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Genealogist's View -- More about memory cards -- Part two
Posted on January 27, 2011 at 8:03am 0 Comments 0 Likes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Memory-card-comparison.jpg -- Public Domain
Digital memory is measured in bits and bytes. I am not going to get into a…
Genealogist's View -- More about memory cards
Posted on January 27, 2011 at 8:02am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Dispelling some myths about flashdrives
Posted on January 25, 2011 at 9:35pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Back on January 11, 2011 I wrote a post entitled, "Update on the reliability of flashdrives." I am certainly not immune to believing Internet Myths. I am fan of the MythBusters program on TV (which I am too busy to watch) but interestingly some of the myths they set out to disprove actually turn out to be true. But the opposite is very much more likely. Information passed around on the Internet…
ContinueA very strange experience
Posted on December 10, 2010 at 6:42am 3 Comments 0 Likes
I do not spend as much time as I would like to at the Mesa Regional Family History Center, but I regularly teach classes and help patrons. We have a lot of computers for patron use and a man and a woman came into the center and were sitting down to use a computer. I happened to be the closest missionary/volunteer and so I got the brunt of their extreme displeasure. It seems that the Center has spent considerable time re-designing their start-up screen to make it easier for patrons to find…
ContinueGoogle eBooks -- is this the beginning of the end for libraries?
Posted on December 6, 2010 at 6:33pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
As you can see from this short video, Google eBooks are device
independent. As they say in the movie, "Access all your ebooks
wirelessly, no matter where you go. Google eBooks stores your library
in the digital cloud, so you can read all of your favorite books using
just about any device with an Internet connection. Google eBooks is
compatible with Android phones, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, web browsers
and many supported eReaders. Whenever you open one of… Continue
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...Born on the fifteenth day of February 1892 and Baptised on the sixteenth day of March 1982 according to the rites of the Holy Catholic Church by Rev. J. B. McGovern, O.P. Of St Vincent Ferrer's Catholic Church of New York.
New York, July 5, 1927 Rev. W. G. Moran, O. P.
I noticed that the birth date assigned to my grandfather was the date he was "admitted" to the Foundling --- even though he was considered to be approximately one month old. Doctors came on a regular basis to the Foundling to determine the age and physical well being of the babies.
Don't know if any of this helps.
Katie
His name is lister as Joseph Dernier.
The certificate reads: "This is to certify that Joseph Dernier
My grandfather was killed when he was 33, but I never got the impression from my grandmother or my mother that he ever pursued trying to find his birth mother. The only thing I know for certain is that he requested a copy of his baptismal information in 1927. My grandmother requested similar information from Ireland in the same year. We surmise they might have been planning a trip to Ireland and were going to apply for passports.
Would you like me to e-mail the three pages I was sent to you? Perhaps you might infer something I have not.
The Foundling was run by the Daughter of Charity. They made a habit of leaving cradles in the foyers for the infants of mothers who wished to remain anonymous.
Children came to the Foundling under a variety of circumstances. Some, like my grandfather, were abandoned in the vestibule. Others were brought to the hospital by parents simply unable to care for them. Many of these parents believed the placement would be temporary. In most cases, it was not. Still other children were removed from homes because of inadequate or absent parenting, inadequate food, unsuitable shelter, or squalid conditions. The last group came to the Foundling through the sisters' outreach to young, pregnant women. They invited them to move into the hospital to receive care, bear their babies in a supportive environment, nurse them for a period of time, and then leave the babies with the sisters.
At some point, the sisters participated in the orphan train phenomenon or the 19th century.
I've even thought of having one of my male cousins who carries my grandfather's genetic markers take a DNA test to see if we might be able to identify anyone from his family line.
What would you suggest?