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Family Tree University’s Spring 2012 Virtual Conference March 9-11 offers unique benefits

CINCINNATI, March 1, 2012—Have you ever missed a genealogy conference session you wanted to attend because the room was too full, or because the time conflicted with another session of interest? Or heard how great a session was after the fact and lamented that you didn’t choose it?

That’s just one of the problems solved by Family Tree University’s Virtual Conferences. These three-day online workshops are

Making huge strides in my research lately. I have been able to knock down brick walls that have existed for 35 years...only to find there was another one behind it!

Pennsylvania has finally put death indices online and I was able to locate my missing great grandfather. Just waiting now for his actual certificate to come, assuring me that it really is him. I found what I think is my great grandmother also. The only CARGILL in the right time period with no first name, of course. We'll see when that

Virtual Ephemera.

Although the two words may seem dissimilar – if not contradictory – they share a common bond that I would like to explore for a moment.

Wiktionary.com defines virtual as; "In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated". Click here for a link to the full definition.

Wikipedia.org defines ephemera as; "Ephemera are transitory written and printed matter not intended to be retained or preserved". Click here for link to the full article.

Genealogists and family hi

Part 3 of a series about capturing the joy of family events on video

Last week we covered the first of four phases used in creating multimedia productions to capture the joy of family events – concepting / scriptwriting. This week, I we will talk about phase two – pre-production and planning.

As Hal Landen puts it in his book titled Marketing With Digital Video, “Murphy’s Law works overtime in video production. If something can go wrong, it will. Your only defense is planning. Planning will help y

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Illinois State Genealogical Society is proud to announce its new webinar series for 2012. For those of you new to this form of genealogy education, webinars are lectures delivered over the internet that you can access on your computer from your home or office. On the second Tuesday of each month at 8 PM Central, we will hold a live webinar, which is free to anyone. ISGS members can access a recorded copy in the Members Section of the ISGS website at any time after the live event.

In January,

February 20, 2012 – Fort Wayne, Indiana: The Indiana Genealogical Society (IGS) is holding its annual conference on April 28, 2012 at the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Debra S. Mieszala is the featured speaker. Her talks include:

• Lessons from a Snoop: Collaterals and Associates
• Bringing Our Soldiers Home
• Digging Through Documents Word By Word
• Patently Unique: Locating Patent Records, Online and Off

A second track of sessions features:

• What’s New with FamilySearch with Mi

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Uncanny Events, Non explained Situations for Genealogists and Family Historians.

Having just read about a very real situation that may draw more tourist to a historic place of residence, I saw Yes do it.

We learn history better by experiencing it than just reading. So if we watch and see and hear an event acted out, our brain will remember it better. 

Funny how we as genealogists tend to accept things more than others do when it come to the unusual event,

or paranormal experience.  Hank Jones calls

Who are we? Besides living organisms, we are a story, the details (sub-stories) are connected to other people’s stories and they are part of community stories, family stories, national stories…. you get where I’m going here.

I have always seen life from the perspective that there are the facts of what happened, and what we make those facts mean. The sum of those two things are our stories. They make up who we are, how we see the world, how others come to know us, and what we think of as important

 I would be very grateful for any info on William Winborne (alias William Wen) and his spouse Elizabeth Wen.

 They came to MA in early 1600's from England, moved around some and finally settled in Boston where their son was born in 1635 and he (John) later attended Harvard-then preached in Manchester for a couple of years.

Thanks, Bob

I was born Stephen Brooks Winter. 1956 in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the Southern Baptist Hospital. I came home to 5343? Chestnut Street, 1st house on the left when you turn East off of Jefferson avenue. A two story duplex. I remember the phone number started with TW9 (TWin-brook-9).
How did I end up being born in New Orleans. My daddy (William Brooks Winter) and mother (Melba Joyce Langston) both are from Calhoun County in North East Mississippi. My brother (Michael Ray Winter) was born with a l

Beginning Research - Your Opinion Needed

Beginning Research and finding some interesting thoughts have come to mind.

I am not the youngster just starting, with a computer and laptop and I phone. 
I learned the solid way of paper and pencil and letters and calls. Research trips to libraries, visits to family members homes.

Yes, we still do all of these things but today we have the added concepts of I Phones, I Pads, computers, not to even  mention the Internet. 

 So if you were to do a Beginners Class

Gus, I see you show both Churchill and Bartletts in your family. I am interested in both as My mother was a Churchill and my wife was a Bartlett.

What info do you have on them so I can see if they are part of our family?

Thanks

Jerry Coffman

Tulsa, Ok

jerrycoffman@cox.net

I have been working on what I refer to as a long-format video biography. My client has hired me for a year to develop a personal history as well as to film significant events during the year. We’ve been doing this since November 2011 and so far we’ve shot four different events. A couple of the events, we’ve turned into short individual videos to send out to people who attended while other footage is waiting to fit into its bigger scope.

Sunday I was at my client’s Super Bowl party, filming family

Please see the announcement below from the Records Preservation and Access
Committee regarding the SSDI.  Thanks.
 
Link to the WhiteHouse.gov petition: http://wh.gov/khE 
 
Instructions for signing up at WhiteHouse.gov and signing the petition can
be found at http://fgs.org/pdf/rpac_petition.pdf. 

**Originally posted by Thomas MacEntee on the APG Member Mailing List
 
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For Immediate Release
February 7, 2012
 
RPAC ANNOUNCES STOP ID THEFT NOW! CAMPA