Volume V, Issue 3
March 2011
FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTER
Signing in to Use the System for
Someone Else
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In February 2011, we begin welcoming the
public to use the new FamilySearch website.
Several other changes have been made.
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Working in a Public System
Everyone’s contact information has been reset.
Please review your preferences, and select the
contact information that you want displayed in a
public system.
Your contact name continues to
show.
o If your preferences were set to
show your e-mail address, your
e-mail address still shows. If your
preferences were set to hide your
e-mail address, it is still hidden.
o If your preferences were set to
show a mailing address or
telephone number, they no
longer show. If you want them to
show again, you need to update
your preferences. (On the Home
page, click Update my profile
and preferences.)
In your e-mail contacts, please do not
assume that all contributors are Church
members. In Discussions, do not
proselytize or discuss confidential church
information.
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To help individuals who are
already registered to use the
system, you enter their contact
name and helper access number.
To help Church members who
are not registered to use the
system, you need to enter their
full name, birth date, and the last
5 digits of their membership
record number.
New Help Center
A new version of the Help Center is now
available. To see it, click Help Center from the
Home page. From there, you can print a
document that explains the differences.
The What’s New Document Is
Available on the Home Page
You can now print What’s New in the New
FamilySearch Website from the Home page.
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You can no longer assume that everyone using
the system is a Church member. Please be
courteous and inclusive when you contact
others.
The feature that you use to sign in to
help someone else has changed:
Only Church members can sign in to use
the system for someone else.
You can help Church members, whether
or not they are registered to use the
system.
You can help the public after they have
registered and added a helper access
number to their user profile.
The required information has changed:
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New FamilySearch New
Features as of February 2011
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They cannot sign in to help someone
else.
When you help the public use the
system, please encourage them to do
the following:
Update their user profile to include a
helper access number. Having this
number in their profile will help
FamilySearch Support provide better
service should they contact us for help.
Update their user profile to show the
contact information that they would like
displayed.
Help them build their family tree.
Because we cannot use Church
membership records to connect them to
the information that we already have,
they see only themselves on their family
tree. Help them do the following:
1. Correct the gender on their
record. Since the registration
process did not ask for gender,
their record lists it as Unknown.
(To edit the gender, click
Details. Then click the Edit link
for the gender.)
Manually add their parents,
grandparents, and other living,
direct-line ancestors to the family
tree. Note: Remind them to
obtain permission of living
relatives before adding them.
2. See if their deceased ancestors
are already in the system. Have
them click the Add or find...
links to search the database. If
they find ancestors, link them
into their tree.
3. If the database does not already
contain some of their ancestors,
contribute a GEDCOM file
The system accepts GEDCOM
files with up to 1,000 individuals.
However, unless they are sure
that the system does not have
the information, encourage them
to contribute files with 100
individuals or fewer.
New Developments at
FamilySearch
http://genealogysstar.blogspot.c
om/2011/02/new-developmentsat-familysea\
rch.html
Check for information:
http://www.mormontimes.com/
article/19857/Additionalfeatures-onFamilySearchorg?s_cid=email
New FamilySearch Watch
You can now “watch” individuals in your family tree
and receive an e-mail notification when information
about them changes. Just Click on ‘Watch’ in the
Upper right corner of your screen.
At present the notification identifies the following
types of changes:
• Someone changes the individual’s summary.
• Someone starts a new discussion or adds a
comment to an existing discussion.
• Someone combines an individual that you
are watching with another record.
• Someone separates a record from an
individual that you are watching.
The notification e-mail will eventually list
more types of changes.
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Posted by lida larkin
momuv712@gmail.com
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We have begun a limited public release of
the system. The public can use the entire
system with the following exceptions:
They do not see LDS information and
features.
containing the missing
information.
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Teaching and Assisting the Public
Capturing Your Forum History
It is important to note that when you first sign
in to the Forums with your FamilySearch or LDS
Account after this change, the Forums will show
you as a “brand new” Forum member with zero
posts. If you would like for all of your previous
posts and user information to be connected to
your FamilySearch or LDS Account user name,
you will need to "merge" your old account into
your new account. You will have until May
11th to do this.
To merge your accounts and capture your
posting history, you will need to follow a few
steps:
1. Before April 10th, write down your
CURRENT forum user name and
password.
If you can’t remember your forum
log-in information:
i. Go to
http://forums.familysearch.org.
ii. Log out (if it shows you as being
logged , in the upper right
corner).
iii. Attempt to log in.
2. When you see the changes on April
11th (it will be obvious because the
forums will have a new look), you
may log in with either your “old”
Forums user name, or your
FamilySearch or LDS Account.
3. The system will detect which one
you are using and walk you through
the steps of what to do at that point
to merge the accounts together.
Note: If you do not yet have a
FamilySearch or LDS Account, or
don’t remember the user name or
password of that account, the
website will walk you through how to
retrieve that information.
Once you have merged the two accounts, you
will see that:
(1)Your old posts will still show under your old
user name, but clicking on your user name will
take you to your new user page. (2)You will
have to enter the user name and password each
time you come to the site; the Forums will no
longer save your user name and password and
keep you logged in. This is for security
purposes and can’t be changed.
Forums New Look
Additionally, the look of the Forums will be
changing to match the FamilySearch.org
website. Click here to see what the forums will
look like after these changes.
If you have any problems, there will be prompts
on the website to help you know what to do. If
those don't help, visit the FamilySearch Help
Forum, or call FamilySearch at 1-866-406-1830.
Thank you for your contributions and
involvement in this work.
Sincerely,
FamilySearch
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We are excited to announce that beginning on
April 11th, you will be able to log in to the
FamilySearch Forums with your FamilySearch or
LDS Account, a single account that gives you
access to all of the FamilySearch websites. This
is the last FamilySearch website in English to
switch to the new user account system, so with
this change, all of your English FamilySearch
websites and programs are accessible with this
single user name and password. When the
change is made, the forums will be “read-only”
(meaning you will be able to read forum posts
but not respond to them or create new ones)
for about an hour, starting at approximately 10
p.m. Mountain Daylight Time. (Watch the
Forums for possible changes to this time.)
iv. If you log in with the wrong
information, follow the steps to
retrieve your user name, or
reset your password
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FORUMS WILL BEGIN TO USE
NEW LOG-IN
Information was from training agenda given to
FamilySearch Missionaries this morning. (1 Mar 2011)
1. Look at the 'What's New' link to the right of the login
boxes when you go to nFS to sign in, that document is
specifically there for those first 2,000 people.
2. Once in, a different 'What's New' document also
appears, with additional updates, and it additionally says
that 'one should not assume that everyone on (the site) is
a member of the Church.
From the "What's New in the New FamilySearch
Website" page:
In February 2011, we’ve invited a limited number of public
users to begin testing public access to the new
FamilySearch website.
These testers see the entire system with the following
exceptions:
• They do not see LDS ordinance information and features.
• They cannot sign in to help someone else.
These valued testers will help us make sure the system
can handle the increased load. We also hope to
gain insight about how FamilySearch Support can continue
offering great support for a product that provides different
features for different groups of people.
We have already selected our public testers. But as our
test expands in the future, we plan to let you
invite nonmember family members to participate. When
we are ready, we will let you know how.
Working in a Public System
You can no longer assume that everyone using the system
is a Church member. Please be courteous and inclusive
when you contact others.
• Everyone’s contact information has been reset. Please
review your preferences, and select the
6 Places to Uncover Ancestral Origins
By Juliana Smith
16 February 2011
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Family
Correspondence
Memorabilia
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Immigration
Records
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and
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Naturalization
Military Records
Death Records
Newspapers
The Records of Others
Read the entire article at this site:
http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore
/Article.aspx?id=15962&o_iid=23560
&o_lid=23560#
WASHINGTON DC FAMILY HISTORY
CONFERENCE MAY 7
Our Annual Conference - Saturday, May 7,
9:00 - 3:15
Registration for our 5th annual family history
conference is at a brisk pace! We are delighted with
the response and look forward to seeing you there!
There are 23 classes on a wide variety of topics there is something for everyone! The keynote
speaker is James Sweany, Head of the Library of
Congress Local History & Genealogy Reading Room.
For further information and registration, please visit
our Conference Home Page at:
http://www.wdcfhc.org/conf2011/
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Starting March 7, 2011, 2000 Community Patrons will be
allowed to register for newFamilySearch and Activate their
FamilySearch account. After the first 2000 are accepted,
they will be taken to a sorry page and a page to enter
information and be put in a queue for the next group to be
allowed to enter the next group of BETA testers. Program
will be in a BETA test mode until sometime in 2013.
contact information that you want displayed in a public
system.
- Your contact name continues to show.
- If your preferences were set to show your e-mail
address, your e-mail address still shows. If
your preferences were set to hide your e-mail address, it is
still hidden.
- If your preferences were set to show a mailing address
or telephone number, they no longer show. If you want
them to show again, you need to update your preferences.
(On the Home page, click Update my profile and
preferences.)
• In your e-mail contacts, please do not assume that all
contributors are Church members.
• In the discussion boards, please do not discuss LDS
church information or do not proselytize.
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Community Patron to
Gain Access to new
FamilySearch Beta
Testing
Classes also offered in
Washington DC FH Center
April 16 at 9:30 a.m.
"FamilySearch Indexing - Easy, Fun and
Rewarding!"
Instructor: Mary Jean Sokolowsky
FamilySearch.org is the largest free source of
online records. Indexes make these records namesearchable. By June 2010, FamilySearch volunteer
indexers worldwide had completed more than 100
million records with a goal to complete 200 million
by the end of this year. Learn how easy it is to index
and how to join this phenomenal group of over
100,000 volunteers.
Family Village on Facebook
FREE FAMILY HISTORY CHARTS
http://genealogy.about.com has some nice free
charts that you can download.
http://genealogy.about.com/sitesearch.htm?q=c
harts&SUName=genealogy
http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_charts/ig/g
enealogy_charts/family_tree.htm
Bill Buchanan
There are lots of cute ones online. Try the
pedigree chart shown at
http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_charts/ig/g
enealogy_charts/family_tree.htm
There's one with roses that may appeal to the
girls as well as more traditional looking ones.
