30 June 2011
Civil War in Virginia: Walk in Their Footsteps
“Whether they fought on the fields of battle, endured the hardships of the home front, or struggled for emancipation behind the lines, all of our Virginia Virginia Virginia
Please do post a “comment” about any Civil War Sesquicentennial websites for your state!
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29 June 2011
Family Tree Magazine Posts 101 Best Websites
Each year Family Tree Magazine publishes a list of 101 Best Websites. With all the new online resources that become available, the expansion of existing websites, and the dynamic nature of the web, this list is a nice way to “catch up” on what “some” think are the best websites. Obviously, any list limited in length (e.g. to 101) does not list a lot of really excellent websites and it’s a place to start if you are overwhelmed by how much is now on the web for geneal ogy researchers.
This year’s categories are:
- Family History Mega-Marts
- Born in the USA
- State-of-the-Art Archives
- Local Heroes
- Ethnic Interests
- Putting Genealogy on the Map
- Share and Store Alike
- Tech Tools
- Canadian Cousins
- Genealogy CSI: Death and DNA
- Crossing the Pond
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28 June 2011
MTGS Sponsoring Land Platting Workship with J Mark Lowe, CG
What:
The Middle TN Geneal ogical Society will sponsor a beginning land platting workshop, with Certified Geneal ogist, J. Mark Lowe. This hands-on session will help you learn how to plat a deed using the metes and bounds system, identify a neighborhood and locate the plat on a topographic map. A very down-to-earth presentation you don’t want to miss!
Where:
When:
Cost:
$40 per person, (lunch and materials included) Contact: Deborah Stillwell, 615.743.3487 , or dstillwell@fiftyforward.org to register. Visit the website: www.mtgs.org for more information.
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27 June 2011
African American Heritage Tour: An Education Adventure
Members of The Florida Task Force on African American History (AAHTF) and UNESCO's TST-Network FL Florida Tallahassee Jacksonville St. Augustine Daytona Beach Orlando
This African American Heritage Tour is designed to appeal to university and college personnel, K-12 teachers/administrators, professionals from diverse fields, graduate students, religious and/or community leaders, etc. Among its topics and themes are: The Middle Passage, plantation slavery, “Underground Railroad” routes, Gullah/Geechee culture, marronage and black town settlements, fighting “Jim Crow,” struggles for education and civil rights and traditions in business, athletics and entertainment.
Though the registration for this event ended on Friday, we wanted you to be aware of it! For further information, contact: eric@blackhistorytours.com, 305-754-0981 or 305-753-0139 ; sherry.dupree@sfcollege.edu, or kashifai@att.net
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New and Simple Online Tool Uses Google Maps to Show Historical County Boundaries
“We all know the importance of county governments for maintaining various types of records that are useful for geneal ogical research. But how often have you tried searching for an ancestor's historical records for a given county, only to realize that you were searching in the right place but the wrong county? In fact, according to John H. Long, the director of the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project at the Newberry Library, "the average number of boundary changes per county in the U.S. neal ogical records.
Using the fantastic information from the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, I've created an online Historical County Boundary Maps tool based on Google Maps.”
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For full details, read his complete introduction.
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24 June 2011
31st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy -- DC, 14-19 August 2011
The 31st IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Geneal ogy is being held at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel 14-19 August 2011.
The conference includes :
· Pre-Conference Shabbat Scholar Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (Friday evening and Saturday)
· Conference Keynote Speaker Sara Bloomfield, Director of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, followed by a Welcome Reception
· Over 160 diverse sessions in 11 tracks, covering all levels of geneal ogy research
· A Special Interest Group (SIG) and Birds of a Feather (BOF) Fair: meet those researching the same ancestral countries and towns as you
· PC and Mac computer workshops on geneal ogy software and Internet use
· A Records Repository and Resource Fair to learn what major area records facilities have
· A Resource Center neal ogical databases
· Ten SIG luncheons, each with a prominent speaker; also Breakfasts with the Experts, to help you break through “brick walls” blocking your family research
· The Conference Gala event, with invited speaker David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States AND the music and vocals of the world-renowned Robyn Helzner Trio
· And even more: Morning Minyanim, Tours neal ogy and Judaic wares
Editor’s Note: NGS will be exhibiting at this conference
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23 June 2011
Smithsonian -- Who Had the Best Civil War Facial Hair?
The Smithsonian is running a contest to determine who had the best civil war facial hair. The contest includes select officers who fought in the U.S. Civil War and you are being asked who wore their beard, mustache, mutton chops or sideburns the best?
You can click on each contestant’s photo to learn more about that person.
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22 June 2011
NGS Weekly
There are so many options for getting the “word” out whether geneal ogical or not!
NGS is now using paper.li to create a “newspaper” called The NGS Weekly. Essentially feeds are pulled from various sources, including UpFront With
This gives you one place to visit and see what some of the top geneal ogical “headlines” are.
You can visit the page, subscribe to it or even embed it into your own website!
Please check it out and let us know what you think.
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