What's New For the New Year ~ New Websites, Tools & Ways to Super Charge Your Research
Webinars for Genealogists
Dear Myrtle maintains a genealogical webinar calendar at www.GeneaWebinars.com ~ Read her blog post about webinars and the calendar
2013 Legacy Family Tree Webinar Schedule announced. Webinars are free when presented live and usually for 10 days after the live broadcast. Sign up for webinars of interest even if you can't attend the live presentation. You will receive email reminders of the broadcast and when the 10 day free viewing period begins. Register at www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/webinars.asp. Print the brochure as an easy reminder of upcoming webinars. (Brochure is a handout at the Jan. 5 meeting.)
It's Time for Twitter!
SCNMGS has joined Twitter. Create a free account at twitter.com and follow @SCNMGS ~ You do not have to tweet if you do not want to. You can make your account private. @SCNMGS is following many of the best genealogy tweeters and has created lists which you can add to your account. Twitter is an easy way to find genealogy news.
The Hathi Trust Digital Library http://www.hathitrust.org/ is "a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future." The Digital Library includes thousands of digitized versions of genealogy and local history books with searchable text. There is overlap with titles in Google Books but the Trust is digitizing books not in the Google collection. Create a free account and you can save titles to your own collections.