31 July 2012
Census Mistakes
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The
census is such an important tool to our research and yet all too often,
researchers rely on it maybe a little too much!
As with ANY document (even
those we consider primary ones) there can be errors! A post by Bill Dollarhide on Leland Meitzler’s
GenealogyBlog gives us a sense of some of what can go wrong with a census
record.
Dollarhide’s Rule #9: An 1850 census
record showing twelve children in a family proves only that your ancestors did
not believe in birth control.
Census records provide researchers a
primary source of genealogical evidence. The fact that names of people and
relationships are listed in certain census schedules is all that is needed to
make them our most important sources for finding our ancestors. But, too often,
genealogies are prepared just from census records and no other source.
...
Nevertheless, census records are
widely used by genealogists to prepare a record of one’s ancestry. But, census
records, unfortunately, are prone to errors. If so, what information can you
trust? And, if all you have as evidence of a family is what you have found in a
census record, have you really proven anything?
Read the full post for the various ways that census
records can be “wrong” or “inconsistent” and what that can mean for your own
research.
What are some of the "biggest" or "most humorous" mistakes you have found in a census record? How did you discover them?
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30 July 2012
Getting the Next Generation Involved in Genealogy Societies
Those
of us very involved with genealogy are also often very involved in a genealogy
society! If we are involved with a
genealogy society, at some point or another we have probably been an officer,
chaired a committee or volunteered at an event. And, if you belong to the “typical”
society of today, you are faced with a dwindling and “graying” membership and
scratching your head trying to figure out how to get “new members!”
Elyse Doerflinger,
22, has been involved in genealogy research for 10 years and has created a
video (just under 12 minutes) where she talks about involving the “Next
Generation” (those under say 35) in genealogy. She provides some really sound advice that
applies not only to getting the “Next Generation” involved in genealogy
societies and in genealogy research itself.
Has your society taken any particular steps to encourage the
“Next Generation” to participate in your local society? Or, conversely, has your society learned the “hard
way” what not to do as far as getting and retaining new members, especially the
“Next Generation?”
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27 July 2012
New Voices of Genealogy Release: Mary McCampbell Bell, CG
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The 100th birthday celebration
for the NGSQ continues. Join us this month for a chat with the
delightful Mary McCampbell Bell in “Becoming a Genealogist.” Mary shares stories about her inspiration,
her learning, her teachers, and the joy and strains her passion for genealogy
brought to her marriage.
A future episode with Mary will describe
her experiences as a much-appreciated teacher of land platting at national
conferences, Samford University ’s Institute of Genealogy
The video was produced by award
winning filmmakers Kate Geis and Allen Moore from an interview by Melinde Lutz
Byrne, CG, FASG, co-editor of the NGSQ.
Mary McCampbell Bell, CG, “Becoming
a Genealogist,” is now playing for all NGS members at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org.
Just log on and follow the link from the home page.
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26 July 2012
DNA enlivens effort to save past
It
is always exciting to hear about someone’s success using DNA testing to make
“connection” both to family and places!
The News & Observer (Raleigh ,
NC ) recently published such an article with
the subheading “Woman finds she has connection to Orange
county historical site.”
CHAPEL HILL -- Sitting at a table at
the Outback Steakhouse in Suwanee, Ga., Ernest Dollar insisted on making a
brief speech before presenting the envelope – with such a flourish that his
wife asked him whether he really had to be so dramatic – to Deardra Green-Campbell.
“Ernie made a big production out of
it,” said Green-Campbell, an economic development consultant in Atlanta
Inside the envelope were the results
of a DNA analysis comparing her family’s genetic makeup with that of the Hogan
family, among the first to settle in Orange
County
The conclusion: a strong indication
that Green-Campbell was descended from Harriet Hogan – a slave of Thomas Lloyd
Hogan – and William Johnston Hogan, the slave-owner’s white son...
When looking for a
link to the article, I found a companion piece “Woman visits Orange County
CHAPEL HILL -- Deardra
Green-Campbell stood for the first time Wednesday in the home of her enslaved
ancestor.
Dirt and cobwebs covered the floor
from years of neglect, and the original horsehair plaster crumbled off the wall
in chunks.
In the midst of remnants from her
family’s past, Green-Campbell broke down with emotion. Tears streamed down her
face, and she collapsed into her son’s arms.
“There’s no place I can be or step
in this house that she has not touched,” Green-Campbell said. “It’s just
overwhelming.”
Such a priceless
journey for this individual and her family.
Tell us of a
priceless journey taken by you based on DNA results!
