Upfront Mini Bytes

Upfront Mini Bytes

Welcome to the tenth edition of our bi-weekly 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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UK magazine The Spectator launched its 180-year online archive. The Spectator is a weekly publication and one of the oldest continually published magazines in the English-speaking world, having first gone to print on 6 July 1828.

                                                                                              

Though the 1950 US census will not be released until 2022, the Morse One-Step website is starting its preparations to have location tools created in advance (as was done for the 1940 census). Read more about this project and how you can help here. Thanks to Dick Eastman for letting us know about this exciting project.

Have ancestors or distant cousins who ended up “down under?”  You’ll be excited to check out the new online database for Queensland (Australia) vital records. You can search the index for free and then pay to acquire images of found documents.  Included are: Births 1829–1914, Deaths 1829–1983, and Marriages 1829–1938.

Cohabitation registers are so important to African American research!  They are some of the few records created right after the Civil War that reflect pre-emancipation unions.  The Library of Virginia has added Scott County and Washington County to its cohabitation register digitization project. Read more about this project.

Sometimes it’s hard to remember how much life has changed since the 1970s!  Two recent articles remind us of some of these significant changes. Ten things an Irish woman could not do in 1970 (and be prepared to cringe...) and then 10 Things That American Women Could Not Do Before the 1970s.

Anyone researching emigrant ancestors knows that oaths of allegiance can be powerful tools, whether connected to military service, naturalization paperwork, etc. Genealogy Decoded recently did a post about Pennsylvania Oaths of Allegiance 1727-1775 and the neat information they can contain and the availability of a digitized version of a published volume via Hathi Trust.

How often have you struggled to figure out all the ways a name might be spelled, a place name pronounced, etc.?  Understanding language helps us as we try to decipher the myriad spellings we stumble across.  After sharing this with my linguist daughter, I thought you might find it helpful also -- North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns.  Do check out the map!

Recognizing that many people we are researching died before vital records came into being, the Arkansas History Commission is doing something to help fill that void.  There is now a database In Remembrance: An Electronic Index of Arkansas Deaths, 1819-1920.  It provide researchers with the location of death records in early Arkansas, whether in church publications, cemetery records, mortality censuses, newspaper obituaries, or county and local records from the Arkansas History Commission’s extensive holdings.

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Digitization vs Cataloguing -- Which is More Valuable?

Classic Rock'em Sock'em Robots -- remember, they can always battle since you can just push their heads back down.  Can the same be said for our modern debates over terms, technology, etc?

We recently debated genealogy vs family history.  This is not the only debate occurring within our sphere of research.

Chris Patton (British GENES) shared an article, Debate: “Although digitization is useful for accessibility, detailed online item-level cataloguing is even more so” (ArchivesNext) which mentions comments he had made and quite a debate ensued.

Who doesn’t love digital content?  I think we all love the ability to sit at our computers, in our jammies, and pull up digital copies of original documents.

On the other hand, it is critical to our research to know “who” or “what institution” holds the documents that interest us.  Without a readily accessible and detailed catalog, we don’t know what is out there that might help our research.

I have to say that though I applaud and appreciate digitization projects, I also appreciate detailed cataloguing.  So much content will probably not be digitized in my lifetime or possibly ever (based on copyright and other restrictions).  At least, with detailed cataloguing, if I know where there is content, I then have the option to try and access it either directly, via the facility or via a surrogate researcher.

This is why I am constantly visiting Worldcat and Linkpendium and Cyndi’s List.  Never mind checking out the FamilySearch catalog, individual state archive and local repository catalogs, Chronicling America and it’s U.S. Newspaper Directory, and any “catalog” I can access (hopefully online though I’m game to walk into a place to check it’s physical catalog (or have someone else do that for me)).

I am searching to find out what records are extant.  As I like to say “I don’t know what I don’t know” and so I need to do research to learn what might not be digitized and which might be important to what I am researching.  If I know the records exist, then I can figure out how to access them!

Will some digitization projects possibly make detailed item-level cataloguing possibly moot? Probably eventually ... and, how long are you willing to wait for an item of interest to be digitized?  How do you know that it will ever be digitized?

What do you think? Digitization or detailed online item-level cataloguing or ???

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New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives

This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Source http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/theb1365.htm

Author  NOAA George E. Marsh Album, theb1365, Historic C&GS Collection

A recent New York Times article by John Markoff, New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives talks about all kinds of issues with how we now do research that range from intellectual property to access fees to repository revenue sources to new tech tools for data mining to changes in how researchers research and much more.

For example, if patrons are now able to freely photograph (or scan) documents in a repositories’ collections and so the repository has decreased revenue, how does it accommodate that?  Are changes in personnel and operations also required?  As resources ($ and people) are re-purposed, are we losing some other important services?

