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When was the last time you heard of “Inferential Genealogy?” That's just one of the classes being offered.
The following announcement was written by FamilySearch:
Free Classes Provide Worldwide Access to Family History Expertise
SALT LAKE CITY–As students all over the country head back to school, family historians also have the opportunity to learn –but they can do it from home at their convenience.
I'll be jumping on a plane tomorrow and will be gone for seven days. This time, it's not a genealogy trip. It's a vacation. I'll be in Fort Lauderdale for most of the week, then will take a quick trip to the Bahamas.
I will be traveling with the usual assortment of laptop and handheld computers, wireless 3G modems, and other paraphernalia, so I will probably post a number of articles to the newsletter's web site during the week. However, it might be fewer articles than normal. Let's call it a "working vacation."
In a quest to provide free online searchable indexes to all of the U.S. Censuses, FamilySearch indexing volunteers have recently started work on FamilySearch’s eighth U.S. Census index to add to its growing, free online collection—the 1930 U.S. Census. The 1930 U.S. Census is by far the most used of the U.S. Censuses, and the addition of a free, enhanced, fully searchable name index online will be highly treasured by genealogists. In addition, the new index will include other searchable data fields. FamilySearch has previously published the U.S. Censuses from 1850 to 1880 and from 1900 to 1920 online.
The following announcement was written by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation:
Immigration Museum first opened September 10, 1990
New York, NY (September 9, 2010) – This week marks the 20th anniversary of the historic restoration of Ellis Island and the opening of its Immigration Museum on September 10, 1990, which was funded by the American people through The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. This world class museum has quickly become one of the most popular tourist destinations in New York City, welcoming over 35 million visitors to date.
www.WikiTree.com is billed as "the Worldwide Family Tree Wiki." It is a free and collaborative project started in 2008. It is an online site for publishing and sharing your genealogy information.
The WikiTree webmaster is Chris Whitten, the creator of WikiAnswers. The web server software used is based on Mediawiki, the same software used to host Wikipedia.org. All genealogy content is edited and owned by contributors.
WikiTree claims that the mission is to create a rich worldwide family tree resource by striking the perfect balance between collaboration and privacy. Indeed, you can find many online sites for publishing your genealogy information but not all of them provide privacy controls.
Home movies on cine film, videos and even TV and film archive can end up covered in fungal mould if they are not stored correctly. The problem is serious, according to Pamela Rutherford, a reporter for BBC News. She writes, "A record of British life on film could be threatened from an emerging 'disease' which eats away at film."
Cinematographic film has a layer of gelatin on its surface. This emulsion layer is where the image is formed but also provides ideal food for fungi like Aspergillus and Penicillium. If the fungus forms a layer of mould on a film it produces enzymes which allow it to use the film as food and to grow. So the damage it can cause is irreversible as the mould "eats" the image stored on the film's surface.
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
Some time ago, I wrote about the U.S. Government’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). It is an excellent resource for locating old cemeteries, even small ones of only a dozen graves or even less. As I wrote previously, "The information includes the exact latitude and longitude of each named feature." You can read that article at: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/10/geographic-name.html
Our ancestors had to go to some extreme measures to keep from getting lost. They erected monumental landmarks, laboriously drafted detailed maps, and learned to read the stars in the night sky.
I have written a number of times about running Windows programs on Macintosh or Linux computers or even running Macintosh or Linux programs on Windows computers. One of my favorite tools for such things is VirtualBox, a free program. With it, I can run Windows genealogy programs on both my Macintosh and Linux computers.
NOTE: VirtualBox is free but if you wish to run Windows programs on either Macintosh or Linux, you will also need a copy of Windows, which certainly is not free.
I've been using VirtualBox for several years and love it. Now PCMag.com has a review of the same virtualization software. The review's "Bottom Line" states, "Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you."
Steve Morse is a Jewish computer scientist who had a problem of sorts with the Hebrew calendar and a big question about Rosh Hashana, the New Year. It seemed to him the first Rosh Hashana had fallen on the wrong day of the week, if the rest of the calendar was to fall into place.
The ancient Jewish calendar, which is both a solar and lunar calendar, is dauntingly complex to the unschooled. Yet unlocking it is extremely important to many, including historians and genealogists researching vital records from "the old country."
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is proposing to revise its regulations that provide NARA facilities’ hours of operation. The proposed regulations will remove NARA facilities’ hours of operation from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and establish procedures that NARA offices must follow when changing facilities’ hours of operation. The proposed procedures will provide the public with advance notice of any proposed changes in hours and will include justification for the change in writing.
