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Genealogical.com Blog
4d ago
Let’s say you are looking for the German origin of one of your ancestors, and you’ve exhausted your English-language sources. You are familiar with German genealogical words and phrases because you own a copy of Ernest Thode’s German-English Genealogical Dictionary. You’re reasonably confident that the missing ancestor came to the U.S. from Berlin, so what should you do next?
The answer could be in another book by Mr. Thode, namely, the Second Edition of his Historic German Newspapers Online. For the past decade or so, Thode has been sourcing every German-language newspaper on the Internet th ..read more
Genealogical.com Blog
1w ago
Over the past two years, we have published compendia devoted to two series of books compiled by Dr. David Dobson: Scots-Irish Links (16 parts), and Irish Emigrants in North America (10 parts). Both of these consolidated works improve upon their original components by adding full-name indexes and, especially for institutional buyers, by assembling all the various parts in one place.
As publishers we appreciate and promote the value of these compendia; however, it should not be lost on researchers that David Dobson has continued to travel to archives in Scotland, Ireland, and elsewhe ..read more
Genealogical.com Blog
3w ago
Over the past week or two, we received highly favorable reviews of the new fourth edition of Evidence Explained. Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace from three of the most popular genealogy bloggers on the Internet: Marian B. Wood (“Climbing My Family Tree”), Randy Seaver (“Genea-Musings” ), and Linda Stufflebean (“Empty Branches on the Family Tree”).
Each reviewer provided a strong, overall endorsement for the new edition. Mr. Seaver, writing on February 18th, asserted, “This book is a necessary work for every researcher’s bookshelf or desktop, or reference book computer file ..read more
Genealogical.com Blog
1M ago
Consider the following 17th-century Virginia land patent abstract:
“MATHEW PRICE, son and heire to JOHN PRICE, late of Va., labourer, 150 acs. Henrico Co., upon Turkey Island Cr., 23 May 1638, p. 558. E. by S. upon sd. Cr., W. by N. toward Bremo, S. by W. upon land granted to his late father, now in possession of his mother ANN HALLOM, widdowe, towards the gr. River & N. by E. into the woods. Due in right of his father who had a patent of 150 acs. Granted 20 Feb.1619. by SIR GEORG YEARDLY.”
It is no exaggeration to say that this patent-in-brief, filed by Mathew Price of Henrico County, hol ..read more
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1M ago
The Winter 2023 edition of Ohio Genealogy News (Vol.54: No. 4), the quarterly newsletter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, features a review by genealogist Katharine Ott of the new edition of Genealogical Research in Ohio, by Kip Sperry.
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Here are a few highlights from that review:
“The updated and revised version is a thorough coverage of on-site, published, and online records for all the usual topics . . . and perhaps ones the readers haven’t considered yet. . . . And be sure to check out the extensive bibliography of books available on various topics . . . Much of the informatio ..read more
Citation Tips: Citing History Sources—Flexibility & Choices. By Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Genealogical.com Blog
1M ago
To celebrate the release of the new fourth edition of Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, EE’s author offers guidance drawn from the new edition. This is the fourth in our four-part series. ( View Part 1 | View Part 2 | View Part 3 )
Citations are flexible structures. They are not rigid formulas from which we dare not deviate lest the Citation Police take away our license to do research. When and how to deviate is the issue that puzzles most researchers.
The new fourth edition of Evidence Explained adds an entirely ..read more
Genealogical.com Blog
2M ago
To celebrate the release of the new fourth edition of Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, author Elizabeth Shown Mills offers guidance drawn from the new edition. This is second in our four-part series. (View part 1)
Technology has complicated the process of citing our sources. With digital images delivered online or through other electronic media, we have two entities to cite: first, the original document and where it is housed; second, the digital provider from whom we obtained the images.
Citing only the provider is unwise. Websites come ..read more
Genealogical.com Blog
2M ago
To celebrate the release of the new fourth edition of Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, author Elizabeth Shown Mills offers guidance drawn from the new edition. This is the first in our four-part series.
Basic Rule 1: We Cite What We Use
This bit of wisdom is one most of us learn the hard way. Nothing, absolutely nothing, helps to keep a researcher out of trouble more-surely than this. For example:
If we use an online index to church records, our citation does not cite the church records because we did not use them. We used someone’s index, and it ..read more
Genealogical.com Blog
2M ago
The following stellar review by Bobbi King of the new Third Edition of Genealogical Research in Ohio, by Kip Sperry, appeared in the December 15, 2023, issue of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter.
“Book Review: Genealogical Research in Ohio – 15 Dec 2023
The following book review was written by Bobbi King:
Genealogical Research in Ohio. 3rd Edition.
by Kip Sperry. Published by Genealogical Publishing Co. 2023. 351 pages.
Mr. Sperry, the author of two previous editions of Research, the last one having been published in 2003, writes this volume to include internet and computer resources ..read more
Genealogical.com Blog
2M ago
(View 4th Edition of Evidence Explained in Store)
The Information Age has created a Catch-22 for historians. Online, we can scour billions of documents from around the world. Images of priceless originals are instantly downloadable to our PCs, laptops, tablets, and phones. Travel to archives, for long slogs through dusty boxes of record bundles tied in faded ribbons, is a fading memory for many researchers and an experience totally unfamiliar to millions of others.
We do pay a price for this convenience, however. Those online records are delivered to us through a maze of formats. M ..read more