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Monday, November 26, 2018

Fugitive slaves and their options

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CAUTION: I have not read this book. I found it noted in the Legal History Blog . Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America ...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Joel Thrall is back . . .

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. . . in the fall issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for the second and concluding installment, now visible to N...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Finding a pensive genealogist in "The Witch Elm"

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It had to happen. My all-time favorite (living) fiction writer, Tana French, has a genealogist in the cast of characters in her new title, T...
Monday, October 15, 2018

"Everybody is about to be under genetic surveillance one way or another"

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That's the gist from computational biologists quoted in yesterday's Wired article by Megan Molteni: "GENOME HACKERS SHOW NO ONE...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

What Aaron Goodwin Just Said

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The brand-new NGS Monthly for September leads with editor Aaron Goodwin on writing. He puts the arrow right in the bull's eye.  You...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Winning Women's Suffrage in the Upper Midwest

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A new book has been reviewed on H-Net ( Humanities and social sciences online ) that may be of interest to genealogists: Woman Suffrage an...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Potentially bad news for genealogists: privacy rights for the dead?

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Law professor Michael D. Breidenbach argues for privacy for the deceased . "If society is a partnership among the living, dead and un...
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