The article ends with this statement ...

Now she often begins with electronic records. “Now my methodology has changed for the better in terms of efficiency. What’s lost in the change is the serendipity of what else might be in this box of materials, if I had gone there.”

I can identify with this statement.  With all the online access, we are often, in a way, reading an “abstract” created by someone.  How thorough is it?  What information is included or not?  What have we missed?  How often have we “trawled” through records and spotted something that has relevance and yet the “key term” was NOT indexed and so we could not have searched on it?!?!

We are certainly living in an ever evolving world as we do our research.  This is both exciting and stressful.  The key is to keep ALL that is good and not just rush forward and abandon “older” means of research which are still relevant!

What “repercussions” have you seen at your local archive as a result of all the new technologically-based research tools?  What has been good, bad and maybe even ugly?

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Technology helping us access previously unreadable documents!

Image from original piece published by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

It’s often hard enough to find extant documents with relevance to our research.  What about when we find them and then we cannot access them because they are too fragile and so unreadable?

Jean-Yves Baxter (GeneaNet) posted Reading the Unreadable: 'Unopenable' Scrolls Will Yield Their Secrets to New X-Ray System which refers to an article in the ScienceDaily with the same title who information is from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK).

Old parchment is often extremely dry and liable to crack and crumble if any attempt is made to physically unroll or unfold it. The new technology, however, eliminates the need to do so by enabling parchment to be unrolled or unfolded 'virtually' and the contents displayed on a computer screen.

You can find a YouTube video here (about 6.5 minutes) which talks about the process.

This is fascinating to me.  Anyone who has ever handled old documents or photos knows that once rolled, folded or otherwise found in a not flat condition, we are limited in how we can handle such and what information we can obtain from them. Never mind, horrible hand-writing, bleeding ink, faded ink and other challenges we often face with such older documents.

Are there other “new” technologies that you are aware of that are helping make previously inaccessible/unreadable documents available to us?

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Classes Form Around Tom Jones’s Mastering Genealogical Proof

Guest editor Jordan Jones, President of the National Genealogical Society, recently spoke to Dr. Thomas Jones about his new publication, Mastering Genealogical Proof. Jordan shares that conversation and his thoughts here.

I had an opportunity to talk to Tom Jones about his book Mastering Genealogical Proof, recently published by the National Genealogical Society.

source: http://portal.scdm.org/system/files/u1/study_group-online.jpg

The book is a culmination of Tom’s years of interest in the topic of genealogical proof.  While he was serving as its president, the Board for Certification of Genealogists published The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual (Provo: Ancestry Publishing, 2000). According to Tom, this book was “one of the first places where the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) was articulated and laid out in its five parts.” He continues: “In fact, the Standards Manual was released at the NGS Conference in Providence in 2000, and I did a presentation on the GPS at that conference and have been doing them in one form or another over the years.” Often, in the course of a one-hour lecture, Tom can share an insight into some aspect of the GPS, but the proof standard is a large topic that requires far more than a single hour.

The courses Tom teaches at Boston University and at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy treat the GPS in a broader context, and this book builds on that approach. “It’s the result of my learning from all the teaching I have done, at BU and at the Salt Lake Institute particularly.” Originally, the book was to have been an NGS online course. As he started to develop the content, Tom felt that “the complexity and the length suggested that an online course was not the best way to deliver the content.” The exercises also made the work better suited to being a “textbook to accompany a course, rather than a course itself.” So, the National Genealogical Society worked with Tom to re-conceive the project as a book to support in-class coursework.

And now the courses are coming: Two study groups have formed to study Mastering Genealogical Proof. One study group is hosted by Angela Packer McGhie, a genealogical researcher, lecturer, and instructor. Angela serves as the administrator of the ProGen Study Program and course coordinator. She has set up a “train-the-trainer” model where she is working through the content with a small group of mentors, who will then teach others. The course is being held online via Google Hangouts. For more information, see the “Gen Proof” groups post on her blog, Adventures in Genealogy Education.

 

Another study group is led by Pat Richley-Erickson, the irrepressible blogger also known as “Dear Myrtle.” This course started with an orientation session on Sunday, with fifteen other panelists. There will be sessions through September, including a graduation ceremony. For more information, see Pat Richley-Erickson’s blog Dear Myrtle or her MGP Study Group schedule.

Of the audience for the Mastering Genealogical Proof, Tom says he hopes it would include “everyone interested in tracing their family history. Most of my teaching experience has been with people that I would say are intermediate and higher in terms of their research experience. I think the greatest interest in the book is among that group, but I really hope people who are just embarking on their family history research will pick this up and get a lot out of it, because it will get them started off on the right foot. It will minimize all the hours of work put into something that a few years down the road they realize is worthless. I don’t think anything in here is too advanced or too complex for a new family historian to digest and benefit from and apply to their own research.” I agree, and hope researchers, those just beginning, and those with more experience, will take a look at Tom’s book, and learn to benefit from the rigor and clarity of the genealogical proof standard. The National Genealogical Society is proud to have helped bring Mastering Genealogical Proof to the community of genealogists. We are heartened to see that the book is generating interest in advanced genealogical study, and that students and teachers are using it to explore and extend their understanding of the GPS.

