Friday Finds – 08/26/11

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

Online Articles/Posts

• GeneaBloggers Meetup at FGS 2011 – Get Your Bead On!
• US Yearbooks Collection Gets Major Upgrade / New Photo Sweepstakes on Facebook

New-to-Me Blogs

• American Genealogy:  Clues and Steps in the Ancestor Search

Print Articles

• “Genealogy in the Classroom,” by Elizabeth Drembus, NGS Magazine, July-Sept 2011
• “Breaking Through the Scholarly Divide: Open Access for Family Historians,” by Dawn C. Stricklin, NGS Magazine, July-Sept 2011

Websites

• Surname Index Search (via Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library)
• Fulton County (Illinois) Circuit Court Case Files Index, 1825-1876 (via Illinois State Archives)