After a brief hiatus last week, here are a few suggested reads for this weekend.
1. For those who live in Massachusetts (especially) and those who have genealogical roots in Massachusetts, The Weekly Genealogist of NEHGS linked to a very important article about how the governor's 2021 budget provides for the severe restriction of access to birth, marriage, and death records. Read here about this latest step in what is looking like a trend to restrict access to important genealogical records. See also the post by Judy Russell of The Legal Genealogist blog here.
2. As a periodic reminder of the value of Randy Seaver's "Genealogy News Bytes" regularly featured on Genea-Musings blog, readers should have a look at the most recent installment here.
3. In a nice juxtaposition of of stories relating to Massachusetts vital records, Vita Brevis, the NEHGS blog, presnted a post by Helen Herzer about how one man came to the rescue of the Massachusetts vital records indices. You can read this brief but timely post here.
4. A subject that is always worth repeated presentation (like the frequent posts and articles on keeping accurate source citation records) is the matter of backing up one's family history research -- and in particular any constructed family trees one has invested countless hours in creating, updating, and preserving. Marian Wood of Climbing My Family Tree blog has a very brief but important reminder of the need to backup one's family trees and she provides quick directions on how to do it with Ancestry trees. Read the post here.
5. I am always interested in learning new or better ways of using Ancestry. A YouTube video titled "How to find Family tree information WITHOUT a subscriotion using Ancestry" caught my eye recently. The video is 19+ minutes in length, but walks you through using Ancestry and gives some very valuable tips. See the video here.
6. James Tanner of Genealogy's Star blog began a new series of posts this week about immigration––"Stymied by the Immigrant: Part One." Immigration is not just a timely, if polemical, topic in today's news, it is also as integral to the genealogy research of Americans as it is to the history of the United States. Read Mr. Tanner's introductory post here.
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