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The weekend is here! If you have some free time for genealogy fun, I recommend:
1) Listen to the Geneabloggers Radio show tonight (Friday night, 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT, 7 p.m. MT and 6 p.m. PT) hosted by Thomas MacEntee, with co-host Sharon Sergeant. This week's topic is Information Overload: Finding the Genealogy Data You Need. The special guests will include:
* Dan Lynch, author of Google Your Family Tree who’ll have some tips and tricks and making Google searches work for you and your genealogy research!
* Drew Smith of The Genealogy Guys Podcast who as a librarian will offer tips on how to navigate the resources at archives and repositories using finding aids and more!
2) Listen to the FGS Radio - My Society show on Saturday (2 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. CT, 12 noon MT, 11 a.m. PT) hosted by Thomas MacEntee. This week's topic will be The FamilySearch Research Wiki and Your Genealogy Society The guests include:
* Lise Embley, of FamilySearch who will help us understand how the FamilySearch Research Wiki works and how it can help your genealogy society.
* We’ll be highlighting FGS member society, Fairfax Genealogical Society, Fairfax County. Virginia, in our weekly Society Spotlight feature.
3) Check out the recent FREE Webinars on:
* LegacyFamilyTree:
*** Digital Books and Sites for Genealogists. by James Tanner (free until 16 January 2012)
*** "Is My Pet Frog Part of My Family?" Children and Genealogy in the Classroom, by Maureen Taylor (free until 26 December, but still available)
*** New Genealogy Technology: Flip-Pal™ Mobile Scanner, by Gordon Nuttall (free)
* RootsMagic Webinars (all free) available at http://www.rootsmagic.com/Webinars/. Recently added:
*** What's New in RootsMagic 5
* National Genealogical Society (NGS) Videos (some are free to view) athttp://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/videos_online
* Thomas MacEntee's Explorinars, including:
*** Easy Website Creation (free to view).
*** Evernote - Easy Note Taking UPDATED (free to view)
*** Facebook Pages vs. Facebook Groups (free to view)
* Ancestry.com's YouTube Channel has over 137 items on it now, including (free to view):
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: Using Tree Hints with Crista Cowan
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: Exploring the 1930 US Federal Census with Juliana Smith
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: Genealogy New Years Resolutions for 2012 with Anne Mitchell
*** Common Surnames: Strategies to Finding Your Ancestor in the Crowd with Juliana Smith
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: Using Online Trees to Help with Pre-1850 Relatives with Anne Mitchell.
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: Reading Handwritten Historical Documents with Anne Mitchell
*** Ancestry.com Live: How to Control Your Results with Anne Mitchell
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: How to Use the World War II Draft Registration Cards with Juliana Smith
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: How do I find the maiden names of women in my family tree? by Crista Cowan
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: I believe my ancestor was Native American/Indian, How do I prove that? by Crista Cowan
*** Ancestry.com LIVE: Unlock the Secrets of the 1790 - 1840 US Census Records with Anne Mitchell
4) Respond to my Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge, posted on www.geneamusings.com soon after 12 noon Pacific time (that's 2000 GMT for those who understand time zones).
5) Go to a local genealogical society program. Is one of your local societies having a program this weekend? Go, learn and share with other attendees. I'm attending the San Diego Genealogical Society's Seminar on Saturday - the speaker is Thomas W. Jones.
6) Go to a local or close repository with genealogy and family history material. Do some research in traditional resources or order FamilySearch microfilms online with original source records.
7) Do some online research in the latest record collections
* FamilySearch (free, https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list),
* Ancestry ($$, http://www.ancestry.com/cs/reccol/default),
* Fold3 ($$, www.fold3.com),
* WorldVitalRecords ($$, www.WorldVitalRecords.com),
* American Ancestors ($$, www.AmericanAncestors.org),
* GenealogyBank ($$, www.GenealogyBank.com),
* Archives ($$, www.Archives.com)
8) Add content (names, dates, places, notes, images, sources, etc.) to your genealogy software program. I still have many inches of paper collected over time, and will try to enter some of it into my database this weekend.
9) Spend time with your family doing fun things. Not this weekend...
10) Go to a local cemetery and clean stones, take gravestone pictures, or transcribe epitaphs for your local society, for Find-a-Grave, or a similar online service.
Whatever you decide, please tell us about your genealogy endeavors on a social network or in a blog post. You never know when your experiences may stimulate or encourage others to do useful genealogy work.
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