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Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
Maryland Genealogical Society Fall Seminar
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
| Location: | Columbia, Maryland |
The Maryland Genealogical Society announces their Fall Seminar for 2006 to be held on Saturday & Sunday September 23 & 24 at the Hilton in Columbia, Maryland. Subject: British Isles – Finding Your Overseas Roots.
Speakers: Paul Blake & Maggie Loughran, British genealogists will present lectures and hands-on workshops covering all levels of researcher skills.
For fees, program schedule, speaker bios and all the other details, please visit our website at www.mdgensoc.org
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2007 Erie Society for Genealogical Research Conference
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
| Location: | Erie, Pennsylvania |
Sponsored by the Erie Society for Genealogical Research, to celebrate our 35th Anniversary, serving Erie County. Co-sponsored by the Erie County Public Library.
Our speakers will be:
MR. JAMES M. BEIDLER,
Session Topics:
Beginning Search for Pennsylvania Roots
My List of Top Tens
Secondary Uses for Primary Sources
MR. RICHARD (DICK) EASTMAN,
Session Topics:
Grandpa in Your Pocket
Internet: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
MR. STEPHEN P. MORSE,
Session Topics:
Playing Hide and Seek in the 1910-1930 Censuses
One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools.
| More Info: | www.pa-roots.com/~erie/2007GeneConf.html |
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Genealogy Conference – Virginia
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
| Location: | Virginia suburbs of Washington DC |
“Guess Who’s Coming to Virginia for Genealogy! Speakers, Vendors and You!” Celebrate 400 years of genealogy in Virginia at the Fairfax Genealogical and Mount Vernon Genealogical Societies’ Joint Conference and Genealogy Expo in the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Speakers Jana BroglinCG, Linda Jonas, Charles Mason, Jr.CG, George Morgan, and Laura G. Prescott will present twenty lectures on Colonial Research, the National Archives, Lives and Times, Mapping the Land, and the Civil War. Visit the Genealogy Expo’s 5000 sq ft exhibit hall with 28 exhibitors and over a dozen door prizes.
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Downloadable Genealogy Charts and Forms
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
Looking for some blank forms that you can fill in during your genealogy research? You can download free, high-quality blank forms online from several web sites and print them on your own printer.
Family Tree Magazine has a huge collection of downloadable forms on the company’s web site. The forms include pedigree charts, research calendars, note-taking forms, deed indexes, research journal, correspondence logs, family group sheets and census extraction forms. You can see this impressive collection of forms at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/forms/download.html
Ancestry.com has downloadable forms that are as nice looking as the commercially available forms. You can obtain a pedigree chart (called an Ancestral Chart), Research Calendar, Research Extract, Correspondence Chart, Source Summary and Family Group Sheet. You can do all of this at: http://www.ancestry.com/save/charts/ancchart.htm
FamilySearch.org has a collection of online forms, including U.S., British, Irish and Canadian census extraction forms, family group sheets, blank timelines and more. The forms are available at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/RG/frameset_rhelps.asp?Page=./research/type/Form.asp&ActiveTab=Type
About.com offers a number of downloadable genealogy forms, including family tree fan charts, pedigree charts, family group sheets and relationship charts. Take a look at http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_charts/
Misbach Enterprises houses one of the largest collections of downloadable genealogy charts in Adobe PDF format. You can print directly from the web site or store the forms on your local hard drive and then print them later as often as you wish. All the charts are formatted to fit on 8.5" x 11" paper. Go to http://misbach.org/pdfcharts/
All of the above are available free of charge.
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Curious About Your Genealogical Origins?
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
The Genographic Project can help. Writing in the Arizona Daily Star, Dan Sorenson describes how the Genographic Project can trace your ancestry back tens of thousands of years for a cost of $99.95. To be sure, you will not obtain any ancestor’s name or even a birth record, but you will obtain a report showing a high probability of where the ancestors lived.
According to Sorenson:
Human history is unfolding one cheek swab at a time in a cluttered, windowless laboratory deep in the University of Arizona’s Biological Sciences West Building. Although geneticists and anthropologists long ago determined that we all have origins in Africa, there is much to be learned from our DNA about where we went from there.
A cast of about 30 undergraduate UA biology students, technicians and the lab manager deftly dance around one another in the cramped space, like waiters and chefs in a busy kitchen, processing the DNA to do just that — for participants in National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project.
After extracting DNA from participants’ samples and putting it into a usable form it is analyzed, using special software. The software looks for mutations, essentially "spelling errors" in DNA. These markers are repeated — along with others picked up later — in descendants’ DNA, creating a trail.
You can read the full article at http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/161891.
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A Pilgrimage to a Hospital for Black American Ancestry Information
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
The Ganges brothers, Tendaji, Larry and Kelly, traveled to Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania in August in what history buffs hope was the first of many pilgrimages to an early American quarantine station there. The red-brick lazaretto, as it was called, was built in 1800 as a way to screen ships on the Delaware River for infectious diseases. As such, it gave immigrants their first contact with the new world. In the case of the Ganges family, the lazaretto was the final act of a close call.
