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Program Meetings
Mon. Jan. 10, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. “Tips for Effectively Searching Ancestry.com” By Sandy Ronayne & Kelly Glenn
Mon. Mar. 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. “Where, Oh Where Has My Photo Gone?” By Gary & Nancy Ratay
In This Issue: CIG & CGS Programs….....2 From the President……..…3 The Editor Says…….….….3 Roots Magic………..…..….4 Workshop Meeting Reunion for MAC………….5 Family Tree Maker…….….7 Genealogy Blogs……….....9 Mon. Feb. 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Indexing 1885 Census…....9 Photo Tip………………....10 RootsTech………………..10 Creating Passwords……..11 Workshop Sessions: Favorite Websites………..12 Legacy Meeting Location………...13 Family Tree Maker Ask an Expert………...... 13 The Master Genealogist Help the Editor……..….....14 The Master Genealogist Membership Rosters….…14 Roots Magic Committee Members…….14 Reunion for MAC (Feb. & June Only) DNA CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 2 Jan-Feb 2011
* * * * * * CIG January 10, 2011 Program UPCOMING CGS/CIG PROGRAMS : All Monday CIG meetings are held at: Christ the King Lutheran Church, Tips for Effectively Searching 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado Ancestry.com
Monday, January 10, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. by Sandy Ronayne and Kelly Glenn Speakers: Sandy Ronayne and Kelly Glenn “Tips for Effectively Searching Ancestry.com” Sandy and Kelly will discuss how they have Sandy Ronayne will present an overview of used ancestry.com to identify, view, and obtain ancestry.com and its vast resources. She and Kelly Glenn will discuss their successes in loca ting records related to their families. Their records, some unusual. presentation will include:
Monday, February 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Overview of ancestry.com Workshop Meeting o Family trees o Learning Center Monday, March 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. o Wiki Speakers: Nancy & Gary Ratay o Publish “Where, Oh Where, Has My Photo Gone?” o Card Catalog Workshop will cover some tips for organizing your o Record types photos for use in your various genealogy projects: o Sharing software programs, web sites, albums, digital scrapbooks, etc. We will also discuss what to do Effective research on ancestry.com when those auto programs that you have don’t do o Beginning a search what you want with your photo. o Narrowing searches to obtain better results . Including as much * * * * * * information as known as about an ancestor UPCOMING CGS PROGRAM: . Focusing on specific All Friday night programs held at: record types Christ the King Lutheran Church, . Searching by location 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado Examples o Records, pictures, newspaper Friday, January 21, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. articles, etc. Speaker: Annette Sands Botello o Message boards “The Power of the Grid” o Magic pencil Annette will illustrate some ways that word o Examples of various records processor tables can be used to help track and (e.g., census, newspaper articles, analyze your research data. Several mini-case studies will show examples of how tables have pictures, etc.). been used to make the research process more efficient, as well to help solve some research problems. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 3 Jan-Feb 2011
Save the Date future generations will appreciate the work I’ve Saturday, May 28, 2011 done. Annual CIG Seminar at the Denver Public Library In conjunction with (more details to follow) this, to help with the scanning I received a Photo Scanner for Christmas. It is a Pandigital® Photo Slide and Scanner Model #PanScn05. It was purchased at Bed, Bath & Beyond for $89.99. (They are also available at WalMart, Best Buy and at Amazon.com) It is very small – about 6” x 2”. This Scanner makes it easy to have digital From the President copies of your slides, negatives and 4" x 6" photos. It has one-touch scanning without Happy New Year, everyone, using a PC. The scanned images are saved I hope you all had great holidays, and you are directly to an SD card for quick and simple looking forward to more family history and transfer to your PC or digital photo frame. genealogical research in 2011. CIG will have great programs, workshops, and seminars in It will be great for taking on vacation to scan 2011. The CIG Steering Committee will pictures that other people might have and you continue to identify emerging technologies and need a copy of---no going to stores or no how we can use them in our research. Please taking them home to get copies (that is, if they join us on the second Monday of the month at let you take them). You can even sit in your 7:00 p.m. for knowledge, camaraderie, living room and scan photos or negatives while excellent treats and fun. Our January meeting you’re watching television. will be on Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most from Ancestry.com. See you soon. The drawbacks are that it scans nothing larger Sandy Ronayne than a 4 x 6 photo, only 35mm negatives and slides have to be removed from the carrier. But, for an inexpensive and small scanner, I love it. It works great for what I need. There The Editor Says: are many reviews of this scanner on the internet – check them out. A few years ago, I made a New Year’s resolutions to get So, how about making a commitment to get my photos scanned to folders starting with the started either scanning your photos and oldest irreplaceable photos. Once I got those documents or starting to write up your stories scanned, I started scanning photos of my dad and adding photos. Don’t overwhelm yourself. as a child and young man. I used these Just do a little at a time. I try to scan for a photos in the story of his life. I finished that couple of hours a few nights a week. Pick a last Christmas. In 2010, I finished scanning time that''s typically convenient for you and set photos of my mother’s life and wrote her story. aside even an hour a week. Even a half hour, This last month I have been scanning photos several times a week can add up. If you can of my husband’s life. I have also started to manage to get in three hours a week, you''ll write his life story. Of course, this has taken have logged more than 150 hours by next time from doing research. But, I’ve decided to year, and just think what progress you will slow down doing research and start putting have made. what I have already found into written work. I Lynette Dick haven’t been sorry. I have enjoyed reading and sharing this work with others. Hopefully, CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 4 Jan-Feb 2011
Source (and detail) text and comment Roots Magic editors honor the font size selected for note Roots Magic editing by Lori Collins NFS (New Family Search) can remember Happy Holidays to All! Well, users login and password and can automatically login to NFS as Christmas and the New Year’s celebration s wind down, have you decided on your resolutions for 2011? One resolution that I am Fixed problems with footnotes sometim es making is to do more with my Genealogy. We printing wrong on research notes report may have been busy with baking, crafting and shopping and while we were doing these Can now filter the NFS list based on named things, RootsMagic was busy updating their groups or ancestors of a person program. Although there have been two updates, if you missed the first one 4.0.9.8, its Fixed a bug that had crept into 4.0.9.8 that okay because the second one 4.0.9.9 takes care kept RM from saving an event in the edits of both of them. screen unless you clicked the “Save” button. Version 4.0.9.9 once again saves When the first one was developed and event data as soon as you move on like it delivered, they realized that there were some used to problems. They went back and fixed those problems, and gave us 4.0.9.9. Some of the Fixed bugs in several of the lists changes were due to requested features and some were needed fixes. Here is a part ial list Fixed an occasional bug when printing of some of the changes: Family Ordinance Requests (FOR)
No more crashing if you are using And the list goes on. When you download the Windows 2000 new update, you will be able to see all of the issues that have been fixed. The rearrange children list now displays and sorts children by their christening date The topic for the February 14, 2011 workshop if no birth date is given meeting, will be “Sourcing.” See you there.
Added the newly updated FamilySearch (as My new email address: [email protected] of 14 December 2010) website to WebSearch
Searching by age and marriage/family event works correctly now
Fixed FTM import of citations with no master source and no footnote text
Fixed FTM import when multiple birth Happy Valentines Day! facts exist Monday, February 14, 2011 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 5 Jan-Feb 2011
Reunion for Mac (Version hard drive than today and therefore had 9.0c): Using the many of my photos on external media. Multimedia Window This, too, created problems. Now that I by Nancy Ratay have a larger hard drive, I have moved all of my photos into Photo Folders for each of I thought I would cover this my people. I also have separate archives topic for Reunion since on another hard drive and on DVDs. How Gary and I will be speaking you organize your photos will depend on in March about organizing photos for your your work style. I found that I wanted my various projects no matter what software photos in the family folder with my other you are using. The electronic manual that documentation and notes. So when I comes with Reunion does a pretty good job reorganized my family files on the hard of taking you through the basic nuts and drive, that’s where I put them. If you have bolts of the program so I won’t repeat what them in iPhoto, they will be separate of is there. If you click on the Manual icon on your other research, but that is your your tool bar you will get another window decision. with the Contents of the Manual and you One of the really useful features you can find Multimedia there. should try to use is the comments box on Reunion does not “add” your photos the Multimedia Window. You can type up to the program. This would make your to 1000 characters in the comments box, program too large and unwieldy to use. so be sure to label all the people, the year, Instead it puts a link to your photo in the the place and anything else you can think program. You can use your photos from of. If you make web pages using Reunion, anywhere they are stored on your hard it will put your comments under the photo drive. However, one of the things that was on the web page. You can also choose to a concern of mine when I started was that I show the comments if you make a was not yet happy with my photo slideshow from your photos using the organization on my hard drive. If you slideshow feature. change the location of your photo, the Another useful feature in the program will lose the link and you will have multimedia is the ability to “copy” the photo to relink it. If all your photos of on e person from one person’s library to another. This are in the same folder, once you refind is very useful if you have a family photo one, the program will find the rest. Many with different generations and aunts, Mac users may be using iPhoto for their uncles and cousins included. You can photo organization. When I started open the multimedia cards for both people attaching photos many years ago, the and drag and drop the photo from one iPhoto program did not have as many of person’s library onto the other per son’s the cool organizing features as it does window. Or you can use the Copy and today. I had so many photos that it was not Paste function by selecting the photo in the very useful for me to have them all in the multimedia window, copying it, then iPhoto file. (By the way, do you know how navigating to the desired family card, open to find the “originals” in iPhoto? See below their multimedia window and paste. It is not for the answer.) You may find that if you copying the photo itself, only the link. Thi s are starting today and are using the method is most useful if there are several organizing features of iPhoto this may work people in the photo. for you. I also started with a much smaller CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 6 Jan-Feb 2011
If you find the “Edit” choice in the automatically download your photos. You Tool menu, understand that this will allow cannot find that folder using the usual you to choose a photo from your searching or finding methods for files. multimedia file, and then it will open your iPhoto puts your originals in a folder called editing software such as iPhoto o r “Originals” but it will not show up in Photoshop Elements. You will then use searches because it is imbedded in the any of the techniques we have described in iPhoto Library. This is a file you CAN find. our scanning workshops to alter your photo Search for iPhoto Library (it should be in for better quality or for specific usage. In your Pictures folders). When you have order for it to “edit” or change the photo found it, hold down the Control key while you have selected in the Multimedia you click on the iPhoto Library icon. You Window, you must save your newly edited will get a pop-up menu. One of the choices photo with the same name and location. on that menu is “Show Package Contents.” This is not that helpful if you do not wish to Choose that option and you will get a new have that particular original photo edited. If finder window with lots of files listed. One you think you may need to edit a photo it folder will be “Originals.” If you let iPhoto would be better to make a copy that you download your camera for you, this is use in Reunion and edit that one. My where you will find the original, unedited original archival photos have captions photos that you or your computer saved. added in a separate layer that I would not I hope to see many of you Reunion want to be in the photos which appear on users in February. Bring your questions, the web page because you can’t really comments and even your computer if you read them anyway. The comments pulled wish! from your Multimedia Window do a better job of this. So I almost always want to eliminate those for use in my program. Reunion for Mac Users: Nancy Ratay will Most of my archived photos also need be having a Reunion workshop on the adjustment of some sort. So, bottom line is February 14 workshop night. Bring your that you will probably need to make a copy questions and problems…we only meet of the photos for your use in Reunion. twice a year! Next Reunion workshop will Therefore, you may want to think about be the June meeting. having a special folder just for them. Besides your photos, you can also link movies, audio files, pdfs and rtfs. In order to view these, you have to have appropriate software on you computer such as QuickTime and Preview. That’s what Reunion will use when you ask to view it. Just one more tantalizing tidbit: you can also attach photos, documents, images or pdfs to your Sources. That’s another whole topic. Now, to answer the question “Do Brrrrrrrr! you know where iPhoto keeps yo ur originals?” These are the originals from your camera if you allow iPhoto to CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 7 Jan-Feb 2011
