Not yet joining us? There aren’t many seats left! Join well-known main speakers Judy G. Russell and Blaine Bettinger along with more than a dozen other speakers for this extravaganza of learning. I’ll be presenting sessions on Friday and Saturday and participating in the Northland Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists “Ask a Genealogist” panel. https://mngs.org/North-Star-2024
A news release from Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List. about this great online opportunity. These groups have been receiving praise all over social media (That statement is from me not Cyndi!). Registration is now open for the MGD Study Group – Mastering Genealogical Documentation, an eight-week beginning principles course, led by Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List. The course runs from Oct 2/5 – Nov 20/23, 2024 – 7 weeks, plus an optional 8th week to review optional homework. The fee is US$95.00. You must own a copy of Mastering Genealogical DOCUMENTATION, available through NGS, https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/mastering-genealogical…/
There will be two different sessions to choose from:
Wednesdays at Noon Pacific/3 pm Eastern, Oct 2-Nov 20, 2024. Register: https://square.link/u/DVCofljj
Saturdays at 2pm Pacific/5 pm Eastern, Oct 5-Nov 23, 2024. Register: https://square.link/u/DerLChNe
Each class will be about an hour and a half, but sometimes may go over that if the discussion requires it. This is for those who have never studied this book before. We will be studying this from a beginner or slightly intermediate level. It is recommended that you have studied the book Mastering Genealogical Proof, but not a requirement for taking this class. If you’ve done one of these groups before and want a refresher, that’s ok too! I will take 25 students in each class.
Study group details here: https://genealogypants.com/…/mastering-genealogical…/
If you attended my presentation yesterday (Friday, 13 September) as part of Legacy Family Tree’s Webtember, you learned a little about a maternal Great Grandaunt Johanna (Walsh) Healy Griffin. My session was titled “The Neighbors Knew: Strategies for Finding YOUR Ancestral Details in THEIR Records.” A slide toward the end of the hour showed an 1881 newspaper article about a neighbor accusing her of “using indecent and improper language.” Johanna countersued her with the same charge. I already had done additional follow up on the family to see what else might be in the Winona, Minnesota newspapers. Then, I used the United States Newspapers from OldNews.com™ which is part of MyHeritage.com. Thank you MyHeritage! I learned several new but unhappy things about this part of the family. I’ve been fortunate that several Winona newspapers are digitized on other websites, but had not looked in the St. Charles, Minnesota newspapers. I already knew that several lawsuits involved Johanna, her second husband David Griffin, and a challenge to his will by David’s son, also named David Griffin. The clip below provides another unsettling detail.
St. Charles Union, (Winona County, Minnesota), 4 September 1878, third page, column 7, bottom of column. OldNews is definitely worthwhile.
MyHeritage.com https://www.myheritage.com/
Legacy Family Tree Webinars, my affiliate link http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=1737
Watch or rewatch (free!) any of the recorded Webtember Friday presentations at any time through the end of September. Two more September Fridays of live presentations left! The syllabus materials for each of the Webtember presentations and others on Legacy Family Tree Webinars requires an annual membership.
News Release for today. MyHeritage has just acquired MesAieux.com, a popular family history service that specializes in French Canadian genealogy. Founded in 2004, MesAieux.com has grown to become Quebec’s most popular family history service, with over one million users. The website offers an online family tree builder with automated features to add ancestors and is also home to approximately 15 million historical records from Canada, primarily from Quebec, and several exclusive collections. I hear my French Canadians calling!
“We are delighted to welcome MesAieux.com to the MyHeritage family,” said Gilad Japhet, Founder and CEO of MyHeritage. “Canadian genealogists will have much to gain from the combination of the two companies. We’ve been impressed with MesAieux.com’s accomplishments, and this acquisition reinforces our commitment to expanding the resources for French-speaking genealogists. Together we remain committed to the mission of helping everyone discover and preserve their family history for the benefit of future generations.”
As a MyHeritage company, MesAieux.com will soon benefit from MyHeritage’s resources and technological expertise, which will facilitate the publication of new historical record collections and provide greater value to MesAieux.com users, who will be introduced to the wide array of MyHeritage services. All historical record content from MesAieux.com will soon be published on MyHeritage, and its users will benefit from the capabilities of MyHeritage’s innovative tree-to-tree and tree-to-record matching technologies.
Read more on the MyHeritage blog.
| 20 free webinars over the four Fridays of September 2024. A great variety of topics and speakers. I will be presenting on Friday, 13 September at 10:30 a.m. CDT about “The Neighbors Knew: Strategies for Finding YOUR Ancestral Details in THEIR Records.” My affiliate link for registration for this and the other ones is http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=9276 |
Labor Day weekend in the U.S. means more special prices from online genealogy companies. . Ancestry has announced a sale on 6-month subscriptions, DNA testing, and the new Pro Tools. Check the details https://www.ancestry.com/. Ancestry has been posting on major social media platforms about this. These offers expire on Monday, 3 September 2024.
Chronicling America, which includes fantastic and free access to digitized newspapers, grows constantly and is gearing up for a whole new website. It includes newspapers that are digitized by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) which works with newspaper repositories around the United States. It operates under The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LOC). https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov and https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/migration/?loclr=eacam
I see a press release and tell myself I need to keep on with my work before checking out new genealogy things. That lasts about ten minutes. Today I spent some time looking at my new updates from MyHeritage’s Theory of Family Relativity™. From the press release “adding millions of new theories to help you uncover how you’re related to your DNA Matches.” Then it told of more numbers. Read more on the MyHeritage Blog. While there, be sure to check out the DNA test sale!
This Wednesday, August 28, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, I will be presenting “What’s Next? Developing Step by Step Research Plans.” It is an online event hosted by the The Villages Genealogical Society. I love doing this presentation because it involves the participants, sound advice, and methodology. It shows many reasons why we need the assistance of others to analyze a record, draft the Research Plan, and then ways to put it to work. One vital reminder will make an impression on everyone. https://www.vgsfl.org/eventListings.php?nm=117
Join me online this Saturday morning, 17 August 2024. Learn about general resources for locating the correct railroad, where records might be located, how to find “buried away” records, with some added touches for Irish railroad workers. A six-page handout with tips, resources, links, and more accompanies my presentation. https://irishgenealogical.org/
