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The following is an announcement from the U.S. National Genealogical Society:
Arlington, VA – 11th August 2006
On 15 February 2006, the National Genealogical Society's massive collection of members' family group sheets (Member Ancestry Charts or MACs) became available online to NGS members as another free benefit of NGS membership. Thanks to a decade of dedicated work by over 100 NGS volunteers using a database designed by NGS member Linda Gouaze, plus an excellent online software application designed completely in-house by Gayathri Gopiram, NGS' Information Technology Specialist, the MAC collection is joining the Family Bible Records collection and the National Intelligencer abstracts in the rapidly expanding Members-Only section of the NGS Web site, http://www.ngsgenealogy.org.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, and probably many others can legally obtain Irish passports because of their ancestry. Why would you want to do that? Ask any of the 138 Irish passport holders who were safely evacuated from war-torn Lebanon a few days ago. They were able to get out safely when Americans and others could not, thanks to their passports and the prominent placement of the Irish Tricolours on the front of the two buses carrying them across the Syrian border.
Time is getting short to be included in the Hanover Historical Society's new genealogy book. Members of the society who are working on the project would like to include every family now living in Hanover. If you haven't completed and returned the family form, please do so now.
In the early days of the World Wide Web, there was a perception that "everything is available on the Web free of charge." Of course, today's more sophisticated Web surfer understands the economic realities. If an organization spends thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in collecting information and placing it online, someone has to pay the bills. A few have tried to pay bills by selling advertising. However, that usually does not generate enough income to meet the expenses of a commercial organization. As a result, most of the better online sources of information can only be accessed by a paid subscription. Examples that pop to mind include the Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, and the Encyclopedia Britannica as well as genealogy sites such as Ancestry.com.
Bill Dollarhide has written a new book, entitled Getting Started in Genealogy Online. True to its title, this is a "how to" book aimed at beginners. However, a few of the resources listed may be news to some of us old-timers.
The following is an announcement from Linkpendium:
Linkpendium (http://www.linkpendium.com) has found and categorized its 5,000,000th link to genealogical data on the Internet. We currently categorize a total of
The Domesday Book is one of the earliest surviving public records. It was commissioned in 1085. Domesday is a highly detailed survey and valuation of all the land held by the King and his chief tenants, along with all the resources that went with the land in late eleventh century England. The information in this book is still important to legal affairs, real estate transactions, historians, and genealogists. Even today, the book can be used in court for property disputes.
A recent survey revealed that fewer than 1% of England's population have actually been to see the original Domesday Book in The National Archives' museum. Starting this week, images of the entire book are available online for all to see.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics is about to conduct the 2006 Census of Population and Housing. The census will enumerate (count) everyone living in Australia as of August 8, 2006. One big difference this year is that you will now be able to fill out your census online.
Many years ago, Paul Revere rode a horse to spread the news throughout Boston's countryside. The method was slow and incurred significant risk, and the number of local citizens notified was small. Luckily, when you travel to Boston for the Federation of Genealogical Societies' annual conference, you won't be as limited in your communications efforts.
I have written a couple of times recently about online backup services. It seems that I barely finish writing an article about one such service when still another company makes an announcement of a new and even cheaper service. Another new announcement was released this week.
Arlene Eakle is a professional genealogist. She also holds a PhD in English History with a minor in Colonial American History. Her PhD dissertation was entitled Antiquaries and the Writing of Local History in England, 1550-1800. During her studies, she read and analyzed hundreds of books written by English writers during those years. The antiquarians wrote about The Knights Templars, The Isle of Thanet, and the Priory of Sion and its many chapels, as well as about many related topics. These books were all written and published long before Dan Brown's now popular book, The DaVinci Code.
Genealogy chat sessions have been popular for years. These "chats" have always been conducted keyboard-to-keyboard. That is, participants type on their own keyboards and then look at their computer screens to read the text entered by other chat room participants. I would like to propose something different: voice chats.
The voice chats will operate in a manner quite similar to telephone conference calls. These will be free calls, however. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux users alike may participate.
Health problems of world leaders have influenced many events. In one man's case, a medical problem probably changed the history of the world and affected the lives of millions of people.
Charles V had the titles of Holy Roman Emperor, King of Aragon, Castile, Naples, and Sicily, and ruler of the Burgundian territories. In Spain he ruled officially as Carlos I, though he is often referred to as Carlos V. He commanded an empire that stretched across much of Europe and included Spanish America. Conquistadores Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and others conquered the Aztec and Inca empires and claimed vast new lands in the name of Charles V.
A Platte County, Nebraska, farmer has been advised that he cannot run a pivot irrigation system through a 125-year-old cemetery that contains the grave of a Civil War veteran. On Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court rejected a case brought by Calvin Sjuts, a farmer who has owned the land surrounding the Granville Cemetery for some 32 years. Judge Lindsey Miller-Lerman cited a ruling in a Kansas case that said cemetery property has a public nature and must be given special protection.
Summer is the season when UK family historians hit the road, and one of the places they head to is the churchyards where their ancestors are buried. This summer, grave concerns are being raises at the number of sheep and cows being allowed to roam over the final resting sites of our forebears.
The following was written by Pam Eagleson, CG, co-chair of the Ancestor’s Road Show:
Has that brick wall got you stymied? Here's a chance to ask an expert. Attendees at the upcoming FGS conference in Boston (http://www.fgsconference.blogspot.com) will be able to meet for 20 minutes with an experienced genealogist to brainstorm ways to break through the brick wall blocking their research.
Powerful new tools -- including software created by Gene Codes Corp. to help identify remains of 9/11 terrorist attack victims -- are being applied to solve mysteries that remain from the Holocaust of World War II.
The DNA Shoah project, announced last month by Gene Codes founder Howard Cash at the Human Genome Organization meeting in Finland, could be the most extensive DNA detective undertaking ever if organizers succeed in collecting DNA samples from even a fraction of the 300,000 Holocaust survivors around the world.
The following is a press release written by Heirlines Family History & Genealogy:
Salt Lake City, UT August 1, 2006 -- Heirlines Family History & Genealogy is merging genealogy with modern science. It has teamed up with Relative Genetics and GenealogyFound to show that after 400 years millions of Americans can trace their family tree back to the Jamestowne colony and Colonial Virginia. DNA testing and genealogical research is combining to help Jamestown descendants jump the pond and find their immigrant origins from Europe and other nations.
The following is an announcement from the Houston Public Library:
Houston - The Houston Public Library is proud to announce the appointment of Susan Kaufman as the new manager for the Clayton Library, Center for Genealogical Research. Ms. Kaufman will be bringing twenty years of genealogical librarianship experience, including 6 years at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which is the nation's largest public genealogical library. Currently, she is manager of the Houston Public Library Jungman Branch, and is expected to begin her new position the first week of August.
The following is an announcement from the National Archive of Memorial Inscriptions (NAOMI). I have not yet had a chance to review this site:
This site, which went online last November, enables you to check whether or not there are any memorial inscriptions from the UK which are relevant to your researches. If there are none, you pay nothing. If you find what you want, then you can download and print not only the inscriptions themselves, but also, if available:
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