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05 December 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes -- Michigan, Gaelic Words, Time Magazine, Photogrammar, Netherlands Archives, New York City Archives, Technician, Hebridian Connections

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!

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Michigan research is now easier. Digitized versions of Greenville Independent, The Daily Call, The Greenville Daily News, Belding Banner and The Daily News, are now available, some dating back to 1857. Years 1857 - 1923 are available on the internet and can be accessed from any web-capable device. Due to copyright restrictions, the 1924 - 2010 editions are available only at the library. Read more.

An archive of 10 million Scottish Gaelic words has been launched. The Digital Archive of Scottish Gaelic (DASG) project is already the most comprehensive publicly accessible reference point for the Gaelic language and culture. The DASG project has two main outputs: 1. Corpas na Gàidhlig is a searchable online database bringing together full texts dating from the Twelfth Century to the present day. 2. The Fieldwork Archive contains over 22,000 headwords taken from speech recorded in Gaelic-speaking Scotland and Nova-Scotia during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Time Magazine has created an online archive of its editions published since 1923, called The Vault. You can browse by year or subject or search. Some content is available for FREE and the rest requires a subscription.

Yale University hosts Photogrammar, a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI). I personally like the map viewing option.

More and more historical documentation centers in the Netherlands are going online. Check out Waterlands Archief Centrum voor regionaal historisch onderzoek which is the historical documentation center of the region Waterland in the Netherlands (based in Purmerend) and Zeeuws Archief (housed in Middelburg) which is the principal archive for the province of Zeeland, the most south western province of the Netherlands.

New York City Municipal Archives Digitizes Materials From Early Colonial “New Amsterdam” (1647-1674) Collections. Ordinances drawn from the Records of New Amsterdam for the period 1647-1661 and their corresponding translations are now available at archives.nyc

First 70 years of the Technician (publication of North Carolina State University) is now available online.

Researching Hebridean ancestors ? If so, check out the Hebridean Connections web site. On this website you will find thousands of records relating to the genealogy, history, traditions, culture and archaeology of the Western Isles (or Outer Hebrides), a chain of islands off the west coast of Scotland.

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14 November 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes -- Limerick Ireland Directories, Court Cases, Arabic, Civil War Graves, UK Red Cross (WWI), USGS, Philadelphia, Minnesota

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Limerick (Ireland) Trade directories, 1769-1976 now available. You can search by trade, directory, time period, surname, address etc. I have one known collateral ancestor, John Walker Nelson, who lived in Limerick working as a Watch Maker for a few years before marrying and moving. He is listed in the 1877-1884 directories on Westland Street.

Searching for someone who might have been involved in a court case, 1881-1980 in Seattle, King County, Washington? If so, consider submitting a query to the Seattle Genealogical Society (SGS – free for members and a fee for nonmembers) for a search in the King County Court Cases Index, 1881-1980. Cases pertaining to Divorces, probate, name changes, guardianship, bankruptcies, commitments and more.

New York University has introduced Arabic Collections Online. This mass digitization project aims to expose up to 15,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions over a period of five years. The landing page is in English on the left and Arabic on the right. I suspect that many of the titles won’t be helpful to genealogists directly and possibly indirectly?!?!

Looking for the final resting place for a Civil War Veteran? Check out the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Grave Database. The database includes both Union and Confederate soldiers and tells from what state they served in, what branch of service, and where the cemetery is located. When you click on an individuals name, a detailed information card comes up which will give death date, possibly birth date, may have information on cause and location of death and information on the cemetery.

Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross during WWI. Did one of your family members volunteer? Names are being added in alphabetical order so if you don’t see a surname of interest, it may mean that the project hasn’t yet gotten to that letter of the alphabet.

Christ Church in Philadelphia has Vestry minutes (1717-1815), baptisms, marriages and burials (1709-1900+) and pew rent registers (1778-1785) now searchable via an on-line database.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) launched a Historical Topographic Map Explorer, allowing one to easily pore through the agency's expansive collection of more than 178,000 of the USGS's maps dating back to 1884. When you enter a city, you then click on the map and a timeline of available historical maps is revealed. Select a map and you can then see if overlaid on the original map (you can adjust the transparency) and even download the map. Very cool!

