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Genealogy News: April 11th-17th

On 17 April 2015

I meant to publish a post yesterday but I was quite exhausted and didn’t get the chance to proof it to the extent I like. It’ll just come next week! On to my favorite weekly post: this week in genealogy!

Webinars/Videos

The U.S. National Archives streamed live “Know Your Records: Early Naturalization Records from New England States 1790-1906.” If you missed it, you can view the program here
“Autosomal DNA – a step by step approach to analysing your atDNA matches,” by Maurice Gleeson. The audio isn’t the best (you can hear a lot of people talking in the background) but the speaker is still clear. It’s 55 minutes long.
Two book reviews by EOGN: one on Mind Maps for Genealogy by Ron Arons and one on A Page of History – Passport Applications 1851-1914 by Phil Goldfarb.

. Articles/Blog Posts

Humans of (old) New York 1896 from my favorite website of Retronaut on Mashable!
Also from that same website, 1890s-1950s Last of the Civil War Veterans.
The International Conference on Jewish Genealogy extended their early registration to May 6th! Take advantage if you plan on going. 🙂
FamilySearch has a free online book collection found here and they just reached a huge milestone! They have 200,000 books online! Read more about this collection here.

Resources

EOGN discusses new records on FindMyPast.com including Austrialian and UK records along with some newspapers.
Ottawa Museums and Archives is launching a virtual collection! Find more information here and here.
FindMyPast posted new resources for FindMyPast users: New PERSI images, Derbyshire Burial Index 1538-1910, Derbyshire Marriage Index 1538-1910, Derbyshire Baptism Index 1538-1910, British Newspaper Update, Yorkshire Craven’s Part in the Great War, Essex Wills Beneficiaries Index 1505-1916, New South Wales Gaol Photographic Description Books 1871-1969, and New South Wales Government Gazette Indexes 1832-1863.

Happy Friday everyone! 🙂

Genealogy News April 3rd-10th

By Nichelle Barra

On 10 April 2015

In Friday Finds

Articles/Stories of Interest

“Baby Mohamed Clendennen: A Lesson in Creative Indexing” from On Granny’s Trail. A funny story and why it’s always important to check the original source before adding new information to our tree!
“Genealogist, high school classmates team up to find missing woman’s family” – who knew genealogy could provide such a resource? Very neat story.
“‘Gertie’s Babies,’ Sold at Birth, Use DNA to Unlock Secret Past” – A story about an interesting time in our history and how DNA is helping many people find their biological families.
Looking for old family photos? Crestleaf gives 7 places where you can find some!
Live near Chicago? The National Park Service is commemorating the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession from D.C. to Springfield. There will be stops along the way besides Chicago! Check out the full article for more information.
The idea of merging trees on Ancestry.com or other websites has always been met with a bit of healthy skepticism by many. But not all. And that can lead to some interesting results. Check out what one person discovered when researching Hillary Rodham Clinton’s family tree!
Going to NGS? Check out their mobile app for the conference! I used this last year and LOVED it! It was much easier to use when figuring out where I wanted to go next.
New Jersey is going to allow adult adopted children request their non-certified original birth record come 2017. Check out more about what that all entails and who specifically can ask by reading about it here.

Webinars/Videos

Have you ever used Gedmatch for DNA? It’s a great website and free to anyone who has taken a DNA test from any of the major companies. Check out a webinar on some basics of GEDmatch from Angie Bush here.
Speaking of DNA and Angie Bush, she also did a short video on the FTDNA chromosome browser with Dear Myrtle, which you can find here.
Ever wondered about why or how you should join a lineage society? AncestralFindings.com posted a short video on just that.
Legacy Family Tree has a free webinar today, in a few short hours (2pm eastern). It’s called “Hookers, Crooks, and Kooks – Aunt Merle Didn’t Run a Boarding House” by Jana Sloan Broglin. Register here for free!

Resources

FindMyPast has new records! Check out EOGN for last week’s additions and FindMyPast Fridays for this week’s additions (British newspapers, World War I records, wills index for Essex, and New South Wales records!).
FamilySearch also added a number of records from the Czech Republic, Mexico, New Zealand, Ukraine, and the US. Check out a list here.

Genealogy Round up: March 28th-April 3rd

By Nichelle Barra

On 3 April 2015

In Friday Finds

Interesting Articles

Just in time for April Fools! Did you see this awesome new app for the iPhone? Lick it DNA! HA! Check it out here. If only!
The Smithosonian.com posted a chart from 1790 that discusses the dangers of drink. Interesting to read how alcohol was thought of back then!
Retronaut is one of my favorite websites because of it’s collection of old photos. They recently posted pictures from 1928 England in color! Check them out those photos here and more about Retronaut here.
Are you Polish? Was your parent, grandparent, or even great-grandparent Polish? You may be eligible for Polish citizenship! Check out more information here and here. (I am going to try and do this for my husband! How neat!)

