DNA: the privacy sky is not falling
Chill out!! Okay, step back, take a deep breath, and chill out. Yes, genetic genealogy has taken it on the chin this week with lots of news stories that make it sound as though taking a DNA test to find out information about your family is the functional equivalent of...Documenting death
110 years apart It’s funny how it seems that family events tend to pile up on particular days. In my family, we’re heavy on birthdays in one fairly short time period in March (and no, not all of them — or even most of them — can be explained by...Copyright, Corbis & terms of use
UPI photos and Corbis Reader Suzanne Smith had her hopes raised by yesterday’s post, “Copyright and the wire photo,” which noted that a very large number of images created by the major wire news services like Associated Press (AP) and United Press International...Copyright and the wire photo
Next in an occasional series on copyright — the news service Reader and fellow genealogy blogger Michael John Neill, who writes the popular and helpful Genealogy Tip of the Day posts, came across a photograph in a 1942 newspaper on GenealogyBank. The photo was...RIP John Scott Davenport
“Doc” Davenport 1925-2013 In May of 2005, The Legal Genealogist drove down to Holmdel, New Jersey, to try to get some help with research into the earliest known ancestors of the Baker family from which I descend. My target for the trip was John Scott “Doc” Davenport,...A QuickLesson for us all
Avoiding plagiarism The dictionary definition of the word plagiarize is “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own; use (another’s production) without crediting the source.”1 And it’s a huge problem in academia, as can easily...O death! Thy name is woman
Gotta check those sources So yesterday one of The Legal Genealogist’s favorite websites, History.com, was running a cool interactive feature called “Bet You Didn’t Know,” a set of 552 facts about history that the website bet we didn’t know. I’m...AncestryDNA: an explanation and a promise
More info from AncestryDNA Last Sunday’s post on interface improvements at AncestryDNA led to a couple of complaining comments about the new “has hints” feature for autosomal DNA matches in the Ancestry system. That’s the new alert system that AncestryDNA...The mysteries of Nancy Fore
Unanswered questions She is one of the family’s mystery ladies, this Nancy, born — we think — 227 years ago today. Her first name is one of the few facts we’re pretty sure of; almost everything about her is a mystery. We have evidence of her...Subscribe by Email
