Sunday, December 3, 2017

A Deep Dive into Dihles

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For most of 2017, I led a workshop at the library called Writing a Profile of Your Civil War Ancestor, in which we took a deep and structure...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

MHGS Digitizing Project -- Choosing Our Platform

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We've known since we started the redesign of our society website that one of the purposes was to display digitized resources.  Unfortuna...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Planning a digitizing project

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Our society has thousands of photographs stuck in boxes and file folders.  We decided we needed to locate them, digitize them, and put them ...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Book Review: The Invisible History of the Human Race

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Wow -- what a great book!  I just finished reading The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally. It's kind of hard ...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Digital Archive

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This is a site that sounds dull but turns out to be fascinating...The National Institute of Standards and Technology (yawn, right?) is digit...
Monday, February 24, 2014

Book Review: Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA

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The last genetic genealogy book on the list!   Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA , by Richard Hill isn't rea...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Don't Forget to Look for Digital Books!

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After receiving an email mentioning a 987 page (!) genealogy of one of my families, I was feeling sad that it's out of print.  Googling ...