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Bye bye Babel: Breaking language barriers online
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Thanks
to Dear Myrtle (Pat Richley-Erickson) for posting a link on her FB page to the referenced article!
Eventually we all
come across an article that is written in a language other than our native
language that we desperately would like to know the contents of!
In the genealogical
community and elsewhere, those who don’t speak the “native language” of the
article, often skip articles not written in their native language and so are
missing out on some great and possible vital information about their
non-US-born ancestors!
You don’t need to
do that! There are many online
translation sites like Babelfish, Google Translate, and Bing Translator with others being created and/or
improved that make it so very easy for you to get a “rough” translation of the
webpage or document’s content or email.
For example, you
are surfing using Google Chrome and come across a non-English website. Google Chrome will ask you if you would like
for it to translate the page – I typically say “heck yes,” please translate it
for me! This has opened the way to so
many neat databases (including those found in the various non-US editions of
Ancestry).
And, have you not
contacted a non-US archive or researcher or genealogy society because you don’t
know the native language? Again, I have
used online translation tools to craft e-mails and posts for
non-English-speaking individuals.
Are they the
best-written and grammatically wonderful queries? Of course not! And, do they get the gist of my question
across and have I received responses to those queries? Yes. I
had a whole dialogue with someone in France where he wrote in “online translated”
English and I wrote in “online translated” French and that worked out just
fine, though, there definitely were some “funny” turns of phrase
The original
article mentioned by Dear Myrtle states ...
According to the translation firm Smartling, native English speakers only represented 27% of the total Internet population
in 2011. Yet, 56% of online pages are English-only. So how do we break language
barriers online? Well, here are a few tools that can help you browse content in
a language you don’t speak – pages of course, but also video and even speech.
Read the full article to learn about some neat
translation tools to both allow you to read material you come across and also how you might make your material available by posting and/or creating it in a language more like that spoken by your ancestors than yourself!
Have you recently and successfully communicated with a non-English individual about your genealogy research via e-mail, web post? or successfully navigated a non-English database? Please share your successes and help encourage more of us to not let a little matter of "language" stop us in our pursuit of genealogical valuable material!
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25 July 2012
Using Reverse Genealogy to Overcome Brick Walls
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Sometimes
it’s the seemingly littlest “tips” that have the biggest impact on our
genealogical research! This post from
last year on Family Tree Magazine’s blog about “Reverse Genealogy” reminds us a technique that many
genealogy researchers overlook and shouldn’t!
It’s easy to get tunnel vision when
researching an ancestor. But your research is best served by considering your
focus ancestor as part of a community. (Emily Anne Croom, author of the best
selling genealogy guide Unpuzzling Your Past, call this "cluster
genealogy.")
Not only is your great-grandfather a
member of his nuclear family, but also of an extended family. When you do
reverse genealogy, you go a step beyond him and then research forward,
broadening your search to his relatives and even friends. Any of the folks in
your ancestor’s “cluster” could have provided him with housing, worked for him,
asked him to witness a document or attended his funeral...
On a related note,
there is a YouTube video of Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak talking about “Reverse Genealogy: Finding the
Living.”
Have you
had a “Reverse Genealogy” success? If
so, please share!
Editor’s Note: There is an ongoing course, Reverse Genealogy: Working Forward to Break Down Brick Walls offered by Family
Tree University
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24 July 2012
Why can’t we all just get along?
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(and elsewhere) have often posted bits and pieces about access to vital records
and we have all probably read or heard tales of trying to access cemeteries
located on “private or church lands,” gaining access to records held privately
or by church or religious archives, etc.
As genealogists, we
are ALWAYS seeking access to records! Earlier
this month, the IrishTimes.com posted a piece about the situation in Ireland
by JOHN
GRENHAM
I recently had a long conversation with a veteran member of the Irish
Family History Foundation, the umbrella group for the heritage centres behind
the biggest Irish genealogy website, rootsireland.ie. The sense of outrage and persecution
felt by IFHF members is extraordinary. It is largely directed at the Irish
public service –civil servants, National Archives, National Library and others.
And I had to tell him that, as far as I knew, the feelings were reciprocated,
and just as intensely...
This situation is NOT unique to Ireland
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23 July 2012
Why tech can't break the hold on paper
BBC piece that gives a
fascinating glimpse into digitizing material – the time and cost and also the
benefits ...
The promise we can all
go paperless has been around for years so why is it that despite email,
smartphones and computers we are all still so dependent on pen and paper?
LJ Rich explores why
paper has such staying power in our hi-tech age.
