Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Web site traces African-American Migration

At the start of Black History Month, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture announced the creation of an education project focusing on black migration over the past 400 years.

NGS Call for Papers for 2006 Conference

The following is an announcement from the U.S. National Genealogical Society:

Proposal Deadline - 1 April 2005

The National Genealogical Society is pleased to accept lecture proposals for the NGS Conference in the States which will held in Chicago, Illinois, 7-10 June 2006.

DataFreeway for FTP and SSH

If you maintain a web site, genealogy-related or not, you may have to transfer files to and from the site by using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). If you do not maintain a web site or do not know what FTP is used for, you probably will find little of interest in this article. However, if you use Windows and some sort of FTP program to maintain your web site, please read on.

Genealogy Library likely Closed until at least July

The donation of Everton's privately-owned library to the public library system of Logan, Utah, has been covered in a series of recent articles in this newsletter. Now the city of Logan is balking at the cost.

Compromise Reached on South Dakota Public Records

A stalemate has been broken in South Dakota. The state Health Department wanted to restrict access to birth, death, and marriage certificates. Their reasoning was "to help prevent identity theft and increase the security of some public records for anti-terrorism purposes."

New Collaboration to Digitize Black Newspapers

In the mid-1800s, most newspapers did not record events within the African American communities. So-called "black newspapers" helped fill the gap and have since grown up over the years to become powerful record keepers of a segment of society sometimes relegated to the sidelines by the mainstream media. Many of these are small community newspapers, with few advanced IT resources, and very little emphasis placed on the value of their store of historical data. That is about to change.