Rosemary
http://schoolweb.dysart.org/TeacherSites/tSite.
aspx?id=2964
This is my school website, go down the page to
the specials area and then to Grade 7-8 Family
History Project. Many links and activities.
Ellen Allen, Surprise, AZ
Information from Generations Newsletter, Carol
Petranek, Newsletter Editor, Terry Willard,
Gary Petranek, Directors, Washington DC Family
History Center, 10000 Stoneybrook Drive, PO Box
49, Kensington, MD 20895, Telephone 301-587-0042
info@wdcfhc.org
Are you aware that there are some databases at
Ancestry.com that you can access at home for
free? Of their nearly 30,000 databases, less
than 400 are free, but one of them may just be
the answer to one of your genealogical brick
walls.
Interestingly,
databases
free
at
Ancestry.com are not available in the FHC
edition of Ancestry.com. Access the free
databases at home and the free FHC edition
databases at our FHC. For a list of those free at
home, click on help (upper right) and search for
"Free databases." The help article explains how
to use the old card catalog to see a list of
databases. Those that are free are marked
FREE. You can also see a list of the Free
databases at AncestryInsider.
Source: Ancestry.com FHC Edition, Ancestry
Insider blog, Monday, Jan 31, 2011
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You know it just had to happen! There is now a
family history game on Facebook. Family Village
is the first Facebook game that enables players
to participate in family discovery about their
relatives. Users can explore their own family
tree while building an online game community
connecting real families. Integrated with
popular FamilyLink applications, the game
enables families to connect with billions of
records and people using the Facebook
platform. familyvillagegame.com/
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Ancestry.com Free
Databases
What do you do when you’re trying to find
photos of your ancestors – but you’re not sure
those photos exist?
There’s more than one way to find a photo of
your ancestor. Even if your scrapbooks and
shoeboxes don’t reach beyond the 1940s, you
may still be able to find a photo of your
ancestor at Ancestry.com or even in unexpected
places. But where?
First step: Family
Says ProGenealogists’ Natalie Cottrill, the first
place to search for photos of your family is with
members of your family.
“The absolute best place to obtain photos of
relatives is with living relatives. With family
members spread all over the globe, this can
sometimes feel daunting. It might take some
serious negotiations to encourage relatives to
stop what they’re doing and scan or mail to you
copies of photos. But it’s worth it,” says Cottrill.
“If you’re still living near your grandparents or
older relatives, your negotiations for photos
might be as creative as helping them clean
house,” Cottrill continues. “I found some of my
most treasured family portraits while helping my
grandmother clean her home. I found an old
small tintype of my great-great-grandmother in
one of my grandmother’s bureaus. Then, in the
same week and under her cellar stairs, of all
places, I found a charcoal sketch from the mid1800s of my great-great-great-grandmother.
The latter was torn and damaged and it was an
absolute miracle that it survived 150 years, but,
thankfully, it did.”
Other good places to connect and find photos
include:
Family reunions. Cottrill suggests having a
friendly competition around old family photos:
Social networking sites. Search for groups
associated with your family name and tack on
“family tree” or “genealogy” – you may discover
one or more that are directly related to the
family you’re researching.
Next stop: Ancestry.com It’s easy to upload
photos at Ancestry.com – which makes it a
fantastic place to search for photos that include
people from your family tree, too. Cottrill
suggests starting in the Ancestry.com Pictures
collection. Search for the family name and also
try searches for photos based on a hometown,
school or military unit. Items in the collection
include yearbooks, postcards and public
member photos, Civil War photos and more.
Also try the Stories, Memories and Histories
collection.
And newspapers, passport
applications and naturalization records often
contain photos, too.
Finally: Unexpected sources Cottrill’s last
suggestion? Get creative. Use your imagination
and search places that aren’t naturally linked to
family photos at all. Specifically, try the
following:
• eBay. Old photos people have collected from
garage and estate sales are often posted
here. http://www.ebay.com
• Online photo archives, history databases
and scanned books. You’ll find links
at http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysl
euthb.htm.
• Everywhere you look. You may find a
photo of that elusive ancestor in an old desk,
under other photos in a picture frame, stuck
between a baseboard and a wall, doubling as a
bookmark or mixed in with other family history
documents.
Note:
I like www.familyoldphotos.com and
www.deadfred.com.
Also www.findagrave
Sylvia
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By Ancestry.com - Monthly Update
08 February 2011
prettiest ancestor, dourest ancestor, ancestor
with the best clothes, worst clothes, etc. And
have a scanner handy, but always ask
permission first.
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Surprise! Where to Look for
Family Photos
If you were lucky enough to inherit some family
photos, you may wonder what year they were
taken. Unfortunately, for most of us, those
photos we inherit are not necessarily identified.
So what's a genealogist to do? The following are
some resources to consult as you date vintage
photographs.
Books
Dating Old Photographs, 1840-1929. Toronto,
Ont: Family Chronicle, 2000.
Frisch, Karen. Unlocking the Secrets in Old
Photographs. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry,
1991.
Nickell, Joe. Camera Clues: A Handbook for
Photographic Investigation. Lexington:
University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Severa, Joan L. Dressed for the Photographer:
Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.
Taylor, Maureen A. Uncovering Your Ancestry
Through Family Photographs. Cincinnati, Ohio:
Betterway Books, 2000.
Taylor, Maureen A. More Dating Old
Photographs, 1840-1929. Toronto, Ont: Family
Chronicle, 2004.
Websites
Maureen Taylor's Blog
http://www.maureentaylor.com/blog/>
PhotoTree http://www.phototree.com/>
Above information published by
Weekly Tip: Is That My Great-Grandmother’s
Wedding Picture? By Family History Expos, Inc.
[newsletter@fhexpos.com], 25 February 2011
Family History Library (FHL) online film ordering
became a reality yesterday for many residents
of Utah. Like the new FamilySearch tree, online
ordering is being rolled out gradually to family
history centers (FHCs) in the United States and
Canada. Starting yesterday, patrons of FHCs
south of "Point of the Mountain" were given the
ability to place orders online. Point of the
Mountain divides the Salt Lake Valley on the
north from Utah Valley on the south.
The
film
ordering
is film.familysearch.org .
website
Anyone can place an order online after they
sign up for an account. The website uses the
same
FamilySearch
account
as
www.familysearch.org (the new website), the
new FamilySearch tree (new.familysearch.org),
FamilySearch Indexing, and the FamilySearch
Wiki.
Films are not delivered to the patron's home,
but to a family history center or library with FHL
film-loaning privileges. The patron must choose
a center before submitting an order.
Once online ordering is available to the area
served by an FHC, the FHC will no longer accept
in-person orders. Patrons can place an order
from any computer with an Internet connection,
such as those at home, work, a public library, or
an Internet cafe. To avoid liability issues,
patrons are not encouraged to use FHC
computers. When FHC computers are used to
place online film orders, to avoid identity theft,
patrons should take care that staff members
and other patrons are not watching.
An "Ordering Help" icon is available on
the website. The available help resources
include a User's Guide. Posted by lida larkin
momuv712@gmail.com
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By Gena Philibert Ortega
Utah South Area Gets Online Film
Ordering
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WEEKLY TIPS TO IDENTIFY PHOTOS
British Army World War I Service Records,
1914-1920
Approximately 5 million people served in the British
Army in World War I. Were your ancestors among
them? You could learn their names, ages, military
awards, physical descriptions and much more.
1901 England Census
Did your ancestors experience the beginning of the
20th century in England? Beatrix Potter did. This
collection contains details like names, ages,
occupations, birthplaces and more.
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar
(Index of Wills and Administrations), 18611941
See their last wishes — in their words. This index of
wills and probate records can provide names, death
dates and places and other details about ancestors
who passed away in England or Wales.
1891 England Census
The London-Paris telephone system launched.
Sherlock Holmes was published for the first time.
And Florence Nightingale trained nurses in her
famous school. Were your ancestors in England?
Published by Ancestry.com on 2/15/2011 online
Requirements for the LDS Young
Women in their Personal
Progress and Young Men in the
Duty to God award and Primary
in their Achievement Day
projects
Duty to God:
"Keep a written record of your family history.
Ask a parent or the ward family history
consultant to help you prepare a 4-generation
pedigree chart."
Personal Progress:
"When you participate in family history, you
come to understand your identity and individual
worth. Visit with your living relatives to learn as
much information about your family history as
possible. Then complete a pedigree chart of
your family and list the temple ordinances that
have been completed for each person."
Primary: Learning and Loving the Gospel:
"Prepare a pedigree chart with your name and
your parents’ and grandparents’ names. Prepare
a family group record for your family and share
a family story. Discuss how performing temple
work blesses families."
For more ideas for youth, go to this site:
http://www.ohanasoftware.com/?sec=ldswc
This is for the person looking for ideas for youth
family history activities. There are suggestions
for Family Home evening lessons designed to fill
youth program requirements and other goals. It
also steers you to YMYW, Primary, and Lessons
for ideas. Jerry
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1881 England Census
Where were your British ancestors when Winston
Churchill was six years old, living at St. James's Place
in London? Find how old they were, what they did
for work, the places they called home and more.
Find out how to trace
an African American
family line
in our free online class.
View the class
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Don't miss some of the
most popular UK collections
on Ancestry.com:
To see all cemeteries that Harry has
photographed, you can check this site:
wiki.familysearch.org and put “York County, PA”
in the search box, and there you will find the
cemeteries and a lot of other good sites that
have been posted by the Hartmans, Sylvia
Sonneborn, and various other people. Or visit
here:
http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/family
hart/pictures/HarrySenft/
02-09-2011 Created and added Jefferson
Cemetery, Codorus Twp, York, PA. Cemetery
was photographed and contributed by Harry
Senft and transcribed by Kathy Francis.
Web link:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/yccemete
ries.htm
Barrens Salem Union Cemetery (Now
United Lutheran Cemetery)
Washington Township, York County
Disk #12
Dillsburg Cemetery
Carroll Township, York County
Disk #31
http://theotherdisneys.com/pennsylvaniaheads
tones.htm Posted by Cameron
New Harmony Presbyterian
Cemetery in Chanceford Township York,
PA Disk #6 is now indexed.