The above video starts
with a discussion about the UK Archives and the “cost” and “process” of going paperless.
There is also a related piece Is the paperless
office possible? that explores this further.
And, Dick Eastman,
of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter has long been a proponent of going “paperless.”
What are your thoughts?
Will we eventually be a paperless society? Is that good, bad, or not
matter as far as genealogical research?
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20 July 2012
Do you have a British Convict sent to Australia in your family tree?
And, given any
English heritage, you “might” have a distant cousin who was!
The
State Library of Queensland (Australia Australia
Is there a British Convict in your ancestral tree? Do share.
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19 July 2012
Rockdale Township woman dives into family history in creating historic quilt
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If
only I was creative! Creating photo
montages and published genealogies with images are about as creative as I have
gotten and so I am always fascinated to read about the “neat” things that
others have created to “honor” their ancestors, like Jill Meszaros.
Jill Meszaros thought of her
ancestors when she decided to try her hand at making a historic quilt.
Meszaros, of Rockdale Township, near
Cambridge Springs, said she imagined what life must have been like for her
great-great-great-great-grandparents when they spent parts of seven years apart
in the 1810s.
She said she also researched the
methods and styles of quiltmaking at the time.
The result of her efforts is a
30-by-70-inch "whole cloth" blue quilt, adorned with the tree of
life, that earned Meszaros the viewers' choice runner-up in the Great Lakes
Seaway Trail's War of 1812 Quilt Challenge in mid-March...
Read the full article and learn the research Jill did and
the “connection” she made to her ancestors through her quilt.
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you know created something “neat” to honor your ancestors? It would be wonderful to do a subsequent post
with images of hand-crafted items honoring our ancestors. Please send any submissions to UpFront@ngsgenealogy.org.
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18 July 2012
For the first time, Rhode Island opens adoption records
A state law adopted
in September, 2011 has recently taken effect, and on Monday [2 July 2012],
Governor Lincoln Chafee ceremoniously handed birth records to four adoptees, as
dozens more looked on at an auditorium at the Rhode Island Department of
Health.
Details of requesting
a non-certified copy of an adoptee’s pre-adoption birth record can be found at
the State of Rhode
Island Department of Health.
It’s great to hear
about “increased” access to vital records where more stories lately have been
about decreased or non-existent access! Know of any other good news about vital records
access we can share?
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17 July 2012
NGS Announces New Course by Dr. Thomas Shawker: Genetic Genealogy, The Basics
Thomas
H. Shawker, MD, is a physician with the National Institutes of Health, a
nationally recognized lecturer on genetics, and chairman of the NGS Genetic
Genealogy Committee. In 2004 he authored the NGS book, Unlocking Your Genetic History.
Now,
Dr. Shawker shares his medical expertise in the six-lesson self-paced course Genetic Genealogy, the Basics. Topics
covered in the course include
·
the
structure of the DNA molecule, how it is organized, how it replicates, and how
it functions;
·
human
chromosomes and how the Y chromosome is inherited;
·
the
two types of DNA markers used in genetic genealogy;
·
haplotypes
and haplogroups;
·
evaluation
of a Y chromosome surname project and a discussion on how to evaluate the test
results of the participants; and
·
the
structure of the mitochondrial DNA molecule, how it is inherited, and how it
can be used in genealogy.
The
course is designed for independent study. Students check their work with an
answer key that immediately follows each self-test. Genetic Genealogy, The Basics is available on a PC- or
MAC-compatible CD in a PDF format. The tuition is $45.00 for members and $70.00
for non-members. For further information, or to purchase the course, visit the
NGS website at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org and click on the Educational
Courses tab.
Please
visit the course web page at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/genetic_genealogy for more information.
NGS
American Genealogy Studies courses are designed for both beginners and
established genealogists who want the convenience of completing their
genealogical studies at their own pace in their own home.
Other
available courses include:
• American Genealogy: Home Study Course
•
Using Federal Population Census Schedules
in Genealogical Research
•
Introduction to Civil War
Research
•
Introduction to Religious
Records
•
Social Security Sleuthing
•
Special Federal Census Schedules
•
Transcribing, Extracting, and
Abstracting Genealogical Records
•
Working with Deeds
Founded
in 1903, the National Genealogical Society is dedicated to genealogy education,
high research standards, and the preservation of genealogical records. The
Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit is the premier national society for
everyone, from the beginner to the most advanced family historian, seeking
excellence in publications, educational offerings, research guidance, and
opportunities to interact with other genealogists.
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