31 May 2012
Library and Archives Canada Launches Its Immigration Heritage Online Kits
If you do research in Canada , especially into that of
immigrants, I have some good news for you!
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has released immigration
heritage kits online. Ultimately 24 kits will be released. The first three released relate to Chinese,
Japanese and East Indian communities. Each kit includes lists of digital
resources for a specific ethno-cultural group, allowing users to access
photographs, works of art, texts, music and all other material available for
that respective group.
Find out more by browsing the different immigration heritage kits on LAC’s website.
Editor’s Note: the linked webpage
also provides access to relevant databases on the LAC site.
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30 May 2012
Big Thanks to All The 2012 NGS Conference Volunteers!
I would
like to thank all the volunteers who helped with the NGS 2012 Family History
Conference in Cincinnati .
The volunteers spent countless hours working at attendee check-in, exhibitor
check-in, hospitality booth, as exhibit hall badge checkers, room monitors,
Demo Area coordinators, scanning assistants, and "Ask Me"
helpers. Without their generosity of
spirit and time, the conference would not have been a success.
Special
thanks to the Local Host Society Committee. They have been working with me for
over two years planning the Cincinnati
conference.
Local Host Chair: Kenny Burck
Hospitality Chair: Liz Stratton
Volunteer Chair: Jean Nathan
Registration Chair: Sandy St. Martin
Vendor Chair: Barbara Gargiulo
Publicity Chair: Jean Woll
Blog Chair: Deb Cyprych
Night at Library Chair: Patricia Moseley Van Skaik
Local Host Chair: Kenny Burck
Hospitality Chair: Liz Stratton
Volunteer Chair: Jean Nathan
Registration Chair: Sandy St. Martin
Vendor Chair: Barbara Gargiulo
Publicity Chair: Jean Woll
Blog Chair: Deb Cyprych
Night at Library Chair: Patricia Moseley Van Skaik
Julie
Miller, CG
Conference Chair
Conference Chair
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29 May 2012
Death Records: A Check List of Ten Documents Every Genealogist Should Acquire
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| Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC |
Bill
Dollarhide has a great article on the GenealogyBlog [Leland
& Patty Meitzler] which talks about the ten places to look
for a death record. As stated “All ten sources should be obtained for every
ancestor on your pedigree chart, and every member of a family on your family
group sheet.”
As you read
the article, do pay attention to the “rules” ... not only did they give great
advice, they were quite fun to read! For example
Dollarhide’s rule No. 2: When visiting a funeral home, wear old clothes, no make-up, and look
like you have about a week to live – the funeral director will give you
anything you ask for if he thinks you may be a customer soon.
Are there
other places where you look for death records?
If so, please share!
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28 May 2012
Center for Jewish History and Routes to Roots Foundation Expand Online Access to Family History Research
For those
researching Jewish ancestry, check out this announcement ...
The Center for Jewish History, one
of the world's foremost Jewish research and cultural institutions, has
announced a cooperative agreement between the Center and The Miriam Weiner
Routes to Roots Foundation (RTRF).
The new collaboration brings
together some of the world's most comprehensive databases for researching
Jewish genealogy. The Center will incorporate RTRF's Eastern European Archival
Database and Image Database into its online catalog, vastly expanding access to
a wealth of genealogical resources relating to Jewish and civil records from
Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine. Select archive data has also
been added to the database from Russia
and Romania .
Coupled with the vast trove of the Center's partner collections, researchers
will soon be able to gain enhanced free access to some of the most
comprehensive family history research tools anywhere in the world.
Read the full article.
What other
resources are great for those researching Jewish Ancestry? Please let us know your favorites!
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25 May 2012
St. Louis Genealogical Society Completes Indexing 1.6 Million Burials
Do you know
what these people have in common? Engineer, James Eads; Blues hockey player,
Barclay Plager; Negro Leagues baseball player, James "Cool Papa"
Bell; sports broadcaster, Jack Buck; slave, Dred Scott; poet, Sara Teas-dale;
educator, Susan Blow; and humanitarian, Tom Dooley?
They are
just a handful of the 1.6 million people buried in St.
Louis City or St. Louis County , Missouri ,
who have been indexed by the St. Louis Genealogical Society. This unique
project was completed entirely by dedicated volunteers who donated thousands of
hours to finalize this massive task. With the publication of its fourth and
final cemetery CD, the society has now indexed every known cemetery with only
one exception in St. Louis
City and County.
