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Subject: [UT-CACHE-FHC] Weekly Newsletter - 3/27/02
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:49:49 -0700
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CACHE FAMILY HISTORY CENTER NEWSLETTER - 13 Feb 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Announcements
CFHC closed 6 Apr 2002 for General Conference
Bus to Salt Lake Family History Library
New Acquisitions
Patron Questions/Answers
Film ordering timetable
Legacy - Tag living individuals
What is a Meta-search engine
PAF 5 - searching for a person by married name
Mailing Lists subscriptions
Family History & Research Tips
Research Logs
Avoid repeating the same research
Favorite Web Sites
BLM Land Patent Records
Dynamic Family Tree
Surname Queries
SIMARD, TREMBLAY
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The Cache Family History Center will be closed on Saturday, 6 April
2002 for LDS General Conference.
Don't forget to sign up for the next bus going to the Salt Lake Family
History Library ,Tuesday, 9 April 2002. The cost is $15.00 round
trip. Tickets must be purchased in advance at Cache Family History
Center. For more information, call the Center at (435)755-5594.
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NEW ACQUISITIONS
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1. Genealogical Journal. Vol. 30, nos. 1 and 2.
2. The Genealogical Record. Vol. XLIII, no. 4. December 2001. The
Houston Genealogical Forum.
3. Revised release of the Vital Records Index (British Isles) CDs.
This new release contains over 12.5 million names compared to the old
version with 5 million names.
4. 1881 Canadian Census CD's. The 4-CD set contains the original
1881 Canadian census enumerated on 4 Apr 1881. There are
approximately 4.3 million individuals.
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PATRON QUESTIONS/ANSWERS
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QUESTION: Why do some films I've ordered at CFHC come quickly and
others take several weeks?
ANSWER: When the Church Distribution Center receives our orders, if
a copy of the film is in the Distribution Center, it is shipped. If
there is not a copy of the requested film in the Distribution Center,
the master computer checks to see if a copy is due in within the next
two weeks from one of the Family History Centers in the world. If
there is a copy due in, they "wait for the two-week period" for the
film and ship it to us. If no copy is due in, or if a copy does not
show up in the two week period, an order is sent out to the Granite
Vault to make a copy. Thus, we may get a film in, in less than a
week, or it may take close to three weeks. With microfiche, orders
are sent out to the vault on a weekly basis. Microfiche should arrive
within 10 days.
QUESTIONL I want to tag all individuals in my file that are living.
I'm not sure how to do this. I've gone over and over the information
in the help file but am just getting confused.
ANSWER: From the Main Menu, select Search > Find, then click on the
Detailed Search tab. In the search box:
Look for whom? Individuals
Where to look Living
How to Look Equal to
What to look for YES
Click on the Create List button. At the bottom of the completed
search list, click on options and select "advanced tagging". Then
select which level you want to tag on and click "everyone in search
list".
QUESTION: I have heard the internet term Meta-Search Engine. Can you
tell me what it means?
ANSWER: A Meta-Search Engine is one that queries several regular
search engines at one time and compiles the results from all to save
you time.
QUESTION: Have you ever tried to locate a woman quickly whose married
name you have but not her maiden. For instance, I have a few thousand
BILLS surnames, and if I find a Mrs. Mary Bills in an index, and want
to see if I have her in my records, how do I do that? Surely there
must be a quick way, that I haven't figured out yet. I run into this
type of problem all the time. Any suggestions would be helpful. I am
sure I am not the only one running into this situation.
ANSWER: PAF has a married name field on the individual record screen.
If you fill that in when entering a woman with a married name but no
maiden name, you can use the field filter in Advanced Search to search
for given name = Mary and married name contains Bills.
QUESTION: I have subscribed to several mailing lists at RootsWeb.
Some have very little traffic on and I'm afraid I may try to subscribe
to one I have already joined, but have forgotten. Is there a way to
find out, from RootsWeb, which lists I have subscribed to?
ANSWER: To determine all the RootsWeb mailing lists you are
subscribed to, request a listing from
Password Central. You can either go to the RootsWeb Home Page at
http://www.rootsweb.com/ look under "Help" and click "Password
Central" or go directly to it at http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/
Enter your e-mail address, check the little box under "Mailing Lists"
which says "To which lists am I subscribed?," and then click the
button at the bottom, "Email Me My Info." You can even do this for
e-mail addresses you no longer have. (You can request a
lot of other info too.)
