July Webinars on Legacy

Legacy has quite a variety of topics in July: a little bit Canada, a little bit DNA, and several addressing research on the internet. Visit www.familytreewebinars.com to learn more, register to attend in real time, or view at your leisure for seven days following each presentation.


Tuesday, July 2 - "Remedies for Copy & Paste Genealogy" by Cyndi Ingle.  Intermediate   "Family trees and the information they contain are easily copied and re-published by others online. This means errors are duplicated many times over. We will discuss solutions for dealing with these issues."


Wednesday, July 3 - "Evaluating Shared DNA" by Paul Woodbury.  Intermediate, Advanced


Wednesday, July 10 - "Prince Edward Island Repositories and Records" by Melanie McComb.  Intermediate   "We will review the different databases, repositories, and record collections for Prince Edward Island, Canada ancestors. This session will focus on Irish immigrants and the records they left behind."


Friday, July 12 - "DNA, Genealogy and Privacy: Handling the Double-Edged Sword" by Thomas MacEntee.  Intermediate  "We’ll review the current status of privacy practices by the five major DNA test kit vendors, current laws and regulations, the role of law enforcement, and what we might expect to see related to privacy in the future."


Tuesday, July 16 - "Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands" by Yvette Hoitink.  Intermediate


Wednesday, July 17 - "Research Your Newfoundland Ancestors" by Tessa Keough.  Beginner


Wednesday, July 24 - "Should You Take the Hint? Automatic Record Hinting on the Giant Genealogy Sites" by Sunny Morton.  Beginner, Intermediate


Friday, July 26 - "Census Hurdles: How to Jump Over or Go Around" by Cari Taplin.  Beginner, Intermediate


Wednesday, July 31 - "Google Photos: one photo app to rule them all" by Devin Ashby.  Beginner

Upcoming Conferences

Do any of the following locations correspond with your travel schedule? Visit the websites for more information on each conference.


Huntsville, Texas      FREE
2-3 August 2019
Frances Sprott Goforth Memorial Genealogy Weekend
www.myhuntsvillelibrary.com


Yorba Linda, California
3 August 2019
Genealogy Seminar: Genealogical Society of North Orange County California
Thomas Jones is featured speaker
www.gsnocc.org 


Winnipeg, Canada
16-18 August 2019
Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
www.sggee.org


Washington, D.C.
21-24 August 2019
Federation of Genealogical Societies 2019 Conference
https://fgs.org/annual-conference


Wichita, Kansas
5 October 2019
Wichita Genealogical Society 2019 Conference
Judy Russell is featured speaker
https://wichitagensoc.org


Ottawa, Canada
27-29 September 2019
BIFHSGO Family History Conference
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
www.bifhsgo.ca

The Great Halifax Explosion

We have just finished one of the historical books we brought along for our summer travel reading. The Great Halifax Explosion tells the story of the Mont-Blanc, a ship filled to the brim with explosives headed for the battlefields of World War I in December of 1917. When there was a collision in the Halifax harbor, the resulting explosion destroyed the Richmond neighborhood and left 25,000 people homeless. John U. Bacon explains what happened, why it occurred and how it affected the people of Halifax.

The Great Halifax Explosion will be one of the selections for our annual door prize evening.

FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries

Here's the link to the list of FamilySearch affiliate libraries that appears on the Wiki. You can search by state or province to see whether a library in your area has more access to records than you do at home.

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/FamilySearch_Affiliate_Libraries


FamilySearch affiliate libraries have privileges to limited-access FamilySearch databases. Public or university libraries, archives, museums, or genealogical societies can become affiliate public libraries.

Affiliate libraries have some limitations and may not have all the services of a family history center. There may be some FamilySearch Historical Records collections that may not be available.

Website for Swedish Records

Every now and then I hear from our former member Trish with ideas for our club. In April she sent the following information.

This website is fantastic for Swedish records .. completely free.
http://www.ddss.nu/ 

The records are indexed.  If you hit the UK flag in the upper right hand
corner, the contents will translate to English ... really helpful with some
occupations and terms not available using a translator.  Where there is an
image, they have a "Show" box that will take you to the digitized images ..
a little browsing is necessary but good results. 


Since we do not have Swedish ancestors, I was not able to try any surnames. Let us know if you have success using this particular website.

Thanks, Trish!

Ancestry DNA on Sale

If you are still thinking about a DNA test, Ancestry is offering a Father's Day sale. Good through June 17.

June Webinars

Here are the free webinars planned for June. Visit www.familytreewebinars.com if you would like to register or to view the presentation for the following week.


Wednesday, June 5 - "Lessons in Jewish DNA: One Man's Successes and What He Learned on the Journey" by Israel Pickholtz.  Intermediate


Friday, June 7 - "Foundations of Scottish Genealogy 7 of 12: Using ScotlandsPlaces for People in Land and Tax Records" by Bruce Durie.  Intermediate


Wednesday, June 12 - "Tracking Your Digital Bread Crumbs: Bookmarks, Toolbars, Notes, and Other Applications" by Cyndi Ingle.  Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced


Tuesday, June 18 - "Using Another Library Source: the Government Document Section" by Patricia Walls Stamm.  Intermediate


Wednesday, June 19 - "Researching in New Mexico" by Henrietta Martinez Christmas.  Beginner


Wednesday, June 26 - "A Month's Worth of Must-Have Tech Tips To Start Using Today" by Gena Philibert-Ortega.  Beginner


Friday, June 28 - "5 Steps to Becoming a Good Ancestor" by Marian Pierre-Louis.  Beginner, Intermediate