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The following is a Plus Edition article, written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
Continue reading "(+) Three Ways to Make PDF Files Searchable - Part #1" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 in Plus Edition Article | Permalink
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 in Hardware | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "DNA Casts Doubts on a 100-year-old Murder Case" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 in DNA | Permalink | Comments (2)
Continue reading "FindMyPast Adds More Chelsea Pensioner Records and Images" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "Fairbanks Archivist Hosts Historic Garage Sale for Local Charities" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 in Conferences | Permalink | Comments (2)
Schedule a Free Photo Detective Consultation at FGS with Maureen Taylor!
FamilySearch will be hosting Maureen Taylor, Photo Detective, as a free service to FGS conference goers in Knoxville, Tennessee August 18–21. The Photo Detective services will be offered as part of the FamilySearch booth’s activities in the exhibit hall during the conference. Interested individuals can register for any available 10 minute session now online. There are limited sessions available. Don’t delay! Register at http://photodetective.eventbrite.com/.
Continue reading "FamilySearch-sponsored Free Photo Detective Consultation for FGS Attendees" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 in Conferences | Permalink | Comments (0)
Ancestry.com Subscriber Growth of 32% Year-Over-Year"Greater than anticipated subscriber additions drove impressive performance in the quarter and boosted our revenue and EBITDA expectations for the full year," said Tim Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of Ancestry.com. "It's particularly noteworthy that retention rates and customer behavior trends are remaining consistent despite the rapid subscriber growth in the first half of 2010. As we move forward, we will continue our focus on building awareness of the family history category, improving the customer experience and adding important content collections to Ancestry.com."
Total Revenue Up 36% Year-Over-Year
Continue reading "Ancestry.com Inc. Reports Finances for 2010 Second Quarter" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 29, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (0)
NEW YORK, New York, July 28, 2010 - The National Park Service has awarded more than $29 million in contracts to repair the seawall on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, remove contaminants from one of the island's historic buildings and upgrade the communications infrastructure.
Opened on January 1, 1892, Ellis Island became the nation's premier federal immigration station, processing more than 12 million immigrant steamship passengers before it was closed in 1954. Today, over 100 million Americans, one third of the population, can trace their ancestry to the immigrants who first arrived in America at Ellis Island.
Continue reading "National Park Service Spends $29 Million on Ellis Island Improvements" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 28, 2010 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (2)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 28, 2010 in Software | Permalink | Comments (3)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 28, 2010 in Software | Permalink | Comments (2)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 28, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)
There has been some confusion and some misinterpretation about the MCIR Board report released by Governor Granholm. With so much uncertainty surrounding the collections and the Library of Michigan this past year, rumors and misinterpretations increase exponentially each time they are repeated.
Continue reading "Michigan Genealogical Council Issues Clarification of MCIR Board Statement" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 28, 2010 in Legal affairs | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "Ancestry.co.uk Adds the 1802 Perthshire, Scotland Militia Survey" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 27, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (1)
Seasoned Marketing Executive Andrew Wait Joins as Chief Marketing Officer for World's Leading Online Specialty Wall Art Retailer
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27 -- Art.com Inc., the world's leading online specialty provider of wall art products and services, today announced the hiring of Andrew Wait as chief marketing officer. Wait brings more than twenty years of marketing, merchandising, and product development experience to this position. He will oversee Art.com Inc.'s overall marketing operations and strategy, including online marketing, international marketing, user experience and product management, branding and business development.
Continue reading "Former Ancestry.com Senior Vice President Andrew Wait Hired by Art.com Inc." »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 27, 2010 in People | Permalink | Comments (0)
42nd Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree
Friday through Sunday, June 10 through 12, 2011
Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel
Burbank, California
The Southern California Genealogical Society announces a call for lecture proposals for the 42nd Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, to be held at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel, Burbank, California, Friday through Sunday, June 10 through 12, 2011. With over 1700 participants, volunteers, speakers and exhibitors in 2010, Jamboree is the second largest genealogical conference in the United States.
Continue reading "Southern California Genealogy Jamboree Call For Papers" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 27, 2010 in Conferences, Societies | Permalink | Comments (0)
The following is a Plus Edition article, written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
Hundreds of articles about immigration to the United States have been published over the years in various magazines, books, and online sites. Indeed, a few dozen articles about immigration have been published in this newsletter alone. To my knowledge, the numbers and facts mentioned in all of those articles have been quite accurate. I would suggest, however, the more interesting facts and statistics are the ones that were never mentioned in most articles.
(Click on any photo to see a larger image.)
Much has been written about the 47 million Europeans and Asians who entered the various ports of entry from 1820 through 1960. For all that, how many of those articles ever mention the fact that more than one-third of those immigrants RETURNED to their homelands?
