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Since 1898, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary has been the primary lexical reference for study of the Anglo-Saxon language. This huge dictionary is based on the manuscript collections of Joseph Bosworth, edited and enlarged by T. Northcote Toller. It is perhaps the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language ever published. This Old English Dictionary is out of print, hard to find, and expensive. It's also huge and not that fast to look up words in, especially as one must check both the original dictionary plus several supplements.
Genealogists' free exchange of family history information over the internet could be in breach of Sweden's personal data act, according to the country's Board of Data Inspection (DI).If the details being shared refer to the race or ethnic origin of a person in the 18th century, all living descendants must give their consent before any information is made public.
Visitors to the Georgia State Archives can take history home with them this weekend. The document repository is holding its first used and rare book sale. The merchandise is donated, not part of the collection.
More than 15,000 collected papers and books, some dating as far back as 1789, go on sale Friday at the Georgia State Archives. This is the first used and rare books sale for the archives, which hold official Georgia historical documents. Most of the items are being sold for $4.00 or less.
Let's see, you spent money for a computer, for a printer, and for a scanner. So, how do you make photocopies? I hope you don't go running down to Kinko's or Staples to do that.
If you have all three of the devices I mentioned, you already have a photocopier, although perhaps an expensive one. However, since you have already made the financial investment for other reasons, you might as well get as much out of it as you can.
A new scam is on the Internet: a piece of software that will create bogus family trees to be uploaded to your web site. Why would anyone want to do that? The complete answer is a bit convoluted, but the short answer is to boost your web site higher in the search engine ratings so that gullible people will see the ads on your site. In fact, the program's advertising boasts that you can "create unique, non-duplicate content that millions of people search for, AND that neither humans nor search engines can tell is 'real' or not."
It had to happen sooner or later. A 15-year-old boy born from anonymously-donated sperm reportedly used an online DNA-testing service and the Internet to track down his genetic father, a feat which suggests that promises of donor secrecy are worthless.
If you can trace your ancestry back to the early 1800s someplace in the United States, you can probably find someone in the family tree named Lorenzo. In fact, that person probably had a middle name of Dow, as in Lorenzo Dow Smith or Lorenzo Dow Jones. If you find a record that refers to "Lorenzo D." as the first name and middle initial, you can likely assume that the middle name was "Dow." Indeed, the name Lorenzo Dow appeared all over the country in the early to mid-1800s, especially in the Mid-Atlantic States and the South. It is believed that more than 10,000 babies were named after Lorenzo Dow. In the 1850 U.S. census, "Lorenzo" is one of the more popular first names.
Research into an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty. Giocangga's extraordinary number of descendants, concentrated mainly in north-east China and Mongolia, are thought to be a result of the many wives and concubines his offspring took.
In a mystical use of genetic modification, a U.K. art group based in Japan has found a way to ensure that a person's DNA lives on long after their demise. Biopresence, founded by Georg Tremmel and Shiho Fukuhara, intends to infuse the DNA of recently deceased loved ones into trees, turning the plants into living memorials.
A new Ontario adoption information law improves right to information and privacy for adoptees and birth parents. The new adoption information law will soon provide easier access to information sealed in adoption records and new privacy protections for people who want to keep their past in the past, according to Minister of Community and Social Services Sandra Pupatello.
Here is a service that sounds like it was made for genealogists. Let's say you are examining old records at a distant relative's house, at the town clerk's office, or someplace else that does not have a photocopy machine handy. How do you make a copy?
In the October 11 daily edition of this newsletter, I wrote about a groundbreaking ceremony for a new Church History Library for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. It is to be located near the Family History Library. Now two Capitol Hill residents have sued trying to block the library plan. They say current plans could further hamper parking in Salt Lake City's northern neighborhoods.
The annual conference of the U.S. Federation of Genealogical Societies is still ten months away, but the sponsoring organization already has an active blog in place to provide information about the conference.
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