Monday Recap for September 30, 2013

Posted September 30, 2013 by Amanda | 3 Comments

Start the new week off right with some great articles from the past week!

Webscape: Tracing your family history (BBC News) – Learn more about MyHeritage in this BBC report
How to Get on Genealogy Roadshow (Or Not) (Taneya’s Genealogy Blog) – Read how genealogy blogger Taneya Koonce auditioned for PBS’s latest genealogy series Genealogy Roadshow
Flooding of Chicago Effects Local Cemeteries (Finding Our Ancestors blog) – Check out first hand account of how the flooding in Chicago effected a local cemetery
“Reading” a Family Photo Album (Family Tree Magazine blog) – Photo detective Maureen Taylor gives some tips on how to “read” a family photo album
Identities of unnamed dead at Huronia Regional Centre emerge (The Star) – Thanks to faulty record keeping by staff at the Hospital for the Feeble-Minded in Orillia, the location of patients buried may never be known
Long-lost brother and sister torn apart by parents separation reunite 30 years later and find out they both serve in the US Navy (Daily Mail Online) – After 30 years apart, siblings are reunited

Monday Recap for September 23, 2013 – Last week’s recap
Reunited After Death – Despite being separated by society, not even death could keep this “mixed” couple apart