* The summer issue of the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly includes a well-cited article by Charlene Preston Mundy, "Five Ferguson Brothers from Scotland."A bonus for me: ISGSQ is using footnotes instead of the dreaded endnotes.
* As usual, the Ohio Genealogy News is packed with instructional articles of interest. For Summer 2012, I particularly enjoyed:
Chris Staats' "Deed Anatomy 101" with a clever graphic;
Joyce Quigley's "Online Cemetery Research" (interment records!); and
Delores Jones's "My Last Name is Jones (Success with a Common Surname)": "The only way I found my Jones family in the 1930 U.S. census for Mississippi was by reading my late aunt's papers again."
* Whenever you're in a law library, take the opportunity to snoop around. During IGHR at Samford, some sharp-eyed Pennsylvania researchers found an unlikely treasure: county-level court case reports for several counties in Pennsylvania, mostly from the 20th century. Who knew?
* Joe Beine has updated his wonderful index to on-line indexes of death records of various kinds, including indexes for ten Midwestern counties:
in Illinois -- DeKalb, McDonough, Sangamon, and Will;
in Michigan -- Menominee, Oakland, and Wayne;
in Ohio -- Montgomery; and
in Wisconsin -- Barron and Eau Claire.
Charlene Preston Mundy, "Five Ferguson Brothers from Scotland,"Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2 (Summer 2012): 74-91.
Ohio Genealogy News, vol 43, no. 2 (Summer 2012).
Harold Henderson, "Midwestern genealogy finds on and off the web," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 26 June 2012 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Mostly Midwestern genealogy finds on and off the web
Posted by Harold Henderson at 11:30 PM
Labels: Charlene Preston Mundy, death records, Ferguson family, Illinois, interment records, ISGS Quarterly, Joe Beine, Jones family, Law, Ohio Genealogy News, Pennsylvania, property records, Samford University, Scotland
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