New and Interesting this Week - 5 Oct 08

Sunday October 5, 2008

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has been available on CD-ROM from Cambridge University Press since 1999, but many researchers have either never heard of it or seen it due to its fairly hefty price tag. Now, however, this valuable resource is available for free on the Internet - containing records of over 27,000 individual journeys for the period 1650-1867, and a database identifying over 67,000 Africans by name. The beautiful Web site also offers a wealth of data and maps on the history of the slave trade between Europe, Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean and North America.

RootsTelevision.com Turns 2! The small, but highly effective company that Megan Smolenyak laughingly refers to as "two chicks and a channel celebrated its second birthday on September 29 (ironically, that's also my husband's birthday!). Hundreds of videos related to genealogy, DNA and other family history topics are available online for free viewing - check them out if you haven't already!

Becky from the kinexxions blog posts a great solution to correcting mistakes found in your own (or others) online genealogy databases in Correcting Mistakes: Elsie and Charles Wiseman.

I Read it in the News! was the topic for the 57th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy. This is one I especially wanted to join in (time caught up with me) - but those dozens who did will keep you busy reading about the joys of old newspapers for hours!

If you have questions about preserving your family heirlooms, then you might want to mark your calendars for the free Saving Family Treasures webinar with Maureen Taylor at Ancestry.com on 15 October 2008.

There are so many genealogy collaboration sites on the Internet these days that I haven't yet had time to explore them all. One such Internet-based family tree builder -- AGES-online -- announced this week that they've added the ability for account owners to assign user names and passwords, plus manage the level of account access for an unlimited number of family members. If you've checked out AGES for yourself, please let me know what you think!

I was too shy to participate in Terry Thornton's great Getting to Know You Challenge for genealogy bloggers at Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi. Can you believe you can actually be shy online as well as in person? But the highlighted posts of many of my fellow genealogy bloggers make for some wonderful reading - some of the best of online genealogy over the past few years!

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October 8, 2008 at 7:38 pm (1) Terry Thornton says:

Kimberly, Thanks for the mention/link. You, shy? I’d never have thought it! LOL! I do appreciate the kind words — the GeneaBloggers have done some interesting articles over the past several months — and I was delighted to get to know so many of them.

Terry Thornton
Fulton, Mississippi
HILL COUNTRY OF MONROE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI

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