What Do You Mean It Isn't Free from the Minnesota Family Historian is an excellent discourse on the value of genealogical services and information and the actual behind-the-scenes costs.
Along the same lines, Thomas MacEntee of Geneabloggers was quite transparent in sharing information regarding making money in the genealogy field. Those who have a dream of doing genealogy as a full-fledged career may have their eyes opened to this economic reality. It is not as easy as Thomas makes it look!
Also weighing in the topic of making money in genealogy were Amy Coffin of We Tree Genealogy and James Tanner of Genealogy's Star.
My Top 3 Bits of Advice for Blogging from Marian's Roots and Rambles
How to Create Online Content Like an Immortal Renaissance Artist from Copyblogger (not a genealogy blog, but excellent advice for the digital writing community)
Dear Myrtle has an excellent piece on the Bureau of Land Management and researching land records.
For those looking to expand their genealogy education, learn about 140 free online genealogy research courses offered from FamilySearch. This comes from GeneaPress.
Other recommended reading
Other bloggers also offer their recommendations and weekly highlights. Check their recommended reading lists:
Randy Seaver's Best of the Geneablogs on Geneamusings.
Greta's Follow Friday on Greta's Genealogy Blog.
Elizabeth O'Neal's Best Bytes on Little Bytes of Life.
Jennifer's Climbing My Family Tree.
Thank you for the mention!
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