The Livingston County Genealogical Society (LCGS) dissolved nine years ago and the publication of Lifelines, the society's newsletter, ceased. Lifelines, a quarterly newsletter, began in 1987 and continued through volume 15 except for Volume 14 which was lost to an equipment malfunction. Contents included a wide variety of information about the people, places and events of Livingston and surrounding counties. There were 56 issues comprising 1,614 pages. Editors included Rosa Darr, Marie Dryden, Sue Jones and Bob Pigg.
Apple has had a runaway success with its iPad tablet computer. While running Apple's own proprietary operating system, Apple sold one million iPads in the first 28 days it was available. The handheld computer sales have apparently continued at nearly the same pace ever since. I have one and love it.
One of the major disadvantages of the iPad is its proprietary iOS operating system. That means the iPad cannot run programs designed for either Macintosh or Windows. All programs must be custom-written for the iPad. Several genealogy applications have appeared for the iPad but none of them match the power and capabilities of the typical Windows or Macintosh genealogy program. A new solution now appears on the horizon.
Hardware maker ViewSonic has unveiled a 10-inch tablet computer that will dual boot. That is, when booting the new computer, the user may select either Windows 7 Home Premium or Google's Android 1.6 operating system.
Writing in the Washington Post, Lisa Rein points to problems at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Rein writes:
[David S. Ferriero, the U.S. Archivist,] "put out a lengthy press release --something more commonly used for self-congratulation -- on the heels of the closely watched "Best Places to Work" rankings by the Partnership for Public Service. He noted that he encouraged the Archives' 3,200 employees across the country to respond to the survey, and 82 percent did -- the highest participation rate in the government.
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
In a recent Plus Edition article at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=9290, I wrote about a great $99 handheld scanner that slides into an overcoat pocket or into a lady's purse. I love mine and have used it often. Now the same item is on sale for $59.99 plus $5 shipping. However, the sale will expire within a few hours.
Thanks to a comment from sharp-eyed Plus Edition reader Kalli, I was able to find the same handheld scanner on sale today for $59.99.
The following announcement was written by the National Genealogical Society:
The National Genealogical Society is sponsoring a research trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City for the week of 17-24 October 2010. This is the eleventh year for this educational event and it will be co-led by Shirley Langdon Wilcox, CG, FNGS, and Sandra MacLean Clunies, CG. Both trip leaders have been active in the genealogical community for a number of years and both are former board members the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG). Each has also received APG’s Grahame T. Smallwood, Jr. Award of Merit – Shirley in 1995 and Sandy in 2009.
The following announcement was written by the Association of Professional Genealogists:
The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG®) announced today that its board has approved two new chapters for the organization. The Northland Chapter will serve members from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The board also approved the organization’s first virtual chapter, to be held in Second Life. Both chapters have commenced operations as of today.
Three organisations charged with handling public records in Scotland, including the burgeoning office responsible for the genealogy boom, have been asked to look at merging. Ministers have asked the General Register Office for Scotland, National Archives of Scotland and Registers of Scotland to explore the benefits of amalgamation.
It is claimed that a merger of the three bodies has the potential to deliver savings for the taxpayer while maintaining the high level of services provided.
I wrote recently about brightsolid's recent contract to manage the Scotland's People web site for another three years. Now the company has made major changes to the site.
The following announcement was written by brightsolid:
ScotlandsPeople has a revamp as part of new contract deal
The University of Massachusetts' W.E.B. Du Bois Library Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) holds “approximately 35,000 rare books, nationally significant manuscript collections, historic maps and the official records of the University of Massachusetts Amherst,” according to the library’s website. Research within this department is often difficult because data-gathering processes have been conducted only by hand. That may be changing soon, however, thanks to a set of nine digitization principles recently endorsed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington, D.C.
