The following announcement was written by the Association of Professional Genealogists:
Last call for early registration savings at the APG Professional Management Conference
Learn The Art of Source Citation in a two-hour hands-on workshop by Elizabeth Shown Mills, the woman who wrote the definitive citation manual, Evidence Explained. It is just one of seven special sessions that make up this year's APG Professional Management Conference (PMC) on Wednesday, September 3, during the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference in Philadelphia.
For years, genealogy fairs have been held on the May Day weekend (the first week-end in May) in London. For the past two years, that event has been the "Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE" fair, with huge crowds attending. As mentioned in my article a few days ago, the 2009 edition of that fair is being moved to February 28 through March 2. See my earlier article at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/06/who-do-you-thin.html for the details.
Now a NEW non-profit group of organizations has decided to offer a family history event on the traditional May Day weekend at a location to be announced. This will be in ADDITION to the February/March event at the Olympia Centre. The Family History Event (The FH Event) is taking place one day only, on Sunday 3rd May 2009.
The following announcement was written by the Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations (CIGO). It is an umbrella-based lobby group for the various national and international organizations sharing an interest in Irish genealogical research:
CIGO IS PETITIONING THE GOVERNMENT TO OPEN THE 1926 IRISH CENSUS
CIGO has long campaigned for the opening of post-1922 Irish census records after only seventy-five years rather than the current tariff of 100 years. In particular we believe that at the very least the 1926 census should be opened because many of the people enumerated were born before Irish civil registration began in 1864; that as the data recorded is so brief no breach of confidentiality would arise; and that as over 82 years have passed since the 1926 census was compiled virtually every adult then living is now deceased.
Social networking sites strike me as "the next big thing" in online genealogy sites. You may recognize the name WorldVitalRecords.com. FamilyLink.com, Inc. is the corporate name and has several divisions. Those family of services include WorldVitalRecords.com, FamilyLink.com, and the We’re Related application on Facebook. Now the company has acquired the My Family application.
The following announcement was written by FamilyLink:
PROVO, UT, June 26, 2008 —FamilyLink.com, Inc., the company behind We’re Related, the No.1 family application on Facebook, has acquired the popular My Family application, which has more than 1.5 million users across five social networks, including Facebook and MySpace.The My Family app lets social networking users creatively represent their family members and pets on their web pages with cute stick figure icons. More than 8,000 new users per day add the applications. My Family is currently the 26th most popular application on MySpace and it has nearly 8,000 fans on Facebook.
The Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System, or GRAMPS, is a popular free genealogy program for use on Linux. It is powerful and easy to use and is released as one of the genealogy programs on a Linux "Live CD." That CD has now been updated to Version 4.0.
You can download the Linux Genealogy CD-ROM .iso image online and "burn it" as a complete CD. (For information about .iso images, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso_image.) Once you have the Linux Genealogy CD, you may load the program onto a Linux system or, even better, use it as a "live CD."
You or your local genealogy society might find great satisfaction - not to mention accomplishing a lot with minimal resources - by creating a wiki. This is a great way to let people collaborate on a project. That project might be the creation of listings of old tax records, transcriptions from census records, or perhaps a written history of a town or county. You and a few cousins could create a wiki to help facilitate group research on a particular family or surname. A wiki is a great tool for almost any form of documentation that is created as a group effort. In fact, I use wikis both for group efforts and for one "solo project" of my own.
More than 100 volumes of marriage records and real-estate transactions from Denver's frontier days are being digitized. The volumes, ranging from 1859 to 1900, can provide a lot of information about ancestors who lived in Denver during those years.
Jim Kroll, manager of the Denver Public Library's Western history/genealogy department says the digitized records will become "an excellent resource for our genealogy and house-history customers" and will "document the unique stories of each (Denver) community."
The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research uses primary sources, archaeology, oral histories and satellite technology to uncover the fate of the first English settlers to North America. In 1587, a group of English colonists on Roanoke Island disappeared, leaving behind a single clue – the word "CROATAN" carved into a tree. The Croatan were a group of American Indians who lived nearby.
The Lost Colony Center for Science and Research is discovering some of the newest and most interesting findings of what happened to the Lost Colonists of 1587. The Center's researchers now believe that the English colonists merged with the Croatan Indians and were assimilated. The center is working on identifying present-day descendants. The Center also is negotiating the final stages of an agreement with the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation to be the new DNA partner. The partnership would offer free DNA testing to anyone who meets specific surname requirements.
Family researchers in the Kansas City area now have a great new resource. The new Midwest Genealogy Center, which opened Saturday, is billed as one the nation's largest libraries specifically for people tracing their ancestry. The 52,000-square-foot building replaces a facility one-quarter its size that was housed in the Mid-Continent Public Library's north Independence branch.
The library regularly attracts visitors from as far afield as Hawaii. The $8 million center features ample classrooms, videoconference space and computer work stations. Security and fire safety have improved, and researchers can now digitally convert the documents they find, rather than rely on librarians.
