Details Genealogical Research

02/28/2025

Please, please share. We need to get the word out. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR DONATIONS.

Every genealogist who researches in U.S. records has, without question, benefitted from NARA's work. NARA needs our voices to protect assets owned by "We, the People."

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides core government functions necessary to preserve, protect, and make accessible records from all three branches of the federal government.

02/23/2025

Echoing what others have said, concerns about (a) the new website UGA just rolled out; (b) the unceremonious removal of SLIG’s Director, triggering a series of SLIG staff resignations; and (c) the overall future of SLIG should be emailed to the entire UGA Board—not to just one person. Don’t rely on social media pages (where posts are sometimes removed by admins).

10/31/2024

As a follow up to my last post, take a look at NARA's digitization department. The techno-nerd in me is swooning over the scanners and photo set ups.

A new state-of-the-art digitization center is allowing the National Archives to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical fede...

10/31/2024

A fascinating peek into the (massive) digitization process at NARA.

10/23/2024

H/T to Dawne Slater for sharing the hashtag that sums up my world:

Photo:
Marriage banns, William JACKSON and Elizabeth SUMMERFIELD (27 Mar 1826), Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England, May 2017; digital photo, author’s files. D655+7/PI 4/1, arranged chronologically.

(And yes, Gian and Greg, this is where Dad's middle name--Summerfield--originated.)

10/22/2024

And during ICGHS, no less. Well deserved congratulations to David E. Rencher for having received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Italian Heraldic Genealogical Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. :::applause:::

David Rencher, FamilySearch CGO, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Italian Heraldic Genealogical Institute at the 36th ICGHS Conference.

10/14/2024

Oh, how I hope Internet Archive comes back. Text search on the site is (was?) so much better than running downloaded PDFs through desktop OCR. Thank goodness--in this case--Hathi also has the book.

10/03/2024

That giddy moment when you find 24 tithe roll entries for your 4x great grandfather (including the inn he ran, where I had dinner last June).

10/01/2024

Introducing the only international genealogy fellowship launched in the U.S. If you're interested (or know someone who might be), please SAVE THE LINK BELOW since it's not listed anywhere on the APG website (we're hoping to get that resolved).

https://www.apgen.org/apg_fellowship.php

09/27/2024

Such a wonder, in all the best ways. RIP, Dame Maggie. You (and Violet Crawley) remain in our hearts forever.

09/18/2024

I always said if I had kids, one would get the middle name "Baxter." It appears all three of my 2x great grandfather's sisters had the same idea (screenshot from my research log below).
How cool is that, Leann, Gian, Greg, and Betty?