Best of the Genea-Blogs - November 1-7, 2009
Hundreds of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for the genealogy carnivals, or other meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:*

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Surname Distributions!
Hey, genealogy fans - it's Saturday Night, and time for some Genealogy Fun!Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music...), is:1) Find out the geographical distribution of your surname - in the world, in your state or province, in your county or parish. I suggest that you use the Public Profiler site at http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/, which seems to work quickly and easily. However, you cannot capture the image as a photo file - you have to captu

Surname Saturday - RICHMAN/RICHMOND
It's Surname Saturday. I am listing my ancestral families in the order they appear on my Ahnentafel Chart. Today, I will list my RICHMAN/RICHMOND Families.The line from myself backwards in time through the Richman/Richmond line is:1. Randall J. Seaver (1943-....) - moi!2. Frederick W. Seaver (1911-1983) married 1942 3. Betty Carringer (1919-2002)4. Frederick W. Seaver (1876-1942) married 1900 5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) 5. Alma Bessie Richmond, born 16 February 1882 in Killingly, Windh

Checking out ourFamily*ology - Post 2
I signed up for the ourFamily*ology family tree web site earlier this week, but ran into a snag, as reported in the first post of this series. They apparently solved my snag problem, and now the site works well for me. In this post, I want to go explore the Tree features of the web site. I uploaded a 38,420 person family tree the other day, and all of the information seems to be in their system. I did have one problem - my #1 person has the name "(Unknown)" and is the third wife of Robert Seaver (1608-1683). I figured out how to naviga

Three APG/PMC Presentations Available to View
Do you want a peek at some of the presentations made at the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) Professional Management Conference (PMC) in September 2009 at the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) conference in Little Rock?Check out the PMC Webcast page on the APG site. The site says:"As a result of a trial partnership with FamilySearch, APG is making available three presentations from the 2009 APG Professional Management Confe