Tens of thousands of genealogy and local history books have been printed over the years. Wouldn't you like to walk into a local bookstore and purchase the book(s) of your choice within minutes? That may not be as crazy as it sounds.
Blackwell bookshops in the U.K. are testing new, super-fast in-store printers, called Espresso Book Machines. Similar machines are already used in the World Bank in Washington and at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. The best part about these printers is speed: the standard unit can produce a 200-page book, printed and bound, in just 7 minutes. The higher-priced “double-printer” cuts that time down to just 3 minutes.
Blackwell is only installing a few printers at first. If successful, the company hopes to add the printing on-demand facilities to 60 retail outlets. If it works for Blackwell, you can expect to see other stores install similar systems.
Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE will take place next year in London from 27th Feb - 1st March 2009. Full details will be available soon at http://www.whodoyouthinkyouarelive.co.uk.
Now you can take a trip into your ancestry, thanks to a new genealogy firm in Britain, which guarantees to take people on a deluxe tour in the footsteps of their forefathers. But the ancestry ride doesn't come cheap; at £25,000 (roughly $50,000 in U.S. dollars), its billing as “luxury time travel” is appropriate.
The company, Ancestral Footsteps, is the creation of Sue Hills, the director of the hit BBC television series, Who Do You Think You Are? in which celebrities take a trip back into their past. Now Hills has formed this company to offer the same experience to non-celebrities (but with no camera crew involved).
The following announcement was written by Familybuilder:
Familybuilder Celebrates First Anniversary With Over 16 Million Family Tree Profiles Built Across All Popular Social Networks
-- 2 million new profiles created each month; 4th most trafficked online genealogy site online worldwide --
New York, NY -- New York City-based Familybuilder™ (http://www.familybuilder.com), maker of Family Tree, the fastest growing online genealogy service on the Internet, is celebrating its first anniversary today with over 16 million profiles built in the Familybuilder network in less than a year of operation. Today, over 3.5 million people are connecting with family members and building their family trees on the most popular social networks, including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 and Orkut. Over 2 million new family tree profiles are created each month. Per Comscore, Familybuilder is the 4th most trafficked online genealogy service online (3/08).
This is a quick notice to let you know that I will be traveling later this week and over the weekend. I suspect that fewer articles will be posted to the daily newsletter at http://www.eogn.com during that time and the weekly Plus Edition newsletter that is normally sent by e-mail on Sunday evenings is almost certain to be delayed for a day or two.
I will be at the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree 2008
being held in Burbank. If you are in the area, please drop by and say
"hello." I expect to be there, along with hundreds of other
genealogists. This is the biggest annual genealogy conference on the
West coast and promises to be a good one. You can read my earlier
article about the Jamboree at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/06/southern-califo.html.
Looking at my schedule, it is almost certain that the weekly Plus
Edition newsletter will NOT be sent on Sunday evening. Look for it on
Monday or Tuesday.
Wouldn't you hate to be the genealogical researcher a hundred years from now
who has to research George Foreman and his children. All of the children, boys
and girls alike, are named George Foreman. That is, perhaps, an extreme example
of the problem sometimes created by the use of the same name throughout a
family. What greater honor could parents pay to another family member than
naming a child after him or her? Still, when we are researching a family and
find multiple members with the same name, how do we crack the puzzle?
Naming Patterns
Naming patterns exist for many different groups to one degree or another. The
typical pattern is linked directly to the gender of the child and the birth
order within the gender. The English and German schemes have a similar pattern.
Now that the vacation season is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, grandparents, parents and many of their children will face a quandary: how to stay in touch while traveling? E-mail is a great invention but those of us who use dedicated e-mail programs may not find them to be as portable as we wish. Luckily, there is an easy, and free, solution.
A third potential partner has emerged in the effort to breathe new life into Easton, Pennsylvania's, Bachmann Publick House, a Colonial-era building that held Northampton County's first court sessions more than 250 years ago.
The newest player, the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, could end up as the next owner of the 1753 landmark at Second and Northampton Streets.
The following announcement was written by Synium Software GmbH:
Mainz, Germany - Today, Synium Software announces the new version 5.2 of MacFamilyTree. Gain the full perspective! Visualize and freely navigate even the most complex family trees. Exactly one month of Public Beta Testing already earned MacFamilyTree 5.2 widespread acclaim for its new 3D view "Virtual Tree".
The most recent addition to MacFamilyTree's already abundant set of tools is the ultimate way to visualize and browse even huge and complex genealogy databases. Our "Virtual" Tree can be intuitively controlled and renders a three-dimensional mesh of persons and their relations, right onto your Mac's screen.
The following announcement was written by Durham Records Online:
Durham Records Online is pleased to offer online a treasure trove of over 130,000 burials from the historic shipping and shipbuilding port of Sunderland in northeast England. The following burial records from the Sunderland area are now fully transcribed, indexed, and searchable:
Footnote.com recently replaced the site's search engine. The new version is far more powerful than the old one and is much better at isolating the records you seek, once you get used to syntax. The new search works on both the free and for-pay sections of the site.
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