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April 27 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah- The MagiKey, LLC. (http://themagikey.com) is the winner of the FamilySearch 2010 Software award for "BestWindows Product" for its new genealogy software MagiKey Family Treewith Census Tracker (patent pending). MagiKey Family Tree is designedto research, record, organize, and share family history data, and opens,reads, and saves in GEDCOM, the international standard for genealogyfiles. MagiKey Family Tree is FamilySearch certified and users canaccess New Family
FamilySearch, the world's largest repository o
At the end of March I attended an all-day workshop on Multimedia Storytelling led by Brian Storm of MediaStorm, an award-winning company based in New York and focused on creating cinematic narratives for distribution across a variety of platforms.
The workshop was put on by FotoFest, a Houston based arts organization, as part of their 2010 Biennial.
FotoFest’s purpose “is to promote the exchange of art and ideas through international programs and the presentation of photographic art. Their progr
A few months ago we took a vacation to Puerto Rico. It's the perfect place to explore early American Colonial History. San Juan was founded in 1521, and the explorer Ponce de Leon was one of its early governors. You can visit the walled city, its half dozen fortresses, and even Ponce de Leon's house. The narrow streets of Old San Juan are perfect for exploring by foot, and there is even a "Duck Tour" so you can have a guided trip inside the city and view the walls from the harbor.
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In thinking about my last post, I realized that I had mentioned that all digital editing is destructive. That issue needs to beexplained further especially to anyone involved in restoring scannedimages of old photographs.
Before taking even the first step in restoring old photos, you should understand whathappens when an image is scanned or otherwise digitized. Thedigitization process involves creating a numerical representation of theinformation contained in the original photograph. In both phot
I am asking for your help if you think this would be fun.
Mom will be 90 in June. I thought it would be fun if she received cards from people wishing her a 90th birthday. Someone mentioned 90 cards for 90th birthday, so that is my goal, the more the better.
My brother is giving her a celebration party but this is something she can remember and cherish for a long time.
She is the one that got me started in genealogy. I know some of you are her distant kin, but I think it would be
I am seeking help with these Northern Ireland families
They had a son, Matthew and a daughter, Elizabeth.
Matthew married Catherine Brownlow in 1782.
Their son, Rev William Brownlow Ford married Theodocia Douglas in 1812.
The daughter, Elizabeth married Thomas Douglas of Grace Hall in 1785. It was their daughter Theodocia who married William.
Thomas Douglas was the son of Charles Douglas and Theodocia St George (his
Many were new faces and we were glad to see this turn out.
After my talk on doing Genealogy Finding Who You Are. Which was intended to get people started with out incurring major expense. Genealogy can be fun and educational, it can help one to better understand their family and it's past. We are the sum of that past and our children and grandchildren are the sum of ours. They need to learn abou
Change of venue, due to census people taking over the Civic Center meeting place.
Myrna Goodwin will be talking about LAND RECORDS.
I love to use Land Records they are so helpful in research, You learn the terms of Grantor, Grantee,etc.
They help you to learn the links between families at time. For me they helped me determine which person of same name was mine.
Come listen to Myrna give her talk and learn some great information
The photoabove was scanned from small, 3 x 5 inch photo. As you can see theoriginal is badly creased and torn. After spending some time with AdobePhotoshop, here is the first pass at removing some of the most obviousdefects: (Click on the images to get a full size view).
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Lindak, yes, I am. Vachel, James, Wm, Francis.
Which of Vachel's children is your relative?
Census Reports Destroyed
According to the National Archives of Ireland's website http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/, "The first fullgovernment census of Ireland was taken in 1821 with further censuses at ten-yearly intervals from 1831 through to 1911. No
In the recentepisode of Who DoYou Think You Are, Susan Sarandon carried around a old laminatedphoto of her grandmother. With today's technology, she could have hadthe old photo scanned and restored, however, that was never mentioned inthe episode. Neither did they mention, later on in the hour, that theother photos she found could be easily digitally copied. I am sure thatalmost everyone realizes that any photograph can be digitized and thedigital copies of old photos can be edited to "restore"
looking for a document to connect james dillingham to wm young dillingham to frances dillingham or will of
james dillingham ky? @1830
