USING ANCESTRY.COM: "Preparing for the Message Board
Improvements Launch,"
by
Juliana Smith
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Last month, there were 28,127,757 page views on the
Ancestry.com/RootsWeb.com
message boards and on April 30 there were more than
one million for that day
alone! That's a lot of people looking for ancestors
and sharing their
research
interests!
Message boards have long been popular, and even
before we took to the
Internet, genealogists
To check it out, go to:
http://groups.google.com/group/Hispanic-Genealogy
Thanks,
Danielle Brown
List Admin
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Haven't found my ancestor yet - but maybe you'll have
beter luck finding yours!
Dani
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Information Series on Genealogy%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This article is another of a series that I will
present to the group for
information, education, or to enlighten.
List Administrator
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The LDS church has just announced a new program that
will affect all
genealogists. See
http://www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,40-1-3384-9,00.html
Unlocking the Vault: Conversion to Digital Records is
Progressing
By Brittany Karford, Church Magazines
Members m
Hi ya peoples!
I am Danielle Brown, the list admin. Just doing a roll
call to see what surnames/people we are all
researching. Also, I just wanna see if anybody
actually receives these emails, lol.
Is this thing working?!
Anyways, hope y'all are all enjoying a great
genealogical year so far - I know I am.
Great Luck in knocking down your brick walls!
Dani
March 08, 2006
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"Along Those Lines . . .
"THE 2005 FGS CONFERENCE IN SALT LAKE CITY (OR "DON'T
GO TO THE FAMILY
HISTORY LIBRARY!)," by George G. Morgan
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In just a little over a month, genealogists from all
over the world will
be converging on Salt Lake City, Utah, for the annual
Federation of
Genealogical Societies Conference. Sponsored by the
Utah Genealogical
Society, the FGS Co
NORTH DAKOTA DEATH INDEX NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE. The
time
period covered is 1 January 1881 through 31 October
2005, with
monthly updates. The website is maintained by the
North Dakota
Department of Health's Division of Vital Statistics.
Many early deaths
were not recorded and there are few deaths listed
prior to 1900.
The website is the result of an 18-month project by a
committee composed
of staff from the State Historical Society of North
Dakota, the North
Dakota State Genealogical Society (NDSGS) a
I am forwarding this to all my lists, thank you.
Danielle
--- GenealogyLookUp@aol.com wrote:
> From: GenealogyLookUp@aol.com
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:38:30 EST
> Subject: Gen Site
> To: HERNANDEZ-admin@rootsweb.com
>
>
> just wanted to share this bit of information with
> you below. I contacted you
> first
> because if you think it might be helpful or others
> might be interested in it
> for their
> genealogy research....that you might consider
> posting the information to
> your
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Information Series on Genealogy%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This article is another of a series that I will
present to the group for
information, education, or to enlighten.
List Administrator
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Good morning, everyone. :-)
For old hands, this is nothing new. But, as we are
always having some
new
people, this is for newer people to genealogy.
Genealogical Standards
Standards For Sound Genealogical Research
Recommended by the National Genealogical So
Diversity Brings Breadth to U.S. History American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed the black slaves, how Asians came in the mid-1800s to build Western railroads. The lessons have left out a lot.
Forty-two years before Jamestown, Spaniards and American Indians lived in St. Augustine, Florida. At least several thousand Latinos and nearly 200,000 black soldiers
September 04, 2006 Reminder: HeritageQuest Online May Be Free for You You may be able to access images of U.S. census records, more than 20,000 fully searchable genealogy and local history books, images of Revolutionary War Pension applications, PERSI, and more, all from the comfort of your home. The records are available on HeritageQuest Online, a service from ProQuest Information and Learning.
The free access is available to millions of American residents through their local, regional, and stat
Don't forget Conference registration deadline of 1
August (Monday) for pre-conference registration rates.
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26th Annual Texas State Hispanic Genealogical and
Historical Conference
September 2-4, 2005
Holiday Inn / Civic Center / Laredo, Texas
Don Tomas Sanchez / 250th Anniversary Celebration of
Laredo, Texas
Hosted by: Villa San Agustin de Laredo Genealogical
Society
Conference website:
http://www.vsalgs.o
SOURCE: Yolanda Zarate (AmintaZarate@aol.com)
Texans seek compensation from Mexico for 12 million
acres lost after 1848 treaty
By Sandra Dibble
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER [California]
April 16, 2005
EARNIE GRAFTON / Union-Tribune
Aminta Zarate says a 1941 decree by Mexico's president
obligated the country to pay $245.1 million in
compensation. Aminta Zarate steps from a 170-year-old
family cemetery on the south Texas ranch where she
grew up. A descendant of the region's first Spanish
settlers, she wa
SSDI UPDATED
RootsWeb now offers the most recent version of the
Social Security Death Index (SSDI), which includes
records through April 2005 This database contains
several important bits of information on the more
75,163,608 persons whose deaths are on file with the
U.S.'s Social Security Administration, including:
social security number, date of issuance, state of
issuance, date of birth, date of death, and last
residence address of record.
