Genealogy Library at Geanet.org is making its collection of 3 billion indexed individuals free from 1 minute past midnight on Sep 8th to midnight on Sept 10th.

This is the first in a series of blog posts from the North Carolina State Archives on how to decipher the handwriting in 17th and 18th century documents.  Source: ResearchBuzz

Best Genealogy Websites

Family Tree Magazine has published its annual list of 101 Best Websites for Genealogy.

Historical Georgia newspapers

The Digital Library of Georgia continues to add new titles to its  Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Lists of recently and soon-to-be added titles are here.  

We found that the images sometime load slowly. The pdf version loads quicker- after you select an edition to download, look  for this and click on "view pdf".

Donald Trump's Ancestry

The 45th President of the United States is of German and Scottish ancestry. Read about it here, at Thoughtco.com