Digital Public Library of America

If you have not taken a look at this new site, consider giving it a try. It includes the David Rumsey Map Collection. The Digital Public Library of America can be accessed at http://dp.la/.

Is Your Parish Register Latin Weak?

If you regularly use parish registers in Latin, consider downloading this reference on the FamilySearch website. The book, "Parish register Latin : an introduction" was written by C. Russell Jenssen.

1819 United States Post Office Guide

This neat little treasure is on Google Books--an 1819 United States Post Office Guide.

Genealogy Tip of the Day Makes Top 40 Genealogy Blogs

Our sister site, "Genealogy Tip of the Day" made the list of Top 40 genealogy blogs and we are celebrating! Through 11:59 PM Central on 18 April 2013, purchase genealogy webinars and only pay 40% of the original price! Coupon code is forty.  Grow your genealogy skills today.

Our list of webinars is here:

http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2012/08/updated-list-of-genealogy-webinars.html

You can view the presentations at your convenience after they have been downloaded. It is not necessary to view them immediately and you can view them as many times as you want.


View the list of all 40 top blogs here
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/article/Top-40-Genealogy-Blogs-2013

Thanks!

Michael

1881 Irish Towns and Townlands

1881 Census of Ireland--an alphabetical listing of the towns and townlands of Ireland--view the PDF here.

Webinar Discount for 24 hours-Save 60%

We've reactivated our 60% webinar discount for the next 24 hours. Our list of offerings is available here (coupon code is sixty):
http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2012/08/updated-list-of-genealogy-webinars.html

History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States

For those with questions about United States military pensions, this out of copyright reference, History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States, may be of help. If the link does not display, try this: http://books.google.com/books?id=p6FDAAAAIAAJ

Get Some First Name Perspective

If you are a subscriber to a genealogical database that will allow you to search for first names only, do that to get some perspective on how common that first name really is (or is not). Here's a link to a longer blog post I wrote while looking "for Fountain."

Reading Old English Handwriting

This set of pages on The National Archives (UK) website is an excellent tutorial on reading old handwriting http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/where_to_start.htm

Bureau of Land Management Allows for Clickable Map Searches

It's been on the site for several weeks, but I just noticed it.

You can search by location on the Bureau of Land Management website by locating the township on a map instead of searching based on text only. If you know where the location is, but do not have the legal description, this may be helpful.

There is more detail here:
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/News/default.aspx#id=MapFeature