Saturday Serendipity (October 23, 2021)

 

As I ease back into more regular blogging, here are a few suggested reads for this weekend.

1.    James Tanner of Genealogy's Star blog posted this week about the incredible number of documents and other material being digitized online.  He suggests the need to consider expanding "genealogical research" beyond what is most often categorized as a gnealogical record.  You can read his post here.

2.    The Legal Genealogist, Judy Russell, discusses the important question regarding who owns the copyright of the creator after his/her original copyright expires.  You can read the short explanation here.

3.    Having just devoted months to transferring my blog posts to hardback book form, I found a piece by Prudence at creativefamilyhistorian.com to be particularly interesting when it comes to design considerations for creation of a family history book.  Three basic design considerations are discussed with illustarted examples of before and after.  Have a look here.

4.    The COVID pandemic has been epochal in terms of lost life (728,000 and counting in the U.S. alone), but it has also taken a terrible toll in lost businesses -- particularly small businesses that were part of the very fabric of their communities.  This week Barbara Poole of the photo blog Life From the Roots, posted some of those losses in Lowell, Massachusetts that she captured and preserved with her camera.  You can see some of those lost, but not soon to be forgotten businesses here.

5.    Janine Adams of Organize Your Family History blog posted some useful keyboard short cuts (mostly for Mac) that are always worth being reminded about.  See her list here. 

6.    It's that time of year to be reminded again about the "Honor Roll Project" started by Heather Rojo of Nutfield Genealogy blog.  What, you may ask, is the Honor Roll Project?  It is a good way to honor our veterans this coming Veterans Day and you can learn all about how by going here and reading Heather's recent post. 

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Copyright 2021,  John D. Tew

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