Saturday, May 09, 2009

Finding Hard To Find Locations

Rede has updated his video on how to find locations that are not on maps or in software, and plot them on maps. Also with county boundary changes over time, a couple of tips for finding which county to look in.

In this video he covers:

Friday, April 24, 2009

Genealogy Videos In The Quartzsite Library

Rede put together a twin pack video CD series, Newspaper Research & Internet Book Search, for the Quarzsite Library that runs on your computer. This will be ideal for people on dialup Internet & can’t view his videos online.

Newspaper Research
Resent Newspapers:
  • American Newspapers/NewsBank (may require a non resident library card)
  • Local Newspapers Websites
  • Legacy.com for obituaries 30 days old or less

Older Newspapers
  • ICON: Many free & pay websites, they are clearly marked.
  • Utah Digital Newspapers
  • Olive Software Newspapers
  • Newspaper Archive

Internet Book Search
  • Google Books
  • Google Scholar
  • Heritage Quest (may require a non resident library card)
  • Internet Archives
  • Family History Archives

Should you wish any other topics, please leave a comment.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Family History Archives

Family History Archives http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/ is a great site to do free book research for family histories. Easy searching, downloadable files which have bookmarks for the chapters & searchable text.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Keeping Up With Data Rot


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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Special Speaker In Bouse AZ.

Special Speaker - Barbara Nuehring
Timelines: Understanding Your Ancestors World
Public Welcome - Free

Bouse Genies meeting for March 27, 2009 -10:00 AM
44031 Plomosa Rd, Bouse, AZ
La Paz Bouse Community Building (the building next to the Bouse Public Library)

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Google Scholar

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com is a very good site for doing your research. More & better sources for the people you are looking for, without all the hits that won't do you any good.

Rede says "This was a very tough video to make because I just kept getting too much good information and suddenly I was in research mode" ;-)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Rede on RootsTelevision.com: Round 2

Another one of Rede’s videos has made it to RootsTelevision. This video is Site Search Genealogy Style http://www.rootstelevision.com/players/player_howto.php?bctid=9119681001