Here are some great articles and videos you might have missed this past week.  Enjoy!

Blog Posts

Ancestry.com

• AncestryDNA and Katie Couric bring birth mother and son together – 41 years later

Ancestry Reference Desk

• It’s Library Week
• Search Tips: City Directories
• Civil War Unit Histories: Finding the Details for the Story

Newspapers.com

• Strategies for Searching on Newspapers.com

Archives

• Organize Your Genealogy, Share a Family Tree, and More!
• Evernote: Your Virtual Genealogy Assistant
• Not Just Lines on a Page: Family Trees to Display and Share

Videos

Ancestry.com

• How to Find Marriage Records on Ancestry.com
• Love and… Marriage Indexes

Archives

• What Are You Missing in Death Records?

We’ve made a lot of updates to our City Directories, and we have launched a new index for them at: U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta)

Don’t let the name fool you, this is ready for prime time.  You can read more at our original post on City Directories.

But don’t give up even if you don’t find what you are looking for with a search.  Check out browse on the right hand side.  Here I’m looking for a City Directory around the 1940 time frame so I can map where my grandparents would have lived:

Look for the state and then the city, and see if we have any years that you might be interested in.

Look for Search Tip #7: Ancestry Wiki, or review: Search Tip #5: Surname Histories

Happy Searching!

Ancestry Anne