By Carolyn L. Barkley
I first heard these attention-getting words from frequent national genealogical conference speaker, Paul Milner. As both a librarian and a researcher, I could not agree more. Many customers come into a library and ask “Where is your genealogy collection?” These customers may lack well-developed search strategy skills, may think that all the [...]
by Carolyn L. Barkley
I work in the genealogical.com booth at two national genealogical conferences (NGS and FGS) each year. As I assist customers for several days at a time, I have a first row seat that allows me to observe how many people approach a new resource. The most common method is to pick up [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
Over 20 years ago, I agreed to be the Clan Barclay International’s genealogist. I was suddenly plunged into the world of surname research and one-name studies. In those days, one-name studies were a time-consuming process of extracting “all� entries of a particular surname and its variant spellings from such things as census [...]