Tuesday, April 21, 2009

New Jersey Library Association Talk

I'll be speaking at the New Jersey Library Association Conference on Tuesday, April 28, at 1:30.

For the sake of the Garden State librarians who are attending, I will refrain from making any references to Bruce Springsteen, the Sopranos or Bon Jovi in my presentation.

The title of my talk is "Surviving a Genealogy Reference Interview."Here are some of the resources I'll be discussing in my talk:

Books:

Szucs, Loretto Dennis, and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking.
The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy
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Provo, UT: Ancestry, 2006.

Simpson, Jack.
Basics of Genealogy Reference: A Librarian's Guide.
Westport, Conn: Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Listserv:

Librarians Serving Genealogists (Genealib) listserv:
http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/genealib

Websites:

Newberry Library genealogy page:
http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/collections.html

Ancestry Library Edition and other Proquest genealogy databases:
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/ale.shtml

FamilySearch Labs: Record Search
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/ale.shtml

Cyndi's List: Genealogy charts for download
http://www.cyndislist.com/supplies.htm#Online

Social Security Death Index on Rootsweb:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

ALA-RUSA History: Genealogy Committee
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/committees/genealogy/index.cfm

ALA-RUSA: Genealogy 101 class:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/development/onlinece.cfm