The New "Who Was There" Report in RootsMagic 5

After the announcement of Version 5.0.3 of RootsMagic yesterday, I noted that it had a new report - a "Who Was There" report that could be tailored for a specific date and location.  This is, of course, very timely for the release of the 1940 U.S. Census on Monday, 2 April.

I decided to take the new report for a spin.  Here was my process:

1)  From any view, click on the "Reports" menu and select "Lists:"

2)  Scroll down on the "Lists" in the "Create a Report" window and select the "Who Was There" item:

3)  The "Who Was There" List window opened, and I added to the fields:

*  Find people who may have lived in this place:  "Leominster, Massachusetts"
*  On this date (or during this time period):  1 April 1940
*  Life span (average):  "100"
*  Filters - People to Include:  "Everyone" selected
*  Minimum Age:  "0"
*  Maximum Age:  "100"
*  Checked "Print married name on date"
*  Unchecked "Print alternate names"
*  Unchecked "Reverse place names"
*  Checked "Draw lines between rows"
*  Unchecked "Print preparer's information"

4)  Click on "Generate Report" button:

After about 90 seconds, a six page report was created (41,300 person file).   The column headings are Name, Born, Died, Age, and Place.  The Place information includes every item on the Fact list that has the place name.  I can save or print this report off so that I can use it to find these persons in the 1940 U.S. Census or in a 1940 City Directory for Leominster.  The names are in alphabetical order (by birth name, not married name).

Since I requested everyone in my database, the program checked every person to see if they had a mention of Leominster, Massachusetts in their Fact list.  Note that there are listings for persons for whom I have only a birth or marriage record back into the mid-1800s.  Since I have no death date for some of these persons, and they fall within the 100 year age limit I specified, they are on this list.

Note that Bruce Buzbee has posted about this "Who Was There" report in RootsMagic’s New “Who Was There” Report.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/new-who-was-there-report-in-rootsmagic.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Journals at the NEHGS American Ancestors site

I am a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, even though I am 2,500 miles away.  Why?  Because it has two excellent periodicals (the American Ancestors magazine and the quarterly New England Historical and Genealogical Register) and a website with many searchable databases, including runs of several historic genealogical journals.  You do have to be an NEHGS member in order to access most of the databases and the periodicals.

The historical genealogical journals available at the www.AmericanAncestors.org site include:

*  New England Historical and Genealogical Register:  Volumes 1 to 166 (1847 to present)

*  The American Genealogist:  Volumes 9 to 63 (1932 to 1988)

*  New York Genealogical and Biographical Record:  Volumes 1 to 15 (1870 to 1884)

*  The Mayflower Descendant: Volumes 1 to 25 (1899 to 1923)

*  The Connecticut Nutmegger:  Volumes 1 to 43 (1968 to 2010)

*  The Essex Genealogist: Volumes 1 to 15 (1981-1995)

*  New Netherlands Connections: Volumes 1 to 15 (1996-2010)

*  Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine:  Volumes 1 to 20 (1936-1955)

*  The Virginia Genealogist: Volumes 1 to 49 (1957 to 2005)

*  The Essex Antiquarian: Volumes 1 to 13 (1891-1903)

Frankly, this collection is like having a small periodical library in my genealogy cave!  I can search these journals, or browse them issue by issue, save pages, print out pages, etc.

I currently receive the American Ancestors magazine by postal mail, and access the website to download and save the New England Historical and Genealogical Register issues as a PDF file.  I then put the complete issue on Dropbox so that I can access the issues with my iPhone, Galaxy tablet and laptop computer.

If you have New England and New York ancestry, then an NEHGS subscription is necessary to do extensive online research.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/journals-at-nehgs-american-ancestors.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

(Not So) Wordless Wednesday - Post 198: Richmond Sisters and Cousins

 I am posting photographs from my family collections for (Not So) Wordless Wednesday (you know me, I can't go wordless!).    

