Legacy's June Webinars

 www.familytreewebinars.com

Tuesday, June 1 - "Using DNA To Solve Interlinked Mysteries" by Michelle Leonard.

Tuesday, June 7 - "Government Gazettes as a Genealogical Resource" by Helen V. Smith.

Wednesday, June 8 -"Documents + DNA + Method + a little bit of Luck: Combining Tools to Find Biological Family" by Elizabeth Williams Gomoll.

 

Tuesday, June 14 - "Identifying Common Ancestors with DNA" by Shahar Tenenbaum.

Wednesday, June 15 - "Advanced Lightroom Techniques for Photo Editing" by Jared Hodges.

Friday, June 17 - "A 19th Century Ontario Enigma – A Case Study" by Janice Nickerson.

Tuesday, June 21 - "Negative Evidence: Making Something Out of Nothing" by Denise Cross.

Wednesday June 22 - "Irish Emigration to North America: Before, during and after Famine" by Paul Milner.

Wednesday, June 29 - "A Deep Dive into the Map Collections of the Library of Congress" by Rick Sayre.

Find My Past Announcement

We’ve made our newspaper archives free from May 30-June 6 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. Behind every news story, there’s a family story, including the Queen’s and your own. Read all about them for free.

1950 Census Review

This week I finally clicked on "Join the Cause" on the home page at FamilySearch. The main focus at present is reviewing the names on the census, but you could also choose to review the location information at the top of the census page. 

I selected Wisconsin and tried several different surnames: Staub, Leuthold and Smith. You can choose a county or city in a particular state, so I have also selected Waupaca County. 

After your selections, you are taken to a random census page and surnames and given names are highlighted. You only work on the name column and you cannot see the location. For each highlighted name you will click "match," "edit" or "unsure." The original work was done by computer, and it was more accurate than I expected. 

When the census taker wrote "not at home" or "vacant," there is a place to click "not a person." It is fairly straightforward. I have worked about two or three hours so far and have reviewed 2800 names. As of today 48% of the names in Wisconsin have been reviewed.

Give it a try! 

Allen County Library Webinars

Besides the useful PERSI site, the Allen County Library is producing webinars. Here are the selections for May. Visit the Genealogy Center and take a look at the "Genealogy Events" section. Visit https://acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy.

1950 Census News

Ancestry just released their entire index for the 1950 Census! 

You can now search for ancestors by name. The best part is that the census is free to search on Ancestry.