Family Tree Maker a match is confirmed by the user, FTM merges the data with user selectivity on 2011 the data. If a record exists, it is saved by Ed Richard to the media file, linked to the individual(s). The entry is sourced. In 2004, Ancestry.com In user Internet data sources, selected purchased the rights to information can be cut and pasted Family Tree Maker (Web clip) with an automatic source. (FTM). After releasing Creation of Internet sources and versions 2005, 2006 and Templates for other data and version 16, a new and different format, FTM documents are provided. 2008 was introduced after an extensive Beta In each backup or autobackup, the date test in 2007. Then, the New FTM had promise, of the save is added to the file name: but a number of missing features. FTM 2011 Richard_2100-12-07.ftmb. Historic is a complete product with many unique back up files, (*.ftmb) are on the hard features when compared to competitive drive until removed by the user. The products. I have found it to be stable and bug- user can I.D. the latest file when a free. Desktop computer is used at home, and a Notebook computer is taken to a The new FTM desktop (screen) is designed for repository, etc. Or find a previous file, the wide screen (ratio 1.7 to 1) application. when needed go back to a selected FTM works on older format screens (1.3 to 1). date. FTM requires Windows Xp, Vista or Windows 7. A 2010 MAC Version is also available. FTM converts files of older versions of FTM (2008-2010) *.FTM, FTW files v. 5.0+ *.FTW, Outstanding features include: PAF, Legacy, TMG, Ultimate, and GED COM. With an auxiliary add on, FTM 2011 can Excellent Charts and Reports with connect to the LDS New Family Search for many choices to customize. direct Ordinance work. A MAC version 2010 is Standardization of place names, now available. flexibility to print user preference Direct connection to maps of: country, Over ½ of CIG members use (or own) FTM. state, town with street, or aerial views. Now is the time to upgrade. Consider Print a “flagged” map with history of purchasing the Companion Guide (manual). locations of an individual or the This 340 page manual is on the installation diaspora of generations. disk as a PDF. With new features, a new look Import graphics – pictures and and construction, it is easy to work with a new certificates, currently in your computer paradigm with the manual page open on your files into the Media file. The media file desk. can be subdivided into categories. The Media file is not included in the Family Tree Maker is available in three automatic backup, but can be included packages at many outlets including Office in manual backups. Depot, Best Buy, and Ancestry.com (does n ot Connect directly to Ancestry.Com. offer Deluxe and Platinum Editions. I have Ancestry connects with your file, does found best prices at Amazon.com. not download it, and checks for Essentials Edition contains: Basic CD which possible matches for each individual includes: The Program, a PDF of The and family in Ancestry’s massive and Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker , growing database. Individuals with Training Tutorials (a DVD production to learn possible matches are noted with a leaf FTM, a one-month subscription to symbol by the individual’s name. When CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 8 Jan-Feb 2011
Ancestry.com US Records (which current 4. Open the file “xxxTest.FTM. Use the “test” subscribers can add to their subscription) file to review the program, and to try out features. Save “Test” for future trials. Deluxe Edition contains: the above, a 3 -month subscription to Ancestry.com US Records, 5. Review the formats of each Button at the plus a printed copy of The Companion Guide top of the Desktop: Plan, People, Places, to FTM, and Family History Toolkit, (a DVD of Media, Sources, Publish and Web Search. 6 Genealogy Books) Experiment changing the “Desk top” by expanding, compressing or closing the panels. Platinum Edition contains: the above, a 6 - The panels that can change have (...... >.....). month subscription to Ancestry.com US Going to this symbol, the user can move edge, Records, *Photo Explosion, a three star of four make the panel wider, narrower, disappear, or photo retouching, cropping, cataloging make the panel taller, shorter, disappear. program, and a second copy of the Family 6. Review choices on the toolbar: click File, Tree Maker disc (Essentials Edition) which can Edit, View, Place , Tools and Help. Read and be given to a family member or friend. review the choices on the drop down menus. *Photo Explosion 4.0 from Avanquest, a 7. Click Help on the Tool bar. Register FTM if growing software producer. I have not used you didn’t when it installed. nor inspected Photo Explosion, see http://photo-editing-software- Wait to activate the Ancestry Subscription until review.toptenreviews.com you are ready to search Ancestry for data. If you have a current subscription to Ancestry, the time bundled with the program will be Using Family Tree Maker 2011 added to the existing subscription. (You may by Ed Richard have to call to do this.) A few hints to get started. 8. Click Tools, choose Options on the drop 1. Your copy of FTM can be installed on two down menu. Click each tab on Options; computers. Seek your current xxx*.FTW file. General, Names/Dates/Places, Warnings
Indexing the 1885 Colorado State Census A Partnership Between CCGS and FamilySearch
You may have heard that the Colorado Council of A TRIO OF GENEALOGY BLOGS Genealogical Societies is by Linda Hartlaub partnering with FamilySearch to index a new digital scan of Have you met the You Go Genealogy Girls? Ruby the 1885 Colorado State Coleman and Cheri Hopkins are sisters-in-law, grannies and genealogy partners researching their families in Census. When we''ve Nebraska, Wyoming and points in between. They invite completed this project, the index and images will be you to go with them as they travel the backroads and available for free to genealogists world-wide at small towns, including visits to local historical societies beta.familysearch.org. and courthouses. They often head out to Salt Lake City, too. Their blog is filled with wit, humor and lots of tips, You can sign up now to be an indexer – and I found even if you aren’t reasearching in the same area, and they that the indexing was easy, but signing up may be a are not afraid to admit their mistakes – just so you can bit tricky! Let me know if you have any questions avoid doing the same thing. Join them on their journeys, and I ll try to steer you through the process. but be sure to pack the jelly beans. ’ yougogenealogygirls.blogspot.com (Note there is no ([email protected]) www in front of this url) 1. Go to
7. On the "Group" line select "Colorado Council of Photo Tip Genealogical Societies.” If all you have is a very 8. On the bottom line of the form select “United small picture of a relative States of America then "Colorado" from the drop- States of America” then "Colorado" from the drop- (like a driver’s license or down menu. Click the "Save" button or you'll get a down menu. Click the "Save" button or you'll get a charm photo), scan it with warning message! (It happened to me!) increased resolution like 1200 dpi. This will allow 9. To start indexing, select Download Batch, and “Show All Projects.” Then find US, Colorado 1885 you to enlarge it to as much as 8x 10 with very Census in the drop-down menu. I would start with little blurring. With more pixels to work with, a “beginning difficulty” selection. A census batch this will also make it easier to repair scratches, is two census pages or 100 lines. Other batches of cracks and stains, pixel by pixel, when going marriage, birth, etc records usually have 10-30 into MS Paint or whatever photo program you records. use to restore your photos.
10. When you get a batch, open the Table Format, enter the page number, line no., and family no. and start entering information. There is a help screen to tell you what the acceptable formats are.
11. When you’ve finished the first 50 lines, go to “Image Navigation” tab to move to the second page. You can only do two pages before you have to Upload the file. RootsTech Conference Coming by Lori Collins 12. When you’ve entered 100 lines, you can “Save” and then “Upload” the file. For the first time ever, technologists and genealogists from all over the world will be together for a new Conference called 13. If you have any problems with these steps, RootsTech. The Conference is taking place on please contact your Society Coordinator (Carol February 10-12, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Darrow). This Conference is meant to put us FamilySearch will send us a confirmation e-mail. genealogists together with the people that Please let your Society Coordinator (Carol Darrow) make the programs that we love and at times know that you registered successfully. Family hate. We will be able to see technology Search will keep track of everyone''s numbers and prototype demonstrations, interactive have some incentives for individuals and societies. workshops, and even some opportunities to test innovative new products and service I hope you’ll give this a try. I have enjoyed the concepts. While the technologists will be face - indexing process once I got registered. Please let to-face with the consumer (we, genealogists) me know if you decide to index and/or if you have to get a better understanding of our needs. any problems with these instructions! As I was reading the many articles on this, I Carol Darrow, CGS President liked what Josh Taylor had to say. Mr. Taylor [email protected] is the Director of Education and Programs for the NEHGS. He said, “The collection of technologies present at the last National Genealogical Society Conference was so impressive that we see a need and opportunity CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 11 Jan-Feb 2011 for a strong annual technology genealogy conference to pursue solutions for the unique challenges facing genealogists.”
This event is being hosted by FamilySearch Creating Super Passwords and sponsored by Ancestry.com, BYU, New by Lynette Dick England Historic Genealogy Society (NEHGS), Thanks to Woody Trosper for giving me this Microsoft, Dell and others. article by John Sutter at CNN.com. Cost is $99.00 until 07 January 2011, or Here are some of the highlights: $150.00 after 07 January. The fee includes a three-day pass to the conference, access t o We should now consider saying goodbye to the Community Zone Expo Hall and a ticket to eight-letter passwords. We are now in the era a Thursday evening event to be held at the of 12-character passwords. Researchers Clark Planetarium. There will be prize found that 8-letter passwords could be cracked drawings, a Conference bag and one can in two hours, but 12-letter passwords could participate in some collaborative sessions. take over 17,000 years. Security experts are recommending that When you sign up, you are also asked to sign people use full sentences as passwords, s uch up for what you are interested in. There are as “I have two kids: Jack and Jill.” or “Yes, the luncheons that are also available which you capital of Colorado is Denver.” are responsible for. The Family History Library will be open late on Friday evening so that we It’s best to use the longest and most complex can do some research while were there. password a site will allow. For example, if a website will let you create a password with If you can not attend the Conference, there will non-letter characters like “@y;}v%W$/5/” be many Bloggers that will be posting up-to- (personally, I could never remember this one date information for all. or type it very fast.)
If you are interested in going and would like There are only 26 letters in the English more information on the Conference go to: alphabet, but there are 95 letters and symbols www.rootstech.familysearch.org. on a computer keyboard. This makes it more difficult for a computer to generate the corre ct password just by guessing. Microsoft tells the password-creating public not to use real words or logical combinations of letters. That keeps you safer from a “dictionary attack”, which uses a database of words and common character sequences to try to guess the code. So, how are you supposed to remember all of these complicated passwords? This newsletter welcomes suggestions from President’s Day readers. Monday, February 21 Read the entire article at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08/ 20/super.passwords/index.html?iref=allsearch CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 Jan-Feb 2011
Favorite Websites From Lynette Dick From Mary Lou King
How Many of Me?
http://www.howmanyofme.com/ Minnesota Death Index http://people.mnhs.org/dci/ The U.S. Census Bureau statistics tell us that there are at least 151,671 different last names From the Minnesota Historical Society. This and 5,163 different first names in common use index covers death certificates from 1908 to in the United States. Some names are more 2001, supplemented by death cards from 1904 common than others. to 1907. There are 44,982 people named John Smith in the United States. What about you? How many New Hampshire Birth Records people share your name? Enter it and find out https://familysearch.org/s/collection/s how many of you there are. (There are 4 how#uri=http://search- people named Lynette Dick!) api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/ 1542861&hash=Mrd8SMocDIIen2Q8 3tu%2B82PRagg%3D This collection contains the digital images of the index/abstract of 500,000 early New World War II Memorial Hampshire birth records, early to 1900. The records consist of index cards that give the http://www.wwiimemorial.com/ town and date of the event and often much http://www.wwiimemorial.com/ more information. With the town and date, the original records can usually be located. The World War II Memorial Normally there is only one index card per child, in Washington, D.C. honors but occasionally there is a corrected card the 16 million men and women who served in before or after the original card. the U.S. armed forces, and more than 400,000 who made the ultimate sacrifice. The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) originally worked to create the memorial, which U.S. Military Service was transferred to the National Parks Service www.archives.gov/veterans in 2004. You can find out more information about the memorial at this website. The WWI Does your family history Register of Remembrances is a combination of include United States military four databases: Americans buried in ABMC service? overseas military cemeteries; those If so, then don’t overlook the sources available memorialized on ABMC Tablets of the Missing; through the National Archives. Located at /, the those listed on Official War and Navy site is easy to search and includes Department Killed in Service rosters at NARA; bibliographies, interviews, documentation, and and those honored by public enrollment in the more. You can also request military service registry. records, replacement medals and other forms of service history are available. Give it a try today! CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 13 Jan-Feb 2011
Meeting Location The Monday meetings are held at 7:00 pm at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., in CIG Website Address southwest Denver. The church is at the corner of Iliff Ave. and So. Patton Ct. in the Harvey Park www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm area. When coming from the north: Take Federal or The website of the Computer Interest Group of Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right the Colorado Genealogical Society is linked from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans above. Our web page is a link on the Colorado to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks Genealogy Society website. to the church at Iliff Ave. Information about our program and workshop When coming from the south: Take Federal or meetings are available on this site. Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to Linda Hartlaub has established Facebook Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to group for CIG members and interested the church at Iliff Ave. persons. Facebook is a leading "social networking" site on the Internet. You will already have to be a Facebook member to access this group site. Joining Facebook is free!
