Best of the Blogs, Week Ending November 7, 2020

My criteria for The Best of the Blogs is this:  I look for blogs that highlight genealogy methodology, new records, social and historical context, current events, and educational and volunteer opportunities.  I try especially to focus on blogs that document the Irish and the Irish diaspora and may be of interest to TIARA members.

Culture Context & Background

Do you have a baby book in your family treasures?  Erin Blakemore writes about the long-lost ritual of the baby book on JSTOR Click here

Jennifer at "On a flesh and bone foundation" blogs about Anne Mullin Jellico, Irish educator of young women.  TIARA trivia:  What favorite TIARA hangout is the location of one of Anne's former schools?  Click here

Current Issues

Blogger Claire Santry announces the first four winners of the Wallace Clare award from Irish Genealogical Research Society.  TIARA trivia:  What award recipient was a founder and first President of TIARA?  Click here

DNA

Hound on the Hunt has tips on how to solve those DNA mysteries, by making a quick and dirty tree Click here

Kathie Knoll walks through the identification of an unknown great great grandparent on Diahan Southard's Your DNA Guide's blog: Click here

Family History

The Family Sleuther finishes up his planned visits to 71 ancestors at 22 cemeteries in 13 states on his road trip this fall  Click here

Methodology

Donna Moughty writes about finding our ancestors in unexpected places.  TIARA trivia:  What unidentified TIARA member's record search is featured in this blog?   Click here

Randy Seaver reviews the new database, Newspapers.com Obituary Index on Ancesty and shows how to review all hints from a selected database Click here

Records and Databases

American Ancestors has new searchable records for St Joseph's of Wakefield Click here 

A three week summary of updates to U S records from Claire Santry on Irish Genealogy News Click here

Volunteer Opportunities

Marian Bulford writes about the pleasures of volunteer indexing for Family Search on the Genealogy Ensemble blog Click here

Here are some other bloggers who write about weekly posts that may be of interest:

Friday's Family History Finds by Linda Stufflebean, on her blog Empty Branches of the Family Tree blog Click here

Best of the Genea-Blogs and Genealogy News and Education Bytes by Randy Seaver on his Genea-Musings blog Click here

This Week's creme de la creme by Gail Dever on her Genealogy A La Carte blog Click here

Did you see a great genealogy blog post? Let me know!