Here is a small photograph from the Seaver/Carringer family collection handed down by my mother in the 1988 to 2002 time period:  

This photograph was taken in the summer of 1958 when my grandmother, Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver visited San Diego with her daughter, Evelyn (Seaver) Wood and Evelyn's husband, Walter H. Wood.  They traveled by automobile from Leominster, Massachusetts to San Diego to visit my parents family and the family of Emily (Richmond) Taylor, Bessie's sister.

The four people in the photo are (from left):

*  Emily White (Richmond) Taylor (1879-1966), Bessie's sister, widow of George Taylor (1865-1945)
*  Evelyn (Seaver) Wood (1903-1978), daughter of Bessie, and wife of Walter H. Wood (1893-1966).
*  Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver (1882-1962), widow of Frederick w. Seaver (1876-1942) and mother of my father, Frederick W. Seaver (1911-1983).
*  Dorothy (Taylor) Chamberlain (1904-1992), daughter of Emily (Richmond) Taylor and wife of Marshall B. Chamberlain (1903-1968).

The photograph was taken in the back yard garden of the Chamberlain home at 4601 Terrace Drive in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego.  

The Chamberlain home has a special place in my heart.  Aunt Emily was a dear person, ad Dorothy and Marshall Chamberlain were the only Seaver/Richmond family we had in San Diego.  We visited their home several times a year, especially at Christmas.  

This visit by my grandmother was the only time that I met my grandmother in person.  She would have been proud of my  genealogy research work, since she was the one who claimed that we were descended from Peregrine White, the child born in Massachusetts Bay aboard the Mayflower in 1620.  She was right!  What she didn't know, and I would have loved to be able to tell her and see the twinkle in her eye, was that we are descended also from Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke, John Cooke, George Soule, Richard Warren, Susanna (--?--) (White) Winslow, William Brewster, and Mary (--?--) Brewster.  I would love to be able to tell her "Thank you, grandmother, for a fabulous New England ancestry!"

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/not-so-wordless-wednesday-post-198.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Michael Hait's Genealogy Software Challenge - Citing a Probate Law and Making a Proof Argument

In his post Another word on “Evidence-based” and “Conclusion-based” genealogy software use, Michael Hait presented a short case study involving a probate case, and the applicable probate law, and challenged genealogy software users to:

"In a genealogy software program, how would one:

"(1) enter a “fact” or “event” for S. B. or M. B. to reflect the existence of the probate law?

"(2) cite the probate law?

"I am sure that there is a way, and if I relied on genealogical software in my research, I would have to figure it out. But I have a feeling that it would be a bit convoluted, whereas it is much easier to accomplish simply using a word processor with footnotes.

"The next question is then–how would this be handled differently by an “evidence-based” software user and a “conclusion-based” software user?"

Please read Michael's case study.  If I was faced with this situation, I would add a Birth Event for "S.B." as "before 1745" and cite the probate record for "M.B." from 1762/3 and also cite the probate law that states the age requirement is at least 17 years of age.  I would then add a Proof Argument in a Note to the Birth Event that discusses the situation along the lines of:

"The estate of M.B. was administered in 1762/3 in Whatever County, WhatState. S.B. was appointed the administrator of the estate (Whatever County, WhatState Probate Records, File xx,yyy, recorded 1763, etc.).  

"The applicable WhatState law in 1762/3 states that an administrator must be at least 17 years of age (WhatState Legislature, Law #1745-xxx, Section yy.zzz, etc.).  

Therefore, S.B.'s birth date is before 1745."

This Birth Event Note could also have been added to the Person Notes for S.B.  I tend to add my sources to the Person Notes also.

In addition, I would add the two sources, and the Birth Note, to the Parent-Child Relationship Fact in the software also, because this is primary information relating to that relationship.  

To answer Michael's last question, I don't think that there would be much difference between how an "evidenced-based" or "conclusion-based" software user would add this information.  If this is the only evidence for the Birth date found after a reasonably exhaustive search, then there would be only this one Birth date assertion and Relationship assertion, with authoritative sources attached to those Events.  There is only one piece of Evidence pertaining to the Birth date, and that makes the conclusion easy to make.

I probably would have added information to the Relationship Event and/or to the Person Notes that noted that the S.B. listed in the Revolutionary War Pension File, apparently born in 1764/5, could not be the S.B. son of M.B. who administered the estate of M.B. in 1762/3 for the obvious reasons.  

