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Google Your way to a Quilt

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 6, 2009 at 10:37am

Google your way to a QuiltSometimes after I’ve tried the library, the archives, ancestry.com and NEHGS- I next resort to finding genealogy information is just Googling names to see what comes up. Now, with the addition of Google Books, I’m often surprised at what happens. And sometimes names that didn’t draw any hits six months ago suddenly have interesting results. This is what happened to me last week.My Munroe lineage was one of the first lines I ever worked on, and it was easy to do when I f

Is Google Wave the future of collabrative genealogy research?

Posted by William Douglas on November 6, 2009 at 7:30am

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in

To Build, or not to Build? That is My Ahnentafel Question!

Posted by Joseph A. 'Joe' Hittle on November 6, 2009 at 7:00am

"They" say that "doing genealogy" is an addictive endeavor."They" say that it's a waste of time, the past is past and you cannot change it. Even "He" said, "Let the dead bury their dead."The problem of that is that "He" also talked about eternal life! How that it was available and how that "He" was come to that we might have "... life, and have it more abundantly."I'm not dead. Neither are my ancestors, "in Him."I come from a rather large family. 8 siblings. We all look somewhat alike, but there

New FamilySearch -- Down to the last two Temple Districts

Posted by James Tanner on November 5, 2009 at 2:01pm

With the Jordan River Temple District gaining full access to New FamilySearch by November 9, 2009, there are only two more Temple Districts left until the introduction process is complete in all of the Temple Districts in the United States. There may still be areas where the program will still have to be developed in non-Roman alphabet languages, like Chinese, but it looks like the introduction is essentially over for the time being. The last two Temple Districts, still waiting for an introducti

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 April 28- May 1, 2010

Posted by Ceil Wendt Jensen on November 5, 2009 at 8:50am

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 joins in for the NGS 2010 Family History Conference coordinated by the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan upgs2010@gmail.comWednesday, 28 April 2010 UPGS Banquet, 7 PM Salt Lake Palace featuring nationally known speaker Loretto “Lou” Dennis Szucs and a Polish buffet. Please join us for this UPGS fundraiser.Thursday, 29 April 2010, 8-11 AM; Family History Library Lab, Thursday, 4-6 PM Eastern European Workshop with Daniel Schlyter.Friday, 30 April 20

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 April 28- May 1, 2010

Posted by Ceil Wendt Jensen on November 5, 2009 at 8:49am

Latest update to FamilySearch Record Search

Posted by James Tanner on November 5, 2009 at 7:36am

As of November 3, 2009, FamilySearch Record Search has added a number of new collections. These updated records include the following: [Descriptions from Website]Read more...

Bumping into Great Great Great Grandma

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 4, 2009 at 1:32pm

Leavitt Cemetery, Chichester, New HampshireNot too far north of Nutfield is Chichester, New Hampshire. My mother’s grandmother was a Batchelder, and she was born in Chichester, but the family lived in Boston. Their roots were on the New Hampshire seacoast, because the first Batchelder in the New World was the Reverend Stephen Batchelder, who founded Hampton. The Batchelders didn’t have their roots in Chichester, but all the brides, and cousins, and in-laws, were born, lived and died in Chicheste

Hello EveryOne

Posted by cyndi on November 4, 2009 at 12:59pm

2009 Association of Personal Historians Conference in Valley Forge

Posted by Stefani Twyford on November 4, 2009 at 11:57am

If you follow me on any of the social media platforms such as Twitter (@stefanitwyford) or Facebook, you’ll know that I spent the previous week at the 2009 Association of Personal Historians Conference in Valley Forge Pennsylvania.Having never been to the Philadelphia area, I was particularly excited to be spending time at Valley Forge, the historic site of the American Revolution and birthplace of everything we now take for granted as being intrinsically American. I was not disappointed. For th

Parade of States -- online digital genealogy resources -- California

Posted by James Tanner on November 4, 2009 at 7:17am

Everyone would expect California to have a lot of digital resources and they would be right, to a point. In actual numbers of records, they fall way short of Washington State, but they do have some very interesting collections which I have used in researching early California families. All in all, California is long on pictures and short on actual source documents given the large population and long history of the state. There are a lot of records and indexes online on the subscription Website,

Temptation with Research

Posted by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on November 4, 2009 at 12:43am

It is so tempting at times to just take data and run with it. But it is not mine and I can not say if any of it is true.It may all be correct and that is just fine but the work is still not mine.Does any one cold call yet today? Do we get a directory and contact all people of a certain surname to see if they have a chance to be akin of thine?Do we call the Chamber of Commerce in the small towns and villages to ask for advise as to what area would know where we should go to gather further informa

