How well do you know your ancestors? Most of us want to believe our ancestors were hard-working, noble, or “salt-of-the-earth” types. However, the reality is that if we go back far enough, we all can dig up a few proverbial “skeletons in the closet.” Join Lisa Alzo for this webinar. If you missed this webinar you can see it by clicking on the following link and typing the password "skeletons".
https://vimeo.com/145162589
According to an announcement by The National Archives of Norway:
“The Norwegian 1891 Census consists of one sheet per person and one sheet per house/residence. These sheets have all been scanned and published in ordered series for the 559 cities and municipalities (herred) that existed in Norway at the time of the census.
“Apart from name and occupation, most of the information in the census sheets is in printed letters. You need to access the information from the house lists. In these lists you will find reference to the person lists.
“For Kristiania/Oslo, the address book of 1891 is scanned and available to simplify the information retrieval.”
You can learn more at
http://goo.gl/W8a4Aa. That web page also contains links to the many pages of the 1891 Census of Norway.
Glen Meakem has launched
Forever.com, which Meakem says is the world’s first permanent online media storage and sharing service. Forever claims to offer you one home for all your stories and special moments. The web site makes it easy to store, organize, share and print your family photos for generations. The web site also offers a “Forever Guarantee.”Your Guaranteed Storage is backed up in multiple places across multiple regions, ensuring you will never lose any of your photos. Over time, Forever.com will even migrate your files to newer formats as old formats become obsolete.
Explore Your Family Tree with FTAnalyzer 5
Genealogy sites MyHeritage.com and Ancestry.com as well as genealogy programs like RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, AncestralQuest, Family Historian, and many others are great for presenting family trees, displaying your data in a straightforward graphical form. However, one Windows program allows you to really understand your tree, to spot problems, links, and patterns you might have missed.
FTAnalyzer is an open source tool for Windows which imports your data in the form of a GEDCOM file, then analyzes it by using a number of useful reports, providing details you might not have uncovered any other way.
Latin in Irish Registers The Irish Genealogy Toolkit website has a helpful guide to translating the Latin used in Roman Catholic baptism, marriage, and death registers.
Catholic cemeteries in the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York now offer a search engine to help you find the site of a grave.Enter your loved one's information to get location information such as crypts / niches, section, row, and grave number.
Free Ancestry.com for New York State Residents. An agreement between the New York State Archives and ancestry.com website now gives New Yorkers an opportunity to save considerable money while using the site for genealogy research from home. Only NY items that have been copied to the ancestry.com website from archives are available.
Free Access to Ancestry.com/New York Records from Home
Finally--the only guidebook devoted exclusively to research in America's courthouses. Full of essentials starting with preparation, interacting with the clerks, using the indexes, and what to expect to find in each courthoiuse office. But it doesn't stop there. Evaluating the records and using them to solve genealogical problems are included. For those who can't travel to the courthouse personally, use of the Internet, microfilm, and published books of abstracts are discussed.
No scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of Ancestry's
Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information
essential to researchers of American records. This revised 3rd edition
provides updated county and town listings within the same overall
state-by-state organization. Whether you are looking for your ancestors
in the northeastern states, the South, the West, or somewhere in the
middle, ""Ancestry's Red Book has information on records and holdings
for every county in the United States.
Arphax Publishing Company is a leading Historical Reference Publisher specializing in original land-ownership maps. Since 2005, they have published original-landowner map-books for 500 U.S. Counties. Recently they added 3.3 million land records. You can search their database for free but there is a subscription price to see the property map. Searches may be done under surname.
Force War Records is the sister site of Forces Reunited, the leading British military community on the web with more than one million members and reuniting veterans since 2001, part of Clever Digit Media Ltd.
The site was created in 2008 upon the request of some Forces Reunited members who were looking for information on their ancestors but had come up against dead ends with the usual genealogy sites. Since inception we have gone on to add over seven million individuals records and a ton of supplementary military data not found on any other sites and are currently adding over 200,000 records a month.
Today we viewed an interesting workshop given by Lisa Louise Cooke entitled "Five Ways To Enhance Your Genealogy Research Using Old Maps." We learned about using Google Maps to overlay historical maps of a particular area with regards to your family history research. These historical maps can assist you in your research and add to your story. We also received a list of recommended websites where some of these historical maps could be found.
When I returned to my desk I started reading Dick Eastman's newsletter which covered Digital Public Library of America another good website to go to when looking for old maps of interest to your research. I found a Beers's map for my home town Deer Park from 1888. This map was digitized by New York Public Library and is downloadable and available for printing. You could also overlay the map on the Google Maps website or upload to a blog, etc.
The National Library of Ireland is to digitise more than 400,000 images of Catholic parish register microfilms and publish them online for free. For more information visit this link: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/39614-biggest-digitisation-of/
The http://www.raogk.org web site now states, “RAOGK is a global volunteer organization. At one time we had over 4000 volunteers in every U.S. state and many international locations, and helped thousands of researchers. We are trying to rebuild the RAOGK site. It will take a little more time to get it back to its former glory. Our volunteers take time to do everything from looking up courthouse records to taking pictures of tombstones. All they ask in return is reimbursement for their expenses (never their time) and a thank you.”Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
Chris Cummins on July 7, 2014 in Tips and Advice posted an article with recommended advice on how to restore your old photographs. Visit the below link for straight forward advice on organizing and restoring your family photographs.
http://www.glowimagery.com/how-to-preserve-old-photos/
Every genealogist needs this book, if they're serious about researching their family history. Family stories of all kinds, not just obituaries, can be found in newspapers. While major metropolitan newspapers are being digitized and placed online, many more are available for viewing on microfilm. Learn about the free newspaper databases, and discover which newspapers are covered in subscription databases. Also included is the first-ever state-by-state listing of libraries and genealogical societies that have indexed local newspapers, along with state digitized collections not found elsewhere, and microfilm collections for each state. Interested in family history? Start your research today!
Researching Your Civil War
Ancestors
Saturday, September 27, 2014
10-11:30 BWH204
Laura H. Congleton is a NYC-based professional
genealogist with more than 20 years experience in family history research. Over
the years, she has helped clients with research on a number of topics, but
specializes in Civil War research and the preparation of lineage society
applications.
