By: Carolyn L. Barkley
I have been “blogging” now for slightly more than a year. While I confess that I don’t know a great deal about the technical side of blogs (widgets are still beyond me, for example), I have learned how valuable blogs can be in our ongoing education as genealogists. In the past, formal [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
Ever since I was a young girl, I have loved touring historic houses. I try to imagine what living in a house would have been like and I wonder about the people who lived there. Each house has its own peculiar ambience. Some houses look as if the occupants have just stepped [...]
By Carolyn L. Barkley
According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The education of the general mind never stops…” For me, a logical extension of this statement is that the education of the genealogical mind never ceases. The evolving art of genealogical research engenders in each of us an abiding thirst for knowledge about methodology, resources, and technologies.
Many [...]
By: Carolyn L. Barkley
Despite your ancestors’ more recent geographical locations, for many of you, the research trail leads back to Virginia. One of the most important sources for Virginia research is Earl Gregg Swem’s Virginia Historical Index, often simply referred to as “Swem.” Worldcat, the international cooperative cataloging database, includes entries for several editions held [...]