The Unofficial Footnote Blog

This past week, Footnote announced a “Great Depression Collection.” The content was identified as the Population Schedules from the 1930 US Federal Census, and historical newspapers from the period. The newspapers have been on the site for some time previously, but that’s a common marketing approach to which Footnote is not immune. Re-branding and re-launching [...]

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Newspapers, we used to say, have something for everybody. There are news stories about the events of the day, local news, births, marriages, and deaths. Even the ads are interesting. Genealogists can see ads for the places where their families worked. Historians can gather useful pricing, product, and advertising information.
The papers at Footnote fall into [...]

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Free lectures for your genealogy society.

You read that right. For a limited time, in an effort to debug the technique, Beau Sharbrough will speak to your genealogy society (or your genealogical society, if you prefer), for free.

There is a condition. I don’t intend to actually attend the meeting.

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