Family History Library in Salt Lake City and Family History Centers Change Names

Paula Stuart-Warren  Family History Library, FamilySearch  ,  Leave a comment

Last fall I found out about the changes and began changing the names in my lecture handouts and PowerPoint slides. It’s now been officially announced.

Today’s press release: FamilySearch Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. © 2023 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—FamilySearch announced new names for its flagship Family History Library located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and all local and regional family history centers worldwide.  The library will now be known as the FamilySearch Library and local and regional family history centers will now be FamilySearch centers. The name changes will better align local centers with FamilySearch’s expanding global brand.

FamilySearch is known worldwide for its popular free FamilySearch.orgwebsite and state-of-the-art family research and discovery facility in Salt Lake City. Lesser known are its more than 5,000 local centers where visitors can receive individualized help and utilize web-enabled computers to access other premium family resources—all for free.

Watch “Your FamilySearch Center”.

“FamilySearch is a global brand with free local FamilySearch centers in most countries to help individuals make fun, personal discoveries about themselves and their ancestors. Center patrons can receive in-person help, and access millions of additional historical records online. The more you learn about yourself and the history of your family, the more your sense of who you are is deepened, and the more relationships and communities are strengthened,” said Steve Rockwood, CEO for FamilySearch International.

In addition to FamilySearch centers, there are nearly 1,800 affiliate libraries (public libraries, museums, universities, and archives) that have privileges to limited-access FamilySearch databases. There will be no name change for the FamilySearch affiliate libraries. 

People around the world are more and more interested in family, their familial origins, and making family connections. FamilySearch is uniquely positioned to serve this demand through its growing network of local FamilySearch centers, discovery experiences, help services, and vast, ever expanding online collections of genealogical records.

For the full details: FamilySearch Newsroom.

 

 

2023 Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) registration opens in February!

Paula Stuart-Warren  Conferences/Institutes, Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, Uncategorized    Leave a comment

GRIP takes place during two separate weeks in 2023 with different courses each week. I am once again the coordinator and lead instructor in the June course, Digging Deeper: Records, Tools, and Skills. The other excellent instructors are Cyndi Ingle, Debbie Mieszela, and Cari Taplin. This course includes an extensive syllabus, hands-on work, and a homework project.  I am also an instructor in that week’s Spirit of the Inland Seas: Research in the Great Lakes Region led by coordinator Cari Taplin. Full details on both courses are on the GRIP website along with many other courses.

June 18-23, 2023. Virtually via Zoom as GRIP has done in the last three years. 

July 9-14, 2023. In-person on the campus of LaRoche University in Pittsburgh. 

REGISTRATION opens Wednesday, February 22 at noon Eastern for the June courses and 2 PM Eastern for the July courses. 

Click on https://www.gripitt.org/ and look at the listings of Courses. Click on each course title to see the lineup of instructors and sessions. Then click on Registration to learn more about the process and how to be ready for the February rush. Being partially registered is vital in the process of choosing a specific course on registration day. It’s like a head start. 

 

 

 

Happy New Year with lots of genealogy education!

Paula Stuart-Warren  Uncategorized, Webinars    Leave a comment

Over the last few days, I have updated several PowerPoint lectures and the accompanying handouts for upcoming presentations. Lots of changes and new things! I took all of December off from presentations and 2023 is lining up to be busy. Of course, there’s always room for more. If your organization is looking for a virtual presentation, send me an email PaulaStuartWarren at gmail dot com for full details.  My topics are listed online under the Speaking tab above.

For these January 2023 Virtual presentations, click on the society name for more details.

 

January 7, 2023. Free morning webinar Northwest Suburban Genealogy Society. [Illinois] 10:00 a.m. CST. My presentation and handout “The U. S. National Archives: The Nation’s Attic.“

 

January 12, 2023. Free Evening webinar. McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society. 7:00 p.m. CST. My presentation and handout cover “Genealogical Goldmine: The Records of Old Settlers Organizations.”



January 28, 2023. Free virtual half-day Seminar Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County [Florida], Saturday, 10:00 a.m. EST, 9:00 a.m. CST. I will be doing two presentations accompanied by handouts. Registrants limited to 100.

“The U. S. National Archives: The Nation’s Attic”
“Newspaper Research: The Dailies, Weeklies, and Beyond“

 

 

 

 

2023 Legacy Family Tree Webinars spectacular education lineup!

Paula Stuart-Warren  Webinars  ,  Leave a comment

Have you peeked at the 2023 lineup of speakers and topics for the variety of webinars Legacy Family Tree Webinars? WOW! Education galore. During 2023, the number of webinars offered will hit 2000! 

