Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.
My criteria for Best of . are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don t list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.
Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:
I received this from the Genealogical Forum of Oregon (GFO) recently:
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APRIL 16-18 Genealogy Zoomboree - Making the Invisible Visible
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon celebrates its 75th Anniversary with a multicultural Genealogy Zoomboree, April 16-18.
Four nationally known experts bring us 8 lessons to help you tap online resources from home as you trace your family roots.
Registration for one, two, three or all four speakers is online athttps://gfo.org/zoomboree.
Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL, Board for Certification of Genealogists -
Courthouse Research & Indexes - Find critical genealogical information from your local courthouse.
Land Records: Rich Sources for Your Research - Even non-landowners can end up in land and deed records.
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APRIL 16-18 Genealogy Zoomboree - Making the Invisible Visible
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon celebrates its 75th Anniversary with a multicultural Genealogy Zoomboree, April 16-18.
Four nationally known experts bring us 8 lessons to help you tap online resources from home as you trace your family roots.
Registration for one, two, three or all four speakers is online athttps://gfo.org/zoomboree.
Rebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL, Board for Certification of Genealogists -
Courthouse Research & Indexes - Find critical genealogical information from your local courthouse.
Land Records: Rich Sources for Your Research - Even non-landowners can end up in land and deed records.
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Where did your ancestral families reside in 1920? Do you know their addresses or locations? Have you visited the home? Who was enumerated in the 1920 in each family? Are any of your ancestral families missing from the 1920 U.S. Census even if they should be in the census?
2) Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post. Please leave a link in a comment to this post.
Genealogical Forum of Oregon Hosting a FREE Virtual Open House From 27 March to 3 April 2021
I received this information from the Genealogical Forum of Oregon:
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GFO Celebrates 75th Anniversary with Virtual Open House
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon has hit a major milestone. We re 75 years old! Founded by three women in a living room in 1946, this all-volunteer non-profit has grown to become the largest genealogy library in the Pacific Northwest, with 51,000 holdings, more than 1,000 members, and a busy calendar of events for members and non-members alike.
In the past year, due to the pandemic, a team of dedicated volunteers moved more than 130 classes online and are now transferring tens of thousands of records onto the organization’s website.