Treasure Chest Thursday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Treasure Chest Thursday simply create a post with the main focus being a family treasure, an heirloom or even an every-day item important to your family.

A special thanks to Leslie Ann Ballou of Lost Family Treasures for suggesting Treasure Chest Thursday as a daily blogging theme!

Here are the latest Treasure Chest Thursday posts from our member genealogy bloggers:

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Treasure Chest Thursday July 29, 2010

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Editing photos for genealogy or for posting on your blog can be lots of work and expensive if you feel you need to purchase a program like Adobe PhotoShop or PhotoShop Elements.

Did you know that GeneaBloggers lists over 34 FREE photo edition resources on its Resources for Photo Editing page?  They include sites that allow you to add a watermark to you photo, add visual effects and more.

Also, we have 11 different resources pages which list a total of over 400 links to many FREE applications covering PDF creating and editing, data backup, blog design and more.  Check out our Blog Resources page for more information.

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Free Resources for Photo Editing

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Wordless Wednesday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Wordless Wednesday simply create a post with the main focus being a photograph or image. Some people also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location, owner, etc.). Some have begun doing a “Not So Wordless Wednesday” with the main focus still being an image but there is a backstory to the image.

Here are the latest Wordless Wednesday posts from our member genealogy bloggers:

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Wordless Wednesday July 28, 2010

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Today is Wisdom Wednesday – an alternative to Wordless Wednesday for those who just can’t post without words!. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Wisdom Wednesday. What is it?

Wisdom Wednesday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Wisdom Wednesday simply create a post in which you share words of wisdom about any number of things including weddings, marriage, children, work, and so on.  A post  could include such things as favorite sayings of grannies, superstitions, that sort of thing.  Words of wisdom should have their origins in the past and have been passed on from generation to generation.

A special thanks to Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman of On a Flesh and Bone Foundation: An Irish History for suggesting Wisdom Wednesday as a daily blogging theme!

Here are the latest Wisdom Wednesday posts from our member genealogy bloggers:

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Wisdom Wednesday July 28, 2010

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Today is Tombstone Tuesday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Tombstone Tuesday. What is it?

Tombstone Tuesday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Tombstone Tuesday simply create a post which includes an image of a gravestone of one or more ancestors and it may also include a brief description of the image or the ancestor.

Here are the latest Tombstone Tuesday posts from our member genealogy bloggers:

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Tombstone Tuesday July 27, 2010

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As some readers may know, Gini Webb of the Ginisology blog has been doing a fantastic job with the interviews and write-ups for the May I Introduce To You . . . series over the past year.  Last week, Gini’s mother passed away unexpectedly.  If you can, please take a moment to stop by her Facebook page or her blog and express your condolences during this difficult time for her and her family.

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Summer Vacation for May I Introduce To You . . .

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Today is Madness Monday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Madness Monday. What is it?

Madness Monday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Madness Monday simply create a post with the main focus being an ancestor who may have suffered from some form of mental illness or an ancestor who drives you “mad” because you have trouble locating them or locating more information about them.

Here are the latest Madness Monday posts from our member genealogy bloggers:

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Madness Monday July 26, 2010

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Don’t forget that today is Sentimental Sunday. If you have your own genealogy or family history related blog, you can participate in Sentimental Sunday. What is it?

Sentimental Sunday is a daily blogging theme used by many genealogy bloggers to help them post content on their sites.

To participate in Sentimental Sunday, simply create a post in which you discuss a sentimental story or memory about an ancestor, or maybe even a family tradition that touches you.

A special thanks to Renate Sanders of Into the Light for suggesting Sentimental Sunday as a daily blogging theme!

Here are the latest Sentimental Sunday posts from our member genealogy bloggers:

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Sentimental Sunday July 25, 2010

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52 Weeks To Better Genealogy – Challenge 30

Create an emergency chain. Select someone you trust to handle duties should you be unable to access your research, blog or other genealogy projects. Chances are that you have an online presence and genealogy friend with whom you are in regular contact. If you are unable to get online for a significant period of time, how will you let everyone know? Use this week to give your contact information to at least one genealogy friend so he or she could check in with you or your family in case of unexplained absence. The genealogy community is pretty tight, and we worry when one of our own hasn’t been heard from in a while. This challenge was inspired by Hurricane Ike and 14 days without power. Bloggers: describe the steps you take to establish an emergency chain to help your readers do the same.

