Monday Recap for January 9, 2012
Here are this week’s links:
The Genealogy Sphere
- Be Careful in Your Assumptions (Thoughts from Polly’s Granddaughter) – Don’t assume you know all the facts!
- What Can I do to Restore an Old Photo? (Family Search) – Great tips on how to restore old photographs
- Searching Mexico’s census for clues about American history (CNN) – Actor Edward James Olmos talks about genealogy in the Latin community and the digitization of the 1930 Mexican census
- Indigenous genealogy report branded racist (The Canberra Times) – A government sponsored genealogy project causes controversy in Australia
- Genealogy Today: My romance with courthouses (Green Valley News and Sun) – Genealogist Betty Lou Malesky talks about her love of researching in courthouses
- Martin Sheen, Reba MacEntire, Rob Lowe Among ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Season 3 Cast (The Hollywood Reporter) – Mark your calendars! The hit genealogy series returns February 3
- You can’t always trust ‘eyewitness’ accounts (Tampa Bay Online) – A great reminder
- Kissing Cousins: Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick (Origin Hunters) – Genealogist Michael Maglio is excited for the new season of Who Do You Think You Are?
On Geni
- Recap for January 3, 2012 – Last week’s recap of the holidays
- Genealogy Conferences 2012 – A calendar of upcoming genealogy conferences for 2012
Profile of the Day
Genealogy Discussions
Genealogy Projects
Popular Genealogy Profiles
Surnames
The Geni Blog
The World Family Tree