Friday, October 16, 2009

GenealogyScrounge Has His Second Year Anniversary

Were has the time gone??? Rede and his genealogy channel turns two on October 20th 2009 and has authored over 50 videos. His 1st video went up on October 20, 2007 on http://genealogyscrounge.blip.tv/ , a couple of months later he started putting non genealogy videos on ShowMeDo http://showmedo.com/videos/?author=3583 , and finally started uploading to YouTube to reach the most people http://www.youtube.com/genealogyscrounge . He started out to teach & demo the tricks of free research, and along the way he was noticed by RootsTelevision, Dick Eastman, Genea-Musings, TraceYourRoots and others.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

New Quartzsite Genealogy Project

I have started a new project, from different sources I am collecting names & events of people that lived here in Quartzsite and will be putting them online. If you would like to view, help transcribe or research click here

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)