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Here are the articles in this week's Plus Edition newsletter:
- On the Road Again - (+) RAW Files for Digital Pictures - (+) Understanding Optical Character Recognition - (+) New York Times Article on “A Better (Cheaper) Method of Obtaining Wi-Fi Service” - A Sad Tale of a Computer Virus - Upcoming Events - We Are All Cousins: A Video by Elizabeth Shown Mills - London, England: Society of Genealogists’ Centenary Conference - New Disney Channel Series “My Family Tree” - Ancestry.com Introduces Family Tree Maker 2011 with more than 100 Enhancements - Personal Ancestry Writer II version 95 for Macintosh is Now Available - Ged2Web Generates Web Pages from a GEDCOM File - Footnote.com Updates “Spotlights” - Sony’s Three New E-readers - Mormon Church Changes Procedures in Attempt to Resolve Issues of Proxy Baptism of Jews - Alien Files Find New Home at National Archives in Kansas City - Ancestry.ca Provides Free Access to Millions of Canadian Immigration Records - Ancestry.com Offers Life Stories of Ellis Island Immigrants Online - Angus and Dundee Roots Festival - Scottish Online Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages - Brightsolid Wins Another Three-year Deal to Manage ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk - Danish Genealogy Resources Online - New Online Database for Gaelic Place Names - Fairfield, Maine Historical Society Receives Grant to Preserve and Digitize Photo Collection - Early Pittsburgh Marriages and Deaths Indices are Online and Growing - Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones, R.I.P. - Ontario Genealogical Society Announces new Journal Editor: Elizabeth Lapointe - NGS Announces New Education Manager: Patricia Walls Stamm, CG, CGL - Free Webinar on Mapping Software for Genealogists - “Digital Preservation For Your Family” seminar - Family Tree DNA Questions Reporting about Hitler’s Possible Jewish Origins - The Size of Your Books and of Your E-reader is Determined by Sheep - The Popularity of Your Last Name - Worcester, Massachusetts Auction has Historians and Collectors Abuzz - The Motley Fool Predicts Ancestry.com is a Buy-Out Candidate - Archives.com Owner Raises $30 Million in Venture Capital - Oxford English Dictionary Will Not Be Printed Again - Brazil Will use Smartphones For Taking the Census - Never Miss a Plus Edition Newsletter
If printed, this week's Plus Edition newsletter is 39 pages long! Where else will you find this much genealogy news and information, per week? Especially without any advertising?
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.
Do you have a document or even a full-length book that you would like to enter into a computer's database or word processor? You could re-type the entire thing. If your typing ability is as bad as mine, that will be a very lengthy task. Of course, you could hire a professional typist to do the same, but that is also expensive.
We all have computers, so why not use a high-quality scanner? You will also need optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
An extraordinary collection of items belonging to Worcester native Andrew Haswell Green will be sold this week in an unprecedented four-day auction at the DCU Center in Worcester. Among the thousands of documents, artworks, china, clothing, and toys being sold are handwritten correspondence to and from four presidents and a rare, printed copy of George Washington’s will.
Green died in 1903. Most of his possessions were immediately placed in crates and were not opened until last year when each item was removed, examined, and catalogued. Items discovered in the crates and being auctioned include: an 1810 letter from President James Madison to James Monroe containing the first reference to a White House gardener, a rare 1850 daguerreotype of Green, an 1875 George Inness oil painting of Mount Washington, a Civil War battle flag, a hand-embroidered man’s purse made in 1760, more than 10,000 pieces of correspondence, rare books and pamphlets, antique toys and games, Tiffany silver, a 17th-century Hebrew book, vintage clothing, stamps, and coins. Among the rarest items is Washington’s will, published in Worcester in 1800 by Isaiah Thomas, of which only 13 copies are known to exist.
Here is an important lesson for all of us. I received an email message from a newsletter reader who shall remain nameless. He wrote:
As you might have been made aware my email accounts were hacked and false emails asking for money were sent. Also all my contacts were deleted and I am hoping to have them restored soon, so you may get another email like this one.
Please ignore any requests for money or the like. Also, I was also unaware that they had added a reply to email address so none of the emails announcing my problems actually were coming back to me.
If you have a email coming from [my email address], it is not coming from me. Delete this email from your contact list. Also delete my Hotmail and gmail addresses if you have them as I will not be using them anymore to contact you.
I wrote back and questioned if his accounts really had been compromised or if someone had simply forged his email address when sending email messages. He replied:
The Society of Genealogists’ Centenary Conference on Saturday, 7th May 2011, will be a celebration of the past century of genealogy and the role played by Society of Genealogists. Quoting from the Society's web site:
"The topics will, of course, look forward to the future of the subject. The conference will include a full day of lectures and networking luncheon and dinner, featuring nationally and internationally known genealogical speakers.
People are connected in surprising ways, says Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, FUGA -- arguably the most influential genealogist of our time. She describes the many connections in a new video that is part of the NGS Online Video Series, produced by award-winning filmmakers Kate Geis and Allen Moore.
Ged2Web is a free Windows program for generating a set of web pages from a GEDCOM file. Any Windows user with any modern genealogy program can use Ged2Web to create Web pages containing his or her research results. To do so, fire up your existing genealogy program and tell it to create a GEDCOM file of all or part of your database. The exact instructions will vary from one genealogy program to another; see your program's Help file or users manual for exact instructions.
Once the GEDCOM file has been created and stored on your computer's hard drive(s), exit the genealogy program, launch Ged2Web, and tell it to open the GEDCOM file you just created. The result will be a set of HTML files that you can transfer to any web site you control.
