{"id":4860,"date":"2017-08-11T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2017-08-11T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T13:07:52","slug":"friday-finds-week-32-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/friday-finds-week-32-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday finds – Week 32 – 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

After taking some time off I am back with some websites I have visited this week
\n\"\"It’s always fun to meet new relatives. It can be however be a little intimidating to call someone you have never talked to before. \u00a0In Lisa Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems<\/strong> you find 14 steps for contacting kin. Read \u00a0Cold-Calling Your Kin: How to Contact Distant Relatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"I know that many of you have both Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. The article\u00a0Swedish Genetics: Abstracts and Summaries<\/a>\u00a0in the blog Genetics and Genetic Genealogy\u00a0<\/strong>tell about our shared gene pool. Some of the information here may require some basoc knowledgde og genetic genealogy, which I readily admit I don’t have.<\/p>\n

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\"\"While we are talking about genetic genealogy: Judy G. Russell\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0The Legal Genealogist<\/strong> talks about how we should always keep in mind that DNA don’t lie and might give us some surprises. Read her article\u00a0The truth will out.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"It is always fun to see how other genealogists work. In the blog\u00a0Climbing My Family Tree, Marian B. Wood<\/strong> tells how she is\u00a0Weighing the Evidence on Grandpa’s Birthplace.<\/a>\u00a0 While her Grandpa is from Lituania, her way of looking at the evidence is relevant in Norway too.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Do Genealogists Care About Family Artifacts?<\/a>\u00a0is the question posed by\u00a0<\/em>Joy Shivar\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0MyHeritage Blog.\u00a0<\/strong>Well, I do and Shivar says the answer is yes and no. Then again, the article may just a way to promote the website JustAJoy that claims to be the “World’s Largest \u00a0Source of\u00a0Searchable Family Heirlooms”.<\/p>\n

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\"\"This article by\u00a0Libby Copeland\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0Washington Post<\/strong> tells the story of how Alice Collins Plebuch’s foray into \u201crecreational genomics\u201d upended a family tree.\u00a0WHO WAS SHE? A DNA TEST ONLY OPENED NEW MYSTERIES.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"In the article\u00a0Look What I Found in the Archives!,<\/a>\u00a0Amy Bowser Tennant\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0The Genealogy Reporter<\/strong> talks about how researching archives is an approach for additional family information that you might have overlooked.<\/p>\n

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Here are some other blogs that presents links under the \u201cfinds\u201d meme:<\/p>\n