This challenge runs from Saturday, 24 July 2010 through Friday, 30 July 2010.

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Here are the latest posts from GeneaBloggers members on this week’s challenge:

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52 Weeks To Better Genealogy by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts that are a bit more challenging and are geared towards those new to the field of genealogy and family history as well as those who want to brush up on some skills which might be a bit rusty. Please include an attribution link if you participate.

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[Note: this is a regular feature of GeneaBloggers which highlights new genealogy and family history-related blogs as well as those recently discovered by members of GeneaBloggers. Use the Suggest A Blog! link in the menu bar to pass along information on new blogs.]

There are six newly-discovered genealogy and family-history related blogs that we’ve located this week for a total of 1,193 genealogy blogs on our list! Remember to try and help out these new blogs by:

- using the Follow feature if the blog is hosted on Blogger – adding them to your blog reader – adding a comment on their blog saying “hi” and “welcome”

Here are this week’s new listings:

Berit’s Adventures in Genealogy
http://saulsancestry.blogspot.com
Blog type: Individual family history, Jewish genealogy

This is my place to post my current research findings and challenges, changes to my genealogy website, and any other genealogical information that I find.

Calling All Cousins
http://callingallcousins-cshultz.blogspot.com
Blog type: Individual family history

I am the family historian. I declared this title in 1998, around the time that Genealogy and research were starting to make the news. Yes, I caught the bug from a magazine article. It was a tiny little paragraph, I think now, about Cyndi’s List. And it’s led me on a wonderful adventure so far, including finding cousins and discovering family I never knew about. A bunch of research trips and many an hour researching online and still, I am fascinated by the puzzle. It’s a crazy, mixed up kind of puzzle and every little piece found gives me immense satisfaction and a joyful zing in my heart.

From Out of the Top Hat
http://www.alplm.org/blog/
Blog type: Genealogy library blog, Illinois genealogy, Midwest genealogy

A cartoon shows Abraham Lincoln looking askance at a book with the caption: “My God, another book.” The reference assumes the reader knows that there are quite a few Lincoln books, roughly 17,000 titles to date. The same exasperation might be expressed as: “My God, another Lincoln blog.” There are quite a number of blogs, active and inactive, regarding Lincoln and the Civil War. Why is another needed? The simple answer is that whereas most blogs are the creation and expressions of individual opinion, this blog is institutionally based and serves a broad purpose. By tapping into the collections of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the blog hopes to tease out meanings about Lincoln, his times, and his legacy.

The bloggers for this site are Dr. James M. Cornelius, Lincoln Curator, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; Professor Richard Wightman Fox, Department of History, University of Southern California; and Dr. Thomas F. Schwartz, Illinois State Historian, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Some of the entries will be serious and others whimsical, but it is hoped that all will offer something of interest.

Genes Reunited Blog
http://blog.genesreunited.co.uk
Blog type: Genealogy vendor blog, UK genealogy

Genes Reunited was launched in 2003 as a sister-site to Friends Reunited. Since then it has grown to become one of the UK’s largest family history websites. It marked a revolution in genealogy by combining historical records with social-networking. Members build their family tree by posting it on the site and investigating which ancestors they share with other members.

We currently have over 10 million members worldwide and over 650 million names listed on the site. One new name is added to the site every single second!

Papers and Dust
http://papiers.poussieres.free.fr/
Blog type: French genealogy, Genealogy industry blog

Information (in French) on French genealogy and the genealogy industry.

Writing a Family History
http://skfamilyhistory.blogspot.com
Blog type: Indian genealogy, Individual family history

I am a University of Chicago student who has taken the summer to study my family’s history. Fueled by a passion for social history and the University of Chicago’s Seidel grant, I have come to Chennai, India, to understand my family’s history in the 20th century.

What do I mean by family history? As a history student, I have always been interested in social history. A central question in social history, including the study of families, is how long-term social and political developments change our everyday lives. These long-term developments include urbanization, industrialization, the rise of the professions, and the spread of higher education, especially for women. Our homes and our families and our relationships with our loved ones are deeply affected by these developments (and, of course, our family lives and personal relationships in turn impact on society and politics, but that is a different project). The question is, what is the relationship between our experiences as members of a family and these larger social developments? My purpose in taking on this project is to understand what changes my family underwent—in terms of structure, living arrangements, and individuals’ identities—in the 20th century, and how the results of those changes were perceived by the members of my family.

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New Genealogy Blogs July 24, 2010

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