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13 June 2017

Read Worthy Stuff Posted to NGS FB Page That is NOT Blogged About on Upfront with NGS!

Read Worthy Stuff Posted to NGS FB Page That is NOT Blogged About on Upfront with NGS!

Hello, everyone …

I like to periodically remind Upfront with NGS readers that in addition to doing blog posts, I also post material to the NGS FB Page.

A blog is suitable to many topics where a bit more than a “sound bite” is needed. A blog is suitable for topics that are a bit more “generic” in scope and have wide audience appeal. A blog is suitable to address the series issues of legislation that impact records access and preservation, and much more.

Sometimes there are neat blog posts, news articles, new resources and more which don’t fit the above criteria. Sometimes there is material that I stumble across that is either a bit narrow in scope or it’s so generic that anyone with an interest in history might find relevant. Basically, not all material is suitable for a blog post. In those situations, such might get so-called cross-posted to the NGS FB Page.

My point is to remind you of this additional place where the material of interest to genealogists might be placed. The blog is always given priority for material suitable for that platform and the FB page then provides a platform for some of the other material that I want to share with readers and for which the blog is not the best place to share. Every FB post comes with an image that directly connects to the article shared.

Remember also that you can “share” any Upfront with NGS Blog post or NGS FB page cross-post to your own FB page or via other means.

Here are some examples of items recently posted to the NGS FB page [and yes, I realized after creating this list that I was on a jag using “neat” in many of my comments ] and NOT posted to Upfront with NGS …

· Though the U.S. Census informs us, it can also entertain us as with this 1880 census entry where the occupation of this individual, a 15-year-old female" is listed as "does as she pleases!" That sounds like how many today, might describe their children! https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNHX-2RQ

· Neat grant opportunities that will benefit family historians ... https://www.facebook.com/nhprc/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf

· Interesting new collection ... https://asunow.asu.edu/20170608-solutions-asu-archivist-makes-japanese-internment-camp-collection-digitally-accessible?utm_campaign=SFMC_Now+6-9-17_ASU+Now&utm_medium=email

· Neat DC project. The ability to visualize late 1949s early 1950s … http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/dc/new-database-allows-you-to-see-the-world-as-your-grandparent-did/447411185?utm_content=bufferc6c8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

· Neat bit of history ... http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vintage-photos-bookmobiles-traveling-libraries?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

· The magnitude was staggering ... https://military.id.me/firepower/lets-never-forget-just-how-enormous-d-day-really-was/?utm_source=SOV&utm_medium=post&utm_term=kevin&utm_content=060517

· Who has responsibility for and how do we preserve old decaying records of interest to many ?!?! … http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/prison-documents-hmp-museum-1.4128972

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17 May 2016

FB Post-a-palooza Post NGS Conference ... lots of neat news you might have missed!

While in FL for the NGS 2016 Family History Conference and then as I recovered (so much to do and many people to meet!) during the subsequent week, many interesting news items were suited to cross-posting on the NGS Facebook (FB) page.

Here is a recap of some of what was posted. Have you “Liked” the NGS FB page? Besides having a link to every Upfront with NGS blog post, the NGS FB page feed is also chock full of news of interest to genealogists and family historians. Do check it out if you already haven’t.

o SCGS Jamboree 2016 Announces Live Streaming of Genetic Genealogy, http://genealogyjamboree.blogspot.com/2016/05/jamboree-2016-announcing-live-streaming.html

o Planning to attend MAAGI (Midwest African American Genealogy Institute) or would like to attend? Check out these 4 scholarship opportunities. Deadline is May 30th for scholarship submissions. http://www.maagiinstitute.org/scholarships.html

o This was fascinating to watch. It gave me an overall and obviously simplified perspective on the Civil War on the whole, something that I'd never quite grasped before. The Civil War in Four Minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN1VX_g8JZM

o Great article on Personal Archiving. The video included is well worth the watch (it runs about 35 mins or so) ... Your Personal Archive Project: Where Do You Start? http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2016/05/how-to-begin-a-personal-archiving-project/?loclr=fbdig

o Speaking of personal archiving ... Are you leaving a legacy...or a mess? Do we sometimes spend so much time on researching that we don't stop and document, share, and more, the research we've already done? https://www.americasfootprints.com/blog/detail.php?Are-you-leaving-a-legacy...or-a-mess-397

o An interesting post about handwriting through time. The Hidden Messages of Colonial Handwriting, http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-hidden-messages-of-colonial-handwriting

o Opening September 24th. Click the video link in the referenced Washington Post article and you will be taken on a 1 minute behind the scenes tour ... A first look inside the Smithsonian’s African American Museum: Stunning Views, grand scale, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/a-first-look-inside-the-smithsonians-african-american-museum-stunning-views-grand-scale/2016/05/10/80ac784e-160e-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html?tid=sm_fb

o Do you have Expired Credits with ScotlandsPeople? I did and until 22 May you can reactive such credits -- go tohttp://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx…, visit the shopping basket page (you do NOT need to purchase anything) and put spring2016 in the voucher code box. The "life" of your credits will automatically be extended.

