Last week, Klompendanser wrote about genealogy books, a wonderful topic.
This week, I'm going to look at good genealogical reads that are born digital.... so, pretty much blogs, with a few Facebook groups thrown in for good measure.
When I work with people new to genealogy, I divide websites into four categories: actual records, finding aids (indexes that lead to records with actual names), referrals (sites that direct to records but don't feature individual names), and connections (to distant relatives or to people with local or other specialized {for example, military history} knowledge). Additionally, there are also websites primarily for methodology (how-to, tips and tricks, and so on) and just plain old good stories.
Most of the blogs I'm going to talk about fall into one or both of these last three categories {connections, methodology, stories} ~ blogs are best suited to those types of information.
No pretty pictures this week, but lots of link-y goodness after the orange snickerdoodle....
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