The Great Twitter Exodus of 2022 is still happening. It’s just a little…fractured. A lot of X power users migrated to Bluesky early on, which paved the way for a flood of folks to join that service in 2024. Meanwhile, a lot of technically inclined individuals are still hanging out on Mastodon (at least, that’s where I hang out). …
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A Clearinghouse of Genealogy Information
WARNING: This article contains personal opinions. One thing that constantly puzzles me is why do genealogists keep re-inventing the same wheels? In fact, we have the tools today to reduce this duplication of effort immediately and perhaps to even drive it to zero within a few years. If we do that, the result will be peer-reviewed, …
A Cheat Sheet for U.S. Census Records
November 15, 2024 U.S. census records are one of the cornerstones of U.S. research. Since its inception in 1790 the census has been kept every ten years. Since 1850 each census has included the names and other information about all free Americans. Genealogists are never “done” researching in census records. Every new ancestor requires a …