Two slave ships docked at the Delaware County station in 1800 after the U.S. Navy captured them off Cuba. The 134 Africans aboard went ashore "without the least clothing," as the Pennsylvania Gazette described them. They were indentured to area residents to learn trades, and given the name of the Navy warship that escorted them to freedom: the USS Ganges.
"We found where we hit shore," said Tendaji Ganges, 57, of Flint, Mich. "It is a human story. It’s not just our family’s story. That’s what is important about it."
You can read more about this story in the Philadelphia Inquirer web site at http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/16314251.htm
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How to Choose CD/DVD Archival Media
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
Almost all computer users need to preserve data occasionally, and probably the most common method is to write the information onto CD or DVD data disks. For most computer users, preserving data for a year or two is sufficient. In fact, many people are only concerned with preserving data until next year’s tax season. However, genealogists, historians, archivists, and a few others are concerned with much longer preservation. We often think in terms of decades or even centuries.
Patrick McFarland has written an in-depth article that describes CD and DVD recordable media, explaining the various formats and their strengths and weaknesses. He points out that most of today’s "record-at-home" CD and DVD disks will only last a few years. However, certain brands are expected to be useable for at least 70 years, and one manufacturer’s products may last for up to 100 years.
McFarland explains the differences between "pressed" CDs (made by the thousands in a factory) versus "burnt" CDs (recorded one at a time on a computer). He then focuses mostly on CD and DVD disks recorded (burnt) on computers. His article describes the advantages and shortcomings of the different blank disks that you can buy in a local computer store, online, or by mail order. He also tells why DVD+R disks are much better than DVD-R.
The article ends with McFarland’s recommendation for the best archival quality writeable CD and DVD disks. He even tells which brand he buys for his own archival storage.
I think that one part of McFarland’s article should be required reading for all:
Unlike pressed CDs/DVDs, ‘burnt’ CDs/DVDs can eventually ‘fade,’ due to five things that affect the quality of CD media: sealing method, reflective layer, organic dye makeup, where it was manufactured, and your storage practices (please keep all media out of direct sunlight, in a nice cool dry dark place, in acid-free plastic containers; this will triple the lifetime of any media).
The article is liberally spiced with technical terminology, but most anyone can understand his plain English recommendations, given at the end. You can read this excellent article on Patrick McFarland’s blog at: http://tinyurl.com/ycowgr
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The Practical Archivist
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
Sally Jacobs has started a new blog entitled The Practical Archivist. It is labeled as "Archiving tips and geeky tidbits for genealogists, history buffs, and keepers of the family photo album. Written by an archivist who never met an antique photograph she didn’t like…"
Sally promises to supply plenty of archiving tips and geeky tidbits for genealogists, history buffs, and keepers of the family photo album.
Recent posts include:
* Life Catching Life Hack
Neat little video camera trick for capturing family stories – perfect
for December gatherings.
* RIP VHS
Technological obsolescence.
* The World’s Fastest Librarian
Fun video created by library students here in Madison, Wisconsin.
You can read The Practical Archivist at http://practicalarchivist.blogspot.com.
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Genealogy Videos on Google
Posted on January 6, 2007 by BAAHGS Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society - Agnes Kane Callum Baltimore Chapter
Google has videos, including 30 or more genealogy-related videos that you can view right now. (I’d suggest a broadband connection be used for these large video files.) Subject matters vary a bit; many of the videos are advertisements or "how to use" instructional videos for commercial products while others are more homespun.
Here is a partial list of some of the videos …:
A series of information videos produced by Family Tree DNA
Charlie Rose’ interview of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., about African-American genealogy and DNA
A broadcast news report about the 22nd annual International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) Conference in Toronto
Alastair McIntyre talks about his genealogy section on ElectricScotland.com
Zutavern Family Genealogy – a video tour of Zutaverns dating back to 1500 AD in Switzerland
Resnitzky Family Roots Trip Part II – Mote Resnitzky’s family roots trip to Argentina in October 2005 (home movies)
Tracing Your Family Roots – Sallyann Sack and Arline Sachs talked about methodology for beginning genealogical research.
"So You Want To Be A Personal Historian or Genealogy Journalist," a series of "home videos" by Ann Hart that give instruction on becoming a personal historian or genealogy journalist.
A demonstration of GenSmarts Genealogy Software
"If we told you doing genealogy was easy we’d be LION" – Roots Television co-host twins make a shameless plug for their cool book "Climbing Family Trees, Whispers in the Leaves"
Perhaps the strangest is "What does Star Wars have to do with genealogy?" I even watched the video, and I still don’t know what Star Wars has to do with genealogy. You can watch it to figure it out for yourself.
The above is a partial list; there are more.
Google videos are available on http://www.google.com. Click on the VIDEOS link in the Google toolbar, and then search for "genealogy" or any other topic of interest.
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