Genealogy Research Support

The PBS program "American Experience" is a wonderful series of documentaries about the history of the United States. The series also has a remarkable online presence, often creating unique sites for each episode of the series.

Taking their inspiration from National Novel Writing Month ("NaNoWriMo"), which challenges its members to write a complete novel in a month, a group of bloggers has issued the "NaBloPoMo" challenge - for bloggers to post at least once every day during the entire month of November.
There is a social website dedicated to the site, providing inspiration and promotion opportunities for members' blogs.
Visit the site (http://www.nablopomo.com/) for more
information.

From CSI to The Maury Povich Show, DNA and DNA testing has become a part of American popular culture. But what is DNA?\nIn simple terms, DNA is a string of proteins that contain coded blueprints for our bodies. It tells our bodies how to grow. We inherit our DNA from our parents, which is where its genealogical value comes in.

Photographing headstones is not very different from any other type of photography. The basic principles of photography apply: proper lighting, exposure, focus, etc. Since we will be using digital photography for this project, it is also important to consider things like image resolution and file size. However there are a number of special tips unique to taking photographs of headstones. This guide is to help the photographer take pictures that capture accurate images ready for electronic cataloging. The information in this document is just a guideline, and a very basic one at that. The photographer may find that he or she needs to experiment with their camera to get the best picture possible.

In an earlier entry, this column reported on several resources available for online African-American research in Virginia. Many more resources are now available, some becoming so just in the past three months since that report, necessitating another visit to the subject.

Digitized books

A program designed to help you to transcribe the text on digital images of documents.

As seen at TheFamilyCurator.com

"World History Archives, by Hartford Web Publishing, offers documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective. Questions about the site may be answered by the site policies. "

Courtesy Better Homes & Gardens and The UPS Store, this adorable cardboard tabletop tree with photo ornaments project includes instructions and templates.