Subject: Shaffer's Zion United Lutheran
Cemetery Cordorus Twp
http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/family
hart/pictures/HarrySenft/index.html#3-3 Shaffer's Zion United Lutheran
We found that we were short some 400 pictures
in this cemetery online. They are now added
and indexed.
Cemetery Disk #40 has be posted
1. Hamm Burial Ground, North Codorus
Township, York, Pennsylvania
2. Susquehanna Memorial Gardens, York
Twp, York, Pennsylvania
3. United Brethren Cemetery, Jefferson,
York, Pennsylvania (Redone)
Web link:
http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/family
hart/pictures/HarrySenft/
HARRY E SENFT
3048 SOLAR DR
DOVER, PA 17315
717) 792-9253
#Genealogy -Partial Prospect Hill Cemetery
in Yorkhttp://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/family
hart/pictures/HarrySenft/index.html#6-10
Don & Jeanine Hartman
FamilyHart
http://familyhart.info
twitter-@familyhart
***************************************
www.deceasedonline.com has added 105,000
burial records for St Peter's Cemetery and
Churchyard in Aberdeen City to its growing database.
Posted by Dick Eastman 2/11
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As Harry Senft is able to photograph local York
County tombstones, and Kathy Francis and our
friends from Utah, Don and Jeanine Hartman,
have finished the indexing, Harry is sharing the
disks.
Web link:
http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/family
hart/pictures/HarrySenft/
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CEMETERY POSTING NEWS
Season Two: The Generations Project
The second season of BYU TV’s The Generation
Project premiers Monday, March 28 at
7:00 p.m. MDT. The Generations Project is a
reality-based
family
history
show
that
uncovers the remarkable stories and family
histories of everyday people. The people take a
hands-on journey to learn about their
ancestors, and in the process they discover
more about themselves.
second season of The Generations
Project “takes you from Germany to Holland to
The
New York's 'Little Pakistan' and everywhere in
between, following eleven journeys into the
past: the Denkes explore the origins of their
children’s life-threatening genetic disease. Kerry
hopes his ancestors will help him find his
estranged son, and Ty delves into his
complicated heritage as a son of Nazi Germany.
They, along with eight other guests, engage
with the past to understand the present.”
BYU TV is available through many local satellite
and cable companies. In addition, The
Generations Project can be viewed live online
at http://www.byutv.org (you'll need to register
for a free account to view the show live). All
episodes are also available to be viewed
immediately after airing
at http://www.byutv.org/thegenerationsproject/
episodes (no registration required).
A link to more information has been placed on
the home page of
the FamilySearch.org website.
NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES TOOLS
Want to find naturalization and probate records
DO WE HAVE A FAMILY HISTORY CENTER,
A FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY, OR A
FAMILYSEARCH CENTER IN OUR AREA?
December 2010
Help Center
A FamilySearch center is a facility sponsored
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints to help people learn more about their
ancestors.
Both the Family History Library (in Salt Lake
City, Utah) and its branch facilities (called
“family history centers”) are FamilySearch
centers.
FamilySearch centers often offer these services:
* Access to genealogical records
* Free classes
* One-on-one assistance
Shanna Jones
Note: We are still a Family History Center (but
not a Family History Library). We also fall under
the general heading of FamilySearch Centers.
And from Lance McIntosh: Family History
Centers have not been renamed. FamilySearch
Center is an umbrella term being used for all
"brick and Mortar" FamilySearch facilities.
FamilySearch Centers include Family History
Centers, the Family History Library in Salt Lake
City, the FamilySearch Library in Riverton UT,
and affiliate libraries (public facilities with access
to the Church's film collection).
The updated familysearch.org provides the
ability to search for any FamilySearch Center in
a particular location, with the exception of the
affiliate libraries. We are hopeful that affiliate
libraries will be included soon.
website at
http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research/res_
tools_pathfinders.shtml. (Information from
Feedblitz, Renee Zamora)
CHECK OUT THIS FANTASTIC
SITE
http://stevemorse.org/
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are available at the New York State Archives'
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of New York? Try pathfinders. The pathfinders
Family History
Consultants and
Priesthood Leaders
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The purpose of this site is to provide you
with specific training, resources, and
collaboration tools to assist you in
serving Patrons of FamilySearch. Family
History Consultants, Center Directors
and Volunteers, Priesthood leaders and
Missionaries can all benefit greatly from
these resources.
In order to get started, you'll first need a
FamilySearch account. To get one, click
"Sign In" and then on the next screen
click "Register.” If you already have a
FamilySearch account simply click "Sign
in" and then on the next page enter your
information
and
click
here:
https://familysearch.org/consultant/
NEWS FROM DICK EASTMAN
Subscribe at http://www.eogn.com
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WEDDING PHOTOS SINCE 1840
http://www.vam.ac.uk/things-todo/wedding-fashion/home
1911 Scottish Census to be Released
in April The Registrar General for Scotland has
announced that the 1911 census will be released
on Tuesday 5 April 2011. This census details
information collected from more than 4.7 million
Scots – marking a century since the data was first
gathered. The records will include the name,
address, age, occupation, birthplace and marital
status of everyone counted in the 1911 census,
as well as details about their children. 2/8/2011
ENGLISH RECORD COLLECTIONS - Family
history enthusiasts researching in England will
certainly relish the nine English record collections
updated this week online at FamilySearch.org.
The new English records come from Norfolk,
Cheshire, and Warwick. Other new collections or
updates include Brazil Catholic church records,
Canada deaths, Italy civil registration, county
marriages from New York, the New Jersey 1885
state census, and Switzerland church records.
2/11/11
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OHANA SOFTWARE - The following
announcement was written by Real-Time
Collaboration, Inc.: Historically genealogists have
been limited in their collaboration efforts by
widespread incompatibility between programs and
websites. As of February 9, 2011, Ohana
Software LLC and Real-Time Collaboration Inc.
have joined forces in a leap towards bringing
together the web pedigrees and the thousands of
desktop pedigrees found around the world.
2/11/11
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TINY COMPUTER - I have written often about
small, battery-powered computers that can easily
be taken on genealogy research trips and
elsewhere. These handheld computers are great
for portable uses, but I often wonder "How small
can a computer be and still be useful?"
The 1890 Census Substitute
In March of 2000, Ancestry.com launched the 1890 Census
Substitute, a collection of city directories and other records
that have helped fill that void left by the lost 1890 census.
A list of the many collections included in the substitute can
be found below the search box on that page, and all of
them are searchable from that page. 1/23/11
Ancestry.com
Page
http://www.familyhistoryexpos.
com/
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NEW FAMILY HISTORY EXPOS
SITE UNVEILED
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Researchers at the University of Michigan
apparently have succeeded in downsizing even
further: their new computer fits on the tip of a
pen. 2/25/11
IPOD TOUCH - A newsletter reader writes:
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Also new U.S. records for Delaware, New
Hampshire, Texas, and Virginia. More fascinating
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collections were published this week online at
FamilySearch.org—39 million new records, to be
exact. The England and Wales 1901 Census will
certainly be a favorite for British and Welsh
researchers. And how about one million images
added for Italy? Or India Land Ownership
Pedigrees? 3/3/11
Record collections for Mexico and the U.S.
were expanded this week. The Mexico 1930
Census is drawing closer to completion with the
addition of the state of Pueblaóway. Way to go
FamilySearch volunteers! Patrons will also find
new records from Missouri, North Carolina, New
Jersey, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia 3/9/11
Can you believe that 11.5 million new
international records were added this week to
familysearch.org? And 9 million of those were
from Hungary. New Records for Argentina, Brazil,
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Germany, Italy, Philippines, Spain, U.S., and
Zimbabwe Also Added. 12/15/11
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9 Million Browsable Images from 9
Countries Added This Week New Records for
Brazil, Canada, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Italy, Mexico, U.S., and Venezuela. The bounty
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just keeps coming from FamilySearch’s digital
pipeline. Mexico collections earned the top spot
this week, with nearly 5 million new browsable
images added. The Mexico records date from
1545 To 1984. 2/23/11
The Family Memory Game with photos of
ancestors. MyHeritage.com, in partnership with
AncestryGames.com, has created a new family
memory card game. 3/14/11
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RESTORING OLD PHOTOS - Damien Haw
has written a great tutorial on restoring an old
torn photograph using Photoshop although I
suspect the same techniques can be used in all of
the other sophisticated photo editing programs. It
is an interesting step-by-step instruction in using
many of the available tools.
Professional Photograph Restoration Workflow
may be found at
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effectstutorials/professional-photograph-restorationworkflow/
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS Newsletter reader James Morgan sent along
information about a web site that contains free
transcriptions of over 10,000 Revolutionary War
Pension Applications. The site is sponsored by the
American Revolution Association and currently
contains 10,496 pension applications and 70
roster transcriptions, all from the Southern
Campaign. 3/8/11 Here is one typical pension
application as found at
http://southerncampaign.org/pen/#m: Pension
application of Dan Alexander R88 Sarah fn23SC
NGS CONFERENCE - The following
announcement was written by the U.S. National
Genealogical Society (NGS): (7 March 2011) –
The National Genealogical Society (NGS) selected
Charleston, South Carolina, for its 2011 Family
History Conference in part to commemorate the
150th Anniversary of the Civil War, which began
with Confederate artillery firing upon Fort Sumter
12 April 1861. 3/9/11
Family Tree Maker for Macintosh has been
available for immediate download from the Mac
App Store since the day that store opened. (See
my previous article at http://goo.gl/BJBK3.)
Ancestry.com has since issued a new version,
19.2.1, that is now available in the United
Kingdom, supporting Ancestry.co.uk, and also is
available in Australia, supporting
Ancestry.com.au. 3/9/11
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Touch, sometimes called "an iPhone without the
phone." There is no monthly charge for an iPod
Touch, and it is much, much more powerful than
a Palm device. 3/2/11
FAMILYSEARCH.ORG RECORDS POSTED -
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"My Palm T5, on which I carry my genealogy
using GedWise, does not work with Windows 7. I
don't want to pay $30/month to carry my own
data on a smart phone. What is my best
option??" My suggestion: purchase an iPod
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Thumb drives, often called flash drives or
jump drives or other names, are great inventions.
