Another month has passed. Visit www.familytreewebinars.com to see whether you would like to watch any of these presentations in real time or during the following week.
Wednesday, September 2 - "Using Chromosome Browsers, Segment Data and Triangulation" by Michelle Leonard. Intermediate
Wednesday, September 9 - "Cyndi's List in Practice" by Cyndi Ingle. Beginner, Intermediate
Tuesday, September 15 - "Reconstructing the Murphy Family Using DNA & Documentary Evidence" by Melissa Johnson. Intermediate
Wednesday, September 23 - "Introduction to VPNs" by Thomas MacEntee. Intermediate, Advanced
Wednesday, September 30 - "5 Ways to find your Family in Southern Manuscript Collections" by J. Mark Lowe. Intermediate
Monday, August 31, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Ancestral Mathematics
Mary Anne shared the chart above. When your friends or relatives ask whether you're "done" with your genealogy research, use this example to explain why not!
Thanks, Mary Anne.
Friday, August 21, 2020
Today's Chuckle
My favorite line from a recent commercial:
"Your father's been researching our genealogy: we're Vikings!"
"Your father's been researching our genealogy: we're Vikings!"
Friday, August 14, 2020
Overlooked Genealogy Resources
If you read Internet Genealogy, you might remember Diane Richards' column called Net Notes. She describes recent website discoveries in each issue. She combined a group of these in a presentation called "Fifty Overlooked Genealogical Resources in Fifty Minutes." I am reporting a partial list of websites she mentioned. You can Google any that are of interest.
Endangered Archives Program: funds digitization projects to preserve content of archives.
Mexican War Soldiers and Sailors
Europeana Newspapers
Frederick Douglas Newspapers
From the Page: a resource for collaborative transcriptions
Crowd Source Indexing: created for genealogical indexing; both large and small projects
The Ancestor Hunt
Online Genealogy Records: Google "death indexes"
Linkpendium
Digital Public Library of America
FreeUKGenealogy
Can Genealogy: a handy guide to the best Canadian resources
Peel's Prairie Provinces
Endangered Archives Program: funds digitization projects to preserve content of archives.
Mexican War Soldiers and Sailors
Europeana Newspapers
Frederick Douglas Newspapers
From the Page: a resource for collaborative transcriptions
Crowd Source Indexing: created for genealogical indexing; both large and small projects
The Ancestor Hunt
Online Genealogy Records: Google "death indexes"
Linkpendium
Digital Public Library of America
FreeUKGenealogy
Can Genealogy: a handy guide to the best Canadian resources
Peel's Prairie Provinces
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Court Record Books, Online German Church Registers, Google Docs
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.
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.
Friday, July 31, 2020
Legacy's August Webinars
Here is our list of upcoming webinars from Legacy. If any are of interest to you, visit www.familytreewebinars.com to register to watch in real time or to view for a week following each presentation. You can also find out more about each topic.
Tuesday, August 4 - "Tracing Australian and New Zealand World War One Ancestors" by Helen Smith. Intermediate
Wednesday, August 5 - "Using DNA to Solve Adoption and Unknown Parentage Mysteries" by Michelle Leonard. Intermediate
Wednesday, August 12 - "Dissecting a Civil War Pension Packet--Union and Confederate" by Jill Morelli. Beginner, Intermediate
Tuesday, August 18 - "The Advance of Research Habits over Recent Decades — And the Downside" by Tom Jones. Intermediate
Wednesday, August 19 - "Getting to Know Mexican Church & Civil Registration Records" by Colleen Robledo Greene. Beginner
Wednesday, August 26 - "Using Slack for Genealogy Projects" by Thomas MacEntee. Intermediate (Slack is a free online collaboration hub.)
Tuesday, August 4 - "Tracing Australian and New Zealand World War One Ancestors" by Helen Smith. Intermediate
Wednesday, August 5 - "Using DNA to Solve Adoption and Unknown Parentage Mysteries" by Michelle Leonard. Intermediate
Wednesday, August 12 - "Dissecting a Civil War Pension Packet--Union and Confederate" by Jill Morelli. Beginner, Intermediate
Tuesday, August 18 - "The Advance of Research Habits over Recent Decades — And the Downside" by Tom Jones. Intermediate
Wednesday, August 19 - "Getting to Know Mexican Church & Civil Registration Records" by Colleen Robledo Greene. Beginner
Wednesday, August 26 - "Using Slack for Genealogy Projects" by Thomas MacEntee. Intermediate (Slack is a free online collaboration hub.)
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Using Cluster Methodology
We watched a class the other day that dealt with cluster genealogy. The speaker related how she was able to prove the parents of an ancestor from upper New York state by researching his siblings and their spouses. Eventually she was able to trace several families that had traveled from Rhode Island through Connecticut to the same county in New York.
Although the session itself focused on that particular case study, the handout provided many ideas for research in New York. Locating information in the area of rural upstate New York is difficult before 1850 because of the lack of vital records. There were several suggestions for finding substitutes for those missing records.
Although the session itself focused on that particular case study, the handout provided many ideas for research in New York. Locating information in the area of rural upstate New York is difficult before 1850 because of the lack of vital records. There were several suggestions for finding substitutes for those missing records.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Dutch Reformed Church, Ohio Settlers, Mobile Technology
We watched three more virtual classes over the past few days. We knew we would have plenty of time for viewing during "isolation," and it is working out well. There is always at least one bit of helpful information from every session.
I selected "The Dutch Reformed Churches in America" because Dick has a brick wall back in Westchester County, New York. He has found a few records for his Ward and Berrian surnames in the Dutch Reformed Church there. The speaker was very knowledgeable about her subject, and we learned how that church split into two factions--one settling in the Holland, Michigan area and the other in Pella, Iowa. The bit of information that might help our research: records from the New York area churches are held in the state archives in Albany.
"Where Did They Go When They Left Ohio?" was organized in an interesting way. The speaker first listed reasons for movement westward: river transportation, cessions of Native American land, federal land sales, military bounty acts, the 1862 Homestead Act, and construction of railroads. Another reason for migration was the fact that original settlers in Ohio had sons who needed land to support their families. She used compiled census data from 1850-1890 to determine the number of Ohio-born residents in the states to the west of Ohio.
"Mobile Technology for Genealogy" discussed the apps available for family research, including two versions of family tree software (Family Tree Maker and Roots Magic) and several websites where you can build a tree. She also briefly mentioned using Evernote for genealogy. The session was only about 30 minutes, so she could have spent much more time demonstrating her suggestions.
I selected "The Dutch Reformed Churches in America" because Dick has a brick wall back in Westchester County, New York. He has found a few records for his Ward and Berrian surnames in the Dutch Reformed Church there. The speaker was very knowledgeable about her subject, and we learned how that church split into two factions--one settling in the Holland, Michigan area and the other in Pella, Iowa. The bit of information that might help our research: records from the New York area churches are held in the state archives in Albany.
"Where Did They Go When They Left Ohio?" was organized in an interesting way. The speaker first listed reasons for movement westward: river transportation, cessions of Native American land, federal land sales, military bounty acts, the 1862 Homestead Act, and construction of railroads. Another reason for migration was the fact that original settlers in Ohio had sons who needed land to support their families. She used compiled census data from 1850-1890 to determine the number of Ohio-born residents in the states to the west of Ohio.
"Mobile Technology for Genealogy" discussed the apps available for family research, including two versions of family tree software (Family Tree Maker and Roots Magic) and several websites where you can build a tree. She also briefly mentioned using Evernote for genealogy. The session was only about 30 minutes, so she could have spent much more time demonstrating her suggestions.
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