February 2012 Blog Posts (21)

Virtual Ephemera.

Although the two words may seem dissimilar – if not contradictory – they share a common bond that I would like to explore for a moment.

Wiktionary.com defines virtual as; "In effect or essence, if not in fact or reality; imitated, simulated". Click here for a link to the full definition.

Wikipedia.org defines ephemera as; "Ephemera are transitory written and printed matter not…

Part 3 of a series about capturing the joy of family events on video

Last week we covered the first of four phases used in creating multimedia productions to capture the joy of family events – concepting / scriptwriting. This week, I we will talk about phase two – pre-production and planning.

As Hal Landen puts it in his book…

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Illinois State Genealogical Society is proud to announce its new webinar series for 2012. For those of you new to this form of genealogy education, webinars are lectures…

February 20, 2012 – Fort Wayne, Indiana: The Indiana Genealogical Society (IGS) is holding its annual conference on April 28, 2012 at the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) in Fort Wayne, Indiana.



Debra S. Mieszala is the featured speaker. Her talks include:

• Lessons from a Snoop: Collaterals and Associates
• Bringing Our Soldiers Home
• Digging Through Documents Word By…

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Uncanny Events, Non explained Situations for Genealogists and Family Historians.

Having just read about a very real situation that may draw more tourist to a historic place of residence, I saw Yes do it.

We learn history better by experiencing it than just reading. So if we watch and see and hear an event acted out, our brain will remember it better. 

Funny how we as genealogists tend to accept things more than others do when it come to the unusual…

Who are we? Besides living organisms, we are a story, the details (sub-stories) are connected to other people’s stories and they are part of community stories, family stories, national stories…. you get where I’m going here.

I have always seen life from the perspective that there are the facts of what happened, and what we make those facts mean. The sum of those two things are our stories. They make up who we are, how we see the world, how others come to know us, and what we think of…

 I would be very grateful for any info on William Winborne (alias William Wen) and his spouse Elizabeth Wen.

 They came to MA in early 1600's from England, moved around some and finally settled in Boston where their son was born in 1635 and he (John) later attended Harvard-then preached in Manchester for a couple of years.

Thanks, Bob

I was born Stephen Brooks Winter. 1956 in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the Southern Baptist Hospital. I came home to 5343? Chestnut Street, 1st house on the left when you turn East off of Jefferson avenue. A two story duplex. I remember the phone number started with TW9 (TWin-brook-9).

How did I end up being born in New Orleans. My daddy (William Brooks Winter) and mother (Melba Joyce Langston) both are from Calhoun County in North East Mississippi. My brother (Michael Ray Winter) was born…

Beginning Research - Your Opinion Needed

Beginning Research and finding some interesting thoughts have come to mind.

I am not the youngster just starting, with a computer and laptop and I phone. 

I learned the solid way of paper and pencil and letters and calls. Research trips to libraries, visits to family members homes.

Yes, we still do all of these things but today we have the added concepts of I Phones, I Pads, computers, not to even  mention…

Gus, I see you show both Churchill and Bartletts in your family. I am interested in both as My mother was a Churchill and my wife was a Bartlett.

What info do you have on them so I can see if they are part of our family?

Thanks

Jerry Coffman

Tulsa, Ok

jerrycoffman@cox.net

I have been working on what I refer to as a long-format video biography. My client has hired me for a year to develop a personal history as well as to film significant events during the year. We’ve been doing this since November 2011 and so far we’ve shot four different events. A couple of the events, we’ve turned into short individual videos to send out to people who attended while other footage is waiting to fit into its bigger scope.

Sunday I was at my client’s Super Bowl party,…

Please see the announcement below from the Records Preservation and Access

Committee regarding the SSDI.  Thanks.

 

Link to the WhiteHouse.gov petition: http://wh.gov/khE 

 

Instructions for signing up at WhiteHouse.gov and signing the petition can

be found at http://fgs.org/pdf/rpac_petition.pdf. 



**Originally posted by Thomas MacEntee on the…

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Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) Registration Begins Tuesday, February 7, 2012…

Spring Seminar, More Information  31 March 2012 

We are all excited to have Leland Meitzler and William Dollarhide at our Spring Seminar.

 We have so much news we need two pages.

  Leland is bringing the books from his company FAMILY ROOTS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

  Attendees will be able to browse and find lots of great information that they normally are not exposed. 

  Family Roots Publishing Company is a fabulous place to find…