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Comment by James P. LaLone on May 20, 2010 at 3:00pm

Michigan Indian sites of possible interest:
http://www.native-languages.org/michigan.htm


http://www.aaanativearts.com/tribes-by-states/michigan_tribes.htm


http://bentley.umich.edu/research/guides/nativeamericans/nativeam_s...

JOHNSTON genealogy
www.johnstongenealogy.com/Wm.%20Esq.%20of%20A...

Comment by James P. LaLone on April 29, 2010 at 9:31am

@Bernard. The talk was interesting last night & probably could have extended it, we had a nice turnout. Below are the sites for the handouts she used.

http://www.ajmorris.com/a06/photopres.htm

http://www.loricase.com/faq.html

http://www.loc.gov/preserv/careothr.html

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

http://genealogy.about.com/library/authors/ucmishkin1a.htm

Her business is: www.capcityrepo.com

You may have something similar in your area. I suppose if you have a lot of photos to restore then investing in a program may be worthwhile otherwise have a professional photo restorer doing it for you may be the way to go. She uses Adobe Photo Shop but says nowdays it comes with a lot of extra (unecessary) programs & goes for around $1,500.00, however Photo Shop Elements is quite good and can probably be enough for most people and does sell for under $100.00 (shop around).

Hope this helps some. Jim.

Comment by Bernard Doddema, Jr. on April 26, 2010 at 12:03pm

@James Do you have any notes from the meeting regarding photo restoration? I have several old photos that I've scanned that are in pretty bad shape. Would appreciate any advice.

Thanks.

Comment by James P. LaLone on April 25, 2010 at 9:56am

"Good morning,
Last year we wrote to you (the genie societies) concerning the Federal legislation, Preserving the American Historical Record (PAHR). Mark Harvey, our State Archivist has also spoke of this plan and updated Council at several of our delegate meetings.

This bill has been in the House of Representatives almost a year now, and has recently been introduced in the Senate, by Sen. Orin Hatch of Utah and Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan along with five other original sponsors.

The House bill is HR2256, and currently has over 50 co-sponsors. It is currently before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. While this bill currently has no co-sponsors in the House, not one represents a Michigan Congressional district.

The Senate bill is S3227 and has been referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

We are asking you to write to your Senator and Representative in the US Congress, ESPECIALLY if they serve on one of the above committees, and in your own words express why this legislation is important for the Preservation and continued access to the records we all use in our genealogy research. You can also ask your Representative to sign on as a co-sponsor.

Sample letters and additional information about PAHR may be found at their website, http://www.archivists.org/pahr/. This site is updated, as there are changes and progress with this legislation.

If passed, Michigan would receive over $1.6 million Federal dollars annually to help pay for the staffing to preserve, protect and make accessible our historic documents

Sincerely,
Tom Koselka, Legislative Liaison
Michigan Genealogical Council"

Comment by James P. LaLone on April 25, 2010 at 9:53am

The May/June issue of Family Chronicle has several interesting articles: Hudson’s Bay Company and Your Ancestors”, “Uncovering More Than Artifacts: Roy Wilcox and Isle Royale”, “A Job By Any Other Name: Archaic and Obsolete Occupations” and includes a review of the software program Family Tree Builder,

Comment by James P. LaLone on April 23, 2010 at 4:01pm

Lansing area afficionados:
CADL's Reference Head has shared his recent History of the Lansing Theatres at Slideshare!:
http://ow.ly/1Cb5d

Comment by James P. LaLone on April 7, 2010 at 7:57am

From Judi Dow (Jon Harrison e-mail) on the latest order of the Gov. of Michigan:

GRANHOLM VETOES LIBRARY POWER PROTECTIONS

Governor Jennifer Granholm * vetoed language Friday that was passed by the Legislature requiring that the Library of Michigan to maintain custody of the non-Michigan genealogy and federal document collections.

Ms. Granholm vetoed the sections in HB 5394 * (PA 47) addressing the library, which has been a point of controversy between the governor and the Legislature since Ms. Granholm abolished the Department of History, Arts and Libraries last year.

"I want to preserve the Library of Michigan's flexibility in exploring suitable candidates to assume the custodial responsibilities of these collections," Ms. Granholm said in her veto message.

* Source: Gongwer News Servic

Comment by James P. LaLone on March 26, 2010 at 10:01am

Marilyn,
The senate & representative contact info is here:
http://www.capwiz.com/ala/mi/directory/statedir.tt?state=MI&lvl...

Unfortunately there is no easy answer, it is typical politics. The State sets a budget. The governor moved the LOM to the Dept. of Education which used to control it. They have never treated the LOM as the gem it is. Well the LOM rents the floors in the building (ie. it pays the money back to the state which gave it to them in the first place.) So the state reduces the budget for the LOM but does not reduce the rent & they cannot afford the rent. So to "fix" the LOM (which is not broken, it is the economy that is) they are going to reduce the size of the collection and move it to cheaper floors (smaller space) in the building. The vacated floors were going to be rented out, however, all the plans have fallen through because of the economy, so even if the LOM is reduced the floors will be vacant and not bringing in any additional rent. The LOM which boasts the 10th largest genealogy research collection in the nation will probably go down to the 50th (if we are lucky). This is when heritage tours are on the rise and could bring in tourist dollars. Nobody wants the collections being gotten rid of. And nobody will take on the collection or parts of it because they do not have the money.

If the senate bill passes in the House of Reps. then the Michigan collection will probably be moved to the cheaper floors and the rest of the collection will be mothballed, which is better then getting rid of it. Then in the future it can be resurrected when the economy improves. We do not want the collection broken up.

Many people think the only way to do research is through the internet and they are sadly mistaken.

Comment by Marilyn K. Sobiech on March 26, 2010 at 9:18am

While I don't live in MI I am interested in MI genealogy for my family tree and keeping these records open and available to all the public. Is there a name and address to write to in support of sending the records to a library that has the resources to manage these records?

Comment by James P. LaLone on March 25, 2010 at 4:40pm

LIBRARY OF MI - Senate Bill passed.

A bill was passed in the MI Senate which has some good news, see:

www.legislature.mi.gov
Bill number type in <1154> and hit search.

Page comes up with several choices - pick

"As Passed by the Senate" (text or PDF),

On page p.22 on PDF you will see -

The collection presently housed by the LOM to be kept intact, but may not necessarily be available to the public.

Write your representative and tell them that you would like them to support the bill (SB1154). Hopefully the collection will be remain available to the public, but more importantly the collection will be kept intact and that when the economy improves it will be available to the public.

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