Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
A new guide to archiving video is Tuesday’s Tip. The human rights organization, witness.org, has published The Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video, which is so well done it’s been featured at The Signal, the digital preservation blog at [...]
Today’s Tuesday’s Tip can help preserve your paper family records and photographs and it doesn’t even cost much. ☞ Wear gloves when handling family records, especially photographs and negatives. Those latent (invisible) fingerprints that CSIs [...]
Updates to Chronicling America now bring the total to 5,206,652 pages of newspapers available. Not familiar with this free site sponsored by the Library of Congress and NEH? Visit the site at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov to take advantage of [...]
The 1940 census anticipation is really building. I've seen estimates of about six months to get the name index of the 1940 census available. If you just can't wait in the meantime, and if [...]
Let's talk about cloud computing and genealogy today. I've been taking my own advice lately and using a hybrid approach to backing up my data (including all those family photos, family group sheets, primary [...]
Vintage scrapbooks in your family papers can be one of the most charming and evocative kinds of records passed down from one generation to the next. But archivists tread carefully around scrapbooks because they [...]
When acid-free is not good enough is today’s topic. We fielded calls all the time in the archives asking for advice on preserving family papers. And one of the most persistent misperceptions we dealt with was [...]
Use TIFFs When Scanning is today's Tuesday's Tip. When libraries and archives staff scan materials, their goal is always to do it once and do it right, just because of the volume of material. [...]
SparkCharts German Vocabulary sheet is my new favorite German language resource, available at Amazon.com. SparkCharts also has German verbs and German grammar sheets, as well as French and Spanish version, if you need help with [...]
Tuesday's Tip: Dismantle Those Framed Photographs - today. Did you inherit framed family photographs? When framed photographs are donated to an institution, archivists always disassemble the frames and usually store the photographs unframed. Archivists [...]
Using yellow as contrast for faded handwriting is today’s tip. It's simple but effective. When we encountered faded or difficult-to-read documents in the archives, it could be a challenge to photocopy or even read [...]
The tip for this Tuesday is so transparently obvious I'm probably outing myself as duh-humb. But here goes. I do a lot of searching for death notices in Chicago newspapers. In fact, paid death notices [...]
2017 Update: Things change a lot in the seven years since I wrote Tuesday's Tip: BackUpMyTree.com about this service. Happily, backupmytree.com is now owned by MyHeritage and supports all family tree data files, Mac [...]
Today's Follow Friday is a new (to me) database: the Minnesota Official Marriage System or MOMS. This is a nice complement to the Minnesota Birth Certificates Index and the Minnesota Death Certificates Index maintained [...]
This Tuesday's tip is about advanced WorldCat searches. For reasons known only to OCLC, the basic WorldCat search has one screen/interface and the advanced search has another. Which one would you choose as the [...]
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