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Do you have a question about your computer genealogy program? Digital imaging or scanning? DNA research? Internet research? Location of internet records? This column is for you. No question is too simple. Maybe someone else is wondering the same thing. Email your question to the editor at [email protected] and it will be forwarded to one of our workshop leaders. Then, watch for your question and answer in upcoming newsletters. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 14 Jan-Feb 2011
Steering Committee Elected Officers
President………….…..Sandy Ronayne 303-750-5002 [email protected] Help the Editor! Immed. Past President..Vern Tomkins 303-922-3639 [email protected] Please help make this newsletter a success by Vice President/Programs..Linda Hartlaub…….. submitting articles or ideas for articles relating 303-884-1858 [email protected] Secretary…………….Kelly Glenn……….... to computer genealogy to me to include in this 303-884-7617 [email protected] newsletter. Please be generous with your Treasurer…………….Ray Henney….…...... submissions of your favorite genealogical 303-758-0792 [email protected] websites, a new website you have discovered, Steering Committee Appointed Officers breakthroughs using your computer, and genealogical news and meetings of other Membership………..Charlotte Weiler societies. Articles and ideas for articles may be 303-548-7250 [email protected] emailed to me at [email protected]. Publicity…………….Vacant th Newsletter & Hospitality………..Lynette Dick Deadline for articles is the 25 of even- 303-986-7910 [email protected] numbered months. Historian…………….Sharon Mahler 303-757-3669 [email protected] Next deadline is February 25, 2011. CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay Thank you for your help, 303-972-2701 [email protected] Council Liaison…….Sandy Ronayne Lynette Dick 303-750-5002 [email protected] Nominating Committee Editions of this newsletter are printed five times a year in Zoe Lappin, Vacant, Vacant Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Sep-Oct and Nov-Dec.
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Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS 303-355-2592 [email protected] The Master Genealogist CIG Members may request a membership …….Patrick Purcell roster from Membership Chairman, Charlotte 303-973-2185 [email protected] Weiler by emailing her at …….Bobbi King [email protected]. A roster of specific 720-839-4952 [email protected] Legacy…………….…Vern Tomkins genealogy program users is also available. 303-922-3639 [email protected] Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected] Roots Magic…..……..Lori Collins 303-954-0393 [email protected] …… Paul Scheele 303-499-9409 [email protected] …….Mary Stiny 303-758-0149 [email protected] Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay National Western Stock Show 303-972-2701 [email protected] DNA…………………Earl Beaty January 8-23, 2011 303-494-8713 [email protected] CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 15 Jan-Feb 2011
January 10, 2011 Program Meeting “Tips for Effectively Searching Ancestry.com” Speakers: Sandy Ronayne and Kelly Glenn
February 14, 2011 Workshop Meeting
March 14, 2011 Program Meeting “Where, Oh Where Has My Photo Gone?” Speakers: Nancy & Gary Ratay
April 11, 2011 Workshop Meeting
May 9, 2011 Program Meeting “TBA”
June 13, 2011 Workshop Meeting
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Program Meetings
Mon. Mar. 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. “Where, Oh Where Has My Photo Gone?” By Gary & Nancy Ratay Mon. May 9, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. “Evernote” By Cari Taplin Spring Seminar May 28, 2011
In This Issue: Treasurer''s Report……..…..2 CIG & CGS Programs……..2 From the President…………3 CIG Spring Seminar.……….3 Workshop Meeting Scan. & Digital News Clips..4 Wrong Data in Fam. Trees..5 Online Tree Tips……………6 Mon. Apr.11, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Roots Magic………………...7 Mon. Apr.11, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Internet Articles…………….8 Reg. Computer Mainten…..9 Pdfmyurl.com……………….9 Workshop Sessions: Favorite Websites………...10 Legacy Tidbits from Rootstech…...11 Family Tree Maker Genealogy Blogs………….12 From the Editor….…….….12 The Master Genealogist Meeting Location………….13 Roots Magic Membership Rosters……..14 Reunion for MAC (Feb. & June Only) Committee Members……..14 DNA Seminar Registration……..15 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 2 Mar-Apr 2011
Treasurer’s Report Friday, March 18, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Ray Henney, Treasurer Speaker: Dr. David McDonald, CG “Kith and Kin in High Places: Genealogy As of 1/31/11: and the White House” Account Balance $6849.89 Saturday, March 19, 2011 10-4 p.m. Income Statement 7/31/10-1/31/11: 2011 CGS Seminar Income $2937.85 Dr. David McDonald, CG Expenses ($1291.03) Lower Level Conference Center, Denver Public Total +1649.82 Library, WEST entrance only Conference Syllabus and Registration Form http://www.cogensoc.us/2011seminarreg.pdf * * * * * * Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. UPCOMING CGS/CIG PROGRAMS : Speaker: Buzzy Jackson All Monday CIG meetings are held at: “Turning Research Into Writing ” Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado March CIG Program Monday, March 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Speakers: Nancy & Gary Ratay Where, Oh Where, Has My Photo Gone? CIG March 14, 2011 Program “Where, Oh Where, Has My Photo Gone?” CIG March 14, 2011 Program Speakers: Nancy & Gary Ratay
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. The workshop will cover some tips for Speaker: Cari Taplin organizing your photos for use in your “Evernote” various genealogy projects: software programs, web sites, albums, digital Saturday, May 28, 2011 scrapbooks, etc. We will also discuss what 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to do when those auto programs that you CGS-CIG Genealogical Seminar have don’t do what you want with your Denver Public Library photo. Lower Level Conference Center WEST entrance only May CIG Program Featuring: Drew Smith Evernote: A Tool for Everything and It's Great for Genealogy Too! Program information Pages 3-4 CIG May 9, 2011 Program Registration Form Page 15 Speaker: Cari Taplin
* * * * * * Cari will walk you through many of the features of Evernote, an amazing UPCOMING CGS PROGRAMS: organizational tool that is free, for both Mac All Friday night programs held at: and PC. She will go over the different Christ the King Lutheran Church, interfaces, applications and additional 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado mobile features. She will also take a look at some examples of ways you can use this to organize your genealogical research and other things as well! CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 3 Mar-Apr 2011
The morning sessions:
Social Networking for Genealogical From the President Researchers by Sandy Ronayne New technology tools provide exciting new ways to connect with other researchers. From blogs to wikis, Flickr to YouTube, Delicious to It’s almost Spring. Soon the crocus will be LibraryThing, and Facebook to Genealogy blooming and the trees starting to leaf out. The Wise, this presentation will provide a grand metro area will be ablaze in color. While enjoying the early spring blooms, we can take some time to tour of many different categories of social think about using technology in our family history networking tools that can add power and fun to research. CIG officers and members are available research. The speaker is the author of the to discuss issues and help you in person at landmark book, Social Networking for meetings, via phone, and by email. Also, visit our Genealogists. Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123234 Effective Electronic Queries 606725&ref=ts) to learn about what’s happening in Many millions of genealogy queries can the Genie Tech world and in our group. Visit our already be found on the Internet. Will yours webpage (http://www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm) to become lost among the crowd? Find out how find out about future meetings, download program handouts, and read past CIG newsletters. Both to construct and post effective queries so that internet sites now have information about our yours get noticed! Spring Seminar on 28 May. Drew Smith, an expert in using technology for genealogy will be the speaker. The afternoon sessions: See you on the second Mondays of the Winter and Spring months. Have a wonderful time. Beyond Database Programs: Technology Tools to Help Manage Your Research Software such as Family Tree Maker or CIG Spring Seminar RootsMagic can keep track of the facts you''ve with Drew Smith discovered, but that''s only part of the research Saturday, May 28, process. Learn about software tools that can 2011 give you research suggestions, keep your 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m notes organized, synchronize your working files across multiple computers, or provide Jump start your summer genealogical research automatic backups for peace of mind. by joining us for Drew Smith''s presentation on May 28, 2011 at the Lower Level Conference Using a Blog as Your Online Research Log Center of the Denver Public Library, 13th & Researchers have long been encouraged to Broadway. (entrance at west door only). keep a log of their discoveries, but the Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. with the availability of blogs means that genealogists seminar beginning at 9:30 a.m. Lunch will be have a way to keep track of their research and on your own. You may bring a sack lunch to to share it with others. This presentation eat in the conference room. explains why keeping a research log is Attendees will also have a chance to win great important, how a blog can serve as a research Door Prizes. log, and how genealogists can best use each of the features of online blogging services. The required materials fee is $30 before May 21. After May 21 the fee is $35. Find a registration form on page 15. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 4 Mar-Apr 2011
About our Seminar Speaker: Scanning and Digital News Clips by Nancy Ratay Drew Smith, MLS, is an academic librarian with the University of South Florida in Tampa. An There are some pretty good and not so good expert in digital genealogy, with a lifelong videos available on the web on the use of interest in family history research, he is a Picasa for editing, cataloging and tagging of Director of the Federation of Genealogical photos. For those of you who are using and Societies (FGS) and President of the Florida like Picasa, you should try to locate and watch Genealogical Society of Tampa. some of these. Put Picasa tutorial into your browser and you can find lots of help with this.
I watched one of the youtube videos on photographing microfilm. It is worth a look-see. The gentleman who does this uses Picasa afterward to edit and correct his images. This address is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8f6JDifa3c
If you can’t get the link to work you can search for photographing microfilm. This link is for Part 1. When you get to the end it will give you the option to view Part 2 by clicking on a link. Drew (L) Co-hosts the "Genealogy Guys" podcast If you haven’t yet looked at a ScanSnap (see at previous article, Mar-Apr 2010), there are http://www.genealogyguys several new models available now. Also, the .com. with George Morgan software included with the 1300 model will also (R). work with some older models and allow both Mac and PC users to make searchable pdfs. Drew is also the author of Social Networking for I did try using my iPad at the Family History Genealogists, a book that Library at Salt Lake. There were some describes the wide array awkward things in using this version which of social networking closes one window to open another. I had to services that are now do more organization pre-trip than the usual. available online and What I want to note here is the fact that I made highlights how these a back-up of my microfilm photos from my services can be used by camera onto my iPad. There is a card reader genealogists to share for iPad that takes the SD memory card and information, photos, and allows you to download your photos into the videos with family, friends, Photo app on the iPad. It’s as easy as plugging and other researchers. it in. Viewing them is really great! They are easy to scroll through and magnify. At the end it asks if you want to keep the photos on the camera card or delete. I kept them. When I plugged in the next day for the next set, it told me there were duplicates and asked if I wanted to skip the duplicates or do them again. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 5 Mar-Apr 2011
Caution: disagreed with me slightly, and when he posted a public member tree on the most popular genealogy Wrong data site, he gave Bridget’s place of death as falling from Connecticut or Massachusetts along with the correct date, 1856. (The complete date, without a family trees place, is recorded only in the family Bible, which I own.) When he posted Bridget’s data in a public- By Zoe von Ende Lappin access tree, he included the two possible places of death. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. When I went searching for Bridget in the public To post or not to post your family tree online? family trees at that website, I found 41 entries for Thoughtful genealogists have been puzzling over women with that name, including the one posted by that one since it became possible to do so in the Larry. Of these, 14 obviously are not my ancestor. 1990s. Of the remaining 27, four are my Bridget but with incorrect birth and/or death data. I can tell it’s my I submitted my and my husband’s families to the family by the names of the children and spouses. LDS Ancestral File database in 1990-1991, when it Fifteen others give Bridget’s correct death date and could be viewed only on CDs at the Family History spouse along with a place of death: Massachusetts. Library or Family History Centers. That was well Eight have the right death date and no place of before FamilySearch.org was online and open to death. anyone who wanted to look at it. Since I was fairly new to this genealogy business, I inadvertently At first, I was pleased though mostly skeptical at posted errors in my data. I guessed at some dates seeing a death place for Bridget. Maybe one or and places and connected a few individuals to more of these 15 tree owners had actually found it, I parents and spouses about which I now have thought. Not one of them was sourced, however. serious doubts. Were I to do this now, I would not Not good. Skepticism and incredulity continued to submit that information without proof or at least a build when I saw that several of these 15 trees more reasonable “sum of evidence,” as the listed Bridget as alive and counted in the 1860 and professionals call it. 1870 censuses in Massachusetts. How could anyone be taken seriously who claimed Bridget was Therefore, I am not free of the sin of posting alive four and 14 years after she died? unproven data. But I doubt if I’ll ever post a family tree again because of the way the data get misused Nevertheless, I recognized one of these tree and corrupted. Some so-called genealogists – owners who claimed Bridget died in Massachusetts mostly amateurs and newcomers – seem willing to as another cousin of Larry’s and mine. I contacted connect just about anybody to their trees, posting her, and she referred me back to Larry’s tree with them without citing sources and thereby giving the the two possible death places, Connecticut and bad data a life of their own. These people need to Massachusetts. take an introductory genealogy class. As it is, enthusiasm trumps common sense, and they’re Soon it was obvious what happened: An doing a severe disservice to genealogy as well as inexperienced researcher had picked up Larry’s to their own efforts to preserve their family history. information, and for some reason (maybe Some call it “trash genealogy.” accidental) dropped Connecticut, stuck with just Massachusetts. That information then was picked I will cite the case of my great-great-grandmother, up over and over – at least 13 times on that single Bridget Moran, as an example of errors run amok. I site, and it’s likely it shows up on additional sites as began researching her in about 1981. I can well. Nobody had conducted any original research corroborate everything I know about her, with one that showed Bridget died in Massachusetts, but exception: I do not know where she died. I have now the error is ubiquitous. (Larry has since taken assumed it was Rhode Island or Connecticut, but down his public tree.) cannot prove either one. I left it blank in my Ancestral File submission. The owners of eight of those trees who have left Bridget’s death place blank are to be commended. My cousin Larry, with whom I collaborated early in They got their information either directly or indirectly our research and whose judgment is impeccable, from me, including Ancestral File, although I’m CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 6 Mar-Apr 2011 never credited. Some of the trees that include my and proved. For now, it appears that I, and Bridget have other errors, equally as egregious, but thousands of experienced genealogists like me, will I’ll conclude my example with the misinformation just have to put up with vast forests of bad about her place of death. information to get at a few twigs of truth, albeit valuable truth. I doubt if any of the thousands of errors in online trees posted by individuals ever will be corrected. Whatever your level of research, be advised: Be They’re out there for anyone to use and compound, careful out there. Do all in your power to avoid generation after generation. perpetuating incorrect data.
