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New FamilySearch -- Down to the last two Temple Districts

With the Jordan River Temple District gaining full access to New FamilySearch by November 9, 2009, there are only two more Temple Districts left until the introduction process is complete in all of the Temple Districts in the United States. There may still be areas where the program will still have to be developed in non-Roman alphabet languages, like Chinese, but it looks like the introduction is essentially over for the time being. The last two Temple Districts, still waiting for an… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 5, 2009 at 3:01pm — No Comments

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 April 28- May 1, 2010

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 joins in for the NGS 2010 Family History Conference coordinated by the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan upgs2010@gmail.com

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 UPGS Banquet, 7 PM Salt Lake Palace featuring nationally known speaker Loretto “Lou” Dennis Szucs and a Polish buffet. Please join us for this UPGS fundraiser.

Thursday, 29 April 2010, 8-11 AM; Family History Library Lab, Thursday, 4-6 PM Eastern European Workshop with Daniel… Continue

Added by Ceil Wendt Jensen on November 5, 2009 at 9:50am — No Comments

UNITED POLISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES 2010 April 28- May 1, 2010

Added by Ceil Wendt Jensen on November 5, 2009 at 9:49am — No Comments

Latest update to FamilySearch Record Search

As of November 3, 2009, FamilySearch Record Search has added a number of new collections. These updated records include the following: [Descriptions from Website]
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Added by James Tanner on November 5, 2009 at 8:36am — No Comments

Bumping into Great Great Great Grandma

Leavitt Cemetery, Chichester, New Hampshire

Not too far north of Nutfield is Chichester, New Hampshire. My mother’s grandmother was a Batchelder, and she was born in Chichester, but the family lived in Boston. Their roots were on the New Hampshire seacoast, because the first Batchelder in the New World was the Reverend Stephen Batchelder, who founded Hampton. The Batchelders didn’t have their roots in Chichester, but all the brides,… Continue

Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 4, 2009 at 2:32pm — 2 Comments

Hello EveryOne

Added by cyndi on November 4, 2009 at 1:59pm — No Comments

2009 Association of Personal Historians Conference in Valley Forge

If you follow me on any of the social media platforms such as Twitter (@stefanitwyford) or Facebook, you’ll know that I spent the previous week at the 2009 Association of Personal Historians Conference in Valley Forge Pennsylvania.

Having never been to the Philadelphia area, I was particularly excited to be spending time at Valley Forge, the historic site of the American Revolution and birthplace of everything we now take for granted as being intrinsically American. I was not… Continue

Added by Stefani Twyford on November 4, 2009 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Parade of States -- online digital genealogy resources -- California

Everyone would expect California to have a lot of digital resources and they would be right, to a point. In actual numbers of records, they fall way short of Washington State, but they do have some very interesting collections which I have used in researching early California families. All in all, California is long on pictures and short on actual source documents given the large population and long history of the state. There are a lot of records and indexes online on the subscription Website,… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 4, 2009 at 8:17am — No Comments

Temptation with Research

It is so tempting at times to just take data and run with it. But it is not mine and I can not say if any of it is true.

It may all be correct and that is just fine but the work is still not mine.

Does any one cold call yet today? Do we get a directory and contact all people of a certain surname to see if they have a chance to be akin of thine?

Do we call the Chamber of Commerce in the small towns and villages to ask for advise as to what area would know where we… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on November 4, 2009 at 1:43am — No Comments

USA, United States or nothing

One of the features of the newer genealogy database programs is the ability to regularize or standardize place names. But, the standardized place names are anything but standard between programs. For example, New FamilySearch, the huge database from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) has a feature called Standard Finder and according to this source, the place names in the U.S. are appended with "United States." However, there are major database programs, like Legacy Family… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 3, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Mill Girls from Derry and Londonderry

Country Girls in the Big City

Years ago I took my Londonderry Girl Scout troop to Lowell National Park, to see how the mill girls lived and worked. The girls were about twelve years old, not much younger than some of the mill workers in the 1830s and 40s. We took a canal boat ride, and toured the noisy Boot Mill (a big hit for kids) and finally went into the boarding house. We earned a merit badge with some of our activities in… Continue

Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on November 2, 2009 at 8:28pm — No Comments

Beating depression by family history

This is my first post, and used the tool "Google translator".

