January 2012 Blog Posts (36)

This is a one day event. It is an all day event.  I truly believe it is going to be the best of the best because of the topics and whom our speakers are.…

A humorous look at genealogy types on my blog at Wordpress.com

http://wp.me/p1bnNB-72

It’s been a tremendous last few months here at RootsMagic. We’ve been busy with the new releases of Personal Historian 2 and RootsMagic 5. We're also excited to participate in one of the largest genealogy events in North…

RootsTech Conference Will Broadcast Select Sessions Free Online

SALT LAKE CITY—RootsTech, a leading family history and technology conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2-4, 2012, announced today that fourteen of its popular sessions will be broadcasted live and complimentary over the Internet. The live broadcasts…

One of my blog readers recently wrote asking me about the best way to share photos with family members who are far away. She was interested in having family members help her identify people in her photos but was hesitant to put the photos in the mail, fearing they may not be returned. This is a pretty important thing to be fearful of and many of my clients have reported losing photos to well-meaning family members. My grandmother was notorious in our family for coming over while we were out…

HSJGS%20Seminar%202012.pdf

Noted Genealogy Speakers, Gene Philabert Ortega and Joel Weintraub will be the featured speakers at the HSJGS annual Seminar to be held Saturday 11 Feb 2012  at the Hemet Public Library, 300 E. Latham, Hemet, CA.  The 1940 Census will be one of the Interesting Subjects discussed.   Click on the URL to see the brochure.

Call the Duffin…

 Genealogy Chat

 Today I logged on and found many of my old friends and distant kin right here in this chat program on GenealogyWise.

 It was fun for we shared links and data and names.  We find we have new names we can compare. Of course we have not chatted in a few years so our lines now go back farther. Be interesting to see if some of the newer names find we are  linked distantly also.

Some of the urls shared by cousins of old this morning…

Hello Fellow Genealogy Enthusiasts,

Hello Everyone!  I am new today to this website.  I am looking for anyone out there researching the surname Burnup.  I have many relatives that were in Ontario, Canada  and upstate New York that have been traced back to London, England in late 1780's.  I am at a roadblock here and feel that only through others may I go back any further in  y family history.  Great project for the cold gloomy winter months here in Michigan!

Part 2 of a series about capturing the joy of family events on video

Last week I introduced this series about creating videos to capture the joy of family events and special occasions like weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and holiday get-togethers. Now let’s delve a bit deep into the process by discussing the first of four main phases used in multimedia productions – concepting / script writing.

First, try to develop a concept that really captures the spirit…

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I would love to say that this post is an original idea, but that isn't true. It was inspired by a blog at Quora.com.

Chris Wake wrote a very effective post on the subject, which you can read here. I've only adapted these great points  to apply to genealogists.

1. Consuming more than you…

Cemeteries--09.jpg, a photo by Randall Dickerson on Flickr.

Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. This cross is…

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OK folks, here's the first update for my New Year's Resolution Concepts.

Resolution Concepts 1.    Do less.

Pretty easy one here, since I haven't posted a blog in several days! (grin) And my twitter-time is reduced by choice as well. This is because of high-priority items.

2.    Do more.

I'm on the 2nd full…

Free Off Line Tools 

1. Family

2. Libraries

3. Seminars/ Meetings…

Sorry I hadn't replied to the January 2011 post; notification must have come in while I was out of state burying Mom.

As to Mr. Sheldon, yes, I have concluded Johnson Dobkins has to belong to Evan & Margaret-his first name is a dead giveaway, at any rate.  Plus the fact that no one else claims him.  We have the same problem with Eleanor Dobkins that married William Brickey-no one claims her; and it is my theory that she and Thomas Dobkins who married Mary Compton Brickey…

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Give us our freedom.

I had DNA testing through 23andMe and my roots were traced back to Yoruba.  I believe my ancestrors were sent to Barbados and later to the states.  The earliest grandmother I can trace to went by the surname GIST from Union SC.  Can anyone help me or give me suggestions on how I can trace my roots?