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What an incredible undertaking!

Alexander Cheek's Genealogical History Chart

This personal project of mine, a four month task, compiles both sides of my family—twenty generations in some cases—and nearly six-hundred years of ancestors and cousins. On paper it measures 36" by 120"....

The author shares several images and explains in detail how the chart is laid out. After reading that, don't you want one of your family? I know I do :-)

[link from information aesthetics]

I was poking around at The Shifted Librarian a while ago, and ended up on another librarian's blog at a post mentioning that her library offered HeritageQuest online. Well, I figured my library might also do that, and sure enough, Houston Public Library has a whole slew of genealogy research databases available, including HeritageQuest, which has full indexes and PDFs of the US censuses from 1860 through 1920! And it's FREE! You just use your library card number and away you go!

I spent a while yesterday afternoon downloading and printing all the 1920 census pages for DEAMs in Indiana. Pretty cool....

Another link from Eastman's: The American Colonist's Library. There are TONS of links here, in (at least) the following categories: Classical Literature, Medieval Sources, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Sources, Seventeenth Century Sources, Eighteenth Century Sources, Acts of Parliament, Works of Benjamin Franklin, Works of Sam Adams, Works of George Washington, Works of John Adams, Works of Thomas Jefferson, Works of James Madison, Works of Thomas Paine and American Revolution Military Documents. Whew!!

Here are some blank charts in PDF format (see the freebies link). I love my on-line database, but I'll admit that I scribbled down some quick names and ids while I was making my file folders yesterday. One of these would have been much neater :-)

[Link from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter via RSS at work. Shhh--don't tell....]