Minnesota British Isles Family History Day

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The Minnesota Genealogical Society & The Irish Genealogical Society International proudly present “British Isles Family History Days, Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh Genealogy” featuring David E. Rencher, AG, CG, FUGA, FIGRS, Chief Genealogical Officer, FamilySearch.org.

  • Friday, April 29, 2011: An Evening with David Rencher, Dessert Reception and Presentation “The Sun Never Sets on the Data Empire.”
  • Saturday, April 30, 2011: Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh Genealogy 
    • Two plenary sessions presented by David Rencher
    • Twelve Breakout Sessions
    • Vendors and Exhibitors

Events will take place at Hennepin Technical College, Eden Prairie, MN 20 minutes from Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport.

For more information, full lineup, and registration, Click Here.

There are also details there for a guided tour of the beautiful Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis which is home to such notables as Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Charles A. Lindberg, Paul Wellstone, Tiny Tim, Carl Pohlad, Curtis Carlson, several former Minnesota governors, prominent sports figures, and many other other people.

NGS early registration deadline is Friday, March 11th.

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This Friday, March 11th, is the deadline for the early registration discount for the National Genealogical Society Family History Conference. The conferences dates are May 11-14 and the place is Charleston, South Carolina!

By registering online no later than Friday or having a regular mail registration postmarked on or before March 11th you save $35.00. March 11th is also the deadline to order the syllabus in the print version. All registrants receive the syllabus on CD and about two weeks before the conference will have online access to the syllabus.

I hope to see you in Charleston! I will be speaking on “Southern Deeds: More than Land” on Friday, March 13th, at 2:30. On the Saturday, I will be team teaching a special “Genealogy 101 Workshop” with D. Joshua Taylor.

Friday, March 4th Cyndi’s List on Geneabloggers Radio

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Tomorrow (Friday, March 4th) watch Who Do You Think You Are? with Lionel Ritchie on NBC TV and then tune in to Geneabloggers Radio. WDYTYA begins at 7 pm CST. Geneabloggers Radio is online beginning at 9:00 pm CST (10 EST, 8 MST, 7 PST).

Thomas MacEntee is the host and his featured guest is Cyndi Howells, the creator and workforce behind the popular Cyndislist.com which turns 15 on Friday.

Click here to learn more about Thomas’ show that you can listen to online. Thomas explains more about the show and how to join in the listening. You also have the opportunity to chat live with other listeners or to call in with your thoughts on WDYTYA and Cyndi’s List.

If you are on Facebook be sure to “like” Cyndi’s List at https://www.facebook.com/CyndisList?ref=ts.
Fellow genealogists are trying to get her to 15,000 likes by the end of March 4th. It’s already at an amazing 12,035 as I write this!

Your Anytime Library: Success in the Virtual Stacks

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This is one of the lectures I will be presenting on Saturday, April 2, at the Ohio Genealogical Society Conference. I have been working on the PowerPoint presentation off and on over the last few months and finally realized that I am spending more time browsing through the websites and finding things for myself and clients than putting together the presentation. The lectures mainly focuses on websites with digitized books but I am also covering (just a bit) digitized documents, newspapers, indexes, and other items.

So tonight I have been trying to keep myself on track. I found some terrific images for the PowerPoint and even found a few websites with digitized materials that I didn’t know about before.

Every time I do some online browsing I see that this lecture will be one that has significant changes each time I update it before a presentation. And yes, it will be accompanied by syllabus material that contains a plethora of URLs. I find that the syllabus material I compile for my lectures become a great finding aid for me. Added to that is the syllabus material of all the other speakers at events. It’s been a fun lecture to assemble. The technology that enables so much to be digitized and/or searchable or indexed is exciting.

Additional note: I have to give my colleague Debbie Miezala, CG, the credit for the title. We were brainstorming and she came up with the title. 

If you want to learn more about this year’s March 31-April 2 OGS Conference click here.

RootsTech Live

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Don’t forget that you can listen to and watch selected sessions from RootsTech taking place in right now in Salt Lake City. Rootstech.org

Friday
9:45–10:45am Cloud Computing: What It Is and How It Has Been used – Brian Pugh ON NOW
3:00–4:00pm The Power of PDF: Tools for Every Genealogist – Josh Taylor         

Saturday
8:30–9:30am Personal Archiving and Primary Documents – Brewster Kahle
1:45–2:45 pm Virtual Presentations Roundtable – Thomas MacEntee

FamilySearch announces more digitized records

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Today FamilySearch announced that it has added more records for Brazil, Canada, England, Italy, Switzerland, and the U.S. to its ever-growing online collection:

“Family history enthusiasts researching in England will certainly relish the nine English record collections updated this week online at FamilySearch.org. The new English records come from Norfolk, Cheshire, and Warwick. Other new collections or updates include Brazil Catholic church records, Canada deaths, Italy civil registration, county marriages from New York, the New Jersey 1885 state census, and Switzerland church records.”

If you haven’t done a recent check of the records available online at FamilySearch you may be surprised.  I have found some nice additions to my own family history that I had not seen before.

As always, the list is impressive and may be viewed here. 

Who Do You Think You Are? Tim McGraw Friday

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Don’t forget to tune in at 7:00 p.m. (CST) on NBC TV to watch the next episode of Who Do You Think You Are? The Friday (11 February) show features the ancestry of country singer Tim McGraw who found some mysteries and interesting facts about himself and his ancestors.

I really think my family members who are country music fans should watch this episode! 

Click here to see a short preview from NBC.