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
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MEXICAN PARISH RECORDS, 1751-1880
Source Materials Series%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Again I am just presenting what is on the Web for
informational purpose
only. The information or work can not be verified or
source upon my end.
Please be aware that some sites are under construction
or unable to view.
List Administrator
In my quest to find resources to find family members
on the computer, I
am sharing several great websites, that even myself,
have never heard of
until I became aware of them and I
Kathleen (knacuna@comcast.net) was kind enough to send
the link to the following Arizona Dept. of Health
Services site for searching scanned images of birth
certificates which were issued at least 75 years ago
and death certificates which were issued at least 50
years ago:
http://genealogy.az.gov/
This site allows you to search by the individual's
name, as well as the names of their father or other.
Searches can be narrowed by date ranges and Arizona
counties if known.
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FAMILY HISTORY COMPASS
"A TALE OF TWO CATS," by Juliana Smith
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It all started very innocently. I was off to return a
library book to our
local library. At the counter there was a gentleman
with a box. Inside
the box were two cats (yes, in the library)--a mother
and one kitten. The
mother was very thin, and it was apparent that she was
still nursing. She
had been givi
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FAST FACT: FREE CHARTS AND FORMS
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You can download free charts and forms to help
organize and record
your family history at:
http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm
(Requires free Adobe
Acrobat Reader)
Charts include:
--- ANCESTRAL CHART
Allows you to record the ancestors from whom you
directly descend.
--- CENSUS EXTRACTION
Allows you to record census information. Forms are
available from
1790 to
The West Virginia Vital Research Records Project has
started placing scanned images of original birth,
death, and marriage records and certificates for
selected
counties and dates on-line at the following site:
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/
Also note the option to search additional West
Virginia records in the lower left corner of this same
site.
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THE INSIDER:
"TEN FREE THINGS TO DO ON ANCESTRY.COM,"
by Anastasia Sutherland Tyler
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Just about everyone loves free things, be it free
food, free concert
tickets, or free samples. So, without further ado,
here are ten things
you can do for free on Ancestry.com.
1. SEARCH TWO CENSUS INDEXES
Ancestry.com offers two census indexes for free
searching: the 1880 U.S.
Federal Census and the 1881 England, Wales, Isle of
Man, and Channel
Isl
KEEP BACKUPS
My laptop computer was recently stolen. The good news
is that I back up my data every time I input family
information. The bad news is that I threw the most
recent back-up into the carrying case (which was also
stolen). Luckily, I only lost one day's input. Tip to
myself: If I don't take the back up offsite (which I
will now do religiously), at least separate it from my
computer.
Jack Mahan
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KEEP YOUR BACK-UP MEDIA CURRENT
Three years ago I did a series of interviews with an
elderly aunt and got some wonderful stories about her
family and particularly her sister--my grandmother. I
dutifully transcribed the interview tapes on the
computer and saved a back-up copy on a floppy disk. We
have since updated our computer from Mac to PC and of
course there is no floppy drive. I took the disk to
work where there are still some Mac hold-outs,
inserted the disk and got the "format" message. Over
the cou
History of the world. This is a huge, fascinating
website with worldwide histories and time lines.
http://www.historyworld.net/default.asp
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To all:
Some of these lists have ALREADY migrated.
Below is some special information that still applies:
The new RootsWeb mailing list system (Mailman) has gone into effect and will be continuing for the next couple of weeks, staggered alphabetically according to the following schedule:
Thursday, August 17 - Lists A-C
Monday, August 21 - Lists D-F
Tuesday, August 22 - Lists G-I
Wednesday, August 23 - Lists J-L
Thursday, August 24 - Lists M-O
Monday, August 28 - Lists P-R
Tuesday, August 29
Due to technical difficulties, the schedule for converting RootsWeb mailing lists to the new Mailman list system has been changed. The updated schedule is as follows:
Monday, August 28 -- Lists D-F
Tuesday, August 29 -- Lists G-I
Wednesday, August 30 -- Lists J-L
Thursday, August 31 -- Lists M-O
Tuesday, Sept. 5 -- Lists P-R
Wednesday, Sept. 6 -- Lists S-U
Thursday, Sept. 7 -- Lists V-Z
Sept. 8 - 21 -- Non-Archived Lists, Newsgroup Gateways and -I Lists
Any further changes to the timetable will be listed