However, there must be a bright side to all of this. The data may be wrong, you say, but ask: “Haven’t you ever picked up just one hint directing you to a Online Tree Tips relative who has stumped you for years?” Experienced genealogists offer these guidelines for Yes, indeed, I have, and other cousins have those of you who find family members in online connected with me through Ancestral File and trees: surname forums. I value these connections, and I’ll cite two examples: Never add the online tree info directly to your tree. Even if you are absolute ly sure One of the tree owners who gave Massachusetts as it’s right, add the data manually instead of Bridget’s place of death – and had her living in a mass, which could include extraneous Massachusetts well after she had passed on – also material. posted wonderful photos of people whom I’ve been Be cautious of trees that do not include researching for years. At last I got to see what source citations. Even those often are Bridget’s daughter Mary and her husband Joseph wrong. Conroy looked like, as well as several of their Check and verify the data. Consider your children. I downloaded them onto my hard drive, discoveries as clues. and the tree owner gave me an original studio photo of Mary Conroy in her old age, as well as an And for those of you considering posting your trees: original of a Conroy daughter who was an actress in the 1890s, a truly beautiful young woman. What’s Don’t include living people. more, this third cousin gladly removed Bridget’s Start slowly. See what happens after you Massachusetts misinformation. post a selective part of your tree Don’t blindly snag names from other trees In another instance, I happened on a distant cousin, In another instance, I happened on a distant cousin, and add them to yours. Robert McBride, in a public family tree. The owner Heed remarks from researchers had posted his death date and place, which fit into questioning your data. Answer their the sketchy data I already had, as well as the name queries. of his wife. Their marriage information is online at Provide legitimate sources, not those that FamilySearch.org, and I obtained his obituary, merely look correct, e.g, a woman who which confirmed his identity and pointed me to a emigrated to America in 1850 cannot be the long-lost sister. one with the same name numbered in the British census for 1851 with a different But the tree owner gave an incorrect first and husband and children. middle name for Robert’s father, and a preposterous set of grandparents. (His grandmother Remember that your data will be out there for a long, long time; consider the was a daughter of Bridget Moran, so I know this for a long, long time; consider the consequences of careless postings. family well.) I wrote him what I considered a friendly consequences of careless postings. note, asking for sources and pointing out his errors. Gratification is easy to come by despite No reply. I’m not surprised, but I am grateful to get these cautions. You might help a distant these few tidbits. relative make a breakthrough.
I know that other serious genealogists have connected via these trees with cousins whose data provide entire lines of ancestors, all neatly sourced CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 7 Mar-Apr 2011
. Privacy works properly for alternate Roots Magic name facts in individual summary now . WebSearch works properly for names By Lori Collins with accented characters now . There have been a lot of [xUpline] was showing up in websites for privatized people with no events things going on with for privatized people with no events . Fixed SQLite error 21 when printing to RootsMagic. The first thing Fixed SQLite error 21 when printing to do list for single repository sorted by I would like to mention is do list for single repository sorted by repository that since 8 January 2011, repository . RootsMagic has been having Live Webinars. Added option to support New FamilySearch on Macs running So far, there have been eight of them. If you FamilySearch on Macs running Crossover (Tools>File have not been able to participate in them, you Crossover (Tools>File Options>FamilySearch) can still watch or download them from Options>FamilySearch) . Adding a new fact on the edit screen www.RootsMagic.com/webinars. They are: Adding a new fact on the edit screen and pressing Alt+V would sometimes 1. Getting Started with RootsMagic show incorrect data in the list 2. Publishing a Family History with . Can search/select on FamilySearch ID RootsMagic in selection screen now 3. FamilySearch Made Easy with RootsMagic . Custom reports support printing and 4. RootsMagic-To-Go: Running RootsMagic sorting by FamilySearch ID on a Flash Drive . Unicode characters in names and 5. Sources, Citations and Documentation with places transfer properly from RM to RootsMagic NFS 6. Working with Files and Folders 6. Working with Files and Folders . Fixed a few list issues 7. Cleaning Your Family Tree in RootsMagic . Shared events are now retained during 8. Personal Historian: Bringing Life to Your Shared events are now retained during Life Stories merge The other day while I was reading my emails, I According to Bruce Buzbee and Michael The other day while I was reading my emails, I had received one from DearMYRTLE. She Booth, there will be more webinars. They have had received one from DearMYRTLE. She was having a problem (as you know she also received great reviews. was having a problem (as you know she also uses RM). She was moving her genealogy If you haven’t noticed, RootsMagic has another files and multi-media files to a new Dropbox folder. update. I have noticed recently that RM folder. actually listens to what we are saying. Within She did what the RM program told her do. She this update, there were some minor requested She did what the RM program told her do. She clicked on TOOLS, then selected PROGRAM features and a number of issues that they clicked on TOOLS, then selected PROGRAM fixed. Here is the list of what this update OPTIONS, then FOLDERS. She then directed RM to look for multi-media files in her entails. (These are all quoted from the RM RM to look for multi-media files in her D:\MyDropbox\genealogy data folder, which blog) D:\MyDropbox\genealogy data folder, which works for files in the future, but RM continued to look for any previously attached multi-media . Notes for alternate names now print for to look for any previously attached multi-media group sheet and individual summary files in their original locations. When she moved all of her files, she broke hundreds of . Record # button didn’t work on Select moved all of her files, she broke hundreds of People screen until you highlighted attached ancestor photos and scanned images of proof documents. someone in the list of proof documents. . Sentence templates for user defined roles are supported in GEDCOM now To the rescue came Michael Booth. Michael is the Vice President of RM and he came up with . Alternate names are handled in the the Vice President of RM and he came up with various Fact Lists (Private facts, Facts a much quicker way of fixing this if it ever happens to you. He said: w/o sources, etc.) happens to you. He said: CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 8 Mar-Apr 2011
From the main menu, choose Search > Miscellaneous Internet Articles Search and Replace Then change the “Field to search” to from Linda Hartlaub “Multimedia filenames” Below are three internet articles. The first two are Search for “C:\OldFolder\” and Replace about internet security. with “D:\NewFolder\” Press OK then “Replace All” Online Peril: Avoid Status Jacking http://daol.aol.com/articles/status - When she did this, it all worked out. It was jacking?icid=main|aim|dl5|sec1_lnk3|189783 something as simple as this. Please check the website, there are more webinars starting soon. This following article is Reprinted with permission from Dick Eastman’s RootsMagic Workshop Leaders: Online Genealogical Newsletter, January 2011: Lori: [email protected] (New Email Giving Away Personal Information? Address) http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2 Mary: [email protected] 011/01/are-you-giving-away-your-personal- Paul: [email protected] information.html
Would you give a stalker the street address of your home? Would you give a pedophile the precise location where your children play? If you have posted a picture online, you may have already done that. Pictures taken with GPS-equipped digital cameras usually embed the GPS coordinates within each picture. Most cameras have an option to turn this capability on or off, but the default setting usually is ON. Unless y ou have taken action to specify otherwise, the camera probably is recording the exact location of every picture you take, plus or minus 10 feet to Congratulations to Ed Richard who won an perhaps 50 feet. Ancestry.com membership at our January meeting.
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Denver Public Library made with legos on display at the Governor’s Mansion in December Thursday, March 17th CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 9 Mar-Apr 2011
Regular maintenance is crucial to keep your A Little Maintenance PC running at top speed until its dying day. Goes a Long Way – Deanna Glick, AOL.com The fact is, nonexistent or The following is reprinted with permission from improper maintenance causes computers to Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, January fail or operate slowly. Both scenarios result in 22, 2010 unnecessary and excessive consumption of energy, the potential for improper and excessive electronic waste and spending more money than you have to. One of the many problems I find when surfing the web is that there are many interesting web sites, When it comes to tips to extend your PC’s life, almost too many. I'd like to save many of them. My several online resources recommend the bookmark list in my web browser already contains simple task of clearing your computer vents as thousands of links and I can never find what I want. dirty ones won’t cool your machine as I have tried various bookmark organizers but have effectively, potentially leading to reduced never found one that I really like. Besides, when I operating efficiency, damaged components or go back to the site in the future the information that both. For laptops, this might just mean blowing caught my eye today might no longer be there. A into the vents. For desktop machines, Bennett perfect example would be this newsletter web site recommends using a cloth to collect dust where things change several times daily. I want to bunnies while grounding yourself by touching save a particular article so bookmarking the web the metal side. site doesn't do much good.
In addition, clearing cookies, unused Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way for y ou to applications and unused, unnecessary or capture a web page in its entirety, either for future temporary files that clutter and slow down your reference or for sharing it with your friends without computer can all make a big difference in your having to start sending links back and forth? I'd like computer’s operation and life span. to capture the web page as it exists today. Luckily, there is an easy method of doing j ust that. Lifehack.org also offers a check list for regular PC maintenance at various points, from PDFmyURL.com is a web service that captures web monthly tasks such as checking for updates sites and converts them to PDF files. You can save and deleting unused programs to annual the PDF files on your own computer, preserving software updates and antivirus subscription them as they appeared at the moment you told renewal. The list also includes the following PDFmyURL.com to make the copy. Best of all, weekly tasks: even the links work properly. You simply cut and paste the URL you are interested in, and then a run a disk scan to check for hard drive “download this page as PDF” link will be provided issues for you to retrieve the corresponding document. run a defragmentation program run a clean up to delete unneeded files A service such as this one also has the distinct back up files to a remote location advantage of letting your preserve pages forever. empty recycle bin That is, even if the original page vanishes from the delete Internet files web you will still be able to access the information clear browsing history as it was, at the time you created a PDF of it. And delete cookies you can also create PDFs of your own site in order update virus definitions to track its evolution. Best of all, this is a free run a full virus scan service. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 10 Mar-Apr 2011
Favorite Websites: Many – including the marriage and death indexes, slavery, land and some of the veterans’ records -- From Mary Lou King are searchable by surname or other criteria. Others concisely explain the nature of the documents in each record group and tell the research how to obtain copies. The archives’ website may be accessed by asking your browser to find Illinois State Archives databases or at this URL: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archi ves/databases.html http://www.teachparentstech.org/watch Personal note: I phoned the Archives on February Everyname Index to History of 3, seeking the file of a Civil War widow who was Northumberland County, Pennsylvania admitted to the state Soldiers’ Widows’ Home in 1919. A live person answered the phone, I told her what I wanted, she took my credit card information, Including Aboriginal History; the Colonial and and the widow’s file arrived in my mailbox six days Revolutionary periods; Early settlement and later. Total cost $11.50. subsequent growth; Political organization; agricultural, mining, and manufacturing interests; Internal improvements; Religious, educational, social, and military history; Sketches of its boroughs, villages, and townships; Portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens;
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New York State Federal, State, Colonial and Military Census Records http://www.newhorizonsgenealogicalservices.c om/ny-census.htm Governor’s Mansion made with legos on display at the Governor’s Mansion in December
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Illinois State Archives Data Bases The Illinois State Archives maintains an excellent series of databases. These include 11 sets of records related to military veterans and dependants, a statewide marriage index to 1900, two statewide death indexes (the earlier one is ongoing, i.e. incomplete but growing), and lists at least three and as many as nine record groups in each of the seven Illinois Regional Archives Depositories (IRAD). Others pertain to slave and emancipation Happy Easter records, and public domain land sales. Sunday, April 24, 2011 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 11 Mar-Apr 2011
Little Tidbits from RootsTech $149.99 with free shipping and handling. You by Lori Collins can view it at: www.flip-pal.com .
