Did you forget? It’s that time of the year again. Dues are due! The deadline is March 31st. After that deadline, any unpaid members will be removed from the roster and mailing lists. You can send your dues via mail to the St. Augustine Genealogical Society c/o St. Johns County Public Library – Southeast Branch, 6670 US 1 South, St. Augustine, FL 32086.
More newspaper goodness from The Ancestor Hunt. This time it’s updates to the Mid-Atlantic States. If you are looking for your ancestors in newspapers, The Ancestor Hunt is a great place to start. New and updated Free Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Mid-Atlantic States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in March, 2019, and represent additions from the past 4 months. For all 8 states, the total number of links is 4,865. Just click on your chosen state below and the links to newspaper titles from that state will appear.
Leland Meitzler (Genealogy Blog and Family Roots Publishing) posted an article about F&W Media’s filing for bankruptcy yesterday. It looks worse than we first thought. Read Leland’s article to see just how bad it is.
Even if you didn’t make it to RootsTech, there is still plenty of resources available online. These include:
Genealogy research involves lots of personal information. What are you doing to protect your information while searching online? The web browser and search engine you use has a significant impact on protecting your privacy. The Firefox web browser with the Duck Duck Go search engine is a good first step. Both are free and have an impressive set of tools to help you search the Web. To learn more, visit the home of the Firefox browser – Mozilla.
Final Notes
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Sample of the “fine print” at the bottom of each post.
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