I try to carry one in my pocket at all times. These
are great for portable and backup storage. Are
you at a relative's house and want to have copies
of the family photos he or she has on the
computer? Copy the photos to your thumb drive.
Meet someone at a genealogy conference who
has a text file with information you have been
seeking? Copy it to your thumb drive. 3/25/11
One web site should interest any genealogist or
historian. WhatWasThere.com has a simple
purpose: provide a platform where anyone can
easily upload a photograph with two
straightforward tags to provide context: Location
and Year. If enough people upload enough
photographs in enough places, together we will
weave together a photographic history of the
world. 3/29/11
Notes from RootsTech – Feb
2011 – Salt Lake City, Utah
Questions and Answers with Elder Richard G.
Scott 1.
nFS - Support Sources are coming in
the next few months.
With that you can use evidence to
support your conclusions
2.
Ability to model and edit info – clean
up relationships
3.
No wonder there is so much
duplication – I think there must be
200,000 cousins submitting info on my
5th g-grandfather.
4.
Be sure you study the Leader’s
Guide that’s online and was released
about a month ago.
5.
There is a new updated standard of
GEDCOM coming later this year
6.
By the end of the year we hope to
have new Family Search open to nonmembers
7.
One of the possibilities is “on demand”
digitization of records – where you can
help with the actual indexing
8.
New feature coming that allows you to
choose the right name and then mark
the other names as Not!
9.
We are adding “search and go to”
inside Family Tree
10. Plan to use an affiliate’s product on
your desktop to keep track of your
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RESEARCHERS - Geneapro.com has launched
a new free website designed to bring together
experienced genealogy researchers with people
looking for accurate historical ancestral records
and information. You won't find any genealogy
records on the site. Instead, you will find contact
information for people who are willing to find the
information for you. Most of these researchers do
charge fees for their efforts. 3/11/11
IFAMILY - Warwick Wilson sent a note saying
that he has updated iFamily for Leopard to
V2.522. This is a popular Macintosh genealogy
program that is noted for its very intuitive method
of displaying data on the screen. iFamily for
Leopard is much more visual than most other
genealogy programs:
http://www.ifamilyforleopard.com 3/12/11
I love Dropbox and have written about it
several times. See http://goo.gl/rnZVf for my past
articles about this excellent online backup and file
copying program for Macintosh and Windows. I
know from comments posted here that a lot of
newsletter readers are also using Dropbox.
3/12/11
At the recent RootsTech conference in Salt
Lake City, the busiest booth in the exhibits hall
usually was at the company selling a one-and-ahalf-pound battery-operated scanner called the
Flip-Pal. 3/14/11
Late last night, Microsoft officially released
Internet Explorer 9 to the public. If you are a
Windows Vista or Windows 7 user, you will want
to obtain this new version immediately. Microsoft
has updated the web browser with several
security fixes, faster performance, and bug fixes.
3/16/11
A number of newsletter readers have written to
tell that Mozilla has officially announced the final,
official, release of Firefox version 4.0. Past
versions of Firefox have been considered by most
users to be safer, faster, and more bug-free than
Internet Explorer. 3/23/11
I have owned a Mi-Fi card and love it. It is a
small device that connects to cell towers and
provides wireless data connections for laptop
computers and other devices when traveling. The
Mi-Fi card connection speed is about the same as
that of a DSL broadband connection. Unlike wi-fi
wireless, it has a range of about five miles. As
long as I am within range of a cell phone tower, I
have always had a high-speed Internet
connection. 3/24/11
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Keep the focus that we are trying to
provide temple ordinances for our
deceased ancestors. The purpose in
new FamilySearch is to make it easier to
submit names. However, just a census
record is not quite enough – find
another source that agrees with the
census information so we can prevent
duplication. You don’t have to have
checked every tax record or court record
or land record before you submit the
names for temple work.
23. Read D&C 121 – and Elder Scott
suggests that we need to remember we
are to learn patience. Before he closed
the devotion, he invoked a blessing on
family history consultants and those
trying to get the temple work done for
their ancestors.
24. When
we
wonder
what
new
technology will have the most impact on
family history in the near future, we
need to remember that the Spirit of
Elijah will continue to have the greatest
impact.
25. New web site to check out:
familytech.familysearch.org. It’s a
Genealogists View.
26. It discusses such things as The ABCs
of GPS; OCR & Voice Recognition; GPS &
Image tagging; Hard drives; To Share or
Not.
27. In Addition you can find: What’s new
in Technology: buttons to click, on
including Computing – computers,
mobile, networks, tablets; Software –
file sharing, image editing (saving
photos & amateur photo restoration);
GPS; Devices - camera, printers, GPS,
Storage (flash drives); Internet – social
networks, email, DNA, Google search
tricks, print sections of a web page; How
To’s – digitization, saving photos &
documents, CD & DVDs as medium,
storage; Contribute – share your
knowledge.
28. As you can see, there’s something of
interest for everyone.
Thanks, lida.
Lida Larkin [momuv712@gmail.com]
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pedigree and not just on new Family
Search. Most offer a free basic program
that will interface with newFamilySearch.
11. We are creating a better user interface
for the pedigree in 6 months
12. New affiliate product called Sharing
Time that uses overlays on new family
search – you can use the 30 day free
trial to see how effective it is – it uses
the browser in a better way – is a good
add-on program
13. There definitely has been a significant
reduction in duplication – we will
continue to work at that
14. In newFamilySearch there is a way to
choose the historical place – type it in
and don’t click on normal place – then
go back & choose the normal place to
allow two name places to be there (not
sure how this works yet)
15. Because of the changes of boundaries
in all countries and even states and
counties, it would be more collaborative
if they could be listed both the old and
new way.
16. New FamilySearch/FamilyTree will be
evidence based with sources attached –
also ability to fix wrong information
17. To involve single adults – have a
Family History luau or carnival games
that will include a 1st hand story to
“prick” their hearts – how to fill out a
pedigree – how to do indexing
18. Perhaps a ward could have a
beginning class and an advanced
research class
19. Honor your priesthood leaders – if
they don’t get involved, pray for them –
respect the keys they hold – that’s the
only way for the Holy Ghost to be
involved.
20. Go to the home of the Priesthood
leaders and help them find their
ancestors. Help them find stories of
their ancestors which will them lead
them to want to find dates and places.
21. This is also true for your ward people
– go to their homes and help them find
out about their ancestors and guide
them in finding the dates and places.
ROOTSTECH CONFERENCE
AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING
SALT LAKE CITY—If you missed the popular
inaugural RootsTech 2011 conference, you can
now at least get a sampling of what all the
excitement was about. The wildly popular new
technology and family history conference held
last month in Salt Lake City, Utah, made its
keynote addresses and a few other popular
presentations available online today free of
charge. The six free presentations can be
viewed at RootsTech.org.
Tech Tip of the Month
Doing remote research at a family history
center or library? Don't forget that a small
flash drive can save you time. By putting your
electronic findings on the drive, you don't
have to make costly copies of documentation
or microfilm print outs. These small drives can
cost as little as $10 and are even storable on
your
keys
you
carry
every
day!
Source: Tony Bandy, Internet Genealogy
Newsletter
Vol 1 Num 5, Moorshead
Magazines Ltd.
19th Century Photographs
Did you know that the ideal temperature for
storing old photos is 65 degrees with 30-50%
humidity? This website has excellent resources
for identifying, preserving, cleaning and
restoring old photos: phototree.com
Ancestral Quest, as you know, is the commercial
program from which PAF 5 was created.
Incline Software, the developer of Ancestral
Quest, has recently made a totally free version
available. It is known as "Ancestral Quest Basics."
It can be downloaded from this web page:
http://www.ancquest.com/AQBasics.htm
For users of PAF 4 or PAF 5, Ancestral Quest
Basics is a completely free program that will feel
like an upgrade to PAF 5, which includes free
synchronization with New FamilySearch.
With the help of volunteers, 6 new language
modules are available (in addition to English), and
work with both the complete Ancestral Quest
program as well as the free Ancestral Quest
Basics. These are:
Spanish -- Complete translation. Available for Free
to all users.
German -- Complete translation. Available for Free
to FamilySearch Centers and temples, but there is
a nominal fee for personal use.
French -- Complete translation. Available for Free
to all users.
Norwegian -- Partial Translation. Available for Free
to all users.
Swedish -- Partial translation. Available for Free to
all users.
Chinese -- Partial translation. Available for Free to
all users.
You can download any of the above language
modules from this web page:
http://www.ancquest.com/LangList.htm
We hope to make some or all of these language
modules available through LANDesk in the near
future, but wanted to give the FamilySearch
Center staff members who subscribe to this list a
heads up that they are available now, and can be
used both on Center computers as well as home
computers. (I'm using the term "FamilySearch
Centers" to mean the Family History Library,
Family History Centers, etc.)
If you have patrons who are looking for a free
upgrade to PAF, which includes synchronization to
New FamilySearch, you could let them know that
they can try Ancestral Quest Basics.
Gaylon Findlay
Incline Software
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Archiving & Preserving
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COMMENTS ON
NEWFAMILYSEARCH
so wrong data does not get perpetuated. My
cousins in these groups express the same
thoughts. Working together really does work.
We need to be careful to clean up the record on
the person we are submitting. Just because it is
listed as ready does not mean the information is
accurate. NFS is not intended to be a perfect
data file, but it does that very well also. This is
because the powers to be want to retain every
submission that was ever made on every
person. We need to accept that fact.
On the other hand, if we want something
perfect we should work on our own personal
data file. It's surprising to me how many
changes I've made in my own data file when
someone else puts forth documentation to
prove his point. As a group, we have many
more resources than any one individual.