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FAMILY HISTORY & RESEARCH TIPS
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RESEARCH LOGS - There is a good article on Research Logs in the
Genealogical Journal, vol. 30, which we received this week at Cache
Family History Center. -- Wallace Taylor
AVOID REPEATING THE SAME RESEARCH - Many years ago, when I began
researching my NORTON lineage, I found myself plowing through every
book on library shelves I could find, looking for clues to my Norton
family. I live in Massachusetts and my Norton's were from Maine, so my
trips to the Maine State Archives and Library were limited. Every once
in a while, after returning home with my new pages of vitals that I
had collected from different towns, I would find that I already had
that same information. I was feeling very frustrated that I had spent
precious time recording by hand unneeded information. To solve the
problem, I set up a filing system by town. Every hanging folder has
the name of the town, filed alphabetically. But most importantly, I
keep a separate three-ring binder with all the towns that I had
accumulated records from. I listing names of cemeteries, books about
the town, including what library, call number, name of the book,
author, publication facts, etc., and census years extracted from that
town. So now, when I visit libraries, I bring my three-ring binder
with me, and recheck what I have already searched. I have done the
same with County records, dividing them into Probate and Deeds. I have
found this to be a time saver and no longer come home with repeated
information. ---Deborah Bianchi, "Ancestry Daily News"
(http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews) 2/21/02, Copyright © 1998-2002,
MyFamily.com Inc.
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FAVORITE WEB SITES
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BLM Land Patent Records Are Back Online - Three months ago Dick
Eastman wrote an article in his newsletter with the title of "Bureau
of Land Management Computers Knocked Offline By Judge." In that
article he described orders issued by U.S. District Judge Royce to
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton. Judge Royce ordered Secretary
Norton to "immediately" disconnect from the Internet every single
computer, server, and system that has access to individual Indian
trust data. The following day, many of the government’s Web servers,
including several containing genealogically valuable information, were
disconnected from the Internet. You can read the article the wrote at:
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/5102.asp The
databases are being purged of sensitive data and are now re-appearing
online. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Land Patent site is now
back in business with a new look but same address:
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov
Dynamic Family Tree (Compiler) is a free Java program by webmaster
Michael Horey. The program is called DftCom2 and provides "colorful,
informative and easily navigable family trees." For use with
genealogy on the web, it automatically generates web pages from a
GEDCOM. It was described in superlative adjectives in the Jan/Feb
2002 issue of Family Chronicle Magazine. You can learn about this
program, see sample family trees, and download the software by going
to: http://www.dftcom2.co.uk/ . ---Ruth M. Jensen
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SURNAME QUERIES
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Does anyone have information on SIMARDS or TREMBLAYS ? They came
from Quebec. If so, please contact Marjorie at
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REMEMBER
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Rules for our ancestors -OR- How to confuse your descendants
(1) Thou shalt name your male children: James, John, Joseph, Josiah,
Abel, Richard,Thomas, William.
(2) Thou shalt name your female children: Elizabeth, Mary, Martha,
Maria, Sarah, Ida, Virginia, May.
(3) Thou shalt leave NO trace of your female children.
(4) Thou shalt, after naming your children from the above lists, call
them by strange nicknames such as: Ike, Eli, Polly, Dolly,
Sukey.---making them difficult to trace.
(5) Thou shalt NOT use any middle names on any legal documents or
census reports, and only where necessary, you may use only initials on
legal documents.
(6)Thou shalt learn to sign all documents illegibly so that your
surname can be spelled, or misspelled, in various ways: Hicks, Hicks,
Hix, Hixe, Hucks, Kicks.
(7) Thou shalt, after no more then 3 generations, make sure that all
family records are lost, misplaced, burned in a court house fire, or
buried so that NO future trace of them can be found.
(8) Thou shalt propagate misleading legends, rumors, & vague innuendo
regarding your place origination.
(A) you may have come from : England, Ireland, Scotland,
Wales....or Iran.
(B) you may have American Indian ancestry of the______tribe......
(C) You may have descended from one of three brothers that came
over from______
(9) Thou shalt leave NO cemetery records, or headstones with legible
names.
(10) Thou shalt leave NO family Bible with records of birth,
marriages, or deaths.
(11) Thou shalt ALWAYS flip thy name around. If born James Albert,
thou must make all the rest of thy records in the names of Albert, AJ,
JA, AL, Bert, Bart, or Alfred.
(12) Thou must also flip thy parent's names when making reference to
them, although "Unknown" or a blank line is an acceptable alternative.
(13) Thou shalt name at least 5 generations of males, and dozens of
their cousins with identical names in order to totally confuse
researchers.
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Sheri Lynn Lemon, staff
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Telephone: 435-755-5594
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Address: P.O. Box 3397, Logan, UT 84323-3397
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