Mocavo.com offers halp with your online searches while you are sleeping, reading, or just off having a good time. This picture is part of an email displaying results of a research request entered into mocavo (after the Free signup for a Mocavo account). The results are compiled while you are doing other things (on the [...]
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Over at DonsLIst there are some really good finding guides to the FREE Internet Archives. Here’s a screen of some of Don’s aids. Here’s the clickable link to the page above: http://www.donslist.net/PGHLookups/GuidesM.htm
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The subscription services Ancestry.com and Footnote.com are available to use at no charge for in-library use for Longview, Texas Library patrons who have a Longview Public Library borrower’s card. According to the library website, “You may get a borrower’s card at no cost if the following is true: You live in Texas. You are 18 [...]
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Wood County Genealogical Society members and other researchers have access to this equipment in the genealogy research center at the Quitman Public Library to help with their research needs there: a computer with high-speed internet access a printer attached to the computer with a sheet-feed copy option a scanner to copy material from books and [...]
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Wood County Genealogical Society through our association with the Quitman Public Library has entered into an agreement which makes it possible to preserve many genealogical and historical documents in our care and solves the problem of how to make such items available to the public at large. As participants with the Northeast Texas Digital Collection [...]
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While some people are reluctant to join Facebook because they think (erroneously it turns out) it’s just for teeny boppers, for dating, or makes them vulnerable to loss of privacy (again in actuality, these are not true), there is a social networking site where we can talk with and explore the ideas, etc. of other [...]
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Family Tree Magazine’s September edition has been mailed, and it features its yearly best websites article. This year it’s devoted to free websites. You can see all the sites with click-on links by going to http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-Best-Websites-2010. The sites are broken down into catgeories on that page. Clicking a link category there will take you to [...]
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It’s hard to avoid getting excited in the weekly workshops taught by new member Vickie Petersen at the public library in Mineola. Sharing that excitement usually starts with someone making a “Eureka, look what I’ve found” noise like “wow” or a similar noise. Sometimes, however, it’s just finding a new resource. One such experience last [...]
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When I posted the previous item on online self-study resources for getting started in genealogy research or getting a refresher, I did a pretty extensive search. However, I have found another thanks to Leah of “The Internet Genealogist” blog at http://shbwgen.blogspot.com/2010/05/follow-friday-familysearch-online.html She points out in a blog post which you can reach by clicking the [...]
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Just starting out in your family history search or wanting to to refresh your memory on researching how to and techniques is often available from classes or one-on-one tutoring. There are some online sources, however, which you can access at home (or library) on your own computer and at any time convenient to you. Among [...]
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