Interesting news this month with the discontinuation of microfilm and the articles ta the FamilySearch blog about the new historical LDS missionary database. I’m still using my feedly/google drive system with IFTTT so all the links redirect through IFTTT. Sorry about that! It’s just so much easier for me! Also here’s a link to a video that RootsTech made of an interview with me and Mom (Diana) talking about family history for children. It was fun to see them share that at RootsTech, we had no idea if they were going to use the interview or not. News FamilySearch Discontinuing...

Did you know you can save articles to Pocket and then listen to them using TTS (text to speech)? It’s my new favorite way to consume content. I like the British voice a little better than the American English. Here are some of the articles I liked this month. As I mentioned in last month’s Favorite Reads post, I am  using IFTTT to automate the creation of this list with an if-then recipe for Feedly and google drive. It’s nice except the links to the articles go through IFTTT first. Sorry about that. Hope it doesn’t bother you too much.  ...

I use Feedly to read my favorite sources, and more, including google news that I curate using keyword combinations like “genealogy” AND “children.” It’s so convenient to do all my reading in one place. The Feedly app is useful too. This month I discovered the possibility of using IFTTT to generate a google doc with the titles and a quote from each of my saved articles in Feedly for this post. About halfway through reading and saving the articles I wanted to feature, I started doing this – that’s why half of the articles have quotes and the others don’t. IFTTT...

There is a plethora of online genealogy content – I wish I could read all of it. I am pleased to share a sampling of what I’ve read and found useful this month – I know I miss a lot of wonderful articles and wish I could read them all. Please let me know if you have a unique article that I can feature next month. DNA AncestryDNA’s Genetic Communities are Finally Here! by Blaine Bettinger at The Genetic Genealogist GUEST POST: The McGuire Method – Simplified Visual DNA Comparisons by Lauren McGuire at the Genetic Genealogist It Keeps Ancestry’s Kendall Hulet Up...

tortillas: an heirloom by Allison Kimball at Simple Inspiration Discovering My Passion for Genealogy by Kenyatta Berry at FamilySearch Blog ‘It’s a Small World’ 4-part DNA online series YouTube series by AncestryAU 4 Reasons You Should Be Recording Family Stories by Hilarie at Legacy Tale New Discovery Experience center provides a jump start for family history by Twila Van Leer at Deseret News RootsTech Oscar “Andy” Hammerstein on Creating a Family Culture by Scot and Maurine Proctor at Meridian Magazine The Secrets in Your DNA May Surprise You By Scot and Maurine Proctor at Meridian Magazine OldNews USA Wins Top Honors at RootsTech 2017 Innovator Showdown at the...

Note: I have decided to compile my “Favorite Reads” list monthly instead of weekly. This year I’d like to spend some of my Friday night genealogy blog reading time doing research. I don’t want to miss out on the genealogy news and any articles of interest so if I miss something you think I’d be interested in, let me know! Tabernacle Choir, President and Sister Nelson to highlight RootsTech events by R. Scott Lloyd at Deseret News Getting Started with Family History (By Starting at the Beginning) by Leslie Albrecht Huber at the FamilySearch Blog Will Essentials: What Happens to Your Tangible...

New Year MY 2017 GENEALOGY RESOLUTIONS by Linda Stufflebean at Empty Branches on the Family Tree Twila Van Leer: New year, new resolve at Deseret News Want to Keep a New Year’s Resolution? How to Make It Right for YOU. by Gretchen Rubin at Gretchen Rubin 2016 Year In Review FamilySearch 2016 Genealogy Highlights at the FamilySearch Newsroom – it’s pretty amazing to see that 4.7 million photos were added to FamilySearch this year! Also there are 7.4 million registered users – up for 6.4 million users in 2014. Top 10 Posts of 2016 by Melissa Finlay at Finlay Family The Genea-Musings Top 40 Posts for...

The DNA Era of Genealogy by Blaine Bettinger at The Genetic Genealogist Define Your Dash: Start Writing Your Personal History with the #52Stories Project by Angie Lucas at the FamilySearch Blog Getting past overwhelm by breaking a project down by Janine Adams at Organize your Family History The Library of Congress Is Putting Its Map Collection on the Map by Danny Lewis at Smithsonian.com My Journey of the Certification Process: Entry 6 by Amie Bowser Tennant at My Kith N Kin The Micro-History of the Common Man by Jacqi Stevens at A Family Tapestry  CAPTURE THE MOMENTS THAT MATTER MOST IN 2017 by Rebecca Cooper at Simple...

Christmas Trees Oh Family Tree, Oh Family Tree! by Colleen G. Brown Pasquale at Leaves & Branches O CHRISTMAS TREE, O CHRISTMAS TREE! by Linda Stufflebean at Empty Branches on the Family Tree For Teddy Roosevelt’s Son, Rebelling Meant Sneaking Christmas Trees Into the White House by Cara Giaimo at Atlast Obscura – 1902: Christmas trees an “absurd fad” or a delightful surprise hidden in a closet? A Christmas Tree by Jill Ball at GeniAus – a festive way to visualize ancestors The Family Curator’s Guide to Holiday Re-Gifting by Denise Levenick at The Family Curator Kids and Teens Six Ways to Give the Gift of...

The Security of Your Mother’s Maiden Name by Dick Eastman at Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter Genetic Genealogy in Practice by Roberta Estes at DNA eXplained News FamilySearch celebrates 10 years of indexing historic records by Jana Last at Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog Digital Public Library of America agrees to collaboration with Library of Congress by James Tanner at Genealogy’s Star Building a Backup to Internet Archive’s Digital Collections by Lorine McGinnis Schulze at Olive Tree Genealogy AncestryProGenealogists Announces Scholarship Program for Professional Genealogists by Diane L Richard at Upfront With NGS Watch the Freedmen Bureau Celebration Broadcast at the FamilySearch Blog Christmas Celebrating Sinterklaas by Yvette Hoitink at...