For me, my genealogy software database is my working file, and I want to put more information into it rather than less information.  It is impossible for me to remember all of the details about names, dates, places, relationships, life events and resources.  If, or when, I am ready to write a report, book or an article, then I can create a rough draft using the software including all of the evidence, sources and notes, and can edit the information as I write the report, book or article.  This rough draft has the names, dates, places and relationships defined, with an appropriate numbering system, so that I don't have to worry about confusing generations or those items - they are in the software and I avoid having to type them over again.  

I find that it is easier for me to edit a rough draft created by my genealogy program.  It is easier for me to edit notes and sources, delete unwanted or obsolete information, or draw soundly written conclusions from the available evidence using a rough draft, than to create information in a word processing program from a stack of paper in a file folder or on my desk.  I understand that the word processing file can be a working document that is added to and edited over a period of time as research progresses.  

I also recognize that different researchers and writers are most comfortable doing things the way they think best and are comfortable with.  

Thank you, Michael, for the challenge, it was fun to think this through.  I encourage readers to read Michael's post, and the comments (Elizabeth Shown Mills' comment is very informative!).  If readers have better solutions, please offer them in comments to this post.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/michael-haits-genealogy-software.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

My First Look at FamilySearch Family Tree - Post 2: Source Citations

In  My First Look at FamilySearch Family Tree - Post 1, I briefly described the content, navigation and look of the interconnected family tree on FamilySearch.  Note that this is not yet available to interested users - only to some users in a Beta release.  

I noted that there was no sources attached to the persons that I had previously added to the Family Tree using RootsMagic 5 software.  I was curious as to the source information and format that could be added at present to the system, so I decided to do one source citation manually using copy and paste.  Here was my process:

1)  From the Person page for Isaac Seaver:

2)  At the bottom of the Person page above, is the "Sources" area, and a link to "Add a New Source."  I clicked the link and saw:

3)  The screen above has a "Create" button and says "To add a new source, select the Create button.  I did, and the "Create a Source" window opened:

There are four fields in the "Create a Source" screen above - "Source title (Required)," "Web Page (Link to the Record)," "Where the Record is found (Citation)" and Describe the Record (Note)."  Each field has example text that can be typed over.  Here is what I added (rightly or wrongly):

Source title:  Westminster, Massachusetts, Copy of Record of Birth

Web Page:  blank (since I have a piece of paper, not a web page)

Where the Record is Found:   City Clerk's Office, Westminster, Mass.

Describe the Record: Copy of Record of Birth: Isaac Sever, born 16 October 1823 to Benjamin and Abigail Sever (birth certificate dated and seal affixed 17 September 1990).

4) I clicked the "Save" button above and another window appeared for "Attach to Isaac Seaver" saying "Explain why you are attaching this source to this person...":

I entered this text into the field:

"Source provides derivative source, primary information and direct evidence of birth of Isaac Seaver (1823-1901), son of Benjamin and Abigail Seaver in Westminster MA on 16 October 1823."

5) I clicked on the "Attach" button and saw:

The screen above shows the source information for what I entered into the source fields.  Apparently, there is no source citation in a "footnote" or "bibliography" format for this source.

6)  I went back to the Birth record information and clicked on the Birth Record, and edit fields opened for the birth date, the birth place and an "Evidence and Analysis:"

Note that the date and place fields have a green background, indicating that the format for the date and place are correct.  I added text to the "Evidence and Analysis" field:

"Westminster town clerk records (original handwritten page), Westminster town vital record book, and birth certificate obtained from Westminster town clerk's office indicate this date and place, and parents Benjamin and Abigail Sever."

7)  The Birth Record information now shows my input:

This source citation, and the evidence and analysis, input was fairly simple.  But it took some time to figure out just what to enter in the fields.  

The process will probably be a lot easier if the genealogy software (like RootsMagic 5 or another program) can add the source citation without the information for every Fact/Assertion being typed in by hand.

I have these concerns:

*  I think that the Source citations should be attached to the Event or Fact/Assertion rather than to the Person.  

