Your Genealogy Today 2:3 (Jul/Aug 2016) includes a number of
articles of likely interest to our genealogists.
Picture This! (p. 13) discusses use of photos on blogs,
websites, and in printed publications. The short answer to “Can I use this
photo?” is it all depends…
Breaking through Brick Walls with Bricklayers’ Union Records
(pp. 14-20) discusses resources available for persons researching bricklayer
ancestors in the U.S. and Canada.
America Discovers America: the Federal Writers’ Project
(pp.24-26) looks this 1930s work relief program that employed thousands of
writers, editors, historians, and researchers, and produced more than 1,200
publications.
Finding the Reeds (pp. 31-35) shows how census records can
be used to help track the movements of a family that rarely stayed in one place
for very long.
How to Approach Family History Research Like an Historian
(pp. 38-39) demonstrates how genealogists can employ techniques similar to
those utilized by professional historians in order to create more engaging and
better-documented family histories.
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