I wanted to share some of the things that 3. Magikey Family Tree is coming out soon happened at the RootsTech Conference in Salt with a new version called MagiCensus. This is Lake City. Even though I had my ticket, I was a new stand-alone genealogy software not able to attend, but I did keep up with the program. One special feature that comes with blogs that were going on. Whether or not we this program is the Census Tracker Tool. It genealogists found answers to our research can be used by either their program software challenges remains to be seen. But, they did or a GEDCOM import. It can import and export have quite a few people (over 3000) that data from most major genealogy programs. attended and it will return next year on You can use your own genealogy program and February 2-4, 2012. use the MagiCensus for its census tracking. A template is included for each census year from 1. One of the speakers was Tami Glatz. She the U.S., Canada, England, Scotland, Norway, is from the Genealogical Speakers Guild and Ireland and Denmark. At this time though, it is has the website called Relatively Curious only available for Windows. Check it out at: about Genealogy or better known to us as www.themagikey.com . relativelycurious.blogspot.com. One of her sessions was called “Cool Tools to Enhance 4. Another interesting website is Tpstry. It’s a your Online Research”. The cool tool she is new family website that focuses on helping referring to is “Windows Snipping Tool”. If you users get in touch with living relatives. It helps currently have Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you to collect family memories and combine this tool is on your computer. Have you ever those memories into a much larger family wanted to take an article from a website and history that you can share with others. You save it or print it, but you didn’t want the whole start out on a page and then ask your relatives article? Well, this “snip it tool” does just that. to join in and help answer questions about Here is how to do it: family members that they remember. The -“Go to a website where you want to save an program makes it easy for you as it prompts article you with a whole bunch of questions to help -Under the Start menu and click All Programs you capture your family’s memories and -Click on the Accessories file folder stories. This program is to help you talk to -Select Snipping Tool your relatives instead of doing a personal -The tool pops up in a small window on your interview. If your relatives are scattered all over screen the world, then this is the program to get. At -Drag the curser around the area you want to this time, the basic plan is free, yes I said save FREE. This program allows you to create -Click the Save icon in the window, name the multiple families, and invite others to join. You image and save it to your hard drive”. can have an unlimited number of people, places and events, and can upload an 2. A couple more Tools and Toys that sound unlimited number of images. You can then really good, is the Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner. view your family information in a Timeline This scanner is small and portable, and the lid format and also a unique family URL. There can be removed so that photos do not have to will be a Premium Plan available that will be be removed from an album or picture frame. It coming out soon, which will include the basic also works for books that can’t lay flat and plan plus more features and tools to help you ones that are too big for our regular scanners. gather and organize your family information. The scans are saved as a jpg file that is saved Check this one out at: http://tpstry.com to an SD card. It runs on batteries and you can even see what you are scanning. It will fit in a backpack or a computer bag. The cost is CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 Mar-Apr 2011
From the Editor: A Trio of Genealogy Blogs Recently while searching by Linda Hartlaub on eBay, I put in an uncommon family surname and I came up with an Leland Meitzler started interesting find. There is blogging about an eBay store at genealogy in 2000, but didn’t start posting http://stores.ebay.com/g regularly until 2006. Since that time, his Genealogy enealogyimagesofhistory Blog has built a reputation for information, hints and curmudgeonly stories. His topics range from The owner of this eBay Adoption Issues to the state of Wyoming. He is store has over 3000 considered one of the fathers of genealogy blogging magazines and articles for and was voted one of the top 25 genealogy blogs in sale about American Frontiersmen and Pioneers. 2009. His blog is well worth putting on your reader He is retired and has dedicated his time to indexing or checking every few days. the genealogy and stories of Western heroes. http://www.genealogyblog.com/ I purchased this old, complete Pioneer West magazine from April 1972 with an article and photos Detour Through History is more than a genealogy about a Ketchum family murder in Nebraska in blog. It is a compilation of not only musings on his 1878. genealogy searches, but snippets of history, old catalog pages, newspaper clippings, etc. There are Check it out. You'll enjoy seeing what he has for also photos from their travels, and historical photos sale. that, by themselves, make the blog worth browsing. If you are working with Afro-American genealogy, there are a number of posts which may open new CIG Positions Needed avenues of research. http://detourthroughhistory.blogspot.com/ The CIG Steering Who Will Tell Their Story? is a blog that centers Committee is in around orphan photos. Each week the author need of a few spotlights a new photo trying to reunite them with positions: their families. Julie Tarr is located in the Chicago area and if you are searching in that area or have family with roots there, it would be worthwhile to Our CIG treasurer, see if you recognize any of the photos. If you love old photos, it is a wonderful site to browse. She Ray Henney, has completed his term. So, also has other blogs that document her research in we are in need of a treasurer. If you think the Chicago and Illinois areas, and you can find this would be the position for you ,contact links to them on her sidebar. http://telltheirstory.blogspot.com/ Zoe Lappin at 303-322-2544 or by email at [email protected] A little extra - Genealogy in Time is an online e-zine devoted to genealogy. It has an astounding We also need two people to complete our number of links to free genealogy sites, along with nominating committee. This job should be articles and powerful search engines. You can nominating committee. This job should be browse the site and sign up for their free weekly a snap as the nominating committee only newsletter which contains the latest articles and needs to find a treasurer. news. There is a link on their site to sign up to have the newsletter delivered to your email box. http://www.genealogyintime.com/index.html CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 13 Mar-Apr 2011
Meeting Location The Monday meetings are held at 7:00 pm at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., in southwest Denver. The church is at the corner of CIG Website Address Iliff Ave. and So. Patton Ct. in the Harvey Park area. www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm When coming from the north: Take Federal or Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right The website of the Computer Interest Group of from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans the Colorado Genealogical Society is linked to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks above. Our web page is a link on the Colorado to the church at Iliff Ave. Genealogy Society website.
When coming from the south: Take Federal or Information about our program and workshop Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from meetings are available on this site. Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to Linda Hartlaub has established a Facebook the church at Iliff Ave. page for CIG members and other interested persons. Facebook is the leading "social networking" site on the Internet. You will already have to be a Facebook member to access this group site. Joining Facebook is free!
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Do you have a question about your computer genealogy program? Digital imaging or scanning? DNA research? Internet research? Location of internet records? This column is for you. No question is too simple. Maybe someone else is wondering the same thing. Email your question to the editor at [email protected] and it will be forwarded to one of our workshop leaders. Then, watch for your question and answer in upcom ing newsletters. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 14 Mar-Apr 2011
Steering Committee Elected Officers
Help the Editor! President………….…..Sandy Ronayne 303-750-5002 [email protected] Please help make this Immed. Past President..Vern Tomkins newsletter a success by 303-922-3639 [email protected] submitting articles or ideas Vice President/Programs..Linda Hartlaub…….. for articles relating to computer genealogy to 303-884-1858 [email protected] me to include in this newsletter. Please be Secretary…………….Kelly Glenn……….... 303-810-9975 [email protected] generous with your submissions of your Treasurer…………….Ray Henney….…...... favorite genealogical websites, a new website 303-758-0792 [email protected] you have discovered, breakthroughs using your computer, and genealogical news and meetings Steering Committee Appointed Officers of other societies. Articles and ideas for Membership………..Charlotte Weiler articles may be emailed to me at 303-548-7250 [email protected] [email protected]. Deadline for articles is Publicity…………….Vacant the 25th of even-numbered months. Newsletter & Hospitality………..Lynette Dick 303-986-7910 [email protected] Historian…………….Sharon Mahler Next deadline is April 25, 2011. 303-757-3669 [email protected] Thank you for your help, CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected] Lynette Dick Council Liaison…….Sandy Ronayne 303-750-5002 [email protected] Editions of this newsletter are printed five times a Nominating Committee year in Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Sep-Oct and Zoe Lappin, Vacant, Vacant Nov-Dec. Workshop Leaders ©You may re-distribute articles from this newsletter If you have a question, comment or suggested topic for a only with the permission of the Editor. Workshop, feel free to call or email the respective Workshop Leader.
MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard 303-355-2592 [email protected] CIG Members may request a membership roster The Master Genealogist from Membership Chairman, Charlotte Weiler by …….Patrick Purcell 303-973-2185 [email protected] emailing her at [email protected]. A roster …….Bobbi King of specific genealogy program users is also 720-839-4952 [email protected] available. ……Mike Jones 303-447-9649 [email protected] Legacy…………….…Vern Tomkins 303-922-3639 [email protected] RIDE ARRANGER Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected] Do you need a ride to our program Roots Magic…..……..Lori Collins meetings? If so, contact our membership 303-954-0393 [email protected] chairperson, Charlotte Weiler, by email …… Paul Scheele at [email protected] and she will put you in 303-499-9409 [email protected] contact with persons who may be able to help. …….Mary Stiny 303-758-0149 [email protected] If you would like to provide a ride, also contact Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay Charlotte. 303-972-2701 [email protected] DNA…………………Earl Beaty 303-494-8713 [email protected] CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 15 Mar-Apr 2011
2011 CGS-CIG Genealogical Seminar Sponsored by the Colorado Genealogical Society - Computer Interest Group & Denver Public Library
Featuring Drew Smith Author of “Social Networking for Genealogists” & Co-Host of Genealogy Guys Podcast Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:30 – 4:00 PM DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY Lower Level Conference Center (west entrance only), 13th & Broadway, Denver
9:00 a.m. Check-in Begins 9:30 a.m. Welcome
9:45-12:30 p.m. Morning Sessions – Social Networking for Genealogists & Effective Online Queries: Technology Tools to Help Manage Your Research 12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch – on your own 1:30-4:00 p.m. Afternoon Sessions – Beyond Database Programs & Using a Blog as Your Online Research Log
Required Materials Fee $30 by May 21; $35 after May 21. Doors open at 9:00 am. Program starts at 9:30 am. Lunch is on your own – you are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. Check our website at --http://www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm or call Sandy Ronayne, 303.750.5002. Great Door Prizes including Drew Smith’s book, Social Networking for Genealogists
REGISTRATION FORM
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March 14, 2011 Program Meeting “Where, Oh Where, Has My Photo Gone ” by Nancy & Gary Ratay
April 11, 2011 Workshop Meeting
May 9, 2011 Program Meeting “Evernote” by Cari Taplin
May 28, 2011 Annual CGS-CIG Seminar with Drew Smith
June 13, 2011 Workshop Meeting
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Program Meetings
Mon. May 9, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. “Using Earthpoint.us” By Roberta “Bobbi” King
**Spring Seminar May 28, 2011** “Embracing 21st Century Technology for your Family History Research”
In This Issue: Treasurer''s Report……..…..2 CIG & CGS Programs……..2 Proposed Budget…………..3 From the Editor…..…………3 Workshop Meeting From the President…………4 CIG Spring Seminar.……….4 Megan Smolenyak Visits…..6 Mon. June 13, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Opinion on Ancestry.com…7 Mon. June 13, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Colo. History Expo…………7 Blog Talk Radio…………….8 Genealogy Blogs…………..9 Workshop Sessions: Roots Magic…………..…..10 Legacy Family Tree Maker…….….11 Family Tree Maker Reunion for MAC……..…..15 Women in Service………. .16 The Master Genealogist Favorite Websites………...17 Roots Magic Meeting Location………….18 Reunion for MAC (Feb. & June Only) Committee Members……..19 DNA Seminar Registration……..20 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 2 May-Jun 2011
Treasurer’s Report Friday, June 17, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Ray Henney, Treasurer Annual Business Meeting and Election of Vice-president and Treasurer 7/31/10-3/31/11: Potluck Supper Begins at 6:00 p.m. Account Balance $10,883 Members will share "Ah-ha" Moments from their Genealogical Research Income $2,363 their Genealogical Research Expenses ($2,453) Total ($90) May CIG Program * * * * * * Zooming in on Townships: Using Earthpoint.us UPCOMING CIG MEETINGS: CIG May 9, 2011 Program All Monday CIG meetings are held at: Speaker: Roberta "Bobbi" King Christ the King Lutheran Church, Ever wondered what it looks like out there where 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado your ancestor homesteaded? Or do you have some deeds of land ownership by someone in your family, Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. but they describe places far away from you, Speaker: Roberta “Bobbi” King someplace where you've never been? And have “Using Earthpoint.us” you ever wondered what the lay of the land looks like "out there"?
