{"id":73765,"date":"2012-04-02T14:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=73765"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T21:47:52","slug":"monday-recap-for-april-2-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/monday-recap-for-april-2-2012-73765.html","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recap for April 2, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting day today with the release of the 1940 U.S. census. While you wait for your images to load, take a look at some interesting genealogy articles from the past week.<\/p>\n<h3>The Genealogy Sphere<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/genealogy-art.html\">Genealogy Art<\/a> (Past-Present-Future) &#8211; Smadar Belkind Gerson shares a piece from her husband&#8217;s art work inspired by their ancestors<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/tribu\/ct-tribu-1940-census-web-only-20120328,0,5340608.story\">Unlocking a new door to the 1940s<\/a> (Chicago Tribune) &#8211; Some tips on how to search the 1940 census records<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2012-03-26\/census-1940-open-to-public\/53872786\/1\">1940 Census opens window on history<\/a> (USA Today) &#8211; Cool graphic of the 1940 census demographics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.net\/stories\/2012\/03\/30\/genealogy-turns-facebook\">Genealogy turns to Facebook<\/a> (Standard-Examiner) &#8211; A new game on Facebook called The Family Village turns genealogy into a fun Facebook game<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/2012\/03\/31\/1940-census-records-to-reveal-great-things-about-greatest-generation\/\">1940 census records to reveal great things about &#8216;Greatest Generation&#8217;<\/a> (The Gazette) &#8211; The 1940 census captures the life of Grace Amemiya, a Japanese-American living in California before she was sent to an internment camp<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/765564491\/NY-WWII-history-project-lists-entire-Guard-roster.html\">NY WWII history project lists entire Guard roster<\/a> (Desert News) &#8211; Learn about the New York State Military Museum&#8217;s World War II project&#8217;s goal to index information from almost 29,000 index cards to their digital database<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ancestralbreezes.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/one-mother-four-birth-certificates.html\">One Mother: Four Birth Certificates; Finding Mistakes in Vital Records<\/a> (Ancestral Breezes) &#8211; Jen Baldwin offers an important reminder to research other branches of your tree to build an accurate family history<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>On Geni<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/monday-recap-for-march-26-2012-373638.html\">Monday Recap for March 26, 2012<\/a> &#8211; Last week&#8217;s recap<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/todays-release-enhancements-to-family-group-373696.html\">Today&#8217;s Release: Enhancements to Family Group<\/a> &#8211; We made some minor changes to Family Group and released some fixes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/how-i-met-the-bloomfields-373713.html\">How I Met the Bloomfields<\/a> &#8211; Guest blogger Smadar Belkind Gerson of <a href=\"http:\/\/the-past-to-the-present.blogspot.com\/\">Past-Present-Future<\/a> shares how she made a family connection through Geni<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Profile of the Day<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-harry-connick-jr-373627.html\">Harry Connick, Jr.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-gloria-swanson-373645.html\">Gloria Swanson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-lady-gaga-2-373653.html\">Lady Gaga<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-cy-young-373655.html\">Cy Young<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-rita-wilson-373660.html\">Rita Wilson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting day today with the release of the 1940 U.S. census. While you wait for your images to load, take a look at some interesting genealogy articles from the past week. The Genealogy Sphere Genealogy Art (Past-Present-Future) &#8211; Smadar Belkind Gerson shares a piece from her husband&#8217;s art work inspired by their ancestors Unlocking a new door to the 1940s (Chicago Tribune) &#8211; Some tips on how to search the 1940 census&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/monday-recap-for-april-2-2012-73765.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3761],"tags":[121,4538,2321,521],"class_list":["post-73765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-recap-2","tag-family-tree","tag-genealogy","tag-links","tag-recap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73770,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73765\/revisions\/73770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}