Merry Christmas & a Peaceful New Year

to all visitors to Madaboutgenealogy

I’ll start posting again on 29 December, but if you need a family history fix before then there is always the archived postings

Not sure I would spend my hard earned cash on an Irishness Certificate, but it seems that the government of Ireland is hoping that plenty of others will.

If this appeals then read more about it in the Irish Times – click on the link below

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/0621/1224272953828.html

Did you know that there are foreign language translation word lists on Ancestry.com ? They are under the Research Center tab at the top. Ancestry.co.uk doesn’t appear to have such lists, I suppose they assume that everything there is in English!!

www.ancestry.com

The battles fought by the men and women who were left to keep the UK together during WW2 are as interesting as those fought on foreign soil. Here is a website which gives lots of interesting background.

http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/templates/hshf_frameset_tem.htm

Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year to all readers of www.madaboutgenealogy.com.

There will be no postings in the website for the next 10 days as I shall be away from my computer.

Thank you all for visiting the website and there will be plenty of new, exciting developments on the site in 2010 so keep dropping me!!

Here is a useful website with a variety of helpful items. I especially like the history time line set out on the front page and the Latin Primer.

http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/brit4.htm

All genealogists regardless of years of experience should go and assess themselves on the Ancestry Insider’s Genealogical Maturity Model. He has developed a way of easily assess one’s abilities, strengths and weaknesses and of showing where we need to be heading.

Great fun and also worthwhile! In particular the chocolate cake looks rather yummy, perhaps that’s what you get if you become to be a Stellar Genealogist

http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2009/11/genealogical-maturity-model.html

Wonder where your ancestors names came from?

http://www.archive.org/details/adictionaryengl00goog

The people at the Ancestry.com Learning Centre have sent out this message….

The search team is excited about our free online webinar about searching Ancestry.com on October 14th at 8:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. In this webinar, we will show you the best strategies for searching Ancestry.com’s thousands of databases. Improving your search strategies will help you to find more information about your ancestors.
It can take time to learn all the details of a search engine and keep up with new features. We’ll explain how to find more records and adapt your search strategies as you look beyond census records. We will start with a helpful overview and then provide step-by-step instructions for using several of the search engine’s features. This webinar is designed for beginning to intermediate members of Ancestry.com. To attend the webinar, please register here.

For a free 14 day trial of Ancestry click here.

The title of this website might lead you to think it is confined to Leitrim & Roscommon, but in actual fact it covers the whole of Ireland. Worth a look, one of the indexes might just hold the very clue you need!

http://www.leitrim-roscommon.com/index.shtml