Official Minnesota documents, from the Office of the Secretary of State, covering 1900-1990 are now digitized and online. “Older, print-only official documents from the early 1900s to 1990, along with index cards used to retrieve them, have been secure in cabinets and boxes at the Office, but now they are available to anyone online.”

Editor's Note: 15 Nov 2014, Corrected date range for King County Court Cases Index item.

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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

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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 Cook County institutions. These consisted of the County Poor house and farm opened 1854, the Insane Asylum opened 1869, the infirmary opened 1882, and the Consumptive hospital (TB), opened 1899 and was the official Cook County potters field serving the poor and indigent of the county. Read the article, Database Remembers Chicagoans Buried, Forgotten in Dunning Cemetery, to learn more.

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).

New Zealand now has more than 140,000 World War 1 service files online. Search the database here. Read more about the project here.

Tennessee research has just gotten easier. More than 1500 bible records are available on the website of the Tennessee State Library and Archives. You can access the project here and read more about it here.

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 from 1817.

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03 October 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes -- German Church Books, Irish Archives, Scottish Indexes, Virgin Islands, Norwegian Maps, Denver, California Newspapers and ShipIndex.org

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A German Digital Church Book Portal is now online. The entire website is in German. I suggest you read EOGN for a nice overview of the site. Remember that you can always use Google Translate to get a rough translation of non-English language websites and documents.

Keeping with international records, there is a now a portal that links together hundreds of archival collections and archives in north and south

Ireland

, Irish Archives Resource.

Might as well include a mention of Scottish records also! Especially since my one Scots ancestor came this area. The Historical Indexes for Dumfries and Galloway are now online.

What about the Virgin Islands? The Territorial Archives are housed at two libraries. “The collections contain early records written in Danish, funeral booklets, yearbooks, local government documents, former Delegate Ron deLugo's congressional papers, and much more.” Scroll down the page and you will see links to searchable archives. Thanks to Genealogy’s Star for making us aware of this.

Last and not least on the international front, there is a Historic Map Site that has 8000 historical maps of Norway from the Norwegian national mapping Authority. The historic collection is accessible here. Again, you can use Google Translate to help you navigate this collection.

The Denver Public Library has a new genealogy portal. You can access the Denver Obituary Project or check out Research Guides for Marriage and Divorce Records and much more!

Are you researching California ancestors? Check out the California Digital Newspaper Collection. The collection currently contains 72,729 issues comprising 603,681 pages and 6,876,356 articles! Wow!

Was shipping part of your heritage, whether as a mode of travel or a business enterprise? If so, you might find ShipIndex.org worth a visit. Per the website “tells you which books, magazines, and online resources mention the vessels you’re researching. With 153,649 entries in the free database and 3,374,638 entries available with premium access.”

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29 August 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – North Dakota, Scottish, WWI Prisoners, TN Bible Records, Mormons, California Newspapers, Marine Casualties, and Savannah GA

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The North Dakota State Historical Society has unveiled Digital Horizons, “an online treasure house of thousands of images, documents, video, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today.”

“... Maxwell Ancestry, [is] pleased to bring you this new website [Scottish Indexes] bringing you even more indexes to help you trace your Scottish family tree online. We now have a large collection of indexes, from unique sources such as prison and court records to more commonly used sources such as birth, marriage, death and census records. While currently many of our records are from the south of Scotland, we have Quaker records and mental health records covering all of Scotland.” Transcriptions (full or partial) are provided for found entries. For some records, you can pay a fee to access more details (e.g. the full entry). (see editor’s note)

Prisoners of the First World War, the ICRC archives is a great collection which encompasses 1914-1918 and the 10 million people, serviceman and civilians who were captured and sent to detention camps. Do look at the tab “Examples of Index Cards” to fully understand the information provided and how you might access additional information.