Resources

Ancestry announced a new edition to their DNA – “New Ancestor Discoveries.” The link takes you to an Ancestry video on YouTube (about 7 min long). HOWEVER, Roberta Estes from DNAeXplained shared how wrong her supposed ancestor was. If you’ve taken the Ancestry DNA test, you’ll get an announcement about it and I feel it’s very important to know how these new “ancestors” may not be yours after all.
New FamilySearch records! EOGN posted that 5.8 Million index records and images for Australia, Canada, Hungary, Russia, South Africa, and the US were added and then FamilySearch added another 18.3 million indexed records and images for England, Italy, UK, and the US as well. Check them out 🙂
FindMyPast also added a number of new records. You can check out the EOGN article here and here (Civil War Pensions included!) that discusses what’s new.
Looking for more storage space for your computer files? EOGN posted “Super Cheap Storage Space in the Cloud for Your Files” that discusses Amazon’s Cloud Drive Service.

Videos/Webinars

Crista Cowan’s video “Basics of a Genealogy Citation” discusses creating source citations in your online tree and on Family Tree Maker.
In case you didn’t catch it live, the NARA webinar “Know Your Records: Using Pre-1850 Census to Find Family Relationships” is online!
Free Webinar series presented by The Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS)! They are twice a month and are FREE when they are first broadcast. Check out the schedule here!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! 🙂

Genealogy News: March 21st – 27th

By Nichelle Barra

On 27 March 2015

In Friday Finds, Resources

There may or may not have been snow this morning… There was a suspicious looking “dust” sparkling in the morning sunshine. But that must have been pollen because it’s spring, right? Right. And I will stand by that!

Genealogy Community News

As some of you remember, the Indiana State Library was in peril of losing it’s beloved genealogy department not that long ago. There was a large call to action from genealogists not only from Indiana, but from around the country to write to representatives to change the budget. And it worked (for now)!

There’s another library that may be losing their genealogy funding due to budget cuts, this time in Connecticut. The Connecticut Library Association put out a call to action that you can read on EOGN here.

These types of things are only going to keep coming but we do have the power to be loud and take action to stop it as much as possible. Go to the Connecticut Library Association website to see more about who to write to and other ways you can help out.

Resources

Do you have a family tree saved on FamilySearch.org? Check out their blog for some changes and updates coming to their website.
EOGN recently had an article about the Drouin Institute, which specializes in French-Canadian data, about new additions to their resources. If you have French-Canadian ancestry, read the article to see what you could find!
Another EOGN article discusses the Knowles Collection (a free online Jewish genealogy database) and their move to FamilySearch.org. Go to the Knowles Collection website to see how to access the records on FamilySearch.org and read the EOGN article here.
Avotaynu Online is a new resource/website for those seeking Jewish genealogy information. Click here to read more about the new website and what it hopes to do and check out EOGN’s announcement of it here.
Have family that may have been part of the Bethlem Royal Hospital (also known as Bedlam)? FindMyPast is working with them to create a database of records for genealogists. Click here to see some of what will be available or start searching here.
Pennsylvania birth certificates from 1906-1909 and death certificates from 1906-1964 are now online! To find out where you can see the resources, click here for more information.
Ancestry.com has launched IrishNewspapers.com! Read more about what this new website/resource entails here.

Interesting Articles

Black’s Law Dictionary is a book that is often mentioned as a must for genealogists. But which edition would be best? The Legal Genealogist gives her recommendation (and why) here!
There are new phone apps that let you explore World War II American cemeteries that are overseas. Interested? Read more here.
Is your genealogy society driving away visitors? Amy Johnson Crow from No Story Too Small discusses 10 ways your genealogy society may unknowingly be doing just that. Read more here.
Victorian Street Life in London pictures – A glimpse into the past!

Webinars/Videos

It’s spring cleaning time! Why not clean out your family tree as well? Check out this video by Christa Cowan on how to do just that.
Have you used billiongraves.com? Lisa Louise Cook discusses the website and it’s uses in a video here.
This is just a neat video/graphic showing the changes in popular girls names from 1880-2013. My name, I assure you, is not listed. Having a unique name can be fun, but those little trinkets that are sold with your name on it? Yeah, they don’t exist for me. My name is now in baby-name dictionaries though!