— Jordan Jones, President, National Genealogical Society

Mastering Genealogical Proof by Thomas W. Jones (Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, 2013). $25 $24.95 ($30 with shipping) for the general public; $20 $19.95 ($25 with shipping) for NGS members. Available at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/mastering_genealogical_proof)

Editor’s Note: One of the National Genealogical Society’s educational goals two years ago was to bring an excellent learning tool to the genealogical community that would help expand understanding of the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS). With the help of Dr. Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, that NGS goal was realized recently with the publication of Mastering Genealogical Proof. The release of this book has excited and enthused genealogists of all skill levels and as a result classes and courses of study are forming quickly around this excellent text.

Editor's Note: Pricing updated to accurately reflect current price.

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Hurry! Early Bird Ends This Week for the NGS Guided SLC Research Trip

Carol -- October 2011 Trip

Arlington, VA, 8 June 2013: Don’t miss out on the Early Bird pricing for the NGS guided research trip to the world renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City from 15–22 September 2013. NGS offers a substantial discount with early bird pricing if you register by 15 June 2013. The hosts for the trip are Sandra MacLean Clunies, cg^sm, and Shirley Langdon Wilcox, cg^sm, fngs.

Carrie -- October 2011 Trip

Participants will stay at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel, which is adjacent to the Family History Library. The trip includes six full days of research at the Family History Library and guidance from the knowledgeable trip hosts who will be available to answer questions as they arise. The library’s noteworthy records include deeds, wills, military, tax, and vital records from the United States, Canada, and around the world. You will have the ability to research different counties, states, or countries by just accessing a different roll of microfilm or going to a different floor to access books.

For more information, and to register for the trip, visit the NGS research trip web page at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/conferences_events/research_tips/slc_research_trip_fall_trip.

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.  Please visit the NGS Pressroom for further information.

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Are you a Genealogist, a Family Historian or What?

A recent post by James Tanner (Genealogy’s Star) was titled Is genealogy now politically incorrect? One comment to the original post directs readers to a proposal at Wikipedia to merge the genealogy and family history pages.  There were also several response blog posts written, one of which is  Genealogists are not being pushed out, Reinforcements arebeing invited in (by A Patient Genealogist).  As always, don't just read the main blog post.  Do read the comments!

This really hit home with me.  As someone who writes blog posts for NGS and who wants to be “inclusive” to all researchers, I struggle with this as I write my blog posts. If I just use the term genealogy is that viewed as "too narrow?" If I use the term family history are those who identify with genealogy “turned off?” Yet, can one really keep saying genealogy and family history or genealogists and family historians throughout a written piece? Too much of a mouth full ...

Is this a tempest in a teapot?  Are the two terms truly distinct? Is the term genealogy now not PC? Is the use of the term family history preferable? If they are distinct, how are they distinct?  Should “another” term be used?

Do I need to use “both” terms to ensure “all” readers will read a post? What is a blogger to do?

What are your thoughts?

Editor’s Note: this is not a “new” topic of discussion.  As is the case with genealogists and family historians, we often “revisit” things ...

• The Armchair Genealogist (Lynn Palermo) back in 2011 wrote Genealogy vs. Family History: Is There a Line in The Sand? [BTW, when I go to this page, I cannot see all the text until I scroll my mouse over it]
• The Ancestor Hunt (April 2013), Term Wars – Genealogy vs Family History – A Huge Surprise ==> research suggests that the term Ancestry is now rising in prominence!  Does that make us Ancestrists? Ancestrians?

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National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ) Archive is Growing!

NGS continues to digitize back issues of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ).  Newly available to NGS members are Volumes 58 (1970) and 60 (1972).

NGS members can access the archive here, http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/ngsq_archives.

Remember that anyone can access the FREE NGSQ Index, http://members.ngsgenealogy.org/NGSQSearch/search.cfm.

Some of the newly archives issues include articles with these titles:

• Tax Roll of 1763: Antrim Township, Cumberland (Now Franklin) County, Pennsylvania
• Through Richmond County, Georgia, Importer of Slaves, 1818-1824
• The National Intelligencer (various titles covering the 1830s time period)
• Individuals Identified by Dr. David Dale Owen On His Map of Southwestern Wisconsin in the Fall of 1839
• The Free Negro Militia in Louisiana – 1804

... and many more really interesting article titles are found!

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