Tennessee Family Bible Records collection is now online. “Before the 20th century, Tennessee and many other states did not keep comprehensive records of births, marriages, and deaths. Families recorded their own vital records in family Bibles that were passed down through generations ... The Bible records featured here were taken from photocopies in TSLA’s vertical files; additional records will be added as they are donated or discovered in manuscripts collections. The bulk of the records in this collection date between the late 18th and early 20th century.“

If you have Mormon ancestors, some of the more than 60,000 who traveled overland to the Salt Lake Valley 1847-1868 in one of the more than 300 companies which departed from various places, check out Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel. If you have a family tree set up at FamilySearch, you can go to this website, Sacrifice, Faith, and Miracles, and it will attempt to match individuals in your tree to the mentioned database.

The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains almost 73,000 issues comprising over 600,000 pages and almost 7 million articles for California newspapers from 1845 to the present.

If a family member served in the marines and was a casualty (wounded, missing, killed, or deemed a prisoner of war) during World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the interwar periods, there might be a casualty card found via the Casualty Card Databases. [NOTE: I did get a security certificate warning though I proceeded ahead with no issues. Use your own judgment about whether to access or not.]

Research into the records of Savannah (Georgia) has just gotten easier! Via a partnership with Ancestry.com, the following records are now available to researchers online through Ancestry.com:

Savannah, Georgia, Vital Records, 1803-1966
Savannah, Georgia, Cemetery and Burial Records, 1852-1939
Savannah, Georgia, Cemetery Burial Lot Cards, 1807-1995*
Savannah, Georgia, Court Records, 1790-1934
Savannah, Georgia, Land Tax & Property Records, 1896-1938
Savannah, Georgia, Naturalization Records, 1790-1910
Savannah, Georgia, Records of Titles, 1791-1971
Savannah, Georgia, Registers of Free Persons of Color, 1817-1864*
Savannah, Georgia, Voter Records, 1901-1917
Savannah, Georgia, City Council Minutes, 1790-1900*

Editor’s Note: I have one lone Scottish family in my tree and so I’m always looking for information for Newton Stewart (Penningham Parish). The surname was Nelson/Neilson with the common forenames of Mary, John, George, etc. My ancestors were also non-conformists meaning that they were not members of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian). It took me years and finding a helpful archivist in Scotland to find some of the baptisms of the children listed in the records of the Newton Stewart Relief Church. Well, these same baptisms are included in the Births/Baptisms collection on this website.

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08 August 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – RootsMapper, PA Cemetery Photos, Obituary Research, Irish Research, London Maps, Ship Routes, Audio Video and non-textual collection at NARA, and UK Coalmining

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If you have your family information stored on FamilySearch, check out the RootsMapper.com capabilities. Jana’s Genealogy and Family History Blog, Tech Tuesday: Rootsmapper.com ~ Ya, this is pretty cool!, gives a great overview on how to use this tool.

This project, FamilyHart’s Harry Senft Cemetery Pictures makes me wish that I had ancestors in York, Adams or Cumberland County PA! Starting in 2005 Harry Senft has been taking pictures of headstones in the mentioned counties (as well as Carroll County MD). They are initially placed online in their raw picture form. As indexed, those indices are placed online. You can also access custom Google maps for each cemetery location. A gem of a resource!

I couldn’t agree more ... 30 Reasons Why Searching for Obituaries is Like Finding Gold. So often, once a researcher has a death certificate or knows in what cemetery someone is buried, they stop looking for more. It is almost always worth looking for an obituary for a deceased ancestor. For some, in the absence of a tombstone or death certificate, it might be the only source of death information never mind the “gold” mentioned by Kenneth R Marks in his post.

DigDat Genealogy lets us check out the residents of Cork City (Ireland) in 1875. The site also has lists for Officers in Regiments of Militia in Ireland from: 1811 Directory of Ireland.

It wouldn’t be an Upfront Mini Bytes post if we didn’t have a map item! The National Library of Scotland has a collection of Ordnance Survey Maps for London (1893-1896).