o Interesting ... with new information, the history of President Monroe's home will need to be revisited ... "At Virginia home of President Monroe, a sizable revision of history": http://ow.ly/tyeU3003qR1

o What to do with inherited letters, photo albums, stamps and more, http://www.thedenverchannel.com/lifestyle/what-to-do-with-inherited-letters-photo-albums-stamps-and-more

o BYUtv’s ‘Relative Race’ winners take home $25,000, and much, much more, http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/television/byutv-s-relative-race-winners-take-home-and-much-much/article_4c4f7428-890d-5b77-ba5f-a2d65a78cf03.html

o A lawsuit we, as genealogists, need to be aware of – Google Image Search and the Misappropriation of Copyrighted Images, http://cpip.gmu.edu/2016/05/03/google-image-search-and-the-misappropriation-of-copyrighted-images/

o Whether you have or haven't been to the National Archives to do research, you will want to participate in this chance to win a trip to DC (and a VIP experience at the National Archives) for July 4th! You must enter by June 10th. The winners package is for 4 individuals, http://www.archivesjuly4.org/giveaway/win-a-trip

o Great historical look at ways to get into and out of New York City. Anyone who has ever worked or lived in the area are familiar with these bridges and tunnels and others might just marvel at the engineering involved! A look at the history of New York City’s tunnels and bridges, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bridge-pics-article-1.2576529

o I wonder if the school still has records that go back that far? Shakespeare’s school to open to visitors to celebrate 400^th anniversary, http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/20/shakespeares-school-to-open-to-visitors-to-celebrate-400th-anniversary

o Sorry to read this news. Australia's Trove is a wonderful resource! (via ResearchBuzz News) – National Library of Australia’s Trove stops adding items to its collections, http://buff.ly/1WdJk6M

Editor’s Note: Related posts ...

+ Facebook (FB) + NGS = Lots of neat news about genealogy & history-related resources! (July 2015)

+ Facebook (FB) -- Are you taking advantage of its wonderful and FREE genealogical resources? (June 2015)

+ Facebook can be a genealogical goldmine or a "too much" nightmare -- taming social media (Dec 2014)

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23 February 2016

Some Trending Family History Posts on Facebook (FB)

In the last few days, I’ve posted a few very popular links to interesting articles on the NGS FB page. This is material not usually published as part of the blog and supplements the content available to FB members.

That said, I wanted to share these with the wider Upfront with NGS readership.

Remember that you can “like” the NGS FB page and have the posts appear in your news feed or not (and with or without notifications turned on). This way you will see news items like this. There are probably 5-15 such posts added every week.

These can all be accessed from the NGS FB page or via the links provided here.

This sounds like a fun event for a local genealogy society. Has yours ever done a "swap" event or something similar? http://mtairynews.com/news/37368/folks-flock-to-genealogy-swap
A 3 part series about Finding Burials for Formerly Enslaved People. This link is to part 3. The bottom of the article has links to parts 1 & 2, http://www.examiner.com/article/part-3-finding-burials-for-formerly-enslaved-people
Even genealogists today still have a need to access a card catalog composed of index cards -- I will be doing just that tomorrow at the NC archives. This is an interesting read of the evolution of these invaluable finding aids and their contribution to the www. http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a19379/a-short-history-of-the-index-card/
Always neat when something is re-discovered such as this photo [Frederick Douglass]! http://wxxinews.org/post/frederick-douglass-photo-resurfaces-after-century
Some more feel good news for this Friday. A man purchases an old monuments works building, finds some tombstones on the property and has been working to repatriate them to where they belong, http://www.post-gazette.com/local/west/2016/02/19/Stowe-firm-discovers-abandoned-headstones/stories/201602120041
Neat map showing country and state creation through time of the North American continent ... https://media.giphy.com/media/l4Kia1ePs6RLmEARq/giphy.gif

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23 July 2015

Facebook (FB) + NGS = Lots of neat news about genealogy & history-related resources!

Psssst ... I have a secret ... when you read Upfront with NGS you aren't seeing all the neat genealogy news items I stumble across ....

Last month I talked about Facebook (FB) as a wonderful and FREE resource, Facebook (FB) -- Are you taking advantage of its wonderful and FREE genealogical resources?