*  I don't see a way to add more than one assertion for a given Fact/Event.  We don't always have direct evidence in primary information form that definitively identifies the name, date and place for an event, and this information is useful to draw a conclusion.

*  I'm curious as to how the genealogy software will add the different source elements in the software to the Family Tree fields.  All of my sources are "free-form" meaning that the information is not in separate title, author, web site, description, detail fields.  Some software has this information in source template fields that are unique to the source type being cited.  

I'm not going to take this series much further until some of the sourcing, merging, deleting and other issues are settled and included in the FamilySearch Family Tree.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/my-first-look-at-familysearch-family_27.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Tuesday's Tip - Find 1940 Addresses in City Directories

This week's Tuesday's Tip is:  Use City Directories to Find Family Residence Addresses in 1940 to Narrow Your 1940 U.S. Census Search.

Are you ready to search the 1940 United States Census images when they are released next Monday, 2 April 2012, at 9 a.m. EDT?  If you've been reading Genea-Musings, you know that the census images will be available, but there will not be indexes until late in 2012.

In order to narrow your search without an index, you will need to know the Enumeration District (ED) for the place your family resided.  In urban areas, this means that you need to know the address of their residence.

How can you find out the address of the residence of your family?  The best resource (I listed many in How Can I Find Out Where My Folks Lived in 1940?, but the best opportunity is to use City Directories in the 1940 time period to find the address.  I posted Finding Addresses of People in the 1940 U.S. Census Using City Directories about using the online  city directories at Ancestry.com.


Most city libraries, and many local and regional genealogical libraries, have City Directories on their shelves, including from the 1940 time period.  If your local or regional library has a City Directories collection, you should go there sometime this week to use their resources.

Ancestry.com has a large collection of City Directories for many cities in their historical record collection.  These are in two major collections:

1)  U.S. City Directories (Beta) - many cities in 15 states (California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia).

2)  U,.S. City Directories - many cities in most states and DC.

Ancestry.com intentionally targeted collecting City Directories in the 1940 and 1950 time periods and has a great collection of them.  I recommend that you search these directories by choosing a state, city/town, and then a year (1940 if available), then search by Surname only in the specific directory.  Why?  Because every first name/last name combination was not indexed in these collections.  You can also browse the specific collection, using the image number field or the back/forward arrows to find your surname target.

The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/tuesdays-tip-find-1940-addresses-in.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

A Look Inside Ancestry.com

NetworkWorld has released a short video (4 minutes 34 seconds) providing a "rare" look inside the Ancestry.com operations.  You can view it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46vjLoXmSaI&feature=youtu.be or click the Play button below:




The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/a-look-inside-ancestrycom.html

CVGS Meeting on Wednesday, 28 March: Joel Weintraub on 1940 census

MARCH 28th  PROGRAM MEETING

from 12 Noon to 2 p.m.

at Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library (365 F Street in Chula Vista) in the Auditorium

“Here Comes the 1940 Census” by Joel Weintraub, PhD  

Joel Weintraub's presentation is “Here Comes the 1940 Census.”  He will discuss what's in the 1940 United States census and how to search the census for family members by location, since there will not be a name index when it becomes public on the http://1940census.archives.gov website. 

Joel is a past National Archives volunteer and an emeritus Biology Professor.  He has produced census tools since 2001, and in 2002 teamed up with Stephen Morse. These utilities, for searching federal and NY State censuses by location, are freely available at http://stevemorse.org in the census folders.

If you want a head start on the talk, use http://stevemorse.org/census/quiz.php

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/cvgs-meeting-on-wednesday-28-march-joel.html

copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Amanuensis Monday - the Will of Giles Slocum of Portsmouth RI

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started his own Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday. What does "amanuensis" mean? John offers this definition:

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

The subject today is the will of Giles Slocum (1623-1683)  of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  He married Joan (1620-1679) in about 1640, and they had  nine children:  Joanna Slocum (1642-1728); John Slocum (1645-1702); Giles Slocum (1647-????); Ebenezer Slocum (1650-1715); Nathaniel Slocum (1652-1702); Peleg Slocum (1654-1733); Samuel Slocum (1657-????); Mary Slocum (1660-1689); Eliezer Slocum (1664-1727).