Why stop at one map item when we can have two. As someone with 19^th century emigrant ancestors, I found Visualization of 19^th Century Ship Routes from Publicly Available NOAA Data Set just fascinating to look at. The article also includes a link to American Whaling Mapped. One of the comments posted had a link to Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, 1750-1850, British, Dutch, French and Spanish logged sailings (the actual database can be accessed here). Put these two together and you have a sense of the weather for any given route through time. With more research like this, pretty soon we might be able to smell the salt air as our ancestors did.

Fess up. Are you like me and mostly think of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as a great source for “paper” records and maps? There is so much more held by NARA. I was reminded of this when I came across The Unwritten Record: Exploring History with the National Archives’ Special Media Division which publishes about film, photographs, videos, sound recordings, and other non-textual records from the National Archives’ holdings. What initially caught my eye were the Declassified Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings reports. Thank goodness that none of this content is available digitally or I would never get any work done.

This database caught my eye since I did have a branch of my family who worked in the mines of Lancashire in the early 1800s. The Coalmining History Resource Centre has a database of over 164,000 records of coalmining accidents and deaths in the UK. Additionally, there is information about disasters (during which 5 or more miners died) as well as reports covering 1707-1979 and providing details on each disaster. Fortunately my miner died of old age and not all did.

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25 July 2014

Upfront Mini Bytes – Adoption, Chicago, Tribal Maps, Odd French Linguistics, Surname Distribution, Tips for Reading Old Handwriting, Historic Photos, and Digitized Australian Newspapers

Editor’s Note: After a brief moratorium, Upfront Mini Bytes are back!

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The Adoption History Project has a neat online archive. Many in our family history community are adopted or are researching adoptions involving ancestors. It has subsections labeled: Timeline, People & Organizations, Adoption Studies/Science, Topics in Adoption History, Further Reading, and Document Archives. There is a lot of helpful material here, especially when you are seeking historical context.

Have roots or connections to Chicago? Checkout This Clever Map Compares Chicago Before and After the Great Fire. You can overlay two maps: “One, culled from Google Maps’ API, shows Chicago of (roughly) today. The other is a color map of the city drawn in 1868, three years before the Great Fire.”

2010 Census - Tribal Tract Reference Maps are available from the US Census Bureau. These give you a very detailed perspective on tribal census tracts and tribal block groups as delineated to support 2010 Census data dissemination. The maps also show the boundaries and names of American Indian reservations, off-reservation trust lands (ORTLs), Alaska Native areas, Hawaiian home lands, states, counties, county subdivisions, places, and much more. A great resource to match against historic maps and visualize how reservations have changed through time.

If you are doing French genealogy, be aware of some Linguistic Oddities. “Beyond the study of name-mangling in parish and civil registrations is the issue of odd terminology ... Reading civil and parish registrations is repetitious work and just as we begin to doze off, invariably, an odd term will snap us awake, even make us laugh. But these terms can be baffling as well, so today we give a mini-lexicon.”

Appreciating where surnames might be found can often help us advance our genealogy research. One tool that might help you is PublicProfiler Worldnames. At this site, you enter your surname (or the one that interests you) and run a search to determine the world-wide distribution of the name. Do know that you need to enter an email address and indicate gender to get started. The coverage is North American, Europe, the UK, India, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina. The map shown is for Barna which fits my ancestor’s migration from Galicia (Poland near the borders with the Ukraine and Slovakia (previously Kingdom of Hungary).

Though not “new” definitely important to our research: Tips for reading old handwriting, Tips for Reading Old Records: Handwriting, Spelling, and Boundaries, and Deciphering Old Handwriting. If you want to test yourself on Early American Handwriting, play this “game” to decode the messages of handwritten documents. How did you do?

A fun visual bit of history, 14 Amateur Photos Taken With the Very First Consumer Camera. “Introduced in 1888, the Kodak No. 1 was the first camera marketed to average consumers. And thanks to a new set of images from the National Media Museum, we can now see what kinds of photos these early amateurs shot.”

Trove is a wonderful collection of digitized Australian newspapers. It includes National, Regional, and State newspapers. As of earlier this week there were 13,683,606 pages consisting of 131,943,198 articles available to search, covering from 1803 to 2007. Learn more about the Australian Newspaper Digitsation Program.

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