Today, as I was sharing (“sharing” is how a post on FB from one source can be reposted to one’s own timeline, the timeline of a friend, or in my case to a “page I manage”) news items found on FB to the NGS FB page, it dawned on me that if you are reading the content of Upfront with NGS via an email feed, Google+, or Twitter, you are missing out on the content that is cross-posted ONLY on the NGS FB page.

I visit FB somewhere between 3-4 times a day for a few minutes at time to just “trawl” for news items of interest. Since most of the feeds that I see are genealogically related, they are ripe to be “shared” (aka reposted) to the NGS FB page and I do so. Most of this is content that isn’t quite suited to become a full-fledged Upfront with NGS post for a variety of reasons and yet it’s news important to our family history community. The end result is a “share” to the NGS FB page!

For example, over the last two weeks, I have “shared” on FB the following posts which did not (nor will not) become Upfront with NGS posts:

Holding heritage in their hands – newspaper article regarding family members visiting the area where their ancestors lived and seeing a family bible
The American civil war then and now -- Superimposing historic images over moderns ones is always fascinating and when you add in some audio to give context to the images they become even more haunting
Reminder about the summer season of WDYTYA? starting this Sunday on TLC
Genealogy Camp for Kids at NARA
New York pauper’s cemetery opens to mourners for first time -- We've blogged about this cemetery before, Hart Island -- NYC’s Public Burial Ground -- Over 1 Million Burials -- Trying to Reveal Their Stories,http://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/…/hart-island-nycs-public-b…, and now here's a post about the cemetery being open to mourners in a less limited fashion than was available before.
A cartoon “Why Einstein Quickly moved on to General Relativity”
Mocavo free weekend to try premium Gold features (it was this past weekend)
The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá -- after a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins.
Perry donates “invaluable’ historic papers to County Archives – large part of local history restored after 1878 courthouse fire
Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive 100+ Years Later – a challenge to archives access we don’t often think of

And, there are dialogues that take place on a FB page that you don't see elsewhere. Due to the nature of FB, “you” the reader can easily post comments to a post or another readers’ comment. This can create a dynamic platform for sharing thoughts, reactions, related information and so much more with members of our genealogical community! We love when people post comments!

You probably won’t find every news item of equal interest. I know that I don’t. That’s why the scrolling nature of looking through posts on my FB wall can be easy and painless. I just scroll down the page and only stop when I see something new (some news does end up reposted many times) and it gets my attention. I then check it out, assess if I think it’s interesting enough to share, and then do so with a brief introductory sentence.

I always keep my FB “News Feed” organized via “Most Recent.” This means that when later in the day (or the next day or sometimes a few days later) I revisit my FB page, I can just scroll down until I see the last post from my previous session. This makes it easy to be efficient as I “trawl” for news that I think will interest NGS members either as the basis for an Upfront with NGS post or as a “share” on FB.

So, if you aren’t yet on FB or have not yet “liked” the NGS FB Page, you might be missing out on some interesting tidbits of news.

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NGS does not imply endorsement of any outside advertiser or other vendors appearing in this blog. Any opinions expressed by guest authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the view of NGS.

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19 June 2015

Facebook (FB) -- Are you taking advantage of its wonderful and FREE genealogical resources?

Back in December, we blogged Facebook can be a genealogical goldmine or a "too much" nightmare -- taming social media. That hasn’t changed. There is sooooo much that can be found on Facebook (FB) and it can be so overwhelming.

I have pared down the stories I see in my feed quite a bit. I periodically “like” new people or entities and then prune my feed as time goes by. The select FB feeds I mentioned in my previous post are still going strong, though I did feel bad that I didn’t mention Research Buzz back in that list (probably because I also get that in email form and the same is true for Dick Eastman and several others). As mentioned in the previous post, I have opted to get certain “news” via emails direct from a blog because it’s easier to keep track of them to read later and it also allows me to either archive them or file them in a digital folder as a source of future Upfront with NGS blog posts!

As you can imagine, more and more new individuals, groups, organizations, repositories are constantly joining or becoming more visible on FB. It is always worthwhile doing a search to see if any “new” (or new to you) groups or pages are now available that weren’t before. A mantra in family history research is to always revisit, revisit, revisit! The internet and social media are too dynamic to not follow that advice – revisit!

A new group such as Scandinavian Genealogical Research has recently come to my attention and it’s a gem! This is a newer public group described by “Purpose of this group is to provide a forum for links, tips and tricks that can be helpful or of interest for anyone interested in Scandinavian (mainly Danish and Swedish) Genealogy and research.” Its coverage is not limited to Danish and Swedish. In fact several recent posts have been on Norwegian resources. Finnish research seems to be underrepresented and I know that I’ve not done my part to share some of the online gems for researching in that country. This is an incredibly dynamic FB group with over 1400 members which was created April 10 of this year and so it’s just over two months old.