Ged2Web should also work on a Macintosh that has Parallels, VMware Fusion, or VirtualBox installed, along with a copy of Windows. However, I haven't tried that yet.
ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, with almost one million registered users and growing currently by more than 10,000 per month, is run by brightsolid in partnership with the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS). brightsolid has now won a three-year renewal of the contract to manage the online site.
Brightsolid also owns findmypast.com. Last month brightsolid also completed the acquisition of Friends Reunited, including Genes Reunited, from ITV.
The National Library of Scotland has compiled an excellent list of online resources for anyone researching Scottish ancestry. The list includes old parish registers, Scottish parish registers, and the McKirdy Index (a microfiche resource available in the Library which alphabetically lists records from the Statutory Death Registers of Scotland).
Maine State Archivist David Cheever recently announced the Fairfield Historical Society will receive a $1,890 grant to preserve and provide better access to its historical photo collections as part of the Historical Records Collections Grant Program. The grant allows the society to copy its entire photo collections and provide access to them. The photos will be available at the Fairfield History House.
I have used wide-area wireless 3G networks for Internet access for about three years now and love it. I recently wrote a Plus Edition article entitled "A Better (Cheaper) Method of Obtaining Wi-Fi Service" in which I described my experiences with 3G wireless networks. My article is still available at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=11357
Now I see that the New York Times has an article by David Pogue on the same subject and his experiences seem to parallel mine.
Here's a bit of historical trivia: the size of the books you read and even the size of your fancy new e-reader are determined by sheep in the Middle Ages.
First, the easy part: e-readers are replacements for books, and most manufacturers deliberately make their e-readers resemble books. Most of the e-reader manufacturers assume that customers want to continue the same "look and feel" so they create e-readers that are the same sizes as books.
The National Gazetteer of Gaelic Place Names is available in English and Gaelic. Currently it contains information on about 1000 Gaelic place names throughout Scotland. You can do a simple search by keyword, and advanced search (across several fields) or view all place names from A-Z.
Howard Metcalfe sent a message saying that version 95 of his popular free genealogy program, Personal Ancestry Writer II, also known as PAWriter, is now available. The following changes have been incorporated into version 95:
RTF Reports
RTF files can be opened by a number of word processing and desktop publishing programs. By default, RTF files will launch Nisus Writer Pro ($79 download at http://nisus.com/store/). Nisus Writer Pro is a fully functional desktop publishing program for MacOS X. Macworld awarded Nisus Writer Pro four and a half mice (out of five) in December 2009, and William Porter said in their review that "Nisus Writer Pro competes with [MS] Word better than any word processor I've seen in a very long time." Nisus Writer Pro was also the winner of the Reader's Choice Awards of 2010 for word processors, with Pages '09 and MS Word 2008 as first and second runners-up.
The Motley Fool provides stock market and other financial advice. It is not known for the accuracy of its predictions, however. In any case, Rick Aristotle Munarriz of The Motley Fool says that Ancestry.com is a candidate to be purchased by a bigger firm.
I have written before about Archives.com at http://tinyurl.com/yygwjvb. The company's web site should not be confused with the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. Now the parent company of archives.com, called Inflection, has raised $30 million in a first round of funding.
The following announcement was written by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration:
Kansas City, (MO) - For the first time, more than 300,000 case files on alien residents of the United States who were born 1909 and prior are now open to the public at the National Archives at Kansas City. These files, known as “Alien Files” (commonly referred to as “A-Files”) were transferred to the National Archives from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) and are only a small part of the millions of case files that will eventually be transferred and opened to the public.
“The A-files are a key to unlocking the fascinating stories of millions of people who traveled to the United States in search of opportunity, including my own grandfather,” said Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero. “They include information such as photographs, personal correspondence, birth certificates, health records, interview transcripts, visas, applications and other information on all non-naturalized alien residents, both legal and illegal. The snapshot of American life that develops from each file can, in some cases, serve as a one-stop-shopping for researchers.”
The following announcement was written by Preserve Pro, Inc.:
Archivist Nooma Rhue educates public on how to preserve digital artifacts
CHARLOTTE N.C. (September 1, 2010) Preserve Pro, Inc will host Digital Preservation For Your Family seminar, a half-day experience teaching families, community organizations, and religious organizations the latest techniques in preserving digital artifacts. Participants will learn about the latest practices for preserving digital photos, computer files and audiovisuals, and how to use modern technology to protect invaluable memories.
