New and Interesting this Week - 28 Sept 08
Sunday September 28, 2008
It seems like genealogists this week have been reading my mind. Here are several of the many interesting things I read this week that I thought you might enjoy as well.
Got slides you wanta digitize? Becky discusses various options for digitizing her collection of old slides, including her experience with the Walmart scanning service. I've been using the relatively inexpensive 35mm Slide & Negative Digital Converter but it is definitely slow going digitizing them one slide at a time...
In 1735 there were three small children named Johann Ayelts in the village of Wiesens, now located in Germany. So, Michael John Neill begins his interesting article Here a Johann, There a Johann, Everywhere a Johann on sorting out men with the same name on the 24/7 Family History Circle blog.
I think you'll all be just as jealous of Janet Hovorka as I am after you read about the great family history books her mother has been creating for years in How to share your family history with your family--Books.
A suitcase full of family photographs, portraits of soldiers from the First World War and other memorabilia has been found tucked away in a wardrobe in Weymouth, Dorset, England. The people who have discovered this family treasure are anxious to return the keepsakes to living relatives. Can you help? See Case of the lost family history in the Dorset Echo by Laura Kitching.
I'm not the only one who wrote about correcting mistakes this week! Myrt has an interesting discussion about discovering and correcting mistakes, and asks us all to have a little patience - with our own mistakes, and those of others.
Have I Stretched Myself Too Thin? Suddenly, the joy is gone from my research and I feel almost like it is a job to keep up with all of this. What happened? Where did the fun go to? I see shades of myself in this post from Ken Spangler at Beyond Fiction. Technology and the Internet offer so many great tools for genealogy collaboration and community, but how do we keep it all under control so there is still enough time for the thing we enjoy most - genealogy research?
I’m really thinking about how to get things under control and get back to doing what I enjoy doing.
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