Monday Recap for January 21, 2013
Have you made any interesting discoveries recently? Check out some interesting articles from the past week.
The Genealogy Sphere
- “Grandma Did What?” Digging Up the Roots of Family Lore (Wall Street Journal) – Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak gives a brief summary of some common misperceptions passed down by families
- Address book is a family history, bound by tradition (MPR News) – Do you still have a physical address book? A great article to remind us that these old address books hold breadcrumbs of life changes
- Family history: the shifting secrets of our genealogies – in pictures (The Guardian) – A look into how attitudes on privacy have changed over the last 200 years
- DNA: the privacy sky is not falling (The Legal Genealogist blog) – Judy Russell’s recent blog post about DNA testing in genealogy should help calm some fears about privacy
- The Baldwin Sisters share a little family history (KPCNews.com) – A touching story about how an orphaned twin became a part of the family
On Geni
- Monday Recap for January 14, 2013 – Last week’s recap
- Family Tree Tuesday – Mariana Victoria of Spain – Learn more about Mariana Victoria of Spain’s family tree
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