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An attorney suing the city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, for rejecting his plans to build a house on land containing a little-known historic Heard Family Cemetery may have trouble proving he has a clear title to the property, records show. The city on Sept. 27 responded to the lawsuit, saying that the property was intended for “perpetual” use as a cemetery. The city has asked a Fulton County Superior Court judge to dismiss the lawsuit.
An article by Dan Whisenhunt published in the Reporter Newspapers states a small family cemetery containing the body of Confederate War veteran Heard. He later became a judge. He left the land to be used for “perpetual” use as a cemetery. It is believed that several of Judge Heard's relatives are buried in the same cemetery.
The goal of Storied is to make the process of capturing and sharing meaningful family stories easy and accessible for people of all ages. With the app installed on your iPad, you can easily scan in printed photos directly from the iPad, or import them from popular networks like Facebook, and then record interviews with yourself or your family about the events in the photo. The program is not yet available. However, the programmer who created the app is now seeking funding to create a commercial product.
The following announcement was written by the organizers of Back to Our Past:
Ireland’s biggest family history event returns for its third year Over 20,000 family history enthusiasts expected to attend
Ireland’s biggest family history event returns this year after its massive success in previous years. Over 20,000 people are expected to descend on the RDS in Dublin from October 12th-14th for this year’s Back to Our Past.
Here is another reason why we need to digitize as many records as possible as quickly as possible. Digital records won't REPLACE the originals but having extra copies will certainly help PRESERVE information in case the originals are damaged for any reason.
Officials in southern Idaho's Lincoln County are taking steps to deal with a rash of paper-eating insects blamed for destroying a collection of historical documents.
Lincoln County Clerk Suzanne McConnell says volunteers discovered the damage as they were working to digitize old, paper records, including court judgments, birth certificates, marriage licenses, land deeds and permits. The records - some dating back to the 1930s - were all kept in the vault below the county courthouse.
Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced the closure “with great remorse” on Sept. 13 as the way his office will meet a required state budget cut of $732,626, or 3 percent. The governor later stated the State Archives would remain open but the definition of "open" hasn't been clarified. Apparently "open" means a skeleton staff that is unable to handle research requests. Even the research rooms will be closed most of the time.
State archives staff numbered more than 100 in the early ’80s when it operated out of a facility in downtown Atlanta. Staff was down to about 40 employees when the archives moved in 2003 to Morrow, near the entrance to Clayton State University. Today, there are 10 employees who, on Nov. 1, will be cut to just three – two archivists and a maintenance worker.
The following announcement was written by WikiTree:
3 Oct 2012: WikiTree.com is now inviting all genealogists and family historians to register for a free membership.
WikiTree closed registration in January 2012. This was done to give the WikiTree community time to absorb the flood of information that had been added by people who registered for a free membership and uploaded GEDCOMs, but did not take the time to integrate their genealogy into the shared family tree that the WikiTree community is growing.
Samuel Davis Agin, who served two tours of duty in the Civil War, was recognized on Saturday, Sept. 29, in the Princeton (New Jersey) Cemetery, after having been buried there for nearly a hundred years in an unmarked grave. His story was brought to light by two distant cousins who discovered their common ancestor, and each other, through online research.
One Texas agency mounting pressure on another to loan out one of the state’s most sacred texts for display at “the shrine of Texas independence.” The General Land Office is pressing the State Library and Archives Commission to loan the “Victory or Death” letter penned by Col. William Barret Travis, the commander of the Alamo garrison, from its “dark storage” for a 14-day exhibit at the Alamo in February. The State Library and Archives Commission has refused although the commission will meet again in Austin in three weeks to reconsider the matter.
The Great Hunger years of Ireland were from 1845 to 1852. 1847 was the worst year of all. Now Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut is set to unveil the first Great Hunger museum which shows the history of that terrible era through art and artifacts.
The legacy of Black 47, as it came to be called, is still being felt in myriad of ways in Irish society and culture and its shadow has played out in our history in ways that we are still only beginning to apprehend. By 1852 the Irish population was cut in half; by 1900 they were cut in three quarters. During the famine the British government never closed the ports or reduced the tariffs. Instead they shipped out food that could have saved the starving.
1000memories is a company best known for providing a ShoeBox App for Android and iPhone smartphones a mobile photo-scanning app. It is primarily a mobile tool designed for digitizing and sharing photos from the past. ShoeBox first appeared in October 2011. You can read my past articles about 1000memories if you start at http://goo.gl/7p3X7. Now the company has announced that it is being acquired by Ancestry.com.
An article in the 1000memories blog states:
We’re pleased to announce that 1000memories has been acquired by Ancestry.com.
A new video from FamilySearch Wiki is now available that describes one approach to fast genealogy research. David Rencher narrates the video and even describes the concept of real time collaboration as being similar to "a genealogical barn raising." It features video conferencing amongst several genealogy experts.
The video is adapted from a presentation given at the 2010 National Genealogical Society Conference entitled Doing Research in Real Time-An Exhilarating Collaboration Experience! Its purpose is to demonstrate that genealogical research can be conducted by forming a collaborative team that can work together online. By utilizing this type of approach, a small team of researchers can produce more artifacts and results in less time than a single researcher working alone.
The following announcement was written by the organizers of the Back To Our Past Show:
The organisers of the Back To Our Past Show are pleased to announce that Ancestry.com has become the event’s title sponsor. Ancestry.com recently moved its international operations to Dublin and its support for such an important feature within Irish genealogy is a welcome development.
Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, farmers became convinced that their relatives were returning from the grave to feed on the living. In 1854, in Jewett City, Connecticut, townspeople exhumed several corpses suspected to be vampires that were rising from their graves to kill the living. A few newspaper accounts of these events survived.
Permira Advisers LLP has emerged as the front-runner to take genealogy website Ancestry.com Inc private, two people familiar with the matter said, in a deal that could top $1.5 billion.
The price under negotiation could not be learned, but sources familiar with the matter had previously told Reuters that Ancestry was seeking more than $35 per share for a sale, valuing the company at over $1.5 billion.
The following is a Plus Edition article, written by and copyright
by Dick Eastman.
Modern hard drives are wonderful inventions. Capable of storing gigabytes, even terabytes, of information, today's hard drives allow you store the equivalent of multiple four-drawer filing cabinets in only a few cubic inches, all for a cost undreamed of only a few years ago. In fact, today's hard drives are much cheaper than filing cabinets. There is but one problem: how do you find information buried in the tens of thousands of documents you filed on these gargantuan hard drives over the years?
Luckily, there are several solutions that will allow you to find anything on your computer within seconds. I use a combination of file names plus some text files plus some free or low-cost software to find whatever I want within seconds. I thought I would describe what I use. My method may or may not work for you; but, even if you do not copy my methods exactly, this article may provide “food for thought” so that you can invent your own solution that meets your needs.
Genealogists have raised concerns about moves to resurrect the Privacy Bill 2006 in the Irish Seanad, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the Irish parliament). The genealogists say the proposed legislation could restrict access to records for genealogical or biographical research.
Those in charge of such records could “arbitrarily and unnecessarily restrict or deny access” to vital records on the grounds that access could infringe privacy rights under the Bill. It is also possible, “through fear of litigation”, the legislation could hamper the publication of biographies, especially if such publications contained data obtained from public registers.
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