For most webinars, the initial presentation is free and is viewable for a week. After that, it becomes part of the individual membership benefits. To sign up for the 2023 webinar initial presentations, click here. A regular membership is $49.95 for an entire year. If you join using my affiliate link, you help a bit to fund my blog and website. http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=1739 

Membership benefits:

  • Access to 1) all the existing 1,900+ classes in the library, 2) plus the 180+ webinars that will be added during the 2023 season, 3) plus any additional bonus members-only webinars (hundreds of these so far) – all available for the duration of your membership
  • Access to all 7,100+ pages of instructors’ handouts plus the new handouts of the 2023 season
  • Chat logs from the live webinars
  • Chance for a bonus subscribers-only door prize during each live webinar
  • Advanced navigation of videos with playlists and chapters
  • Exclusive section for all webinars you’ve registered for
  • Option to bookmark your favorites

Click here for the Legacy blog notice about the 2023 spectacular. I’ll see you on September 15th for an in-depth look at city directories. I think you’ll be surprised at some of the long-standing beliefs that I show are not exactly true and how many special directory editions exist. It will be my tenth webinar for Legacy. 

 

 

Burst pipes and archival collections do not do well together. Colorado State Archives now.

Paula Stuart-Warren  Uncategorized  1 Comment

“Burst pipes caused water to spread across four floors of the Colorado State Archives in downtown Denver on two days in the last week. The extent of the damage isn’t yet clear; workers will have to remove about 2,000 boxes of documents and check them for damage, according to Doug Platt, a spokesperson for the state Department of Personnel and Administration.”

I saw this in my Google news feed and my first thought was “not again.” Not again as in this has happened too often in local, county, state, and federal archives, historical societies, libraries, and other places. The funding has not been there to protect our historical documents. These are necessary documents for legal and historical research and need to be protected everywhere. It’s a sad story to read again. 

https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/27/colorado-archives-water-leak/

 

 

 

That New U.S. National Archives catalog details

Paula Stuart-Warren  National Archives  ,  1 Comment

It’s an improvement. I like it better than the previous version. In November, the new edition of the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) catalog had its debut. This one and the earlier one are not like most library catalogs. You’ll notice that on your first searches if you haven’t investigated it before. I like the easier way of determining whether some records are digitized. I often do searches by a state name, a few prominent people names, and by type of record. 

I appreciate that once I click on an entry, I see whether something has been digitized fully, partially, or not at all. It’s also easy to confine the search to specific record group, digitized images, years, and other parameters. 

NARA provides some details on the new version here. 

Check the catalog here. https://catalog.archives.gov/

 

My updated genealogy presentation calendar for 2023

Paula Stuart-Warren  Webinars  , ,  Leave a comment

Today, I added some new presentation dates and topic details to my 2023 speaking calendar. I don’t add all the details until I have a signed contract with the sponsoring group. Click the Speaking tab above to view the calendar and links to registration for the virtual events. 

If your organization is interested in hiring me to do a presentation for your genealogical or historical society, hereditary organization, family reunion, civic group, church club, or other organization, email me at PaulaStuartWarren at gmail dot com.

I am not raising my fees at least for presentations in the first half of 2023. By return email I will send presentation details, rates, and whether I am available for your chosen date(s). I do individual presentation webinars and also full-day seminars virtually. Extensive handouts are provided for all presentations other than a few of those listed. The wide variety of topics are listed under that Speaking tab.

In the first quarter of 2023 I will be adding a couple new presentation topics under that tab and marking a handful that have been greatly updated for the new year. 

 

 

 

RootsMagic up to 37% off sale

Paula Stuart-Warren  RootsMagic    2 Comments

From a recent press release:

“Are you looking for a gift that will really bring the family together? Then give the gift of software that unites families. Save up to 37% on our software, including Personal Historian 3, Family Atlas, and RootsMagic 8

Through December 31, 2022, use the code HOLIDAY2022 to receive your discount. There is no limit on the number of discounted copies you can buy during this limited-time offer.” Visit here.

 

 

 

 

Free webinar about using newspapers on Chronicling America

Paula Stuart-Warren  Library of Congress    Leave a comment

Chronicling America is a great partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Library of Congress, and state cultural institutions such as state historical societies, state archives, state libraries, and university libraries. The result to date includes over 20 million pages of U.S. newspapers from 1777–1963. This webinar will help with what you can do with these newspapers. From the Library of Congress press release today “Genealogy, teaching with primary sources, citizen history projects, and experiments with artificial intelligence (AI)! Come learn how these free and publicly accessible newspapers can be used for research Tuesday, December 13 at 2pm ET. “

Register for the webinar.