Monday June 13, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. The website www.earthpoint.us takes the data from Workshop Meeting, Ice Cream Social deed descriptions of the public lands survey and Volunteer Recognition system, and then sends Google Earth right to the spot. You get an overhead view of the township, Saturday, May 28, 2011 and now you have an idea of the terrain and geography where your family members lived, 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. or continue to live as the land passes down to the CIG Genealogical Seminar sons and daughters of the original settler. Denver Public Library, Broadway Entrance, Lower Level Conference Center This talk uses examples of deed documents of several families, living in the same vicinity. By using Featuring: Drew Smith www.earthpoint.us we will input the coordinates of the township, range and sections and see the Program information Pages 4-5 boundaries drawn on Google Earth for us. When you can see roads, the orientations of farms to one Registration Form Page 20 Registration Form Page 20 another, family relationships become clearer, and seeing the properties of your families from a bird's * * * * * * eye view can be a new revelation. Bring some deeds from your records, and we'll input UPCOMING CGS PROGRAMS: the land descriptions and fly Google Earth to see All Friday night programs held at: what's there. Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Barbara Price ”The Evolving Familysearch.org Website” Barbara will explain how to use this evolving resource effectively. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 3 May-Jun 2011
Come early to our June 13th Workshop Meeting for an Ice Cream Social. I’ll be serving Blue Bell Ice Cream! Don’t CIG is now on Cyndi's List! miss it! Cyndi has put us in a temporary, uncategorized web page which is now viewable. View this at: http://www.CyndisList.com/whatsnew.htm Cyndi is backlogged (thousands), so when she We welcome Lori Collins as our gets around to verifying the URL, the title and new Publicity chair. Lori will purpose of the site and the appropriate periodically send emails to category, CIG will be on Cyndi’s List members about programs and permanently! announcements. She will also publicize our programs with flyers and in local newspapers, etc. Lori is responsible to Please review the proposed budget and be getting us on Cyndi’s List. Let her know if you have ready to vote on it at our June 13 meeting: any ideas for publicity.
Proposed Budget 2011-2012 FROM THE EDITOR: INCOME Dues $2,300 Since this month we’re focusing on 21st century Interest 10 technology, I wanted to pass along a success my Other 10 family has had with Facebook. Recently, a family Programs-Seminar 3,150 member of my late husband emailed to tell me that Programs-Other 520 the Dick family had its own Facebook page. I contacted the creator and after a few weeks, she Total Income $5,990 “friended” me. She started the page for family members to put up their photos and stories of the Dick family. This family lived in New Brunswick, EXPENSE Canada, in the mid 1800s into the 1900s. There Bank Charges $ 20 were six brothers Dues & Membership 120 and a sister. Half Equipment 700 of the brothers Room Donation 1,000 moved to northern Miscellaneous 100 Washington state Newsletter 200 and the rest stayed Publicity expense 100 in Canada. So that Programs-Seminar 2,400 meant, lots of photos! I spent two evenings going through over Programs-honorariums 250 300 photos that had previously been posted. I’m Programs-other 600 now working on putting up my own photos. Recognition/Donation 500 Currently, there are 74 people on this Facebook page. This has been a great way to get to know Total Expense $5,990 family members I have never met and update my husband’s family story at the same time. We’re th Net Income $ 0 planning a family reunion in 2012 (the 100 wedding anniversary of my husband’s parents) in Washington. Wouldn’t this Facebook page be a great place to advertise it?! This has even encouraged me to think about putting up a Facebook for some of my other families. You could too! Lynette Dick CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 4 May-Jun 2011
CIG Spring Seminar with Drew Smith From the President Saturday, May 28, by Sandy Ronayne 2011 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m Good morning and Happy Spring!
My home garden is blooming and my family tree is growing. Genealogy has changed so much since I Embracing 21st Century Technology for started in 2001. There are websites galore. More Family History Research and more digitized images of government documents, newspapers, photos, letters, diaries, Jump start your summer genealogical research and stories are being added every day. by joining us for Drew Smith''s presentation on Drew Smith, the CIG 2011 seminar speaker, will Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the Lower Level help us understand and learn the 21st century Conference Center of the Denver Public genealogical research techniques, including how to Library, 13th & Broadway. As the library is network with fellow enthusiasts and keep up with closed to the public until 1 p.m., you will need what’s happening in genie-land. Drew’s book, to enter by the Broadway entrance only. Social Networking for Genealogists is a much- Registration begins at 9:00 a.m. with the needed primer for navigating the new technology. seminar beginning at 9:30 a.m. Come early His book is rated 5 stars on amazon.com and will and enjoy a great continental breakfast and be a door prize at the CIG seminar. lots of great snacks. Coffee, tea, soda and water are provided. Drew is uniquely poised as a social networking guide, since he has participated in the cutting edge of online technology since 1987. Drew Smith, MLS, Lunch will be on your own. You may bring a has been an Assistant Librarian at the University of sack lunch to eat in the conference room or South Florida Tampa Library since 2007. Prior to step outside to a seat in the warm Colorado his current position, he was an instructor for the sunshine. The library will open to the public at USF School of Library and Information Science 1 p.m., so you can spend part of your lunch (now the School of Information) for more than 12 hour doing research on the 5th floor! years. He is the Secretary of the Association of Professional Genealogists, a Director of the Door Prizes!! Attendees will have a chance to Federation of Genealogical Societies, and win great Door Prizes: Drew''s Book "Social President of the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. He has been the editor of the Federation’s Networking for Genealogists", Megan monthly newsletter, the FGS Voice, since 2008. SmolenyakSmolenyak''s book, "Who Do You Together with co-host George G. Morgan, Drew has Think You Are?", two Ancestry.com produced more than 200 hour-long episodes of the memberships and more! Genealogy Guys Podcast. He has written extensively for NGS Magazine, Genealogical The required materials fee is $30 postmarked Computing, and Digital Genealogist. He is highly before May 21. Postmarked after May 21 the recommended by such genealogy superstars as fee is $35. Find a registration form on page Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, Dick Eastman, and 20. Dear Myrtle. On 1 May 2011, he spoke at the New England Historic and Genealogy Society.
Join fellow family historians at the CIG seminar, 28 May 2011, to learn from Drew ways to embrace technology in our research. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 5 May-Jun 2011
The morning sessions: About our Seminar Speaker:
Social Networking for Genealogical Drew Smith, MLS, is an academic librar ian with Researchers the University of South Florida in Tampa. An New technology tools provide exciting new expert in digital genealogy, with a lifelong ways to connect with other researchers. From interest in family history research, he is a blogs to wikis, Flickr to YouTube, Delicious to Director of the Federation of Genealogical LibraryThing, and Facebook to Genealogy Societies (FGS) and President of the Florida Wise, this presentation will provide a grand Genealogical Society of Tampa. tour of many different categories of social networking tools that can add power and fun to research. The speaker is the author of the landmark book, Social Networking for Genealogists.
Effective Electronic Queries Many millions of genealogy queries can already be found on the Internet. Will yours become lost among the crowd? Find out how to construct and post effective queries so that yours get noticed!
Drew (L) Co-hosts the The afternoon sessions: "Genealogy Guys" podcast at Beyond Database Programs: Technology http://www.genealogyguys Tools to Help Manage Your Research .com. with George Morgan Software such as Family Tree Maker or (R). RootsMagic can keep track of the facts you''ve discovered, but that''s only part of the research process. Learn about software tools that can Drew is also the author give you research suggestions, keep your of Social Networking notes organized, synchronize your working for Genealogists, a files across multiple computers, or provide book that describes the automatic backups for peace of mind. wide array of social networking services Using a Blog as Your Online Research Log that are now available Researchers have long been encouraged to online and highlights keep a log of their discoveries, but the how these services can availability of blogs means that genealogists be used by have a way to keep track of their research and genealogists to share to share it with others. This presentation information, photos, explains why keeping a research log is and videos with family, important, how a blog can serve as a research friends, and other researchers. log, and how genealogists can best use each of the features of online blogging services. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 6 May-Jun 2011
Megan Smolenyak archives.gov and loc.gov Smolenyak Visits google Denver library, archive and society websites, Internationally known including those for the New England Megan Smolenyak Historical Genealogical Society, Allen Smolenyak (or as she County Public Library, National likes to be called Megan Genealogy Society, Southern California Smolenyak2) spoke and signed copies of her book Genealogical Society, Ohio Who Do You Think You Genealogical Society, New York Are? at the Tattered Genealogical and Biographical Society, Cover on 30 March 2011. Megan, the Chief and Daughters of the American Genealogical Consultant to the popular NBC Revolution. show of the same name, entertained the crowd rootstelevision.com, an online channel at the book signing with tales from the show and genealogy advice. An autographed copy of with hundreds of free videos “by and Megan’s book will be one of the great door for avid genealogists and family history prizes at the CIG seminar on May 28th. lovers of all stripes.” Megan is also a fan of Drew Smith, the CIG International Society of Genetic 2011 Seminar speaker. She points out in her Genealogy (ISOGG.org) book, that Drew and George C. Morgan’s stevemorse.org podcast will “help keep you upon the latest happenings in the genealogical world.” findagrave.com deathindexes.com Much of Megan’s focus is on using technology deadfred.com for family research. As she points out in her Random Acts of Genealogical book: Kindness (RAOGK.org) “It’s truly astonishing how much of our collective past has been uploaded over the last few years, even if it represents only a tiny fraction of what might eventually be in store for us. Chances are that you’ll be stunned as you start wading through the billions of records that may hold pieces of your puzzle.”
Check out some of Megan’s favorite websites : ancestry.com familysearch.org Elaine Osborne, CIG member, talked with Megan Smolenyak at the Tattered Cover in March. Cyndislist.com usgenweb and rootsweb footnote.com genealogybank.com ellisisland.org and castelegarden.org CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 7 May-Jun 2011
non-creator, you cannot add to it, so it will remain a tree of one person unless its owner decides to add to it. If you discover this lonesome stalk, you can Opinion by Carol Cooke Darrow, CG also try to contact the tree creator, but as email addresses grow old or change, you may not be able There is an Ancestry commercial running on TV to reach that person. that says you don’t have to know what you’re looking for – you just have to look. But if you want Family trees may offer pointers to locations and to see those green leaves waving at you – you must individuals that we might want to investigate further. first create your own family tree entering some But the proliferation of one-man trees and the lack information for at least one person – so hopefully of source citations makes family tree searching time you do know some facts about your family. consuming and ultimately non-productive.
If you have completed some research on your non- living family members, you are ready to enter this information in a new tree that will be visible to all. You can add citations for information you enter such as birth and death dates. You can also add a citation to a document that you have viewed on the Ancestry.com site. Once you look at the document online – say, the 1880 census for Jones County, Iowa, -- you can save that page as a citation in your family tree.
Ancestry.com lets you save a document in three ways. Save Record to Someone in My Tree Save Record to My Shoebox to Analyze Later Save to My Hard Drive. The 3rd annual Colorado 2011 Family History Expo is returning to the Embassy Suites Be warned that it's easy to make the wrong Conference Center in Loveland, CO on June 24 & selection, picking “save record to someone in my 25! There will be over 80 classes given by 30 tree” rather than “save record to my shoebox” or speakers, plus over 50 exhibitors will be showing “save to my hard drive.” But you have to have a their products or services in the exhibit hall. Some family tree on Ancestry.com to "save record to of this year's exhibitors are: Ask-the-Pros someone in my tree" and you then have to specify FamilySearch, Flip Pal scanners, GeneTree, the person you are linking the document to, so it Genealogy Gems Genealogical Institute, doesn’t seem likely that you can actually create a Geni.com, Legacy Family Tree, Roots Magic, and tree by accident. many more! National speaker and author Lisa Louise Cooke and founder of Genealogy Gems However, there are thousands of Ancestry family podcasts will give the opening ceremonies keynote tree sprouts that apparently consist of just one address. This year's theme is Where Ol' Dogs individual with his birth and death deaths and Learn New Tricks and Lisa will have some great nothing else. No source citation, no parents, no comments about learning new tricks in genealogy spouse, no children. Why would anyone post a and family history! M. Bridget Cook is this year's single individual? Maybe they started with one speaker at Friday night's dinner presentation. She is person, entered birth and death dates, and then a national author of several books and will be found the process more involved or time-consuming presenting "Handling and Healing the Skeletons in than they thought it would be, or they realized they Your Genealogical Closet" at the dinner. didn’t know enough to post a robust sapling. It’s Registration fee is $95, Friday only $60, Saturday also difficult to add non-standard relationships such only $60, At the door $120. To register, visit their as stepfather or stepmother. Perhaps they posted in website at hopes that someone would recognize that individual http://www.familyhistoryexpos.com/viewevent.aspx? and contact them as the family tree creator. As the eid=34 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 8 May-Jun 2011
Using the Blog Talk Radio platform, listeners will be able to hear a live broadcast , plus call in to speak with the show’s host and guests and discuss their own genealogy societies.
