We continue to enjoy the National Genealogy Society's virtual conference. Recent sessions touched on a wide variety of topics.
Court Record Books was actually titled "FamilySearch's Secret Weapon." The court record books that are available in the FamilySearch catalog include reports of cases dealing with all sorts of offenses where an ancestor's name may be mentioned. Examples included alimony back payment, indentures, mortgage foreclosures, ferry licenses, lists of jurors, etc.
Many of the records are available online. If you have an interest, the easiest way to locate a record is to go to the catalog. Use "court record books" in the keywords selection and choose "online." These records are not indexed so you will need to browse in a location and time period where your ancestor may have been mentioned.
Online German Church Registers provided an overview of the most common types of records, online sources, and an explanation of what might be found: originals, duplicates, recopied records, indexes, transcripts or abstracts. The speaker also pointed out that German immigrants in America followed the same format in their German language churches.
Transcribe and Take Note was a discussion of Google Docs, Sheets, and Keep for data collection. It was evident that the speaker was a long-time user of these tools. In Google Docs she demonstrated how to create automatic transcriptions of typed and handwritten text, how to insert a bookmark, voice typing, etc. We learned how to add links to Google Sheets and how to use it side by side with Google Docs. Google Keep is a note-taking app that allows you to save web pages. The speaker's examples were focused on time lines, genealogy reports, and research logs.
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