Friday Finds – 09/07/12

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

New-to-Me Blogs

• Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog
• Blogging About GenBooks, Andrea
• Family Heritage Remnants of Time, Brenda Clifford
• Genealogy, Experientially, Rosina Lippi
• Maine Genealogical Society
• St. Louis Genealogical Society
• Honolulu County Genealogical Society
• Peoria (IL) Historical Society
• The History Press Blog
• Past Remembrances, Andrea

Online Articles/Posts

• The True Story of the Deadly Encounter at Fort Dearborn, Geoffrey Johnson (this originally appeared in the December 2009 issue of Chicago)
• Archive of the Month – September 2012 – Earliest Irish Church Directory (1861) Digitized and Available Online, Church of Ireland
• The Genealogy Center’s Surname File Database, Allen County Public Library
• Probate Records: A Gift Many Genealogists Fail to Open, Harold Henderson
• Write As You Go, Tonia Kendrick
• How To Make Your Own eBooks and Publish Them on Amazon, Angela Alcorn
• QuickLesson 11:  Identify Problems & the FAN Principle, Elizabeth Shown Mills

Print Articles

• “Patience Brings Joy:  Anna Maria Fuller Smith,” by Bev Vorpahl, Family Chronicle, Sept/Oct 2012.
• “Using Indirect Evidence and Linguistic Analysis to Trace Polin Ries of New Oreleans,” by Teri D. Tillman, NGS Quarterly, December 2011.

Websites & Resources

• The Law Dictionary (an online database version of Black’s Law Dictionary)
• A Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (a.k.a. Black’s Law Dictionary; digitized version via Google Books)
• Free Newspaper Archives

Upcoming Webinars

Date	Webinar	Presenter	Host
September 11	Grandma did What!?: Researching your Famous and Infamous Relatives	Gena Phillibert-Ortega	Illinois State Genealogical Society
September 12	What is a 'Reasonably Exhaustive Search'?	Michael Hait	Legacy Family Tree
September 14/21/28	Getting Started with Heritage Collector Software (3-part series)	Kathleen Bitter	Legacy Family Tree
September 19	Use Your Digital Camera to Copy Records	Mary Hill	Legacy Family Tree
September 19	Playground Rules for Genealogy on the Internet	Janet Hovorka	Southern California Genealogical Society
September 20	City Directories: More Than Names and Addresses	Jason Harrison	Utah Genealogical Association
September 24	Avoiding Misunderstandings, Part 2: Communication Skills for Professional Genealogists	Jean Wilcox-Hibben	Association of Professional Genealogists
September 26	Digital Research Guidance, Research Logs, and To Do Lists: FamilySearch, Research Wiki, and Legacy FamilyTree	Geoff Rasmussen	Legacy Family Tree
October 3	Privacy and Our Ancestors	Thomas MacEntee	Legacy Family Tree
October 6	Hark! That Tombstone is Talking	Linda Woodward Geiger	Southern California Genealogical Society
October 9	Jumping Over Hurdles in German Research	Leslie Albrecht Huber	Illinois State Genealogical Society