Link Love: Celebrating the 19th Amendment
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What are your plans for the weekend? I had a busy week and am looking forward to some downtime! I signed up for my first virtual genealogy conference. I’m looking forward to it.
We had both a record heat wave this week and a crazy surprise thunderstorm the other day. It’s pretty rare to have thunderstorms around here, and almost as rare for San Francisco to reach 95 degrees. Thankfully, things are more normal again.
I don’t often have time to do my own genealogy, but was able to fit in some research last weekend to dig through 18th century probates from Rockingham County, New Hampshire, looking for hints about a brick wall ancestor of mine. In the process, I came across the probate record for a friend’s ancestor! Our families came from the same towns and counties in New England many generations ago and years ago I figured out we’re related two ways by marriage. This is one of the things I love about genealogy - you never know what you’re going to find!!
Next up is requesting the divorce records for my great grandmother. She was divorced twice, poor thing. I wonder what may have been going on.
What genealogy are you going to do this weekend??
How to begin researching your Mayflower ancestor. [podcast]
Legalese for genealogists. [video]
The National Archives has some great info in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment.
What happened when kids went to school during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
How these images changes changed a woman’s Mennonite family history. [video]
How to vote in the 2020 election. A state-by-state guide.
Tips on creating your own family history blog. [video]
A son’s family history research reunited his mom with her long lost best friend.
There’s a new database of historic cookbooks. Learn about food culture and trends from over 5000 cookbooks.
This just announced book, Ancestry Quest, about our search for our family’s past looks interesting.
So does this: Finding My Father, a memoir tracing the author’s father from 1908 Warsaw to NYC.
Slave and emancipation registers for Curacao are now available online.
I’ve been thinking of getting a new genealogy workbook and this one and this one look lovely.
A Dirty Dancing sequel is coming!
Talking about migrations and our ancestors. [video]