31 October 2014
Upfront Mini Bytes -- TX records (Cemetery, Jewish & Immigrants), UK Wills, Yearbooks, Irish Anzacs (WWI), Canada's Home Children, Map of US Religions
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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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Do you have ancestors buried in Hopkins
County TX
More genealogical
news from TX -- Congregation Beth
Israel in Houston (TX) has digitized and placed online early
records, ledgers, and books covering from 1861 to the early 1920s. The
documents are in German, Hebrew and English.
One more bit of
news from TX. The Texas Seaport
Museum has compiled a listing of
immigrants to Galveston , Texas
My gran and her 2nd
husband both died in 2000 and 2001 respectively in the
I’ve come across all kinds of yearbooks as I do
research and this is a first – Yacht Club Yearbooks. I guess since I’ve never stepped foot in one,
it’s not something I would have known about.
If your family belonged to the Avalon (NJ) Yacht Club, there is now an
online archive of Avalon
Club Yacht Club Yearbooks covering 1953-2007 online.
The Irish Anzacs Database has been launched.
The projects aim is to identify all Irish-born enlistments in the
Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the First World War. Read more here. Here’s a video on how to access the database.
Search the database.
The
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa is placing a special
emphasis on Canada’s HomeChildren, since 70% of these children were settled in Ontario
I’ve always liked
The Week for “short” new items. When I
stopped subscribing to the print version, I took up reading the online version.
A recent-to-me find (from June) was These maps show the
most common religions, Christian and non-Christian, in your state. To me what was most interesting
was not the largest reporting group for each state and the second largest one.
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30 October 2014
TODAY is Ask An Archivist Day!
On October 30, archivists around the country will take to Twitter to answer your questions about any and all things archives! This day-long event, sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, will give you the opportunity to connect directly with archivists in your community—and around the country—to ask questions, get information, or just satisfy your curiosity.
CLICK TO TWEET: #AskAnArchivist Day is Oct 30:
Archivists nationwide answer questions about historical materials. Ask them
anything! http://bit.ly/1zkBCNB
As professional experts who do the exciting work of protecting and sharing important historical materials, archivists have many stories to share about the work they do every day in preserving fascinating documents, photographs, audio and visual materials, and artifacts. Increasingly, archival work extends beyond the physical and includes digital materials. #AskAnArchivist Day will give you a chance to connect with archivists who are tackling the challenges of preserving our digital heritage for the future.
What questions
can be asked?
Archivists
participating in #AskAnArchivist are eager to respond to any and all questions
you have about archives and archival work.
No question is
too silly...
- What’s the craziest thing
you’ve come across in your collections?
- If your archives had a
soundtrack, what songs would be on it?
- What do archivists talk about
around the water cooler?
...and no
question is too practical!
- What should I do to be sure
that my e-mails won’t get lost?
- I’ve got scads of digital
images on my phone. How should I store them so I can access them later on?
- How do you decide which items
to keep and which to weed out from a collection?
- As a teacher, how can I get my
students more interested in using archives for projects?
How does it
work?
#AskAnArchivist is
open to everyone—all you need is a Twitter account! To participate,
just tweet a question and include the hashtag #AskAnArchivist in your tweet. Your
question will be seen instantly by archivists around the country who are
standing by to respond directly to you.
Have a question for a specific archives or archivist? Include their Twitter handle with your question. They may not know every answer right away, but they will get back to you after they’ve had the chance to do some digging.
Don’t have a
question right away? Search Twitter for #AskAnArchivist and follow along as
questions and answers are shared!
So get ready!
Archivists from
universities, museums, historical societies, churches, businesses, local and
state governments, and other organizations are taking to Twitter to answer your
questions all day long on October 30 at #AskAnArchivist.
The Society of
American Archivists is a professional organization that represents one of
today’s most exciting professions. Archivists have the expertise to protect and
share important historical material and to save today’s vital records for our
future needs.
Editor’s Note: On the SAA page for this event you will see a list of Who’s
Participating along the right-hand column and there is a more complete list on Twitter.
Editor’s Note: Above PR published on
BusinessWire.