Continue reading "(+) What They Never Told You About Immigration" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 26, 2010 in Plus Edition Article | Permalink
The following announcement was written by FamilySearch:
FamilySearch’s microfilm conversion initiative is beginning to sail. Over 12 million digital images from thousands of microfilm, representing 8 countries, were published online for free viewing this month. FamilySearch’s online image viewer makes it easy for online patrons to view the newest digital images from Argentina, Costa Rica, France, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, and Spain.
This week the complete U.S. 1910 Federal Census name indexes for Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Missouri were also published online at FamilySearch’s Record Search pilot (FamilySearch.org, click Search Records, and then click Record Search pilot) and coming soon to Beta.FamilySearch.org.
See the chart below for the complete list of all the newly added or improved collections.
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 26, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "WebTrees - a New Web-based Genealogy Program" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 26, 2010 in Software | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "How to Send Newsletter Articles to Your Friends" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 26, 2010 in This Newsletter | Permalink | Comments (3)
Godfrey Library continues to make progress on its Connecticut cemetery project. The library now has 135 cemeteries online from Hartford, Middlesex, New Haven and New London Counties with another 10 being processed. Cemetery size varies from two burials to 8,625 burials. In total there are 104,731 burials and 75,925 photographs. Some of these records appear elsewhere but do not include photos.
Continue reading "Godfrey Library Adds to its Online Connecticut Cemetery Project" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 26, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "Library Holds Oklahoma Genealogy Treasures" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 26, 2010 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (2)
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The weekly Plus Edition newsletter was sent to your e-mail address a short time ago. It should have arrived by now. If you have not yet seen it in your in-box, check your spam folder. If it is not there, please contact your e-mail provider to see why it was blocked. This week's entire Plus Edition newsletter is also available at: http://www.eogn.com/wp/thisweek.htm. You can always read it there, regardless of what your email provider does to your in-box.
Here are the articles in this week's Plus Edition newsletter:
- (+) For Once and For All, Let's Kill this Misconception that Digital Records Don't Last
- (+) Hide Your Location, Access More Genealogy Sites
- Ellis Island and Your Ancestors
- Linux Genealogy Live CD
- Granite Mountain Records Vault Videos Online
- Don’t “Protect” Us from Our Own Genetic Information
- Google Editions
- Colleen Fitzpatrick, the DNA Detective
- Chatham, Illinois Cemetery Listings Going Online
- Vigo County, Indiana Marriage Records Online
- Shetland Islands Archives Catalogue Goes Online
- Scottish Author Seeks Descendants of 6,500 Lost Boys
- FamilySearch: Online Volunteers Index a Whopping 100 Million Records Already This Year
- Scouts Document Graves in Forgotten Cemetery
- Arphax Publishing announces Paperback editions of its Family Maps and Texas Land Survey Maps Series
- Footnote.com and Lowcountry Africana to Create a Free Interactive Slave Records Collection
- National Library of Scotland’s Historic Photos on Flickr
- Documents at the the Milwaukee County Historical Society Damaged by Water
- New Ohio Genealogical Society Library to be Dedicated Friday
- Northern New York American-Canadian Genealogical Society Seeks New Home
- The Internet Archive Mentioned in USA Today
- Momma, Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away
- Strong Return for BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?
- Never Miss a Plus Edition Newsletter
If printed, this week's Plus Edition newsletter is 47 pages long! Where else will you find this much genealogy news and information, per week? Especially without any advertising?
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 26, 2010 in This Newsletter | Permalink
The following is a Plus Edition article, written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.This is one urban legend that won't die. Genealogists, historians, and many other well-meaning folks will tell each other, "Since microfilm longevity is stated as 200 years and electronic media will become obsolete within a few short years, let's continue to preserve the microfilm masters for as long as possible as a fall-back option." Another comment I read recently claimed, “The problem with digital images is that the media on which they are written become obsolete every few years. Try to find a way to read an old 5.25 inch floppy disk today. Also, the programs used to write and read the images are no longer supported after a few years. “
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 25, 2010 in Plus Edition Article | Permalink
Continue reading "Granite Mountain Records Vault Videos Online" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 24, 2010 in Video & Television | Permalink | Comments (11)
The following is a Plus Edition article, written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.Comments posted to this newsletters' web site in recent weeks have highlighted a common problem: not all the information on the World Wide Web is available worldwide. For instance, web users in the United States are blocked from watching the BBC version of "Who Do You Think You Are?" The BBC wishes to restrict access to episodes of "Who Do You Think You Are?" to U.K. residents. The web server in the U.K. knows whether you are in the U.K. or not by looking at your IP address.