Giles Slocum died testate, having written a will dated 10 October 1681, which was proved 10 July 1683 (Charles Elihu Slocum, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs, and Slocombs of America, genealogical and biographical (Syracuse N.Y.: the author, 1888, pages 39-40).  It reads:

"Seeing it pleaseth God to give me this opportunity being in good & sound memory it is with me to setle my out ward Estate that the Lord hath blessed mee with all unto whome I give the glory whoe is gold over All blessed for Ever more amen now Know all people whoe may bee concerned hearin That I Gyles Slocom now of the Towne of Portsmouth one Road Island and in ye Kings Providence Plantation of New England in Amerrica sinnair I doe make this my last will & Testiment in mannar & forme ase ffolloweth my will is that my depts bee first payd by my Executirx hereafter named. Item I doe give & beequeath unto my Louving sonn Samuell Slocome five shillings in Lawfull monyes of New England.

"Item I give & beequeath unto my sonn John Slocom five shillings Lawful monyes of New England. Item I doe give and beequeath unto my Louving sonn Gyles Slocom him his heires And asignes for Ever all my Lands and housing to mee beelonginge and apertaining beeing and Laying in or one Rhod Island in the Towne of Portsmouth and now in my occupation Excepting foure accors of Land with one Small Teniment one it laying in the Towne of Portsmouth in Rhod Island and now in the occupation of Will Rickinson house carpenter. Item I give unto my sonn Giles Slocom one great Chest one table one bedsteed one great chaire.

"Item I give unto my son Ebenezer five shillings Lawfull monyes of New England. Item I give unto my son Nathaniell Slocom two shars of Lands Laying neere the Towne of Shrosbury in New Jersey to him his heires and asignes for Ever. Item I give and bequeath unto my son Peleg Slocom halfe A sheare of Land Lying and beeing in the Towne of Dartmouth with all the Rights prineledges theare unto beelonging to him his heires and asignes for Ever.

"Item I give and bequeath unto my son Eliezer Slocom one quarter of a sheare of Land Laying and beeing in the aforesaid Towne of Dartmouth in the Colonye of Plimouth to him his heires and Asignes for Ever.

"Item I give and beequeath unto my Louing Darter Johanah Mott three quarters of a sheare of Land situate and Laying neare Shorsbury [ Shrewsbury] in New Jersey to her her heires and asignes for Ever.

"Item I give and beequeath unto my Loueing Dauter Mary Tucker foure accars of Land with one small Teniment one it Laying in the Towne of Portsmouth one Rhod Island and now in the occupation of Will Rickinson house carpenter to her and her heires for Ever.

"Item I give and bequeath unto my Dafter Mary Tucker sixteen accors of Land situate and Laying up one the Island of Cononicut which wase formerly in the posstiion of Robert Hasard to her her heires and asignes for Ever.

"Item I give unto my son Eliezer Slocom two oxen foure cowes one horse. Item I give and beequeath unto my Dafter Johanah Mott five pounds Lawful monyes of New England to bee payd her out of my stocke when when solde.

"Item I give and bequeath unto my Dafter Johanah Mott my Riding horse. Item I doe give and beequeath unto my Loueing friends the peple of God called Quakers foure pound Lawfull monyes of New England to bee payd into the mens meeting one Road Island.

"Item I give and beequeath unto my three children Nathaniell Eliezer Slocom and Johanah Mott all my beding equaly devided betwixt them.

"Item I give unto all my Grand children each of them five sheepe A peace.

"Item All the Remainder of my Estate undisposed of I give and beequeath unto my five children Nathaniell Peleg Eliezer Slcom Johanah Mott Mary Tucker to bee Equalye devided bee twen them.

"Item my will is that all my legises bee truly payd by my Executrix within six months after my deseas.

