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This is my version of the popular “Follow Friday” blog prompt where bloggers provide links to posts on
other genealogy blogs that they have found interesting, or useful, or both.
It is not that I am some kind of inveterate contrarian
incapable of joining a Follow Friday
community, it is just that I have this inconvenient thing called “a job” that
prevents me from devoting as much time to genealogy and The Prism as I would like to.
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I decided recently to do a
series on Fridays that I call Friday
Fotos. I do this series
because I am so frequently unsure what my commute home from the office will have in store and consequently
how much time I will have to post a blog after decompressing and having a
little supper. Delving into my
photo archive and preparing ahead of time a “Foto” with a brief contextual
explanation seemed suited to time-challenged Fridays. By the same logic, Saturdays often allow a more leisurely
approach to life and I
can post links to some blog posts I have discovered during the week, or even to
those discovered during a Saturday morning coffee and extended blog surf.
Here are a few serendipitous blog discoveries from this week
that I commend for inclusion on your reading list.
1. Judy
G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog
had a very nice post on February 1st about when a blog crosses the
line into commercial territory and thus needs to be very careful about posting
borrowed content.
2. Diane
MacLean Boumenot at One Rhode Island Family http://onerhodeislandfamily.com
posted an informative piece on her strategy and approach for trying to break
through a brick wall. The post illustrates why persistence is a necessary trait for genealogists.
3. I
have long had an interest in the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and blogged
on January 20, 2013 about my grandfather surviving the first wave of the deadly
flu. Heather Wilkinson Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com
did the great service of posting a collection of links to blog posts about the
Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 on her blog yesterday. The links are on my reading list for
today. Thank you Heather!
4. In
The Weekly Genealogist, Vol 16, No. 4
(January 23, 2013), the NEHGS newsletter published a brief guest
piece by Jason Newton about rediscovering the Old Connecticut Path. http://www.americanancestors.org/enews-2013 The OCP was a route followed by
pioneers from Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut. Jason has a wonderful site documenting his rediscovery of
the Path that his ancestors walked to get to Connecticut from the Massachusetts
Bay.
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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew
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