Thomas MacEntee will host these weekly broadcasts from his hometown in Chicago. BlogTalkRadio is On The Air He is an energetic blogger, an experienced technical career professional, and activist By Bobbi King in genealogy. His (one of several blogs) blog GeneaBloggers has a list of over 1800 A new Internet talk radio show has premiered genealogy and family history-oriented at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mysociety. The blogs, one of which you’re bound to get show is called My Society, presented by the excited about. Visit his site at Federation of Genealogical Societies and www.geneabloggers.com. hosted by Thomas MacEntee. Curt Witcher manages The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort On Saturday, April 23, the debut program Wayne, Indiana. The Federation of featured Curt Witcher talking to host Thomas Genealogical Societies will host their fall MacEntee on the topic of “Leading Genealogy conference in 2013 in Fort Wayne where the Societies into the 21st Century.” Curt’s Allen County Public Library holds the largest enthusiastic conversation with Tom touched on public library collection of genealogical his central point of: how do societies help materials in the United States. You may members be successful and how can a society search their catalog at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us. give its members their ROI: their Return on Investment. The discussion was very relevant The Federation of Genealogical Societies is a to today’s society quandaries of decreasing national organization which represents the membership, disinterested board members, members of hundreds of genealogical and reviving interest in society membership societies. FGS links the genealogical and involvement. community offering resources such as their quarterly publication FORUM, the Society These talk radio shows, which will be aired Strategy Series papers, and new online every Saturday at noon, will address the issues resources, such as the BlogTalkRadio program and concerns confronting genealogical and and webinars. In the fall of each year, FGS historical societies. Each week, My Society presents its annual four-day conference of will focus on selected topics relevant to lectures and society management focus group genealogy society management and the role discussions. To learn more visit www.fgs.org. societies play within the genealogy community. If you happen to miss the Saturday broadcast, you can listen to the program by going to the Blog Talk Radio website and clicking on the specific program link at the On-Demand Episodes section, where you can listen to the recording in its entirety.
Future topics will discuss increasing membership, developing a social media and Internet presence, member services, and more. Additionally, each episode of My Society will spotlight a member society of FGS and Sunday, June 19, 2011 discuss their various programs and offerings. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 9 May-Jun 2011
GENEALOGY BLOGS A TRIO OF GENEALOGY BLOGS By Lori Collins By Linda Hartlaub
Clue Wagon is a blog by the most irreverent A “blog” is short for a “web genealogist I have ever read. I love her. She log”. It’s a way to post introduces herself as “I am Kerry. I like dead information on the web and people.” And it takes off from there. Her views are it’s easy to read. Anyone can subscribe to a blog. contrary to a lot of the closely held beliefs in When someone posts an article on the blog, an genealogy. If you get offended easily, you will want email is sent to the people that are subscribers. If to skip this blog. If you love to laugh and need a you happen to subscribe to one or more genealogy breath of fresh air among the stale genealogy blogs, the vast assortment of information can be books, this blog is for you. The author actually overwhelming. These genealogy blogs can be a started her blog for hints for job hunters. After great asset to your family tree. leaving her job, selling her suits on e -bay and using her panty hose to stake up her tomato plants, she As we become more interested in genealogy blogs began writing about genealogy while her children and other blogs, we find that viewing each page watched Sesame Street. Check out Kerry and her individually becomes overwhelming. A good way to Clue Wagon at www.cluewagon.com read these blogs is with a “reader”. The reader brings the new posts to the blogs together into one place. Going to one place instead of to many places Ancestor Hunting is a simple blog, but has an is a bonus for me. The reader basically maintains emphasis on using technology for your internet the list of blogs that we are interested in. It will research along with her own family research in check them at different times of the day to see if Southern Illinois. Her most recent post was on any thing new was posted, if there were any Cloud Storage options - a subject I need to learn. updates and it will give them to you in a readable GEDviewers, ipod touch, iphones, scanners, format. evernote, apps - the author covers them all. If you are a techie, or want to know more about all the An Application-based reader is just a simple latest gadgets, check out software application that you download on your http://www.cherylsgenealogy.com/ computer. Whenever you go online, it will check for blogs that you have subscribed to and put the new posts in the reader on your computer. From what I All of us like free genealogy sites. This blog does can tell, these have a lot of good features, but they too. The author states that as a genealogist, he lack mobility. A popular application based reader is gets frustrated when he is asked to pay for BottomFeeder. information that should be in the public domain. He posts when he has new information to share on free A web-based reader is good if you don’t go on the information sites. And post he does! He has free internet more than two or three times a week. The sites for information in states, arch ived information, popular ones are: iGoogle, Bloglines, and cemeteries, church records, and more. Some you MyYahoo. You can check these from any will have searched. Some are so obscure you computer. would never find them without this site. Check out http://freegensites.blogspot.com/ One of the problems that people have with blogs is that there is no way that all of the websites let you know that you can subscribe to their content. Some With all blogs, don’t just check out the first page. of the blogs use the “RSS” or “XML” orange button Scroll through the older posts to see what’s been to invite you to subscribe. If you happen to be written earlier. Check out the archives on their online and are not logged in, you may have to page and select a month or year to view the titles. subscribe manually. When you do this, a page will Gems are often hidden in these older posts. appear with some strange looking codes. You will need to add the site and copy the page from the browser toolbar and then paste it into your newsreader to subscribe to that feed. So, have fun and check out the World of Blogs. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 10 May-Jun 2011
retrieve it, so the best thing that we can do Roots Magic (just for added security) would be to make a backup copy to our computer, flash drive, By Lori Collins and then the “cloud”.
I have decided to write What I found interesting is that we can use about, “Why it’s our email as a “cloud”. If you email important to have a back yourself a copy of your backup, you’ll be up of your RootsMagic Data.” I am quite able to access it any time that you want. sure that this would go for all genealogy programs and not just RM. Some people that I’ve talked to say that they put their backup on GEDCOM. Have you ever had the experience of your GEDCOM is a good one, but, it will not program not loading and after a while you save all of the specific settings that you receive a message that says, “Program have in your program, and your numbering Not Available”, could not find file(s)? By system will not be the same. And, who now, you are probably screaming and wants to go back and redo all those crying, and so frustrated that you would numbers? like to throw your computer in the trash. Hopefully, you previously made a backup So, if you have not made a backup copy of of your program. your RootsMagic data, I suggest you stop and do it right now. One piece of advice When we back up our RootsMagic for all of us, not just the RM users, but for program, it assigns a date to each file that all of us, MAKE A BACKUP FILE NOW! we have been working on. So, if our computer crashes, or we accidentally Just a Reminder, delete files, we still have a copy of our RootsMagic is still having free webinars: work. This is why it is so importa nt to have a backup copy. By having multiple May 3, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. (MST) - backups, (which you would have if you CREATING AND PRINTING backed up your file every time you work on WALLCHARTS WITH your genealogy program), the ease of ROOTSMAGIC, by Janet Hovorka. going to wherever you have saved them at, Janet is the Development Director whether it is on your hard drive, a CD or a for Generation Maps. flash drive, all your information is right there. Please make sure that you save to May 24, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. (MST) - a place other than the hard drive. GOOGLE EARTH FOR GENEALOGY Roots Magic data files are kept as a .rmgc, which makes it easy to find, whether you’re All of the webinars are available for using a hard drive or a USB flash drive. watching or downloading at You can even save to a “cloud”. Websites www.rootsmagic.com/webinars. like, Carbonite, Dropbox and Mosy, and the like, are available to download your If you have any questions or problems, call data with no problem. But, don’t be fooled or email me at [email protected] by them though. You may need your file now and it may take them a while to Family Tree Maker 2011 By Ed Richard
Family Tree Maker (FTM) has unique features to record and to publish family genealogy and history. This article will introduce FTM Work Space, and Searching on Ancestry.com from FTM and other Internet sites . The FTM series began in the January/February CIG newsletter with Getting Started with FTM 2011.
Future articles and FTM workshops will cover more improvements in FTM. All utilize the advances in computer speed and memory: The Media File, segregating, using Photos, Scans already on your computer Places, Place Resolution, Description vs. Place, Place Name Jurisdiction Smart Stories - a Jump Start to a Family History Designing Charts and Reports and Printing Them for Sharing, Reunions, etc. Linking with other Genealogical Databases Making Books to Share with Your Family Merging Data from Ancestry and other Internet sources Time Line Chart using Genelines by Progeny
FTM Work Space I worked with Ancestry’s FTM beta, 2008, 2009, and 2010. I felt these editions were not ready to replace FTM version 2006 which evolved over 25 years from DOS to Windows. The 2008 version of Ancestry’s FTM was slow and until 2011, several features were not yet available. I found FTM difficult to remember where to find commands. Adding sources, adjusting charts, etc. was a chore. I fumbled for five years at home and at workshops and demonstrations. While helping a patron at the Family History Center, Eureka! I finally re alized how to use the complex Work Space. FTM takes full advantage of a 1:1.7 and larger high definition flat screen monitors. The Work Spaces, Plan, People, Places, Sources, Publish or Web Search, are divided into two to four panels. Each panel has a tool bar and many panels have buttons, icons, etc. Work Space of FTM Windows 2006 (l) compared to FTM 2011(r) CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 May-Jun 2011
Using FTM for genealogy is like preparing a speech with one program: Write the speech, make a power point presentation, and prepare an illustrated booklet for the audience. Before computers, our desks and tables were full. We referred to notes, pictures, books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. When writing a speech with a computer, many programs must be opened for data, sources, etc. For Gen ealogy with FTM all resources are available in the program: the genealogical database, geographical and historical data, Internet, pictures, E -mails, letters, data, and scans. FTM puts resources a click or two away as you work. Hint, enlarge the Work Sp ace to fill the screen of your monitor.
Each Work Space in FTM: Plan, People, Places, Media, Sources, Publish and Web Search, have a Title Bar at the top (1), a button bar (2) under it to change the Work Space, a tool bar (3): File, Edit, (variable), Too ls and Help. Click an item on the tool bar to get drop -down menus of commands: i.e., Print, Save, Save As, etc.
Below the toolbar, several separate panels (5, 6, 7, and 8 on the illustration) can be opened, closed and/or size adjusted to suit the user and the screen size with the small Carets and,
The Family Group Sheet (7) is the lower center panel. Highlighting the husband (G) or wife, shows key data for that individual on the Editing panel (8) on the right. (Full list of Facts is on the People > Person Work Space.) Clicking the Add child space (J), very faint on screen and insert, provides a drop -down box. Enter the name and sex. The blank Individual Edit Panel on the right (8) will contain the entry. Then, enter missing data, place, of birth, etc. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 13 May-Jun 2011
Clicking the Green leaf (J) after a name on the Ancestor chart, when attached to the Internet changes the Work Space to Web Search and opens possible mat ches in Ancestry.com for that individual (Covered in detail below)
The right panel (8), the edit or entry field for the highlighted individual on the Family Group Sheet panel (7). The user can control which facts are displayed. Birth, Marriages, Dea th are the default facts. All other GEDCOM plus special facts can be added, i.e. Burial, Immigration, Occupation, Education, etc.
Each “fact” has three fields: Date, Place and Description. In FTM, Place is strictly defined as City, State, County and Country at the current time. The Description field should be used for: Church or Hotel where married, Cemetery and burial lot, Place name when the event occurred, i.e., Denver, Arapaho County, Colorado before 1917.
An abbreviated Ancestor tree (6) is above the Family Group Sheet. Touch an ancestor with the cursor, a drop - down date and place of Birth and Death of that individual appears (L). Check the enhanced block (E) the Dates of Birth and Death are included in the box with each ancestor’s name.
The left panel (5) is an active index of individuals. A tool bar ( C) at the top of the index panel controls which facts are shown: Birth, Marriage or Death date, a button to change the sort order, e.g., list by Given Name, Married names for women, date of de ath, date of marriage. The bottom three button bars (B) show the history, individuals with recent file changes, or flagged individuals, useful for quick access to change families. The panels are interactive, e. g. the Index is useable when adding a chil d in the “People > Family” Work Space.
Open the Person Work Space by clicking on the Person Tab (4): The People > Person Work Space displays every fact, preferred and alternates, and source for that fact, the person’s notes, and media. The ancestor cha rt remains at the top of the work space in the Family view and the Person View in the People Work Space. (No illustration in this article.)
Each Work Space, button, arrow, and panel is covered in the 300 -page manual Companion Guide . A PDF Companion Guide is on the installation Disk. A printed copy is in the Deluxe and Platinum Packages. Beyond the Basics a 292-page manual, available at Ancestry and Amazon.com, has many illustrations and additional information, which do not repeat material in the Comp anion Guide.
Searching Ancestry.com from Family Tree Maker
After installing and registering your copy of Family Tree Maker, you are automatically registered with Ancestry.com. If you are already registered and/or an Ancestry.com subscriber, you will reg ister with your existing sign-in name and password. Three editions of FTM offer a free subscription or add -on time to current subscribers: the Essentials Edition-one month, the Deluxe Edition-3 months and the Platinum Edition-6 months.
FTM can move your Genealogy search for family many steps forward with connection to Ancestry.com and other favorite Internet sites.
