Here are some suggested reading items for this weekend:
1. The Weekly Genealogist announced the addition of updates to Volume 179 of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register to that database. This adds some 430 pages and 11,000 searchable names. You can read more about the database here.
2. New to me is the listing of new and updated data collections from Ancestry, FindMyPast, FamilySearch and others at the blog of Lois Willis--Genealogy and Family History. Lois posts about new and updated collection each Friday. You can view her latest updates here.
3. Linda Stufflebean, of Empty Branches on the Family Tree blog, discusses the subject of ethics in genealogy and reviews the book Ethical Dilemmas in Genealogy by Penny Walters, Ph.D. Although the review is a net negative on the book, Linda's review is worth a read because it raises the subject of ethics in genealogy and implies the need to have a really good book to tackle this increasingly important topic. You can read Linda's review here.
4. Heather Rojo, of Nutfield Genealogy blog, provides a monthly summary of various genealogy events. It has a large focus on New England, but includes events from other places -- especially now that so many of the events are virtual and available online. You can view Heather's useful summary for the coming month of June 2020 here.
5. Under the topic of "you never know where you might find a genealogical gem" is a post about getting to see a daguerreotype of a third great grandmother. See the nice photo discovery and read the short post about it by Elizabeth Handler, of From Maine to Kentucky blog, here.
6. I have to admit that there are resources for genealogy research out there of which I am aware, but somehow forget to use. A post by Marian Wood, of Climbing My Family Tree blog, reminded me of one such resource that I need to get much better about checking. Read Marian's post about using the U.S. Census Mortality Schedules by going here. Enumerators in 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 asked about people who died within the twelve months before the enumeration date (June 1st back then). There may well be discoveries in those schedules awaiting those of us who remmember to look!
7. And then there is the very short, but very timely post by Judy Russell, of The Legal Genealogist blog. As Judy says, there is nothing to say. You just have to read it here.
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Copyright 2020, John D. Tew
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