Mark your calendars!
The 2013 Pinal County Genealogy Workshop will be held on Saturday, January 26. Details will be available December 1. This annual event offers classes on a variety of topics, including a 2-hour session on Beginning Genealogy.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Saturday, October 20, 2012
RAOGK News
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) is back on a smaller scale. This site has been inactive for some time due to the illness and death of the founder. Using the link below, you can read about it and possibly find a volunteer for research in your area of interest.
Only volunteers
w/ arrow by name are working. If you have emails from any other volunteers from
the old RAOGK, please send them the new site.
There is also a new site:
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Member spotlight: Rick Wood
My name is Rick Wood, your new president for this year’s Palm Creek Genealogy Club. I was born in Manitoba, Canada, and now live in Alberta. I have been married for 42 years; have 3 sons, 6 grandsons, and 2 granddaughters.
I first started my family tree after joining the Palm Creek Genealogy Club just 2 seasons ago. But after 1000+ hours and 400+ members in my family tree, I feel like I have been doing this for a very long time. The main surnames I am currently researching are Wood, McKinnon, Bridle, and Desmarais
.
I think when the genealogy bug bit me was when I found a way to get around that first brick wall. The brick walls that I want to blow up now are proof of birth of my great grandfather Jonah Wood and immigration information on my great great grandfather Samuel Wood. Birth records are scarce for the early 1800’s in Canada. This would prove or disapprove that my family has German roots not Irish. I grew up believing that my family was from Ireland but have found census and land records that lead me to believe we are originally from Germany. I better to be able to prove that with sources before I tell any of the family or I may lose a few of the older ones from the shock!
I find a lot of information online by looking for confirmation between Family Search and Ancestry. I have also found some amazing information on Google!
I hope to find these records when I stop in Salt Lake City on the way back to Alberta. We will be doing our usual trips to Manitoba to visit family so I will do more local research. I am considering a trip to Ontario in October to the Pickering/Barrie area as this was where my ancestors first lived in Canada. Then point it south to see you in Palm Creek in November.
I first started my family tree after joining the Palm Creek Genealogy Club just 2 seasons ago. But after 1000+ hours and 400+ members in my family tree, I feel like I have been doing this for a very long time. The main surnames I am currently researching are Wood, McKinnon, Bridle, and Desmarais
.
I think when the genealogy bug bit me was when I found a way to get around that first brick wall. The brick walls that I want to blow up now are proof of birth of my great grandfather Jonah Wood and immigration information on my great great grandfather Samuel Wood. Birth records are scarce for the early 1800’s in Canada. This would prove or disapprove that my family has German roots not Irish. I grew up believing that my family was from Ireland but have found census and land records that lead me to believe we are originally from Germany. I better to be able to prove that with sources before I tell any of the family or I may lose a few of the older ones from the shock!
I find a lot of information online by looking for confirmation between Family Search and Ancestry. I have also found some amazing information on Google!
I hope to find these records when I stop in Salt Lake City on the way back to Alberta. We will be doing our usual trips to Manitoba to visit family so I will do more local research. I am considering a trip to Ontario in October to the Pickering/Barrie area as this was where my ancestors first lived in Canada. Then point it south to see you in Palm Creek in November.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
More 1940 census info
For the first week to several weeks after April 2, the only way to find your ancestor's 1940 census record will be to browse by enumeration district.
You can find out what an enumeration district is and how to pinpoint the right one by watching the free video on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Three separate projects to index these census records by name will begin ASAP after the records are released:
the 1940 Census Community Project, organized by FamilySearch, Archives.com and brightsolid (owner of censusrecords.com)
Ancestry.com
MyHeritage
The 1940 Census Community Project is recruiting volunteers to do the indexing; Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are using paid contractors to do their indexing work.
Each site will add its index one state at a time, as states are completed. No site has specified the order in which states will be indexed, so at this time there's no telling when a particular site will add your ancestor's state. It could be weeks or months before a given site posts the index you need (so you'll want to check all the above sites periodically).
Ancestry.com is completing its index in two phases: a basic name index to be released first on a state-by-state basis, then a more-detailed index with additional information to follow. This means you may have access to a searchable basic name index for your ancestral state earlier on Ancestry.com than on another site.
You can find out what an enumeration district is and how to pinpoint the right one by watching the free video on FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Three separate projects to index these census records by name will begin ASAP after the records are released:
the 1940 Census Community Project, organized by FamilySearch, Archives.com and brightsolid (owner of censusrecords.com)
Ancestry.com
MyHeritage
The 1940 Census Community Project is recruiting volunteers to do the indexing; Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are using paid contractors to do their indexing work.
Each site will add its index one state at a time, as states are completed. No site has specified the order in which states will be indexed, so at this time there's no telling when a particular site will add your ancestor's state. It could be weeks or months before a given site posts the index you need (so you'll want to check all the above sites periodically).
Ancestry.com is completing its index in two phases: a basic name index to be released first on a state-by-state basis, then a more-detailed index with additional information to follow. This means you may have access to a searchable basic name index for your ancestral state earlier on Ancestry.com than on another site.
1940 Census Info
On April 2 at 9 a.m., the only place you'll be able to find online 1940 census records for the entire country is 1940census.archives.gov. This website was made possible through the National Archives' contract with genealogy company Archives.com.
Shortly after the initial release, other websites will begin adding the records as fast as they can. Those include:
Ancestry.com
Archives.com
censusrecords.com
FamilySearch.org
MyHeritage websites myheritage.com/1940census, worldvitalrecords.com/1940census and familylink.com/1940census
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
It is Official
As the club has had it's last meeting of the season, our newly elected officers have already started to plan next season, we are looking forward to another great season, Thank You:
Rick Wood - President
Ken Doane - Vice President
Dick Rietz - Secretary
Louise Kant - Treasurer
Annette Rietz - Program Director
Rick Wood - President
Ken Doane - Vice President
Dick Rietz - Secretary
Louise Kant - Treasurer
Annette Rietz - Program Director
Saturday, February 25, 2012
From Legacy Family Tree
Ken Doane received this response from Legacy this week regarding Family Search:
The information that I have says "in March of 2011 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began inviting members of the English speaking general public to register for and have access to the new FamilySearch program. This opportunity is currently available by invitation. It will continue to be implemented, gradually, until it is available worldwide. A member of the general public may register to be given access to the new FamilySearch program through the registration. Please visit http://www.familysearch.org/invite/public1 to open the registration page."
This may apply only to those who are using Legacy as their software program, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try if you are interested.
The information that I have says "in March of 2011 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began inviting members of the English speaking general public to register for and have access to the new FamilySearch program. This opportunity is currently available by invitation. It will continue to be implemented, gradually, until it is available worldwide. A member of the general public may register to be given access to the new FamilySearch program through the registration. Please visit http://www.familysearch.org/invite/public1 to open the registration page."
This may apply only to those who are using Legacy as their software program, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try if you are interested.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Never know what you will find
Our newest club member Chuck MacDonald sent the following link, just no way of knowing what we will find!
Jamaican and Jewish instead of Protestant and Scottish
When you a fun story or one of interest please send it along for the club to enjoy
Jamaican and Jewish instead of Protestant and Scottish
When you a fun story or one of interest please send it along for the club to enjoy
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