USA, United States or nothing

Posted by James Tanner on November 3, 2009 at 11:59am

One of the features of the newer genealogy database programs is the ability to regularize or standardize place names. But, the standardized place names are anything but standard between programs. For example, New FamilySearch, the huge database from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has a feature called Standard Finder and according to this source, the place names in the U.S. are appended with "United States." However, there are major database programs, like Legacy Family Tre

Mill Girls from Derry and Londonderry

Posted by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 2, 2009 at 7:28pm

Country Girls in the Big CityYears ago I took my Londonderry Girl Scout troop to Lowell National Park, to see how the mill girls lived and worked. The girls were about twelve years old, not much younger than some of the mill workers in the 1830s and 40s. We took a canal boat ride, and toured the noisy Boot Mill (a big hit for kids) and finally went into the boarding house. We earned a merit badge with some of our activities in Lowell, but the girls also learned that young ladies from Londonderry

Beating depression by family history

Posted by Omar Acuña on November 2, 2009 at 6:28pm

This is my first post, and used the tool "Google translator".Since I published a blog, I offer my help for people who want to know about their ancestors Chileans have received requests for Chileans living outside Chile, and also a U.S. citizen.He noted there is a growing interest in finding the names of ancestors and their stories. There are a lot of anxiety and even "desperate" to know something. This is fantastic!Personally, family history has helped me overcome my depression and anxiety, with

Home videos donated to film project

Posted by Stefani Twyford on November 2, 2009 at 9:24am

From the www.miamiherald.com:Isabel Ramos-Quinones' father shot home movies of family parties -- childhood memories that are now beginning to decay.But she found out a way to preserve the old film, now tucked away in her closet.An added bonus: She will be helping document history.Miami Dade College's Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives compiles donated films for its collection. It recently hosted Home Movie Day to describe the ambitious global restoration project -- and Ramos

A genealogist's view of Windows 7 -- upgrade or not?

Posted by James Tanner on November 1, 2009 at 1:02pm

In teaching classes to genealogists I have found that they are mostly people who can be shocked by the high price of a software program costing $29.95. So it is unlikely that these same people who think that it is outrageous to actually pay for a genealogy database program, would be anxious to upgrade their operating system, especially when the retail price of Windows 7 runs from $50 for the Windows 7 Home upgrade to over $200 for the Windows 7 Ultimate version. Furthermore, if you upgrade from

Family Tree Connection - Update (01/Nov/2009)

Posted by Illya Daddezio on November 1, 2009 at 11:31am

Family Tree Connection has added the following genealogy items to its database:

The Mothers Club 1928-1929 Membership - The Mothers Club of Carrick, Pennsylvania. Organized 1913. Chartered 1923. Founder, Mrs. John M. Phillips.

Detroit Bar Association 1906 Membership - Articles of Association, By-Laws and List of Members of The Detroit Bar Association, Organized 1836, Incorporated 1881.

Corinna Union Academy 1906-1907 Catalogue - Annual Catalogue, Corinna Union Academy, Established 1852, Corinna, Ma

Can you do genealogy on a Mac?

Posted by James Tanner on October 31, 2009 at 7:48pm

One of the most re-occurring questions asked me at the Mesa Regional Family History Center involves running genealogy programs on a Macintosh computer. Very frequently, during a class on Ancestral Quest Family Tree or RootsMagic 4, someone will ask if the programs can be run on an Apple Computer. The answer is yes, but with qualifications and the solution is not necessarily simple.Read more...

Adopted Living Children Who Are Unaware...?

Posted by BJohnston on October 30, 2009 at 2:03pm

As far as your record keeping, I presume you'd always want to take note of the fact in your software [Reunion for Mac] entries that someone is adopted. My concern is that someone still living and reviewing the online or published record might discover that fact and be both devastated and dumbfounded by the knowledge...especially if they were previously unaware. Are there any less conspicuous or more sensitive means of art to deal with the fact while preserving the accuracy of the information?

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Google Your way to a Quilt

Is Google Wave the future of collabrative genealogy research?

To Build, or not to Build? That is My Ahnentafel Question!

New FamilySearch -- Down to the last two Temple Districts

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 April 28- May 1, 2010

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 April 28- May 1, 2010

Latest update to FamilySearch Record Search

Bumping into Great Great Great Grandma

Hello EveryOne

2009 Association of Personal Historians Conference in Valley Forge

Parade of States -- online digital genealogy resources -- California

Temptation with Research

USA, United States or nothing

Mill Girls from Derry and Londonderry

Beating depression by family history

Home videos donated to film project

A genealogist's view of Windows 7 -- upgrade or not?

Family Tree Connection - Update (01/Nov/2009)

Can you do genealogy on a Mac?

Adopted Living Children Who Are Unaware...?

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