New Article: Cleveland's European Ethnic Heritage Online

Cleveland was greatly impacted by the “new immigration” of late 19th and early 20th centuries. As many of these immigrants came from regions of Europe that have been greatly impacted by war and boundary changes, they can be difficult to trace. I share sources for researching your European ancestors who settled in Cleveland in the August/September issue of Internet Genealogy.

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Family Trees on the Internet

Do they belong in your family tree?

This NPR story, broadcast in February 2014, highlights a significant problem with using the internet to do genealogy: family trees that are all wrong. Granted badly researched trees and falsified family trees have always existed. The convenience of the web now makes it much easier to find them and connect to them on FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com and similar sites.

So beware of family trees you find online and use them as clues to guide your research. Always ask yourself if the appearance of a particular person in an online tree makes sense geographically, chronologically, and historically.


With thanks to Genealogists.com who posted a link to this story on their Facebook page.

Museum Box Is a Great Way for Students to Create Virtual Artifact Displays

Museum Box Is a Great Way for Students to Create Virtual Artifact Displays

This posts is from the Free Technology for Teachers. I've not tried it (and two of the commentors on the post tried it and found it lacking). It occurred to me that if students could make a museum about a topic they were researching, so could anybody else.  Museum Box might be worth checking out, but caveat emptor.