Friday Finds – 08/12/11

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

Online Articles/Posts

• False Government Death Reports Leave People in the Lurch
• Are You Preparing for the 1940 Census?  We are!

New-to-Me Blogs

• Family Matters (ok, not so new-to-me, but rediscovered after losing it to an RSS feed move)
• Donna Moughty’s Genealogy Resources (thank you Myrt!)

Print Articles

• “Which Isaac Purnell was Esau’s Father”  Unraveling Relationships in Wiltshire,” by Marci A. Despain, NGS Quarterly, June 2011.
• “An 1877 Same-Sex Marriage in Nevada: An Episode in the Unconventional Life of Sarah Pollard,” by J. Homer Thiel, American Ancestors, Summer 2011.

Websites

• The History Press (courtesy of Marian’s Roots & Rambles)