Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It’s Saturday Night again – 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 

1)  What genealogy resources are you currently using? Books, periodicals, manuscripts, ephemera, websites, software, or ???

2) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link on this post if you write your own blog post.

Thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic.

Here’s mine:

While this might seem like an easy question to answer, it is actually complicated. It is complicated because, I use a lot of different resources.

When it comes to software, I regularly use

• RootsMagic 8 to keep track of my genealogy database
• Scrivener to transcribe records and track notes by surname/location
• Adobe PDF
• Windows Snipping Tool
• Microsoft Word and Excel

During the past week or so, I’ve used the following resources:

• digital books on Archive.org – Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, volume 1
• digital books on FamilySearch – Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, volumes 2 and 3
• Seneca, Kansas newspaper – http://seneca.advantage-preservation.com/
• Warren county, Indiana newspapers on Newspaperarchives.com
• Newspapers.com
• Books (yes actual books) like Crawford Family History and “First Census” of Kentucky 1790
• Kentucky tax lists prior to 1800
• yDNA / Crawford Project
• Facebook groups — particularly Clan Crawford Association Ancestry & DNA research forum
• Genealogical Society journals
• Genealogy blogs via my Feedly feed

Websites I regularly use for research:

• Ancestry
• FamilySearch — Catalog
• FamilySearch — Books
• FamilySearch — Tree
• Newspapers.com
• Ancestor Hunt Newspaper Links by Kenneth Marks

I share my research via

• Ancestry – Heartland Genealogy tree
• FamilySearch
• WikiTree
• This Blog