I think working together like this is what the
church envisioned for NFS. I want my lines in
NFS to be as complete and accurate as possible,
first, because it looks better to me; but, second,
NEWS FROM ANOTHER
FAMILYSEARCH SUPPORT
MISSIONARY
I am serving as a FamilySearch Support
missionary as well. It has been a wonderful
addition to my already busy life. The
FamilySearch Supervisor, over the missionaries,
announced Friday that we had just received our
2,000,000th case. Yes, 2 million cases have
been created by either an email or a telephone
call coming into FamilySearch Support! It is
getting busier all the time, and we have fewer
missionaries to help. I recently wrote an article
about the mission for a little weekly Senior
Sampler magazine here in St. George, Utah. I
will share that with you now, as it gives insight
to the mission for any of you making it a matter
of prayer and consideration.
Shanna Jones
SHANNA JONES POSTS A DESCRIPTION
OF BEING A SUPPORT MISSIONARY FOR
NFS
In April 2010, I began the training to answer
phone calls and email for the Family History
Department (FamilySearch) Worldwide Support
Services. I work from home, set my own hours,
and learn a lot about FamilySearch and its
products. Worldwide Support is open 24/7,
taking phone calls and answering emails. In the
North America group, we can be online anytime
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I have found the best solution for this is to work
with as many relatives as you can to collectively
fix it. I have established email cousins groups to
work with me. I have 130 cousins in a group for
one of my lines, over 80 in another group, and
several smaller groups. These groups are
comprised of cousins whose email addresses I
found in NFS. I have had nothing but
cooperation from all of them. If I ask them to
remove a dispute or delete an incorrect record
they submitted, they work with me on that
issue. Working together like this to correct NFS
as well as our own data file has been a real joy
to me. If we find that changes are made by
cousins not yet in our group, we invite them to
join. My new found cousins, who are mostly
known only by their email addresses, make me
appreciate being part of our big family. Besides
emails at the group level, I get many emails
one-on-one. Remember, NFS is our data file not
my data file.
The Church Support Missionaries (CSM) do a
fantastic job, I'm sure, under trying
circumstances. We should all be grateful for
them.
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The problem is that we all want it to be a
perfect data file. I want that also, and I spend a
lot of time cleaning it up. I lovingly refer to NFS
as the church's Perpetual Work Program. Like
you, I get frustrated when something I fixed or
support fixed for me is messed up again. But I
do go back in and fix it again and again because
I know that the church folks who are working
on it are doing their best to make it better. I
want to do my share.
Missionaries are in groups, like zones, and the
people can be from all over the world. In my
group I have one Elder from Georgia, two
sisters in Pennsylvania, a leader in Las Vegas,
etc. We also have larger groups we are in and a
Skype Support group. When we are answering
phone calls or email questions, we can always
ask on Skype for a second opinion, or ask for
help finding an answer in the FamilySearch
Knowledge Base. We learn how to use Skype,
LANDesk (observing the patron’s computer), the
phone system, email etiquette, the Knowledge
Base, etc. We are serving from our own homes,
but we are interconnected using technology and
become close friends with people we work with
on a daily or weekly basis.
These LDS Mission calls can be from 12 months
to 30 months and they can be extended. They
need more missionaries in all of the queues
because FamilySearch is getting busier all the
time as more people start using the new tools
at
www.familysearch.org
and
https://new.familysearch.org . Missions are not
limited to couples. Single sisters and brothers
can serve. There is no age limit. Many
handicapped persons are serving.
There is a website with information about
serving
a
FamilySearch
mission:
http://familysearch.org/mission/. If you want to
know more, call Elder Winston Allred 1-801240-0850 or e-mail: mission@familysearch.org.
Missionaries should have a good understanding
of computers, along with good troubleshooting
and communication skills. It is helpful if they
have experience with family history products
(including FamilySearch.org, IGI, PAF, new
FamilySearch, and FamilySearch Indexing) and
have had previous experience as a ward family
history consultant, as a family history center
director or staff member, or as an extraction
program director or worker. Don’t let that list
scare you though; many of the missionaries did
not have those skills when they started this
mission. Any needed skills will be taught in
training. Skills on the list would be helpful, but if
you are willing to learn, they need you.
Never weary in well doing,
Shaunna
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Patrons call into 1-866-406-1830 and are
directed to different support queues. I handle
New FamilySearch Support and Product
Support, which covers FamilySearch.org and all
of the products there. They have different
queues for FamilySearch Indexing, Research
Support, and Family History Center Support.
Missionaries can serve wherever their expertise
might be. Sometimes I do FamilySearch
Community Support and answer questions at
the Wiki at wiki.familysearch.org or on
Facebook on many of the FamilySearch pages
found there. I learned a lot about FamilySearch
and all of the programs while training during the
first eight weeks of service. Most of the new
insight I get is from attending the online
meetings held each week. Each queue has
training meetings, and there are weekly
Tuesday mission meetings and occasional
department meetings where we hear the inside
scoop from the product managers. Once a
month, they have a devotional or other spiritual
meeting with a guest speaker. All of the
meetings are online, streaming live over the
Internet. They are also recorded to watch later
if you aren’t available at the time.
When I was in training I was sure I wouldn’t
like taking phone calls; I thought that would be
too scary for me so I was going to stick with
answering emails. But, I found I was good at
taking the calls that can come in from anywhere
in the world. I enjoy talking to the patrons and
helping them solve their family history problems
or teaching them how to use the FamilySearch
programs. I had to get a headset for my phone
and one for my computer that I used for
training and talking on Skype. Missionaries need
high speed Internet, a land line phone and a
minimum of 15 hours of time each week that
they can serve. We get to pick our own hours,
and we can change them each month if
necessary.
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from 6:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. except
Mondays when we close at 5:00 p.m. for family
home evening. We don’t really close; we just let
the Asia Pacific team take over, and you might
get a missionary from Australia or New Zealand
if you call at those times
Thank you for your help,
Tim Gruber
610-791-9294
I got an e-mail from Dorothy I., one of our
genealogy club members. She has provided
some info on a new genealogy search
engine. I tried it out and it works pretty
well. It mines data from many different
sites and displays it in one place. You can
do your search from one website instead of
search at each individual site.
Have fun!
Mark Gagermeier
Boulder, Colorado – March 16 2011 ––Mocavo.com
™ (www.mocavo.com) a free search engine geared
toward genealogists and people interested in
learning more about their family history, launches a
new search engine for genealogy at this site:
http://www.mocavo.com/
Try Mocavo.com - a Genealogy
Search Engine
Most Recent Genealogy
Records by Country
Use this handy guide to find the most recent
genealogy records on the internet organized by
country and region by clicking here. Or go to
genealogyintime.com and click on Most Recent
Genealogy Records by Country (left side). While
you are there, check out other great genealogy
tips and strategies.
Submitted by Joyce Stark
Getting the Most Out of
FamilySearch.org
Did you know that due to some of the
contract agreements with particular record
repositories, you will be able to see more of
the actual images if you are logged in on
FamilySearch.org?
Source: Jim Green, RootsTech Conference,
FH Consultant workshop #1.
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Here's the link for the latest version of our flyer
for the effort to gain better access to the older
Pennsylvania
state
death
certificates:
http://users.rcn.com/timarg/DC-Flyer3.rtf.
By
always going to this link to make more copies,
you always have the newest version. The old
versions are still okay to give out, but it's better
to have the newest one available for making
copies.
We are pushing to get the PA State Legislature
to make death certificates after 50 years and
possibly birth certificates after 100 years open
records even if they are not made available
online right now. Just making them open
records will not cost the State of Pennsylvania a
penny. If anything,, it would actually increase
revenues coming in because more people would
be able to request these records including
professional researchers. It never hurts to write
more than once. Please send write, email or call
Gov. Corbett and your own state legislators
asking them to support SB 361. The Latest
News section of our website explains this in
more detail: http://users.rcn.com/timarg/PaHRAccess.htm. Your help in this push would be
appreciated.
Seventeen states have already made their older
death certificates available online: Arizona,
Delaware,
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Maine,
Massachusetts,
Michigan,
Missouri,
New
Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and
West Virginia. For seven states there is
extracted data from death certificates available
online: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Illinois,
Louisiana, New Mexico and Washington. The
states of Arizona, Delaware, Maine, Texas,
Vermont, Washington and West Virginia now
have scanned images of their older state birth
records online. The links to the various states
(except Maine) can be found on the Vital
Records Currently Available Online section of
our website.
MOCAVO - A NEW GENEALOGY
SEARCH ENGINE
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MAKING DEATH CERTIFICATES IN
PENNSYLVANIA AVAILABLE
AFFILIATES
Question:
"Genealogy begins as an interest, becomes a
hobby, continues as an avocation, takes over
as an obsession, and in its last stage, is an
incurable disease."
Question:
In the Family History search under library
catalog and place search, I get the statement
(place unknown). I am searching for Pen-YVan England. I have also used Wales.
Monmouthshire, and Gwent, all to no avail.
Pen-Y-Van is a small village between Llandogo
and Trelleck. It has a Cemetery and some of
my ancestors are buried there. At one time
Pen-Y-Van was listed as a chapelry of
Llandogo; now I cannot find any reference to
Pen-Y-Van.
Answer:
The Family History Library Catalog search will
only list places for which it has books, fiche,
film or other resources. Apparently there are
none available for that area. You might try the
next larger jurisdiction.
Have you tired this link
http://granitegenealogytraining.blogspot.com/ ?
It would be a good place to send your students
for additional training. I did not see genealogy
bank listed there... Good luck with your class.
Pauline
Gaylon
Ohio Obituary Index
www.rbhayes.org/hayes/index/ This is an index
to over 1,600,000 obituaries, death and
marriage notices, etc. from Ohio from the 1810s
to the present day. Copies of any obituaries
found in the index can be obtained for a
nominal charge. If you have Ohio ancestors,
check the index for them. Obituaries can be a
great source of information about an ancestor.
Source: Diane L. Richard, Internet Genealogy,
Oct/Nov 2010
Civil War Tip of the Week
The "Panoramic Maps" collection at the
Library of Congress' American Memory page
has bird's-eye views of hundreds of U.S.
towns and cities, many of which date to within
a few years of the Civil War. You might be
able to see the buildings where your Civil War
ancestors lived, worked, shopped, and
worshipped. Visit American Memory, click on
"Map,” and browse the Panoramic Maps
collection.
Source: David A. Norris, Internet Genealogy
Newsletter, Vol 1 Num 5, Moorshead
Magazines
Ltd.
[general@internetgenealogy.com]
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Answer:
Please let me make you aware that all three
of the commercial LDS-oriented family tree
programs - Ancestral Quest, Legacy and
RootsMagic - have FREE versions that allow
the user to FREELY record their genealogy
and
FREELY
sync
that
data
with
newFamilySearch. There is no need to
suggest that members "start spending
money." Whether a new user wants to
start with PAF for FREE or with one of the
others
for
FREE,
the
biggest
difference for members in this age of
newFamilySearch
is
that
the
other
three allow for syncing with newFamilySearch
for
FREE
and
might
be
a
worthwhile alternative to starting with PAF,
which
does
not
have
that
important option.
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Many years ago I read a quote and didn't
write it down. I was wondering if you have
heard of it or know anyone who might have. I
believe it was in a magazine, Genealogical
Helper. It started out: Genealogy begins as an
interest, ? and becomes an incurable disease.
Any help will be appreciated.
It lets you quickly find out who changed or
contributed information and sets up an email to
contact all of those that have contact
information so you can send them a message
saying that they have contributed to your family
tree and would they be willing to exchange
notes.
You can split the screen so newFamilySearch
shows as well as what you're working on in
Sharing Time.
It crawls your family tree and allows you to
navigate quickly. There's a ancestor crawl, an
ancestor circle, a descendant crawl and an
update crawl. It will be fun to discover how
they all work.
It lets you navigate your family tree quickly and
check temple ready and reserve the names
easily. It also will let you click and see what
piece of information is missing if they are nearly
temple ready except for one missing piece of
info. It will also show you additional sources
where you might find the missing info.
It will allow you to search by name or the PID person identification number. But the most
exciting part to me is that it lets you use
Ancestor Split. That allows you to go into the
combined records and split out a person who
doesn't belong. Wow! That alone makes it
worthwhile.
You can sign up for a 30 day free trial, and if it
started before April 1st, you can get a year's
subscription after the 30 days for $10.
Otherwise it costs $15 a year. It looks like it is
certainly worth the money. I'm really excited
about it.
The free Resources include: Cousin Connect,
Ellis Island, FamilySearch, FindAGrave, Google
Books, Internment.net, The Guild of One-Name
Studies, My Heritage, Live Roots, Roots Web,
and Surname Web. The Cost ones (which many
will be available in family history centers)
include:
Ancestry.com,
Archives.com,
FamilyTree
DNA,
Footnote.com,
Genealogy.com,
Genealogy
Bank.com,
Geni.com, FamilyLink.com, Footnote.com, and
World Vital Records.com.
At this point it's so new (2 months old) that
there are still improvements to be made - like
being able to add dates to the search to narrow
down the search. That is coming. You can also
help someone sign in like you can do on
newFamilySearch and the information will be
sent to their email if you need to be notified
about changes.
Thanks to lida larkin for the review
Concerning the Millennium, President Brigham
Young, J.D. 9:317, July 13, 1862, said:
"The gospel is now preached to the spirits in prison,
and then the time comes for the servants of God to
officiate for them, the names of those who have
received the gospel in the spirit will be revealed by
the angels of God and the spirits of just men made
perfect; also the places of their birth, the age in
which they lived, and everything regarding them that
is necessary to be recorded on earth, and they will
then be saved so as to find admittance into the
presence of God, with their relatives who have
officiated for them."
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“Sharing Time” is definitely a wonderful
addition to newFamilySearch. It puts
overlays on newFamilySearch to help you. It
lets you do one click searches and collaborate
with people who have added things to your
lines and lets you be notified if any changes are
made or will help you if you hit a brick wall.
Just to try it out after the webinar was over, I
went into the pedigree tree with details and
typed in Conrad J Larkin and clicked on the list
of free resources and then on FindAGrave and it
showed his information in the St. George
Cemetery with his birth date and place and his
death date and place. It also included a picture
of the headstone and the cemetery and his
death certificate and it tells the location of the
grave. Amazing! I'm sure you won't find that
for every ancestor but how fun to find all that
when we hadn't contributed it to FindAGrave.
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“SHARING TIME” REVIEW
ANSWER FROM A LANDESK
ADMINISTRATOR:
It is a project that will require:
1) A decision to implement it
2) Permission from management to pursue
it
3) Time to design it
4) Time to program it
5) Time to debug it
6) Time to test it
7) Time to beta test it
8) Time to write up a memo to go out to
centers
9) Have 15 or so people provide feedback
10) Go through editing
11) Go through translation
12) Write the knowledge documents
13) Time to provide training to Area
Support
15) Send the information to Area Managers
16) Wait for Area Managers to communicate
it to centers
17) Time to do a staged roll out
So, it hasn't been implemented yet. J
Aren't these projects fun? Lynn Shaw,
LANDesk Administrator /Engineer
FamilySearch
Now Available!
"TO TURN THE HEARTS" - Leader's Guide to
Temple and Family History Work. This new
excellent 21-page booklet of instructions can be
accessed on-line in two ways:
1. Go to lds.org > Menu > Serving in the
Church > Melchizedek Priesthood >
Leader Resources > Family History -- or
click on link
2. If you are registered as a Priesthood
Leader, or with a family history calling,
go to New FamilySearch.org > Help
Center > Training and Resources (tab) >
E-Learning Courses. It is listed under the
Family History Priesthood Courses.
Every leader with family history responsibilities
from the Area Family History Advisors to the
Stake and Ward leaders to the FH consultants
should be familiar with this booklet. Download a
copy for your review and use.
Google Books
Google Books is an incredible resource for
family history research and is constantly
being updated with new material. I have
written more extensively about this on my
blog [Click on the word blog].
Submitted by Ben Walker
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QUESTION: Do we have any estimate if
and when the LANDesk will be taking over
the programs on the computers? (that we
did a survey on asking if LANDesk should
take over the FHC computers remotely.) I
am eagerly looking forward to it. I think we
have LDS gremlins and they sneak in
overnight and change things around on the
computer.
Maxine in NW Kansas
14) Time to provide training to
Headquarters Support
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LANDESK ON FHC COMPUTERS
Does Anyone Know? I have been looking
for information on my father and his family for
54 years. The only information I have is as
follows: George Battley died 3 November
1957 in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri. I think he may
have been born 27 August 1899 or 1895 in
Boston, Massachusetts, but I have been
unable to find any record of his birth. His
parents may have been named Philip and
Lena Grace Battley, but I cannot find any
information for them either. My mother, Mary
Ellen Rush, was his second wife. I know he
lived in the St. Louis, Missouri, area before
they moved to Rolla, Missouri. We never knew
of any relatives on his side of the family nor
met any of them. If anyone can help, please
contact
Mary
Norton
at
nortonmarya@hotmail.com
Can You Help? I have a question I hope you
can help me with. I have an ancestor who
served as a justice of the peace in Petrolia PA
in the 1880s. I'd like to know more about the
duties of the justice of the peace in PA. Can
you point me to a website or resource that
would describe those duties?
Thanks
very
much,
[rkells2@verizon.net]
Bob
Kells
Technology Tips
This is a great site for genealogists and family
historians, beginning and experienced. There is a
little bit of everything and more added daily.
http://familytech.familysearch.org/
If the sources don't match, don't assume that
the information they provide is incorrect. If
you have two different dates of birth, is it
possible there were actually two different
people? There are many reasons records can
give differing information, but keep yourself
open to the possibility that records you think
are for the same person are actually for two
different people.
Source: Michael John Neill, Genealogy Tip of
the Day
To Grandmother's House We
Go!
A Family Activity - "For our trip to
grandmother’s house, here are four ways with
family history and genealogy to have fun and
make this a family activity. First, we're going
on a Virtual Vacation. Then, we'll take a Walk
Down Memory Lane. Third, we're going to
have the sweet experience of re-building
Grandmother's House. And finally, we're going
to create a Family Picture Wall." Read all
about these fun ideas.
Source: James W. Petty, AG, CG, Meredian
Magazine, 3 Feb 2011
Finding Online Images
Photographs help genealogists tell the story of
their ancestors. When using images for a family
history narrative, remember that in addition to
any photos you have of an ancestor, to include
photos that tell the story of their life from a
historical or locality perspective. Look for
images from the military, maps, store catalogs,
yearbooks, postcards and more. Read the full
post for websites to help you find images of
interest
in
your
ancestor's
lives.
Source: Gena Philibert Ortega
WorldVitalRecords.com blog
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Would like information on Henry Bender.
He was born between 1790 and 1800 probably
in Pennsylvania. He died at age 35 in Orrstown,
Southampton Township, Franklin County, PA.
He had 4 sons, all born in Orrstown. They were
John 1810, George 1814, Joseph 1815 and
Jacob October 15, 1816. If you can help,
please contact Ron Bender in Peoria, Arizona at
caronbender@aol.com
Discrepant Sources
Page
CAN YOU HELP THESE INDIVIDUALS
WHO ARE SEEKING THEIR
ANCESTORS?
Answer:
"Family History Centers now have access to
the Ancestry Family History Library Edition,
which I believe has all the genealogy
databases as the full Ancestry.com
offering. It has been widely miscommunicated that centers have access to the
Ancestry Library Edition. I had reported the
same thing, but when I got a chance to try it
for myself, I found it to be the Family History
Library Edition. The Ancestry Library Edition is
marketed and distributed by ProQuest.
Because ProQuest charges separately for
some content in the normal Ancestry.com
subscription, Ancestry.com and ProQuest
leave those databases out of the Library
Edition. These include some newspapers,
some obituaries, some books, PILI, BGMI, and
PERSI. Ancestry.com also leaves out most
tree-based databases. I double-checked and
all of these are available in family history
centers with the Ancestry Family History
Library Edition." Ancestry Insider, Feb 22,
2011.
Irish Civil Registration
FamilySearch.org is a great resource for Irish
research. The website includes four databases
that index Irish civil registration. These
databases include the following:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881
Ireland Deaths, 1864-1870
Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898
Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 18451958
It is helpful to understand a little bit about the
source of each database. Read the full story.
Source: FamilySearch Blog, 4 Feb 2011, posted
by Benson EC
The National Archives (Washington, DC) has a
new public search for online access to its
records collection, Online Pubic Access (OPA).It
contains all of the data and most functionality
from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC), all
web pages from Archives.gov, and selected
electronic records from Access to Archival
Databases (AAD) and the Electronic Records
Archives (ERA) - all through one search! Users
can conduct one search and receive results from
all of these resources in one result list. Try a
search at:
http://www.archives.gov/research/search/
Source: Generations Newsletter, Washington
DC FHC, Feb 2011
GENEALOGY QUOTES
"Genealogical research and temple
ordinance work are required of every Latter-day
Saint." - President Howard W. Hunter (Primer in
Genealogy, Ensign, February 1971, 4).
"It is with greater intensity that the hearts of the
fathers and mothers in the spirit world are
turned to their children than that our hearts are
turned to them." - Elder Melvin J. Ballard (Three
Degrees of Glory, 27).
"Let us think over these things, and pray to the
Lord to open the way, and the way will be
opened by which we will learn about our
ancestors. And when the time comes that we
have done all we can in a natural way, the veil
will be drawn aside, and the Priesthood behind
the veil will minister to the Priesthood in the
flesh, and reveal many things that we could not
ordinarily obtain knowledge of here; but we will
get them by this kind of revelation." - President
Charles W. Penrose ("Salvation for the Dead,"
The Utah Genealogical and Historical
Magazine, volume 4, no. 1, 18).
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When I use Ancestry.com at the Family
History Center, it says "Family History Library
Edition.” Is that different from the full version.
Is so, what is missing?
NARA
Page
Question:
FamilySearch Distribution
Center
Members of the genealogy press were invited
on a tour of the LDS Church's warehouse in
Salt Lake City that processes orders for
microfilm and for other supplies as well. If you
visit any of the 4,600+ local Family History
Centers and order microfilms for rent, your
order is sent electronically to this building....
I was surprised at
the amount
of automation
involved in this one
million square foot
facility. That's as
much space as 19
football fields.
Robotic arms pick up
the newly-arrived
microfilms, carry
them to the
appropriate shelf,
and place the films
in a pre-designated
shelf location for storage. When an order is
received, the same robotic arms retrieve the
appropriate microfilms from the shelf, and
take them to the shipping department located
only a few feet away. All this is done under
computer control. A human then packs the
box and places a previously-printed shipping
label on the outside of the box. The box is
then electronically transported to one of 22
shipping docks, awaiting pickup by a shipping
company.
CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
ANCESTRY.COM Is Now Available
at the York, PA, FHC
We are delighted to announce that the
"Institution" version of Ancestry.com is now
available at our Family History Center, and
at all family history centers worldwide!
As you may be aware, there is a cost for
personal subscriptions to ancestry.com.
Please visit our FHC soon to take advantage
of the world's largest online genealogy
website.
Learning to Misspell Your Ancestor’s Name –
View at
http://learn.ancestry.com/LearnMore/Article
.aspx?id=15970&o_iid=23560&o_lid=23560
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch Indexing Statistics

Total Records Completed: 574,652,800+

Total Records Indexed in 2011: 35,627,900+

Total Contributors in 2011: 60,000+

Current Projects: 100
View Current Projects
View Indexing Project Updates
Source: Eastman's Online Genealogy Blog,
February 10, 2011
Page
To read the rest of Dick's description of the
tour and to see larger images of the photos:
FS Distribution Center
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Dates in German Records
In early German Church records, pastors chose
"special" names for certain dates. This was
especially true when a christening, marriage or
burial fell on a Sunday or a feast day. However,
"moveable" feast days such as Easter posed special
challenges. This article explains more: German
Dates
RootsTech was a great success, and has enjoyed a host of
free publicity before, during, and after the conference. Feel
free to browse the Internet, or check out the Twitter feed
for the #rootstech hashtag, to see what people are saying
about this landmark event.
RootsTech 2.0 is scheduled for February 2-4, 2012, in Salt
Lake City, Utah, and you will be able to register at
rootstech.familysearch.org.
Indexing Newsletter
Our mailing address is:
FamilySearch
50 East North Temple St., JSMB 6E
Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3462
ANSWER TO MY QUESTION
I heard that there are many valuable family
history records in the basement of the United
Nations Building in Geneva, Switzerland, so I
sent an e-mail and inquired if this is true. After
many months, I have received this answer:
Dear
Sylvia
Sonneborn,
I apologize for the delay of my reply. The
League of Nations did not deal directly with
genealogy, but our archives include the Nansen
mixed group. That group is constituted mainly
by documents regarding Russian refugees
between
the
two
Wars.
These documents can be individuals’ letters
written by refugees themselves, lists of
refugees, administrative correspondence, etc.
They could give precious geanological
informations. Unfortunately, the classification of
that group is very complex, and it is almost
impossible to find informations about a precise
person
amongst
all
these
folders.
For the moment, we do not have enough
resources
to
digitize
these
records.
Jacques Oberson
LON Archives Registry, Records and Archives Unit
United Nations Library Geneva
Palais des Nations, B332, Tel: +41(022) 917 41 93
Genealogy "Tips of the Day"
By Michael John Neill
If a woman "disappears," remember that she
could be right where she always was, just living
with a new husband and a new last name.
Recently I located a deed where the wife was
listed first, instead of the husband. What it likely
means is that the money to buy the house in
Chicago was hers, in this case likely an
inheritance from her father. It is rare to see a
woman listed first in a legal record when she
and her husband are listed. If she is, try to
determine why.
Just because someone is left out of an
ancestor's will, it does not mean he was not the
ancestor's child. He might have received
property earlier or might have had a falling out
with the parent and been left out of the will for
that reason.
If you see your ancestor as a party on a quit
claim deed, pay close attention to whom he was
buying land from or to whom he was selling it.
A high proportion of quit claim deeds are among
relatives, generally to clean up an inheritance. A
quit claim means you are giving up your claim,
something that heirs are likely to do among
themselves after the owner passes away.
If you cannot find a naturalization record for an
ancestor, he might never have naturalized.
"Aliens" could own land, sell it, bequeath it, etc.
If economics were the main reason for
immigration, your ancestor might not have
become a citizen.
Is there one or two "boarders" with your family
in the census? Boarders could be nephews,
nieces, or other family members temporarily
staying in the household. Try and find them ten
years earlier or ten years later and keep the
names in case they appear in other documents.
Source: Genealogy Tip of the Day
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On February 10-12, 2011, over 3,000 people attended the
first annual RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The purpose of this conference was to bring together
family history enthusiasts and technologists to discover
new solutions in the field of genealogy. For more details
about the conference, refer to the previous article in the
December 2010 newsletter.
Should you have any further questions, please
do not hesitate to contact us again.
Sincerely,
Page
Genealogy Conferences in
2011
FOOTNOTE IS FREE AT FAMILY
HISTORY CENTERS
Name index and images of Massachusetts state
birth records from 1841-1915, as well as
Freedmen Bureau Virginia letters are now online
at FamilySearch.org. Further information about
these collections are at FS Blog
Print Friendly
May any web page print friendly. Go to
printfriendly.com and enter the URL for any website.
PrintFriendly cleans and formats web pages for a
perfect print experience. It removes Ads, Navigation
and unnecessary html code, leaving just the content
you really need. It is free and easy to use. You can
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PrintFriendly handy at all times.
Family Search is continually improving – for
instance, coming soon is “Indexing on the Fly”
which allows you to fix errors made by indexers.
I found my g-grandfather indexed as Isah Carr
when he is Isaiah Cox so I made that correction
in the 1880 census.
Note by Lida Larkin, Tips Newsletter
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2.5 Million Massachusetts
Birth Records &
Freedmen Bureau Virginia
Letters
Footnote.com recently updated their collection
of Confederate and Union Civil War Service
Records, including 14 titles of infantry, artillery,
and cavalry units within the United States
Colored Troops (USCT). President Lincoln
authorized African Americans to serve in combat
through the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Military and personal histories of these soldiers
are found in over 2 million USCT images on
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* 47th-55th Infantry
* 54th Massachusetts Infantry
* 55th Massachusetts Infantry
Posted by T. Mason
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"When the servants of the Lord
determine to do as He commands, we move
ahead. As we proceed, we are joined at the
crossroads by those who have been
prepared to help us. They come with skills
and abilities precisely suited to our needs.
And, we find provisions, information,
inventions, helps of various kinds, set along
the way waiting for us to take them up. It is
as though someone knew we would be
traveling that way. We see the invisible
hand of the Almighty providing for us...
When we are ready, there will be revealed
whatever we need–we will find it waiting at
the crossroads." - Boyd K. Packer ("That
They May Be Redeemed," address delivered
Regional Representative Seminar, April 1,
1977).
Footnote.com has the following popular
collections:
# Revolutionary War Pensions
# Pennsylvania Archives
# Civil War and Later Veterans Pension Index
# Civil War Service Records
# WWII US Air Force Photos
# Dawes Packets
# Missing Air Crew Reports, WWII
# FBI Case Files
Technology Tip of the Month--Adding
Footnotes in Microsoft Word
If you want to use keystrokes instead of your
mouse, use Ctrl+Alt+F to insert a footnote.
Double clicking on the footnote number at the
bottom of the page will return you to the place
in the text where you inserted the footnote.
Adding source citations to your family history
with Microsoft Word is easy, allows you to
document your research, and will help give your
work a professional appearance. By Kay Spears
Northamptonshire Look-up Exchange
This site lists numerous reference works on
Northamptonshire, England for which volunteers
are willing to search for specific entries.
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/anna.smart/nth.htm
Submitted by: Ray Thornley
"In the spirit world, on the
other side, the missionary work has greatly
increased; increased tremendously and the
membership of the Church over there is
increasing. It is imperative, therefore, that
we ourselves do something here to match
what is being done there. On the other side
of the veil the people there can only be
prepared for baptism and the saving
ordinances, therefore let us take more
notice of the genealogical program of the
Church." President David O. McKay,
(Remarks to General Church Genealogical
Committee, 1963). [Quoted in Elder D.