Millennia, the producer of Legacy Family Tree software for Windows, is offering the company's first live webinar on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 2:00PM EDT. The webinar, Mapping Software for Genealogists will cover essential software tools: AniMap (U.S. & Canada), Centennia (Europe & Middle East), and Map My Family Tree (entire world), and maybe even a Legacy Family Tree tip or two.
In this 30 minute webinar Geoff Rasmussen will cover the following topics:
I've been watching and writing about the many e-reader products available these days. I believe these devices are revolutionizing publishing, including that of newspapers, magazines, books and many other kinds of published materials. Genealogy books are just one of the areas being affected. As these products become smaller, lighter, cheaper, and still easier than ever to read, the financial realities soon set in: publishing for e-readers is much cheaper than publishing on paper and the savings are often passed on to consumers.
The picture above shows Sony's new Reader Daily Edition, Touch Edition and Pocket Edition.
Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones, former Garter Principal King of Arms in the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland), was well known in the genealogy world. He passed away on August 21 at age 70. He retired only a few months ago, previously serving as Garter Principal King of Arms, the senior English officer of arms, from 1995 to 2010. He was in charge of the College of Arms, which issues new coats of arms and verifies existing heraldry.
The office of Garter King of Arms, of which Gwynn-Jones was the 36th holder, was created by Henry V in 1417, initially concerned with the ceremonies of the Order of the Garter. While still performing these, Garter is also in charge of Royal heraldry and the arms of peers, as well as exercising a supervisory role over the English heralds.
Gwynn-Jones was a familiar face in the House of Lords, where he was responsible for introducing new peers to their seats.
The following announcement was written by Ancestry.ca:
Free content includes millions of records from countries worldwide in nearly 300 collections
TORONTO, ON (September 2, 2010) Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading family history website, will open its complete database of international immigration records for free from the 2nd to the 6th of September 2010.
Ancestry’s international immigration collection covers more than 193 million records in 273 collections from around the world.
Included are the Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935, which covers a period of 70 years and contains more than 7.2 million names, including 5.6 million of those who travelled from around the world to start a new life in Canada.
The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s most definitive work on the language, will never be printed because of the impact of the Internet on book sales. Sales have fallen due to the increasing popularity of online alternatives, according to its publisher.
The Mormon church has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for posthumous baptism by proxy.
In a joint statement issued earlier today, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors said a new computer system and policy changes related to the practice should resolve a years-long disagreement over the baptisms.
The following announcement was written by Ann S Eldredge:
In January 2010, a small band of genealogy seekers embarked on a project to make anyone who has roots in the Pittsburgh area jump for joy. 43 volunteers have been indexing marriages, deaths, and divorces from early Allegheny County newspapers and putting it all online at no cost. Over 52,000 death entries and over 11,000 marriages have been indexed and put online through August. The dates of the newspapers range from 1806-1987.
The following announcement was written by Ancestry.com:
More than 1,700 first-hand audio recordings now available for free online
PROVO, Utah, Sept. 1 -- Ancestry.com announced today it has launched a collection of more than 1,700 recorded oral histories from immigrants who arrived in the United States through Ellis Island. This is the first time this collection of poignant recordings has been available online. To celebrate the new addition, Ancestry.com is making its entire U.S. Immigration Collection free through Labor Day.
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The following announcement was written by the Ontario Genealogical Society:
The Board of the Ontario Genealogical Society is pleased to announce the appointment of Elizabeth Lapointe as editor of the Society’s journal Families. A graduate of Acadia University, Elizabeth is an author, journalist, and blogger. She has been editor of the OGS newsletter NewsLeaf since 2006 and is the founding editor of its electronic sister publication e-NewsLeaf. She is a Past President of the Ottawa Chapter of the Professional Writers Association of Canada, and a Director of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors. She is the author of several books on genealogy and of hundreds of newspaper and online articles on genealogy and local history. She is the guest editor for the August issue of Families and will assume full editorship with the November issue.
The following refers to an article published in this newsletter last week entitled, Hitler was Related to Jewish and Black Families. The article referred to a report by Brussels news magazine Knack that claimed DNA obtained from the Nazi leader’s relatives living in America led to the discovery. The report claimed that the Hitlers possessed Haplopgroup E1b1b (Y-DNA) which is rare in Germany and indeed western Europe. However, it is commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews. The report offered conjecture that Adolf Hitler was related to these groups.
Family Tree DNA, experts in DNA applications for genealogy, says that the report is "highly questionable." The company also offers a clarification from the author of the original article. The following was written by Family Tree DNA:
The Upcoming Events section of this newsletter is published as a
newsletter article once per month, usually in the first week of the
month. You can also view the latest list of events at any time by
clicking on "Upcoming Events" in the Navigation menu near the upper
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