Today: Monday, October 12, 2015
Family Tree Maker Uses SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the Mulberry Grove Recreation CenterMonday Morning: A thought to start your week with!
FindMyPast
"Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking.”
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Microfilm: Take a picture, it will last longer
Archive.org
"As books become old and begin to fall apart, librarians depend on microform to preserve their content for the future. Tiny photographs on long strips of film (microfilm) or small cards of film (microfiche) are all that remain of hundreds of thousands of documents that have disintegrated over the last century. While microfilm is perfect for storing and protecting this material, it is a does not allow for much access. In following its mission to provide universal access to all human knowledge, the Internet Archive is teaming up with libraries all over the world to begin digitizing microfilm and microfiche. The goal is to get as much content off the shelves and online.
The books in this collection are from a variety of libraries including the University of Chicago Libraries, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Alberta, Allen County Public Library, and the National Technical Information Service.
You may also want to view the newspapers that have been digitized from microfiche. August of 2013.
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Banish the "But"s: Top 5 Excuses for Not Writing Your Family History:
Genealogy Insider
"A lot of us genealogists have a goal to not just gather names of ancestors, but to weave together all the records, newspaper articles, family papers, memories, local history, photos and random facts into a family history—one that summarizes our research, tells a meaningful story and shares a legacy.
But not a lot of us have actually started doing that. Why?"
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7 Things You Need to Know Before Organizing Your Genealogy Heirloom:
Ancestral Findings
"Do the people in your family give you genealogy heirlooms all the time? It is not unusual for the family genealogist to get the reputation as the one to go to when one needs to give away an heirloom when downsizing and wants to make sure it stays safe and protected. If this is you, you may find yourself with a house full of genealogy heirlooms before long. When you start amassing a large collection of them, you need to start organizing them, or future generations will not know what they are, who they belonged to, or their genealogical significance."
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How to Navigate Around the Internet Archive Search Bug:
Ancestry Insider
"There is a bug in Internet Archive’s “Search Inside” a book feature. Don’t trust it. Let me tell you what to do instead."
Locating Undertaker Records:
FamilyHistoryExpos
"In today’s world we don’t hear the term undertaker very often, but we do know about Funeral Homes and Mortuaries. Don’t over look records created by these entities. I have found maiden surnames of ancestors in funeral home records when they were not found in any other record."
Need more New York history? Try these five online resources to add to your family history story!
FindMyPast
"With the release of millions of New York records from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society eLibrary, we wanted to give you a few suggestions on where you might be able to learn about your New York ancestor in the greater context of history."
This Day In History: October 12
1871: The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O’Leary. Fanned by strong southwesterly winds, the flames raged for more than 24 hours, eventually leveling three and a half square miles and wiping out one-third of the city. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire; 98,500 people were left homeless; 17,450 buildings were destroyed.
This coming week is Fire Prevention Week: Have you changed your smoke detector batteries lately?
1897: Journalist Charles Henry Dow, founder of the Wall Street Journal, begins charting trends of stocks and bonds.
1918: US Army corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 in the Argonne Forest; promoted to sergeant and awarded US Medal of Honor and French Croix de Guerre.
1890 Birthday: Eddie Rickenbacker, U.S. fighter pilot in World War I, aviation pioneer.
1871: The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O’Leary. Fanned by strong southwesterly winds, the flames raged for more than 24 hours, eventually leveling three and a half square miles and wiping out one-third of the city. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire; 98,500 people were left homeless; 17,450 buildings were destroyed.
This coming week is Fire Prevention Week: Have you changed your smoke detector batteries lately?
1897: Journalist Charles Henry Dow, founder of the Wall Street Journal, begins charting trends of stocks and bonds.
1918: US Army corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 in the Argonne Forest; promoted to sergeant and awarded US Medal of Honor and French Croix de Guerre.
1890 Birthday: Eddie Rickenbacker, U.S. fighter pilot in World War I, aviation pioneer.
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