"Item my will is that after my dessease my sonn Gyles Slocom shall give one mounthes time unto my Executrix for the Removing and taking all my stock ase coews osen sheepe horskine and household goods. Lastly I doe heare by nominate constitute and apoynt my trusty and well beloved Dafter Johanah Mott to bee my full and sole Executrix of this my Last will and Testament nulling and makeing void all other wills formerly by mee made what soever And this to stand for my Last will and Testament furder I doe desire my Loueing friends John Easton Simn Water Charles and Arthur Cooke all of Road Island to see this my Last will performed unto which I have heare unto set my hand & seale the Tennth day of ye Eigh mounth called October in the yeare one Thousand six hundred Eighty and one [1681].

..............................................................  The marke of  ............................................................. Gyles T Slocum"

"Signed sealed published and
declared in the presen of 
 the marke of
John C Cooper
the marke of
Mary O Cooke, Arthur Cooke
Margret Cooke"

The one child not mentioned in this will is Samuel Slocum (1657-????).  It is probable that he died before 1681, unmarried.  My descent is through the son Ebenezer Slocum (1650-1715) who married Mary Thurston (1657-1732) in 1676.  Ebenezer received only five shillings from his father; he may have received land via deed before Giles Slocum died.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/amanuensis-monday-will-of-giles-slocum.html

Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 18 to 24 March 2012

Hundreds of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for the genealogy carnivals, or other meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  WDYTYA – 3×05 – Jerome Bettis – The Nitpicker’s Version by Banai Feldstein on The Ginger Jewish Genealogist blog.  Banai does her usual through job of finding inconsistencies and asking questions on this WDYTYA episode.  

*  Do Not Deny DNA, Genealogy, or Moral Obligation by Robin Foster on the Saving Stories blog.  Robin discusses her ancestry and heritage.  I love her attitude!

*  Brimhall and Verkler, Part 1 , Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 by the writer of The Ancestry Insider blog.  Mr. AI interviewed the outgoing andi ncoming heads of FamilySearch in this series.

*  Copyright & the Newspaper Article by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist blog.  Judy summarizes American and Australian law concerning newspaper articles.

*  Inductive Or Deductive Reasoning? by Michael John Neill on the Rootdig blog.  Michael describes these two methods of reasoning with examples.

*  Counteracting the Decline of Genealogical Societies by John D. Reid on the Anglo-Celtic Connections blog.  John reviews the FGS My Society radio show from last October, and adds his own opinions.

*  The U.S. Congressional Serial Set for Genealogists by Kathleen Brandt on the a3genealogy blog.  Kathleen describes this important, and underutilized, resource.

*  How I Use My Genealogy Software by Ginger Smith on the Genealogy by Ginger's Blog.  Ginger shares her methods, adding screen shots of some of her work.

*  The Three Rs of Genealogy by Lynn Palermo on The Armchair Genealogist blog.  Lynn defines them, then grades herself timewise.  

*  Genealogists Time Capsule Challenge Posts! by Bill West on the West in New England blog.  Bill lists the contributions of geneabloggers for this challenge.

*  How do I cite a genealogy research conclusion? by Michael Hait on the Planting the Seeds blog.  Michael  discusses the issue, and has an excellent example of a soundly written conclusion.

*  The Laws of Genealogy by Amy on the Amy Johnson Crow blog.  Amy lists five immutable laws of genealogy...and wants to know others.

Several genea-bloggers wrote weekly pick posts and news summary posts this week, including:

*  Fab Finds for the Week of 18 March 2012 by GenuinelyLAF on the 1 Ancestry 2 Little Time blog.

*  Ruth's Recommendations by Ruth Blair on The Passionate Genealogist blog.

*  Monday Recap for March 19, 2012 by Amanda on the Geni blog.

*  Genealogy Roundup - March 22 by Megan Smolenyak on the Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak Roots World blog.

*  Follow Friday - Two Weeks of Favorite Finds by Jen on the Climbing My Family Tree. blog.

*  Genealogy News Corral - March 19-23 by Diane Haddad on the Genealogy Insider blog.

*  Best of British Genealogy - 24th March 2012 by Nicola Epsom on The Genealogy Workshop blog.

I encourage readers to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Google Reader, RSS feed or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 1200 genealogy bloggers using Google Reader, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/03/best-of-genea-blogs-18-to-24-march-2012.html

 Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver