Happy Friday! What are your plans for this weekend? I’m supposed to meet some friends for a social distanced hangout in the park.

Here’s some links to start off the weekend!

This is crazy.

Research your Revolutionary War roots.

San Francisco fashion in the 1920s.

Beginning African American genealogy research. [video]

How to use Google Earth for genealogy. [video]

Different land records you can use to find ancestors.

The fate of the Seattle National Archives branch is still in question.

10 ways to get yourself out of a reading slump. I don’t know about you, but my focus has been off during the stay at home orders.

The Federation of Genealogical Societies 2020 virtual conference is open for registration.

Portraits of famous people recreated by their descendants.

A family recipe that helped a former slave build a new life and his descendants build a business.

How to organize mountains of family photos. [video]

How to protect your family heirlooms and share their stories.

14 Black women we should learn about in history class.

A father discovers a son he never knew he had through an Ancestry.com DNA test.