Sourcophobia

Sourcophobia – an irrational fear of reading anything by Elizabeth Shown Mills

Source: http://cmgurney.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/genealogisms.html

SpitKit

A new word from my young Australian genimate, Sharon Muffett

SpitKit: The ancestryDNA testing kit, so-called for the procedure of collecting saliva into a test tube.

A Big Spit

Gendisasters

I don’t have to try too hard to source new entries for the Geneadictionary, some just jump out at me while I am reading social media.. In fact I have around a hundred entries lined up for future publishing.

Today while reading Google+ I saw this post from Tony Proctor which sent me to the Gendisasters site. From that site I noted thier subtitle which defines Gendisasters.

Gendisasters : events that touched our ancestors’ lives

The Gendisasters site states that it has “Newspaper articles about Train Wrecks, Fires,Floods, Shipwrecks, Plane Crashes, Accidents and other disasters.  Most of these articles list the dead and injured or missing. Use the Search Box to search for your ancestors or Browse the articles by type of disaster, state or year.”

RAOGK

RAOGK – Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness.

The Familysearch Wiki has an excellent article that gives the history of this term.

Microphilmia

Another gem from Caroline Gurney.

Microphilmia – a love of doing research

Microphilmia sufferer

Source: http://cmgurney.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/genealogisms.html

#NFHM2015

In Australia we celebrate National Family History Month from 1-30 August each year. This year we are using the hashtag #NFHM2015 when we discuss the event on social media.