Sometimes, a group like the Scandinavian one is solely a FB group. Sometimes though, we learn when visiting a web page for a group or archive or library, etc, of interest that they have a FB page. FB pages in this situation can be a wonderful way to stay current on the activities of said group or archive or library, etc. As mentioned before, just because you “like” and “follow” something doesn’t mean you have to do so in perpetuity. Pay a visit, possibly like and follow, decide the value to you, and then either continue to see such news items in your feed or un-follow or dis-like. It’s a dynamic and ever-changing platform that might prove invaluable to your ancestral quest!

Any new genealogically-themed FB pages catch your eye lately?

Do you have a handy trick for how you identify new family history oriented FB pages to like & follow?

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09 December 2014

Facebook can be a genealogical goldmine or a "too much" nightmare -- taming social media

Are you on Facebook (FB)? If so, you probably know what I mean when I say I have a love/hate relationship with this social media platform. I love all that is possible with it and I also hate it for the same reason. I am forced to “constrain” myself so that I don’t spend more than a few minutes each day on it (versus the hours that I could easily manage ).

That said, on FB you can find some gems. So, how does one balance all that can be found on FB with the reality that we can only spend so much time a day?

Planning and being pro-active.

We have written about some ways to reign in all that is FB; see list below.

Recently, the GenealogyInsider (Family Tree Magazine), posted 12 Kinds of Organizations Genealogists Should Follow on Facebook. Of course, this blog is partial to item #4 “Major genealogical societies, libraries and archives.”

Let’s do the math – if you followed only 1 of each kind of these organization feeds, life might be manageable. And, as you pursue more and more research, your needs for information will keep growing and so will your FB “likes!” This is ignoring your family, your friends, your non-genealogical interests, and much more. All too soon you could spend all day on FB if you don’t tame your News Feed.

Are these all I keep up with? NO! There are many genealogy blogs that I follow (though for those I use email feeds, Blogtrottr -- a means to get those valuable genealogy blog posts to your inbox!) using other methods.

Our focus now is on FB. This means that I won’t be mentioning the many stellar blogs which also have FB pages if I already receive an auto-sorted email feed

Now, just because you follow a genealogy society or archive or pundit or family members FB page, doesn’t mean that you have to have those posts constantly real-time feeding your ever-growing News Feed.

· I “like” a lot of blogs, individuals, commercial and non-profit enterprises, and more and yet I only have a few “must read” ones that I feed directly to my FB page. These are the ones that I have found will give me a quick pulse on the news in our genealogy and family history community.

· For the other “likes,” I just “follow” them. At any time I can visit the appropriate FB page and see what is happening.

Also, feel free to “unlike” something.

· Sometimes a feed will get on your nerves as more and more people join it and/or it seems to remain less on topic (even if there is a moderator).

· Sometimes a feed doesn’t have relevance as you have shifted your research focus to another locale, for example.

· Or over time, you might realize that you are getting versions of the same information from other “suppliers” and so you can winnow down your list (I also do this regularly with my email feeds; the list is constantly growing and then shrinking on a cyclical basis).

· Just because you “liked” something or someone at one point, doesn’t mean that you are stuck with it for life!

And, I have “no” notifications set for my News Feed (well, I think I still have them for posts by my kids and that is it).

· Meaning, I don’t get any emails, text message or any kind of messages from FB regarding what’s been “newly” posted.

· I handle this by looking at FB 1^st thing in the morning, a few minutes at lunch and then a few minutes before dinner. I just scroll through my News Feed to catch up and I’m done. This way I am not constantly interrupted all day

Select FB feeds that I keep in my “News Feed” are:

· National Genealogical Society (I bet this one surprised you!)

· Thomas MaEntee (do know that some personal tidbits are included in this feed; otherwise, check out Geneabloggers and/or Hack Genealogy – both have FB pages)

· Federation of Genealogical Societies (I also wear a hat as a local genealogy society officer)

· Slate’s The Vault Blog (often posts interesting historical documents)

· International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG)

· Judy G Russell (The Legal Genealogist)

· The Photo Detective (Maureen Taylor)

· The Library of Congress

· US National Archives

· Afrigeneas African American Genealogy Community

· Geneanet

... and many, many more.

Editor’s Note: Related Upfront with NGS posts --

+ Are Social Networks (e.g. FB, Twitter), falling apart? If so, what does that mean for family historians? (April 2014)

+ Managing Mondays -- how to "hopefully" be more productive all week long! (January 2014)

+ Fabulous Facebook (FB) Finds for Genealogists & Family Historians ... (October 2013)

+ So many genealogical societies have FB pages -- so little time! (February 2013)

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