Continue reading "(+) Hide Your Location, Access More Genealogy Sites" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 23, 2010 in Plus Edition Article | Permalink
Continue reading "Documents at the the Milwaukee County Historical Society Damaged by Water" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 23, 2010 in Societies | Permalink | Comments (2)
Paul Simon's lyrics seem sadly prophetic. This week, Kodachrome went away. The last roll of Kodachrome film was developed at Dwayne's Photo Service in Parsons, Kansas. We have witnessed an historic shift in technology.When I think back on all the crap I've learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
Though my lack of education hasn't hurt me much
I can read the writings on the walls
Kodachrome, they give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 23, 2010 in Film/Photos | Permalink | Comments (17)
Google is about to merge two success stories:
Now Google is combining the two and will soon offer millions of new and old books in a format that can be read on any Windows computer, Macintosh computer, Sony Book Reader, Nook, Kobo, iPhone, iPad or probably any other ebook reader to be introduced in the future. Google plans to become a digital marketplace, acting as a limitless warehouse and storage system for digital books. The new service will be called Google Editions.
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 22, 2010 in Books | Permalink | Comments (17)
Continue reading "Scottish Author Seeks Descendants of 6,500 Lost Boys" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 22, 2010 in History | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "New Ohio Genealogical Society Library to be Dedicated Friday" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 22, 2010 in Societies | Permalink | Comments (3)
FamilySearch Indexing is excited to announce that our dedicated volunteers have completed 100 million records in the first half of 2010, and is on track to complete a targeted 200 million by the end of the year. Patrons can search the completed indexes and images at pilot.familysearch.org.
More volunteers are always needed—particularly on international, non-English projects. New projects were added for Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, and Russia.
Interested volunteers can start helping any time by registering at www.indexing.familysearch.org and selecting a project.
New Projects in the Past Month
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 22, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (1)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 21, 2010 in History | Permalink | Comments (14)
Continue reading "Northern New York American-Canadian Genealogical Society Seeks New Home" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 21, 2010 in Societies | Permalink | Comments (2)
Continue reading "National Library of Scotland's Historic Photos on Flickr" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 21, 2010 in Film/Photos | Permalink | Comments (2)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 20, 2010 in DNA | Permalink | Comments (17)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 20, 2010 in Video & Television | Permalink | Comments (3)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 20, 2010 in People | Permalink | Comments (4)
Continue reading "Scouts Document Graves in Forgotten Cemetery" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 20, 2010 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (5)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 20, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (1)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 19, 2010 in CD-ROM, Software | Permalink | Comments (7)
Continue reading "The Internet Archive Mentioned in USA Today" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 19, 2010 in Current Affairs, Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (2)
Continue reading "Shetland Islands Archives Catalogue Goes Online" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 19, 2010 in Announcements, Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (0)
Continue reading "Chatham, Illinois Cemetery Listings Going Online" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 19, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (4)
Norman, Oklahoma, July 19, 2010 -- The nation's largest publisher of original landowner maps, Arphax Publishing Co., announces today that its two primary book series are now available in soft-cover editions. In its first five years, Arphax has published books for over 500 U.S. counties which display maps of original landowners. Before today, these volumes were available only with a spiral-bound or library-bound cover option. But beginning right now, every current title is also available in a high-quality paperback edition.
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 19, 2010 in Announcements, Books | Permalink | Comments (0)
-Newly Digitized Records Preserve the Names of More Than 30,000 Slaves -
SALT LAKE CITY - July 19, 2010 – Today Footnote.com (www.footnote.com) and Lowcountry Africana (www.lowcountryafricana.net) announced the launch of a new free collection of historical records from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History containing estate inventories and bills of sale for Colonial and Charleston South Carolina from 1732 to 1872. FamilySearch International donated the copies of the microfilm of the original historical documents.
Charleston’s role as a port of entry during the Atlantic Slave Trade means many thousands of African Americans may have ancestors who came from, or through, South Carolina. This new collection on Footnote.com will assist African American genealogy research by forming, in many cases, a seamless paper trail from Emancipation to the 1700s.
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 19, 2010 in Online Sites | Permalink | Comments (1)
The following is a Plus Edition article, written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.I wrote recently (at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2010/07/converting-my-personal-library-to-digital.html) about my efforts to digitize my personal library and then to throw away the physical books I have collected. Several people wrote to suggest that I not throw away the books. They suggested that I donate the books to a library or to some other person who could use them. For most of these books, I don't think I can legally do that.
Continue reading "(+) Staying Legal When Digitizing Printed Books" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 18, 2010 in Plus Edition Article | Permalink
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 18, 2010 in Video & Television | Permalink | Comments (3)
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 18, 2010 in Software | Permalink | Comments (6)
Continue reading "Marblehead Museum Trying to Identify Hundreds of Revolutionary War Veterans" »
Posted by Dick Eastman on July 18, 2010 in History | Permalink | Comments (2)
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