Todd Christofferson' talk How Beautiful Thy
Temples, Lord]
PENNSYLVANIA RESEARCH IN
BERKS AND CHESTER COUNTIES,
PENNSYLVANIA
This link is a treasure-trove for those searching
Pennsylvania families. Included are links to online
marriage & death records, newspapers, county
archives: Pennsylvania Research
Of special note is the amazing amount of data online
from the Chester County Archives. Free indexes
cover everything from available births, marriages
and deaths (1852-1855 and 1893-1907), to wills,
divorces, naturalization records, fugitive slave
records, peddler's petitions, Civil War Board of Relief
petitions, poor school children records, tax lists,
coroner's records, slave manumissions, deeds, World
War I Servicemen records, and so much more.
Chester County PA
"The Spirit of Elijah [is] the Holy Ghost
bearing witness of the divine nature of the
family." - Elder Russell M. Nelson ("A New
Harvest Time," Ensign, May 1998, 34).
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To add notes using Word 2007 and later
versions, go to the Reference tab on your
ribbon and click Footnote. The footnote will be
inserted automatically in the document without
a dialog box. If you want to use a dialog box,
click on the small arrow beside the word
Footnote to override the default and activate
the dialog box.

Page
Many of us writing family histories using our
word processing program will want to include
explanatory notes or source citations to
document our work. Fortunately, adding a
footnote or endnote is one of the easier tasks to
perform in Microsoft Word. For Word 2003 and
older versions, make sure you are viewing your
document in “print layout” view. Go to the
menu
bar
and
click
on
Insert>Reference>Footnote. In the Footnote
and Endnote dialog box that appears, first
choose either Footnote or Endnote, and then
select the Number format that you prefer and
click on it. Then click on Insert. By default,
Word places footnotes at the bottom of the
page and endnotes at the end of the document.
As you insert additional notes, Word will
automatically adjust the numbering for you.
Most Important Biographical Index
Now Available on WorldVitalRecords
The American Genealogical-Biographical Index
has accomplished what no other index has even
attempted. With the equivalent of more than
800 printed volumes and over 6.25 million
entries, the AGBI should be one of the first tools
used by genealogical researchers. The AGBI is
the culmination of over a decade of research
and indexing begun in 1936 by Fremont Rider,
who also founded The Godfrey Memorial
Library.
The question, then, is why would such a vital
index be largely unused by researchers? Those
who know about it maybe have been under the
false impression that it was only for New
England. And perhaps those who don't know
about it haven't had access since it has had
minimal distribution. Now, however, the ABGI is
available at WorldVitalRecords.com.
The AGBI, containing all 12 volumes of
the First Census of the United States (in 1970),
offers an easy way to find information about the
lives of many American men and women. It also
includes the 43 volumes of records for Colonial
soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War.
This index also includes more than 2 million
Boston Transcript entries that have never been
published elsewhere. Nearly half of all
references within the AGBI do not appear in any
other place. The ABGI is the largest and most
important genealogical research ever published.
Click here to access the database. Posted by
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Elder Russell M. Nelson, of the Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles, spoke in the
April 2010 general conference about
ways in which temples and family
history work strengthen families.
"Consider the spiritual connections that are
formed when a young woman helps her
grandmother enter family information into a
computer or when a young man sees the name
of his great-grandfather on a census record,"
Elder Nelson said. "When our hearts turn to our
ancestors, something changes inside us. We
feel part of something greater than ourselves.
Our inborn yearnings for family connections are
fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors
through sacred ordinances of the temple.
"Because of the importance of this work, the
Church has built temples closer to the people,
and family history research is being facilitated
as never before. Methods to find and prepare
names for temple ordinances are also
improving."
He noted, "While temple and family history
work has the power to bless those beyond the
veil, it has an equal power to bless the living. It
has a refining influence on those who are
engaged in it. They are literally helping to exalt
their families."
LINK TO LOTS OF FAMILY HISTORY
THINGS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHC
NET/files/?prop=eupdate
"...Let us, therefore, as a
church and a people, and as Latter-day
Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness; and let us present in his holy
temple, when it is finished, a book
containing the records of our dead, which
shall be worthy of all acceptation."
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This free, online class from FamilySearch
explains how family historians can accurately
deduce ancestors' identities and many aspects
of their lives by digging below "surface
information" in genealogical records and
combining information from several sources. If
you have run into a "brick wall,” this class will
definitely give you ideas to continue.
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Inferential Genealogy course
Sylvia’s Genealogy Corner
school and local concerts. The sons attend the
Dallastown Schools.
Let me introduce you to an amazing young man
in our York 2nd Ward. Jacob Ward completed an
Eagle Scout project last year, which was to
photograph tombstones and copy the original
information from the tombstones while in the
cemetery. It turned out that there were over
1,200 tombstones in the cemetery. He had a
crew of all ages helping, and Jack and I helped
to type the handwritten information during the
day. Jack continued to help with the typing until
the project was finished.
OLDER BROTHER PAVES WAY FOR SIBLINGS IN SCOUTING
Newly named Eagle Scout Jacob Ward, 16, has
a big responsibility to his 4 younger brothers
who look up to him. Hopefully for the parents
Monte and Jennifer Ward of Seven Valleys,
Springfield Township, the younger brothers will
follow Jake's lead and the parents' desire for
their sons to achieve the Eagle Scout rank in
scouting. Jake is a member of Troop 184,
sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.
Jake is in 11th grade in the Dallastown Area
High School. He participates in football,
orchestra (playing the violin), and track.
All five brothers are involved in scouting: Nate,
8, Cub Scout; Benjamin, 10, Webelos; Aaron,
12,Star Scout; Samuel, 13, Life Scout; and Jake,
16, Eagle Scout! (See photo). All 5 brothers also
play a stringed instrument and perform at
Bishop Brandon Bushey, leader of the The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
conducted the Eagle Scout Court of Honor,
which was held on 21 January 2011. Troop 184
presented the colors.
Steve Bay, former
Venture Crew Coach, gave the statistics of "One
Hundred Scouts," which indicates that only 4
out of every 100 Boy Scouts ever achieve Eagle
Scout. Jake's mother Jennifer Ward presented
the "Trail of the Eagle" and asked all the Ward
sons to stand so that she could illustrate where
Jake had once been like his youngest brother
Nate and how he had passed through each
group of scouting to become an Eagle. Jake's
father Monte Ward gave the Eagle presentation
and the Eagle's obligation. Adam Sechrist, Crew
Adviser, presented the Eagle's Nest and Pledge
of the Eagle.
Special people who attended the Court of Honor
(Scout leaders and dignitaries) included The
Honorable Ron Miller, Donna Austin-Legislative
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We were just so pleased that Jake would
choose a family history project. This is the
press release as well as some photos of Jake
and his brothers. So often older people are
critical of teenagers, but Jake has shown us that
there are many good, hard-working teens.
Jake's Eagle Scout project involved preserving
family history. During the summer of 2010, he
organized a team to digitize and catalogue the
New Hope Cemetery, Seven Valleys, which
contains over 1200 headstones. Jake collected
and entered all information from every
headstone into a spreadsheet along with
pictures of each headstone. This data was then
given to the New Hope "Fissel's" United Church
of Christ and will also be posted online where
others can view it.
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I am really impressed with Jake and his family.
All five of the boys in this Latter-day Saint
family play stringed instruments – 4 violins and
one cello.
They often perform for our
congregation,
their
school,
and
also
organizations in the community.
Back Up Those Files!
Backing up computer files extends to more than just
documents and spreadsheets. With today's technology,
you may have blogposts, websites, social networking
pages, photos and many more items that are vulnerable to
a hard drive crash.
Here are excellent tips, websites and resources to back up
everything on your computer:
Backup Source:
Geneabloggers.com
http://www.geneabloggers.com/data-backup-day-march-12011/
or
http://www.geneabloggers.com/resourcesbacking-data/
This newsletter has been written and compiled by
Jack Sonneborn jsonneborn@verizon.net and
Sylvia Hott Sonneborn slysyl@verizon.net
For copies of Genealogy News, go to
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~payork/York2Ward/
Thanks to Don and Jeanine Hartman of Utah for
posting the newsletter online for us. You can
contribute your family history of original York
County ancestors at
http://familyhart.info
That’s All, Folks!
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Jacob Ward
Jake received recognition and awards:
Resolution passed in the PA House of
Representatives; Certificate and flag flown over
the US Capitol on the 4th of July; Certificate and
flag flown over Ft. Mc Henry; cards from current
and all former living Presidents of the United
States; cards from Vice-Presidents of the United
States, PA Governor Ed Rendell, Senator Bob
Casey (D-PA); Certificates from the FBI,
Department of Defense, and National Park
Service as well as Jake's church's General Young
Men’s Presidency and the Stake Young Men's
Presidency. We want to thank Jake for his
leadership and responsibility in indexing this
cemetery. He and his brothers give us great
hope for future generations.
"The Mirror Is Too Small. Sometimes it's
hard to see the whole picture. When we
look into a pocket mirror, what do we see?
We see an eye perhaps, but not the whole
face. By looking at just a person's eye, can
we then envision the whole face accurately?
We may be able to deduce that the other
eye looks the same, but that may not even
be true in all cases. We have to take
separate looks at all the parts of the face
and piece them together to get a true view
of the face. With our family history, the
same holds true. One document only gives
us that small look at a little piece of our
ancestor. For this reason, it's critical that we
gather as many records on the individual as
we can. Only by putting together all the
pieces can we get a more realistic
impression of our forebears." (Class 10
Theme: "When thou art converted...")
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Assistant for US Congressman Todd Platts,
Scoutmaster Dr. Chris Smith, Scout Committee
Chair Richard Miles, Bishop Brandon Bushey.
Jake awarded the mentor pin to genealogist
Jackson Sonneborn of York Township because
of Jack's encouragement for Jake to do a family
history project and Jack's assistance with the
project.