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Mini Bytes
Welcome
to the sixth edition of our bi-weekly feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we will provide eight
tasty bits of genealogy news that will help give you a deeper byte into your
family history research. Each item is short and sweet. We encourage you
to check out the links to articles, blog posts, resources, and anything
genealogical!
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Doing research for
ancestors from Oregon
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Newry ME and nearby
communities are fortunate to have a citizen like Mark Vale. A recent article in
The Bethel Citizen, Family genealogy turns into town
history project, talks about an incredible one-man project of abstracted
records. If you are doing research in this area, do check out this database of over 30,000 names!
Most of the
ancestors that we research will ultimately be remembered as names in documents. Many of us won’t ever find images of our 19th
century ancestors, never mind those deeper in our tree. With the prevalence of affordable cameras, video cameras, and now digital technology, we
are in a position to leave more image-laden records for our descendants to
enjoy. The New York Times discusses this
in the article, Hey, at Least You
Can Be Virtually Immortal.
New databases are
always fun. A recently found one is the Union Civil War
Surgeons Database. Genealogy Decoded
posted an article about this database which you can
access at the Indiana University School of Medicine website.
You think our handwriting
can be difficult to read? I sometimes wonder what the requirements were to be a
court clerk. I have seen some of the
worst handwriting in court records.
Probably the only things harder to read are petitions where the
signatures are all original (great) and yet almost illegible (not so
great). Do you struggle with deciphering
hand-written documents? The UK Archives has Palaeography: reading old
handwriting 1500 – 1800, A practical online
tutorial.
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Are you researching
ancestors from Northern
Ireland Londonderry , and Tyrone between the
years 1864 to 1933 are now online at the Public Record Office of Northern
Ireland (PRONI).
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We often talk about
social media and the power it has to connect us to distant cousins and also as
a platform to share the information we have and find. Recently an aunt and her adopted niece
connected via Facebook, Facebook post leads
to family discovery [Editor’s
note: the video which originally accompanied the article seems to no longer be
available though the article still is]
Church records are
invaluable! The newest addition to the
Archives.com website is Millions of
Lutheran Church Records from the Evangelical
Lutheran Church
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