From the Facebook page: Looking for Lost Cousins? The Lost Cousins website is all about making connections. Find your ancestors, their siblings, and their children on a listed Census record for the U.K. or U.S., and connect yourself to them. That will help others researching the same people to find you. Everything is free through Sept. 30, 2024.
From the Facebook page: Looking for a new way to sort your DNA matches. Have you tried examining X-DNA? This one-hour video on YouTube demonstrates how it works. You need to have DNA on Family Tree DNA or GEDmatch (currently) for access to X-DNA details.
In case you wondered what is going on in Pensacola archaelogy, here is the website for the Pensacola Archaelogy Society, and their Facebook page. Lots happening in our historic city!
From The Archive Lady's Facebook page: This blog post from the State Archives of North Carolina is a PERFECT example of why our genealogy research is never done! These records are already in an archive BUT they were not processed in a way that researchers would know to look in them for their ancestors. The archivists have reprocessed this collection of records and have digitized a lot of them so you can find your ancestors, especially your enslaved ancestors. A must read for any North Carolina genealogy.
August 25, 2024
By: Erin Renfroe
Brick Wall Busting
From The Archive Lady's Facebook page: This is a FANTASTIC example of how to tear down a genealogy brick wall. Jim Long from the Stewart County, Tennessee Archives does an excellent job of giving us the play by play of how he tore down his family brick wall.
From the Facebook page: Scotlands People just added another 4,000 volumes of church records. They have a guide to searching their database, including tips for their new keyword search. Click here to explore.
July 16, 2024
By: Erin Renfroe
Florida Hidden Treasures
From the Facebook page: Panhandle libraries are sharing their digitized collection of historical and genealogical documents. It includes materials from Destin, Okaloosa/Walton, Lynn Haven, Bay County, Chipola, and Liberty County.
Got Spanish or Cuban ancestry? From a member of the King's Gap Chapter of the DAR: "Apparently, there has been significant research on Cuban soldiers that served during the Revolution and while DAR has accepted their service for 100 years or more, this provides more detail including a list of soldiers that served."