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29 October 2014
FREE Viewing of Roots of Faith: Ancestry TV Series
If you love
to watch TV shows to help you better research your ancestors, consider watching
Roots of Faith: Ancestry. This is a TV
show (each episode runs about 30 minutes) currently showing on CatholicLife Television
(based in Louisiana
... is a series that teaches the
proper methodology of genealogical research. Hosted by genealogy experts Renee
Richard, Judy Riffel and Leonard Smith III, this show explores our ancestral
origins to help know more about who we are today.
Current
episodes are Overview, Getting Started, Census Records, Civil Vital Record[s], and
Church Vital Record[s] with more coming.
Though many of the records discussed are those from Louisiana
The series
is providing a good overview of what kinds of records were created and what
value they may have to your family history research journey.
Are you aware of other, FREE local TV genealogy-related
programming, that is readily available to anyone via the web?
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28 October 2014
Join the Hive & the New York Times in a New Crowdsourcing Project
Crowdsourcing
projects are always neat & fun!
The most
recent large-scale one I’ve heard about involves The New York Times. NYT
asks readers to help identify print ads, using a platform for crowdsourcing
called Hive.
The New York Times’ research and development lab has
launched a new project asking readers for help in identifying old
advertisements from its print archive — and the project is the first to be
built on a new open-source platform for crowdsourcing called Hive
When you
visit the Madison
The digitization of our archives has primarily focused on news articles, thus the ads have no metadata (company names, product categories, ad text, etc.) that would allow for either discovery or research. Madison invites Times readers to explore the past through these advertisements, and to contribute to the archive by finding, tagging, and even transcribing ads. Your contributions will aid researchers and projects both inside and outside of The New York Times for years to come.
Ads do
contain fascinating information, not just for social context and also possibly
about the very ancestors you are researching. I have researched many individuals who have
placed advertisements in the newspaper about their business. I’ve learned about their business, where is
was located, when it went out of business (if it did), where it moved (if
expanding), taking on a partner, etc.
Now that we’ve
discovered our insatiable appetite for newspaper content, let’s help make sure
that we have access to ALL newspaper content and not just the articles.
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27 October 2014
A visual journey of Archives Month 2014 posters!
For me, Archives Month is something I actually celebrate every day I visit an archive. They are the most wonderful places as repositories of our heritage.
It is a month when
archives across the US
Here is my annual
sampling of the posters for 2014! Check
them out and be sure to see “how” your archive is celebrating.
Feel free to tell us about any local events you have or plan to attend.
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24 October 2014
ICAPGen Celebrates 50 Years At their Fall Conference on November 1!
The International Commission for the
Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen) will be holding their
annual Fall Conference on Saturday, November 1st on the campus of Brigham Young
University in Provo , UT.
The tracks include:
Preparing for
Accreditation
Methodology/Records
Internet/Technology
Professional
Research
DNA/Genetic
Genealogy
National Genealogical
Society (NGS) Board member, Angie Bush MS (Biotechnology), will be teaching and
coordinating the Genetic Genealogy track. The track will focus on helping
genealogists incorporate DNA testing into their research plans, and for
professionals -- into their client reports. This is the first time ICAPGen has
offered a DNA track. Genetic genealogy is currently one of the hottest topics
at national seminars and events, with classes filling up and selling out
quickly. This daylong opportunity is one not to be missed by genealogists
looking to understand this exciting new source.
David Rencher,
Chief Genealogical Officer for Family Search, will be presenting the keynote
address. Other speakers include Ancestry.com’s Crista Cowan and Kory
Meyerink. Additional information about the conference, presenters and tracks
can be found at www.ica,pgen.org.
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23 October 2014
Who are the Welsh? Mass genetic testing to find out nation's ancestry
CymruDNAWales will carry out an unprecedented mass survey of Wales’s ancestry to trace the origins of its people – back beyond written records to the end of the last ice age around 9,000BC when colossal glacial shifts gouged out our landscape and allowed the first immigrants to settle here.
I am familiar with The Genographic Project ... “advanced DNA analysis and
worked with indigenous communities to help answer fundamental questions about
where humans originated and how we came to populate the Earth.”