St. Louis
Genealogical Society is now proud to announce the Index to St. Louis Burials,
volume 4, containing more than 270,000 names of people buried in nineteen
cemeteries in St. Louis
City and County. Volumes
3 and 4 of the Index to St. Louis Burials are available for sale from the St.
Louis Genealogical Society, #4
Sunnen Drive , St. Louis , Missouri , 63143
or in the online store at www.stlgs.org.
The burial data from volumes 1 and 2 are available free of charge to members on
the StLGS website.
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The Best Genealogy Apps [really Software]
PC Magazine recently published a piece on the “Best
Genealogy Apps.” Though the title is a bit misleading as the article really
covered genealogy software and not “Apps” as we have come to think of in this
age of iphones and android-based phones!
That said
... what is your favorite genealogy software program?
And,
speaking of Apps, Tamura Jones has published a list of Free
Android Genealogy Apps and Paid
Android Genealogy Apps. Are there
similar lists for apple products?
Editor’s Note: As with other
articles mentioned posted online, always check to see if some comments have
been posted. Often, posted comments are
as informative, if not more so than the original article.
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24 May 2012
Home is Where The History Is
| My house [Wake County Real Estate Data] -- probably taken c. 1994 the year we purchased it -- based on cars and absence of trees in front yard and neighbors house not even built! |
Tina
Traster in the New York Post recently
wrote ...
“For seven years on and off, I’ve
been doing a genealogy project — but instead of investigating my family’s
roots, I’m entangled in another family’s ancestry and the history of my house.
When exactly was my circa 1870s home built? Who built it? And who lived in it
all those years until my family and five cats moved in?
I began by finding out more about
the Garrabrants, an old Dutch family who settled in the Hudson Valley
in the late 1700s. I knew that part of the family had ended up living on my
road and farming on the mountain, which in the mid-1800s was called Garrabrant Mountain ...
Read the full article.
As I surfed
the internet after reading this story I also came across the site My House History.
Have you
done a house history? What is the most
fascinating thing you learned about those who lived in the house before your
family?
What
resources will help others who want to research the history of their house?
Editor's Note: The history of my current house is easy as we are the original owners and throughout my research I have done bits and pieces of house research for either places I have lived or those where my ancestors have lived.
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NYC portrayed online in 870,000 newly released images
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The two men were discovered dead at
the bottom of an elevator shaft in a 12-story Manhattan building, as if dumped there, one
man sprawled on top of the other.
The rare crime scene photograph from
Nov. 24, 1915, is one of 870,000 images of New York City and its municipal operations
now available to the public on the Internet for the first time.
The city Department of Records
officially announced the debut of the photo database Tuesday. A previously
unpublicized link to the images has been live for about two weeks...
Read the full USA Today article.
Checkout
the full photo gallery.
Remember
that many of our emigrant ancestors either passed through New York , ultimately stayed in the
"city," or spent some time there before arriving at their ultimate
destination! This means that many of us have some "connection" to the
city.
Editor’s Note: While visiting the NYC Department of Records
website, learn more out these other great resources for genealogists!
The Triangle Factory Fire, 3/25/1911
On March 25, 1911, 150 employees of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, mostly
young women, died in the deadliest industrial disaster in
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Tax Photographs
Between 1939 and 1941, and again in the mid-1980s, the city photographed
every house and building in the five Boroughs. Copies of these unique images
are now available for purchase.
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Vital Records
The Municipal Archives has records of births reported in the five Boroughs of
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Collections Archives
With records dating back to the earliest days of European colonial
settlement, the Municipal Archives houses 150,000 cubic feet of historical
government records.
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23 May 2012
Black undercount found in 1940 census records
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By CRISTIAN
SALAZAR, Associated Press
But according to the 1940 census,
the trailblazing athlete didn't even exist.
There's no record of Gibson and her
family in the decennial census, the records of which were released online to
the public April 2 by the
She and her family aren't the only
ones — more than a million black people weren't accounted for in 1940, an
undercount that had ramifications at the time on everything from the political
map to the distribution of resources.
Read the full article.
Editors Note: Has this issue of undercounting impacted your
research? Tell us how and what you did
to get around this issue.
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Upcoming Events Listed on NGS Events Calendar
With
summer, we often have “time” or more interest in our genealogy research and in attending
genealogy events ...
