Via Deborah Large Fox, a new genealogy search engine called Mocavo. As Deborah Large Fox points out, since Mocavo scours only genealogy-related sites, and therefore filters out genealogically irrelevant results, it has the potential to be quite useful to family…
Miscellaneous
Spelling Doesn’t Count! (in Genealogy)
by M.C. Moran • • Comments Off
Most of the complaints that I hear from others involve relatives that dispute dates and spellings of names–the latter being a BIGGIE. I still have difficultly convincing new family researchers themselves to accept the fact that their ancestors’ names were…
Certificate of/for Genealogical Tourism
by M.C. Moran • • 2 Comments
Or “certificate of Irish heritage,” I guess it’s to be called. This article in the Irish Times includes some amusingly snarky comments about shamrocks and leprechauns and shillelaghs and the like: ‘If it’s not handled correctly, it could end up…
Family History and Family Mythology: Irish Version
by M.C. Moran • • Comments Off
No doubt this is an issue that crops up for family historians researching ancestors from any number of ethnic backgrounds and national origins. But I suspect the problem is especially prevalent in Irish genealogy, where the attempt to apply evidence-based…