I also remember
reading, Faroe Islands Aim to Sequence Genes of Entire Country. This project was undertaken with a health
focus and the future use of genomic medicine.
It will be interesting to see where these projects go and what they
learn.
Are there other mass survey DNA projects that have taken place or are
occurring now to identify the deep ancestry of a particular locale or people?
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22 October 2014
(UK News) Relatives of adopted adults now able to trace family tree
This is great news from the UK
Children, grandchildren and other relatives of adopted adults can now trace back through their ancestors’ lives - helping them to unearth their family history, discover more about their medical background and reach out to long-lost relatives under new rules introduced today [24 September 2014]...
For example, those who have lost a parent to cancer or a heart problem will be able to discover whether their grandparents or other birth relatives suffered from the same condition, giving them the chance to seek advice and support.
This 2012 document
gives you a sense of US Access to Adoption
Records – who can access and under what
circumstances. If you know of a more
updated version, please post a comment.
This got me curious
about whether any US Archives have adoption records that are publicly
available?!?! I learned that Utah law permits public access to
adoption records over 100 years old. It also appears that in Oregon, the Oregon Laws published biennially,
included reports of adoptions from 1864 through 1919 when the law was repealed.
Does your state archive provide easy access to historic adoption
records?
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21 October 2014
In the 1900s Many of Your Ancestors Worked, as Children, in Factories, Mines and Other Dangerous Places
As stated on Upworthy, Once In A While, Somebody Comes Along And Captures Images That Change A
Nation
Some of
the most disturbing images that were captured in the early part of the 1900s
were those of kids working in factories, coal mines, and other places where no
kids belonged. The most famous photographer was Lewis Hine; his pictures
brought these children into the spotlight in a way the nation could no longer
ignore.
There is a video at
the end with many images of child laborers ... they didn’t have childhoods like
what many of us had. It’s well worth taking 3.5 minutes to watch it. Maybe some of your ancestors were child
laborers and worked under these conditions.
You can check out
more images in the National Child Labor Committee
Collection (Library of Congress). I searched on Salem Massachusetts
This website, The
History Place, also has a webpage devoted to Child Labor in America 1908-1912, Photographs of Lewis W. Hine. I also found this website interesting, Child Labor Public
Education Project.
Upfront with NGS previously
talked a bit about this same project in the post Photo + Genealogy Sleuthing = 100+
Year Mystery Solved.
This is a reminder
that as we do our research, we have to consider the time and the place and what
were considered the norms. You cannot
look at your life now and use that as the benchmark for your ancestors. Do learn the history of where they lived, what
was acceptable and not. Though we may
not agree with child labor, there also used to be laws on the books that might
be nice if we still had them such not swearing in public (you could be fined),
etc
Do you know if your ancestors worked as child laborers? If so, doing what?
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17 October 2014
Upfront Mini Bytes -- Laws, Cook County (IL) Cemetery, British Currency, New Zealand WWI, Tennessee Bible, OH Death Records, IA Newspapers, NH Maps & Atlases
Welcome
to our newest edition of our periodic feature Upfront Mini Bytes. In Upfront Mini Bytes we 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!
We hope you found
the past editions helpful. Use your
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Laws are
important. Free access to legal
information is great. Check out this
great collaboration between the Law Library of Congress and the legal
publishing company William S. Hein & Co., Inc. as described by The Legal
Genealogist.
Burials
for the Cook County
Cemetery at Dunning, IL are now online! With
over 38,000 burials spanning some seventy years, it served as an institutional
cemetery for the
A research
challenge we run into is when currency changes. How do we get a grasp on
obsolete currency? The International Society for British Genealogy and Family
History (ISBGFH) has posted a nice & short summary of Post- and
pre-decimalization monetary units (covering British currency).
The
Ohio History Connection’s State Archives’ online catalog of death records has
expanded. On October 1, the Ohio Department of Health transferred
nearly two million death certificates from the years 1954 to 1963 to the Ohio History Connection.
Fort Dodge (Iowa)
newspaper archive is now online. It covers 56 local and area newspapers and
publications for the years 1856-1934.
The
University of New
Hampshire has some neat Maps & Atlases online with the earliest item a
Gazetteer of the state of New
Hampshire
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