Below are a
few of the upcoming events listed in the online NGS Events
Calendar.
Do you have a genealogical event to publicize? Organizations with a
valid subscription to NGS can list their event for free. To learn more
about Organizational Subscriptions, go to http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/organizational_subscriptions or click here to
submit your event listing today!
14–16 June
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Title-German Research: Methodology and
Technology
Speakers; Warren Bittner and Michael John Neill Tour of the Athenaeum, formerly Das Deutsche Haus At Marriott East and adjoining LaQuinta Inn. |
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22–23 June
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On June 22 and June 23, 2012 at the
Doubletree Club by Hilton, Buffalo Downtown, 125 High Street, Buffalo, New
York. The program consists of a Board of Director’s meeting on Friday, June
22 and the annual membership meeting on Saturday, June 23. The annual meeting
agenda will include presentations on Gottscheer history and a Genealogy
Workshop. The region of Gottschee was a Germanic linguistic island in
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14 July
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American Family History AND German
Genealogy: Research for Both Sides of the
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20–21 July
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"Where Do You Think You Find It? I N D
I A N A P O L I S !" on July 20 and 21, 2012 Pre-conference activities
July 19
Speakers include Dick Eastman, Shamele
Jordon, J. Mark Lowe, Dan Poffenberger, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, D. Joshua
Taylor, Patricia Van Skaik, Curt Witcher and more.
The pre-conference activities include a
workshop for librarians and volunteers who work with genealogy sources,
computer labs, writing workshops, bus tours and other research opportunities.
The day concludes with the program, Adventures Behind the Scenes.
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Join us for the free program
"Discovering Your Civil War Ancestors" Saturday, August 11 from
9:30-4:30 in the Akron-Summit County Public Library Auditorium at
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22 May 2012
You Know DNA Testing Has Gone Mainstream When It's Offered on TIPPR
Wow – A national
deal today on TIPPR is for a DNA
Self-Discovery Kit from ConnectMyDNA.
The fine
print includes
“Their state-of-the-art lab extracts your DNA and converts
it into a cool Gene Ring graphic representing your one-of-a-kind genes. Log
into the members area to see your results, along with a list of markers that
were tested for and which population groups are best represented by your DNA. This is nothing like an ancestry test,
but it's still so much fun to discover new commonality with others around the
globe. You can also download a custom e-Poster that includes a Country
Connection map, your name, and your Gene Ring!”
I wonder
how many will think that “this” will provide the “answer” to their ancestry
versus a more classic DNA testing process?
Regardless,
who would have ever thought that DNA testing would be so readily available on a
daily discount site?!?!
What’s your
reaction to this? Please post a comment!
Editors Note: Neither NGS nor I are promoting this service or particular offer and it is presented here as an FYI and as a basis for discussion.
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Civil War Photos Donated to Library of Congress
The
Library of Congress’ valuable collection of photographs has been enhanced by
the Liljenquist family’s donation of many Civil War photos. Tom Liljenquist of
McLean, Va., and his three sons began collecting photographs of Civil War
soldiers 15 years ago and recently donated them — about 1,000 tintypes and
ambrotypes of both Confederate and Union soldiers — to the Library of Congress.
Only
a few photos have been identified, but an interesting website provides details on how clues in some photos can
lead to a discovery of names to associate with those images.
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21 May 2012
Researchers say they have new clue to Lost Colony
As reported
in the News and Observer a couple of weeks ago, a new look at
a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost
Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in
the late 16th century.
Experts
from the First Colony Foundation and the British
Museum in London discussed their findings recently. Their
focus: the "Virginea Pars" map of Virginia
and North Carolina created by explorer John White
in the 1580s and owned by the British
Museum since 1866.
"We
believe that this evidence provides conclusive proof that they moved westward
up the Albemarle Sound to the confluence of the Chowan and Roanoke
rivers," said James Horn, vice president of research and historical
interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and author of a 2010
book about the Lost Colony.
Read the full article.
Check out this blog for images of the discussed map elements as well as some dialogue on people’s reactions.
Editors Note: It was very
interesting to read about this. Obviously,
the map in question has existed for over 400 years and only with a recent
re-examination have “new” conclusions been reached. Though, it does not appear that all are in
agreement!
You may remember that a recent Upfront
with NGS post talked about “Everyone Makes Mistakes: Why You Should Review Your Research
Notes.” Basically, it never hurts to
revisit source documents and it may actually help!
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