Since I published a blog, I offer my help for people who want to know about their ancestors Chileans have received requests for Chileans living outside Chile, and also a U.S. citizen.

He noted there is a growing interest in finding the names of ancestors and their stories. There are a lot of anxiety and even "desperate" to know… Continue

Added by Omar Acuña on November 2, 2009 at 7:28pm — No Comments

Home videos donated to film project

From the www.miamiherald.com:

Isabel Ramos-Quinones' father shot home movies of family parties -- childhood memories that are now beginning to decay.

But she found out a way to preserve the old film, now tucked away in her closet.

An added bonus: She will be helping document history.

Miami Dade College's Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives compiles donated films for its collection. It… Continue

Added by Stefani Twyford on November 2, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

A genealogist's view of Windows 7 -- upgrade or not?

In teaching classes to genealogists I have found that they are mostly people who can be shocked by the high price of a software program costing $29.95. So it is unlikely that these same people who think that it is outrageous to actually pay for a genealogy database program, would be anxious to upgrade their operating system, especially when the retail price of Windows 7 runs from $50 for the Windows 7 Home upgrade to over $200 for the Windows 7 Ultimate version. Furthermore, if you upgrade from… Continue

Added by James Tanner on November 1, 2009 at 2:02pm — 1 Comment

Family Tree Connection - Update (01/Nov/2009)

Family Tree Connection has added the following genealogy items to its database:

The Mothers Club 1928-1929 Membership - The Mothers Club of Carrick, Pennsylvania. Organized 1913. Chartered 1923. Founder, Mrs. John M. Phillips.

Detroit Bar Association 1906 Membership - Articles of Association, By-Laws and List of…

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Added by Illya Daddezio on November 1, 2009 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Can you do genealogy on a Mac?

One of the most re-occurring questions asked me at the Mesa Regional Family History Center involves running genealogy programs on a Macintosh computer. Very frequently, during a class on Ancestral Quest Family Tree or RootsMagic 4, someone will ask if the programs can be run on an Apple Computer. The answer is yes, but with qualifications and the solution is not necessarily simple.
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Added by James Tanner on October 31, 2009 at 7:48pm — 2 Comments

Adopted Living Children Who Are Unaware...?

As far as your record keeping, I presume you'd always want to take note of the fact in your software [Reunion for Mac] entries that someone is adopted. My concern is that someone still living and reviewing the online or published record might discover that fact and be both devastated and dumbfounded by the knowledge...especially if they were previously unaware. Are there any less conspicuous or more sensitive means of art to deal with the fact while preserving the accuracy of the… Continue

Added by BJohnston on October 30, 2009 at 2:03pm — 7 Comments

EDMUND PROCTER

any news about Edmund Procter, perhaps born in London, presbyterian, married with Matilde Modini from Venice, dead probably in Istanbul, Turkey, in the year 1844-1850. He was the father of my great grandmother Emma Procter
Thanks
paolo sorgato

Added by paolo sorgato on October 30, 2009 at 7:22am — No Comments

Cleaning up the database

I was prompted by a post in the Legacy Users group to check my database for duplicate and inconsistent entries.

I have collected and collated individual contributions, downloaded GEDCOMs and pulled in family trees from a variety of sources. And they are all different! Or so it seems.

How many different ways are there to enter Arlington Cemetery? Or to spell Massachusetts? (I had to spell check it, so I hope it is right?)

However, the thing that surprised me most… Continue

Added by William Douglas on October 30, 2009 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except one.

7th-Grader: Obama, Most US Presidents Related

Girl, Grandfather Allegedly Create First President Family Tree Chart

October 23, 2009

A seventh-grader and her 80-year-old grandfather are allegedly the first people to discover that President Barack Obama is related to all other U.S. presidents except…