Month: January 2011

Alpha­bet Soup for a Mon­day I am the web­mas­ter for three genealog­i­cal soci­eties, the North Car­oli­na Genealog­i­cal Soci­ety, the Vir­ginia Genealog­i­cal Soci­ety, and the North Car­oli­na Chap­ter of the APG. I also chair the Tech­nol­o­gy Com­mit­tee of the NGS. In each of these realms, I find myself empow­ered by open source tech­nol­o­gy, using the LAMP… Con­tin­ue read­ing VGS, NCGS, and the USPS API

I am not the only geneal­o­gist who has writ­ten a blog entry about goals for the new year. I thought it might be inter­est­ing to take a quick, and frankly, near­ly ran­dom sur­vey of what oth­er blog­gers and jour­nal­ists have said about their genealog­i­cal plans in the new year, or what your res­o­lu­tions should be… Con­tin­ue read­ing Geneal­o­gy Res­o­lu­tion Roundup: 2011

I have post­ed a com­plete tran­scrip­tion of Lena John­son Schlite­meier’s “His­to­ry of Swan John­son Fam­i­ly of Nance Coun­ty, Nebras­ka (Jan­u­ary 1936).” The book exists only in the form of a typed MSS in the hands of the fam­i­ly. There are at least two ver­sions; the tran­scrip­tion is of the most com­plete ver­sion, which was giv­en… Con­tin­ue read­ing Com­plet­ed Tran­scrip­tion: His­to­ry of Swan John­son Fam­i­ly