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Cinda Baxter, MSc, CG, AG, QG
• Board-certified Genealogist
• Association of Professional Genealogists
• National Genealogical Society
• Scotland, England, and U.S.
02/28/2025
Please, please share. We need to get the word out. THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR DONATIONS.
Every genealogist who researches in U.S. records has, without question, benefitted from NARA's work. NARA needs our voices to protect assets owned by "We, the People."
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provides core government functions necessary to preserve, protect, and make accessible records from all three branches of the federal government.
02/23/2025
Echoing what others have said, concerns about (a) the new website UGA just rolled out; (b) the unceremonious removal of SLIG’s Director, triggering a series of SLIG staff resignations; and (c) the overall future of SLIG should be emailed to the entire UGA Board—not to just one person. Don’t rely on social media pages (where posts are sometimes removed by admins).
10/31/2024
As a follow up to my last post, take a look at NARA's digitization department. The techno-nerd in me is swooning over the scanners and photo set ups.
A new state-of-the-art digitization center is allowing the National Archives to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical fede...
10/31/2024
A fascinating peek into the (massive) digitization process at NARA.
10/23/2024
H/T to Dawne Slater for sharing the hashtag that sums up my world:
Photo:
Marriage banns, William JACKSON and Elizabeth SUMMERFIELD (27 Mar 1826), Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England, May 2017; digital photo, author’s files. D655+7/PI 4/1, arranged chronologically.
(And yes, Gian and Greg, this is where Dad's middle name--Summerfield--originated.)
10/22/2024
And during ICGHS, no less. Well deserved congratulations to David E. Rencher for having received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Italian Heraldic Genealogical Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. :::applause:::
David Rencher, FamilySearch CGO, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Italian Heraldic Genealogical Institute at the 36th ICGHS Conference.
10/14/2024
Oh, how I hope Internet Archive comes back. Text search on the site is (was?) so much better than running downloaded PDFs through desktop OCR. Thank goodness--in this case--Hathi also has the book.
10/03/2024
That giddy moment when you find 24 tithe roll entries for your 4x great grandfather (including the inn he ran, where I had dinner last June).
10/01/2024
Introducing the only international genealogy fellowship launched in the U.S. If you're interested (or know someone who might be), please SAVE THE LINK BELOW since it's not listed anywhere on the APG website (we're hoping to get that resolved).
Such a wonder, in all the best ways. RIP, Dame Maggie. You (and Violet Crawley) remain in our hearts forever.
09/18/2024
I always said if I had kids, one would get the middle name "Baxter." It appears all three of my 2x great grandfather's sisters had the same idea (screenshot from my research log below).
How cool is that, Leann, Gian, Greg, and Betty?
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You deserve more than shaky leaves, pie charts, and bar graphs....
It all began with a birthday trip to Scotland. Determined to learn where the first Baxter came from, I began chasing those twitchy little leaves, like everybody else. Before long, visits to the Lowlands (and later, throughout the U.S. and England) were the norm, rooting through archives, libraries, graveyards, local history societies, courthouses, and any other place that might have even a tiny scrap of our family story. My adoration for research, complexity, and discovery found a new purpose.
From traditional “paper trail” research to DNA analysis, my formal genealogical education has been built around a desire to help others who crave knowledge about their heritage, while holding myself to the highest possible standards: [1]
“Family history standards require a higher level of proof than does most litigation.”
“Modern standards for family history also require more precision and rigor than commonly applied in the social sciences.”
“Standards of proof for family history are more akin to standards in the hard sciences, where repeated experiments will expose errors.”
“Genealogy accepts no margin of error.”
Don’t be intimidated. Don’t be overwhelmed. All you have to do is reach out, and ask for help from someone who knows the ropes.
I look forward to uncovering your story.
Cinda
[1] Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Third Edition (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2015), sect. 1.5, p. 18-19.
