There’s a lot of good family history information available on the Internet. Here are five places we’ve enjoyed visiting this week:
Life Advice From Old People. Actor/writer Seth Menachem records and posts short video interviews with older people he meets, from his neighbors to famous folk like actor Jon Voight. Each offers special advice from their own life experiences. Thanks to Josh Fleming for finding this for me.
Search 500 Genealogy Blogs. If regular search engines aren’t quite cutting it for you, you can specifically search nearly 500 genealogy-related blogs at this site. While you’re there, click on the “suggest a geneaology link” button and suggest they add this blog to their list.
The Internet Archive. This nonprofit site, started in 1996, “was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.” It’s remarkable in its breadth and depth.
Heir Hunters. This BBC One program (similar to America’s The History Detectives) is available for viewing on your computer.
A Tombstone Tells the Story. To learn how Ellen Notbohm “went to North Dakota looking for ancestors and came home with a police escort,” you’ll just have to read this interesting story yourself.
Author Larry Lehmer's book about Dick Clark and American Bandstand -- Bandstandland: How Dancing Teenagers Took Over America and Dick Clark Took Over Rock & Roll --is available from Sunbury Press. His book about the last tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens -- The Day the Music Died -- is available at Amazon.
Flickr photo courtesy of The Moment
Hey Larry
We've got you listed over at GeneaBloggers - and I'll highlight your blog along with several others in my weekly post tomorrow (July 25, 2009)
Thomas MacEntee
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Posted by: Thomas MacEntee | July 24, 2009 at 06:54 PM