After FTM loads the family file, and you are connected to the internet, the FTM program searches the Ancestry.com database. Each individual name with dates, places, etc. is compared to Ancestry’s worldwide records for matches. .Ancestry does not upload the file, FTM searches each individuals name, dates and places and marks with a leaf (G) by the individual name on the Ancestry Chart (6) with a potential match in the Ancestry database. The search on my file of 10,000 individuals, takes less than a minute. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 14 May-Jun 2011
Submitting a file to Ancestry’s collection of thousands of personal trees is a separate process. You may choose to export your personal file to include in Ancestry’s large data base of personal files. (Covered in a Future Work Shop and/or Article) When “possible” matching data reports, public family tree submissions, obituaries, etc. are found in Ancestry's database, a leaf appear s by the individual's name on the "ancestor chart”. Click the leaf. The Web Search Work Space appears with potential matches in the People Work Space.
Inspect the matched records. If a match seems close, open the summary with a click on the blue box. (An Ancestry.com subscription is necessary to proceed to the next stage to see most actual records, i.e., Census Records, Draft Registrations, etc.) If the record is a match, the data, and sources can be automatically merge into your file. Click “Select” on the Tool bar, and “Merge” through a series of drop down menu. With an Ancestry.com subscription open the actual record before the Merge to insure the record is for your individual. Return to the blue box to begin the merge process.
Narrow or widen the search by changing search criteria, i.e., add a state for records. This finds additional results and/or filters records that do not match. Non -matching potentials can be flagged and they will not appear again.
The FTM merge process compares data on the record to data in the user’s file. The user chooses: Keep the current data in my file, Keep the data from Ancestry records, or Keep both. Preferred data appears on the Work Space, Index, charts, and reports. FTM sources the new data and each fact. If the data is from a report such as a census record, at the users choice and discretion, data can be merged for each individual in the family. For users with an Ancestry.com subscription, a copy of the actual record will be added to the media file and at tached to the individual(s).
FTM Web Search will also access directly your "favorite sites" within the program. If data is found at, e.g., Ellis Island, use "Web Clip" (Search > Web Clip on tool bar and drop down menu) the data and/or a *.PDF or *.JPG can be pasted into your file.
Searching, filtering, merging and sourcing will be covered in future workshops.
Create a Test File To insure integrity of your Family Tree data, use a "Test File" to experiment with all features of Family Tree Maker. The "Test File can be 4 or 5 generations 20 - 40 individuals or export your entire file, rename your file - name-test. If you want a small file, export a portion of your file. If you mess up the “Test File”, use the back up file created the each time FTM is closed. Test new features before using your "real" genealogical file (s).
From the editor:
I checked prices of the three Family Tree Maker programs on Amazon.com. The Essential is $19.99, Deluxe is $48.85 and the Platinum is $69.99. A Companion Guide can be purchased for $16.47. Reunion Reports and Charts Other... which will let you navigate through your by Nancy Ratay hard drive to the applications. Once you’ve selected this application, any time you ask for a report it will Reunion users - Remember I open that application and drop the information into will be available at the June it. You can then do any kind of editing you wish as you normally would in a word processing program. Workshop meeting to answer The automatic sentences chosen by Reunion to questions or demonstrate present the information can be selected as well, but whatever you need help with! that’s another lesson.
There is a long list of documents, charts and Finally under Create are the odd “documents ”: reports that can be made with Reunion under the cascading pedigree, web family cards, pod cards Create menu bar choice. There is no way to explain and slideshow. The cascading pedigree only everything about all of these, or even any one of displays as Print Preview or Print and is not them in a column. The Manual (clickable icon on editable. You can select the paper size in the usual your family cards) is a good place to start if you Page Setup from Print. Reunion will make your don’t understand something. The best thing for a web pages for you if you do not know anything newbie to do is to try all of these choices and see about HTML or web design. It does all the links, what they do. When trying them out limit the attaches all the photos you have put in multimedia number of generations to a few. Otherwise you may and makes photo pages for them, makes an index of create a several hundred page document without all names as well as a surname index and puts your meaning to. Remember, you can always trash what sources in with citation numbers on the family you don’t want! cards. You could upload the pages as made if you have a website or service provider. You can also The first section in the list under Create is edit the pages in web design software if you are called graphic charts. These charts are editable by able to do this and want to add things – which I do using the chart program contained within Reunion. for mine. If you would like to see a sample of this They are as described: graphic. So you will see you can go to my personal genealogy website at: colored boxes or sections set up in each of the http://www.ng-tek.com/genweb/nrweb/index.htm formats: pedigree chart, fan chart, descendant chart, The main portion of this was done with Reunion. I relative chart, and timeline chart. They are also well added obituaries, newspaper articles, research notes, explained with illustrations in the Manual. Editing census transcriptions and others things linked to my and making changes to these is very involved for a cards. newsletter column. If you want to see how it’s done we can cover it in a workshop. You can also set up Pod Cards and a Slideshow from your multimedia entries. I have not In the second and third sections of the pulldown done anything with Pod Cards, so I don’t know how menu are the basic forms a genealogist needs: they work – only that they go onto an iPod. I have person sheets, family group sheets, even blank much preferred using my iPhone or my iPad apps forms! In the report section you can choose from and being able to read them well! The Slideshow family history report, register report, ahnentafel option is also available through the Multimedia report, tiny tafel report and descendant report. window on any family card that you’ve attached These are all exported into whichever word photos to. This will make a slideshow of your processing program you have designated in the photos for you that includes whatever titling you’ve preferences. Not chosen one yet? Go to selected and put into the Multimedia window. Preferences under Reunion on the menu bar. Click We had several people in February, including on Applications and you will get an icon list of my husband’s cousin from Germany who uses choices. Select Word Processor and there will be a Reunion. I hope to see you in June! pop-up bar which should have listed all the word processing programs that Reunion could find on your hard drive. If the one you want isn’t shown, try CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 16 May-Jun 2011
itself is just outside the gates at Arlington Women In Military National Cemetery. The website contains very Service for America specific directions on how to get there from any Memorial of the surroundings and has information on by Nancy Ratay parking, hours of operation and an interactive floor plan showing what you could see there. If you have not heard of the WIMSA Memorial, you should You cannot go online to look someone up. definitely take a look at their website Their database includes many still-living http://www.womensmemorial.org and see if veterans, and I think it’s a privacy issue. There you have a female ancestor or relative who is an accessible database at the memorial. Or might qualify to be registered there. WIMSA is they give you a phone number to call and the only major national memorial honoring someone there will look up the name you are women who have served in our nation's defense interested in to see if they have it already. They during all eras and in all services. My family were able to find that my dad and his cousin learned that my grandmother, Lydia did indeed finish submitting my grandm other’s Werremeyer Johnstone, qualified to be name and information for their database. They registered because she had been a Red Cross also sent me her information called a proof nurse during WWI and worked at Army bases printout by email so I could see what in the United States. information they had and add to it if needed.
Eligibility as a "Member" includes living or This is a wonderful place to honor your deceased women veterans; Active Duty, female military relatives. Take a look! Reserve, Guard and US Public Health Service uniformed women; and women in the Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Civil Air Patrol. Eligibility as a "We Also Served Member" member includes women who served overseas during conflicts, in direct support of the armed forces, in organizations such as the Red Cross, USO and Special Services. Those in the US Public Health Service Cadet Nurse Corps are included in a special Honor Roll of Cadet Nurses. What we did not know about my grandmother was that the Red Cross nurses were granted a “relative rank” and recognized as a part of the military in 1920 under the Army Reorganization Act. Because of this she received a bonus when all the other WWI soldiers got one in the 1930s.
This Memorial will archive many things related to women’s service: letters, diaries, photos, uniforms, medals, pins and other artifacts. There is a listing on their website of what kinds of things they hold. The memorial CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 17 May-Jun 2011
Favorite Websites:
How to create a genealogy blog in Five minutes http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/create- genealogy-blog-1.html A simple tutorial to get you started with your own By Linda Hartlaub blog. In March, 2011, a new search engine specifically geared to genealogy searching launched - Free Newspaper Archives www.mocavo.com http://freenewspaperarchives.us/def ault.aspx Mocavo bills itself as the world’s largest free There are oodles of free archives, genealogy search engine culling information from representing two and half centuries of newspaper publishing in the United States. They're scattered message boards, family trees, local and state across the web, and not always easy to find. That's historical sites, the Library of Congress, the what this site is all about...making it easy to access National Archives, Ellis Island, Find-a-Grave, free newspaper archives for looking back on history internet archives, and state archives, with new writ large and small. information and sites being added daily.
Is this the only site you need? Obviously not. And it doesn’t search paid websites such as Ancestry, Footnote, or Genealogy Bank. However, it is a surprisingly strong search engine dedicated to Railroad Retirement Board Records genealogy research and delivers a wealth of http://www.rrb.gov/mep/genealogy.asp information - including some results that don’t show Genealogy research at the U.S. Railroad up when you search individual sites. Retirement Board. Their records are limited to individuals who worked in the rail industry after A personal result - I had been searching for 1936. information on my grandmother’s gravesite. I had checked find-a-grave, death certificate lists, google http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?a and other sites. Nothing came up; no records rticle=897&cj=1&o_xid=0001029688&o_lid=000102 whatsoever. I put her name into the search field on 9688 mocavo, and it brought up her listing on find-a- George Morgan's ancestry article on railroad grave. I had checked find-a-grave repeatedly, and retirement board records no records appeared. Mocavo led me straight, not only to her record, but to my grandfather’s grave and that of his second wife - all on find-a-grave. I’ve checked back often and find a grave still does not show her or the others. But thanks to Mocavo, I was able to print out the records and document the cemetery and grave location.
I plan on putting Mocavo.com to good use, probably as my first choice for internet searches. I can then follow up with other sites as the need dictates.
Sunday, May 8, 2011 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 18 May-Jun 2011
Meeting Location The Monday meetings are held at 7:00 pm at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., in southwest Denver. The church is at the corner of CIG Website Address Iliff Ave. and So. Patton Ct. in the Harvey Park area. www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm When coming from the north: Take Federal or Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right The website of the Computer Interest Group of from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans the Colorado Genealogical Society is linked to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks above. Our web page is a link on the Colorado to the church at Iliff Ave. Genealogy Society website.
When coming from the south: Take Federal or Information about our program and workshop Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from meetings are available on this site. Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to Linda Hartlaub has established a Facebook the church at Iliff Ave. page for CIG members and other interested persons. Facebook is the leading "social networking" site on the Internet. Yo u will already have to be a Facebook member to access this group site. Joining Facebook is free!
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Do you have a question about your computer genealogy program? Digital imaging or scanning? DNA research? Internet research? Location of internet records? This column is for you. No question is too simple. Maybe someone else is wondering the same thing. Email your question to the editor at [email protected] and it will be forwarded to one of our workshop leaders. Then, watch for your question and answer in upcoming newsletters. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 19 May-Jun 2011
Help the Editor! Steering Committee Elected Officers President………….…..Sandy Ronayne Please help make this 303-750-5002 [email protected] newsletter a success by Immed. Past President..Vern Tomkins submitting articles or ideas 303-922-3639 [email protected] for articles relating to computer genealogy to Vice President/Programs..Linda Hartlaub…….. me to include in this newsletter. Please be 303-884-1858 [email protected] Secretary…………….Kelly Glenn……….... generous with your submissions of your 303-810-9975 [email protected] favorite genealogical websites, a new website Treasurer…………….Ray Henney….…...... you have discovered, breakthroughs using your 303-758-0792 [email protected] computer, and genealogical news and meetings Steering Committee Appointed Officers of other societies. Articles and ideas for articles may be emailed to me at Membership………..Charlotte Weiler [email protected]. Deadline for articles is 303-548-7250 [email protected] the 25th of even-numbered months. Publicity…………….Lori Collins 303-954-0393 [email protected] Newsletter & Hospitality………..Lynette Dick Next deadline is August 25, 2011. 303-986-7910 [email protected] Thank you for your help, Historian…………….Sharon Mahler 303-757-3669 [email protected] Lynette Dick CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected] Editions of this newsletter are printed five times a Council Liaison…….Sandy Ronayne year in Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Sep-Oct and 303-750-5002 [email protected] Nov-Dec. Nominating Committee Zoe Lappin, Vacant, Vacant ©You may re-distribute articles from this newsletter only with the permission of the Editor. Workshop Leaders If you have a question, comment or suggested topic for a Workshop, feel free to call or email the respective MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS Workshop Leader.
CIG Members may request a membership roster Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard from Membership Chairman, Charlotte Weiler by 303-355-2592 [email protected] The Master Genealogist emailing her at [email protected]. A roster …….Patrick Purcell of specific genealogy program users is also 303-973-2185 [email protected] available. …….Bobbi King 720-839-4952 [email protected] ……Mike Jones 303-447-9649 [email protected] RIDE ARRANGER Legacy…………….…Vern Tomkins 303-922-3639 [email protected] Do you need a ride to our program Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay meetings? If so, contact our membership 303-972-2701 [email protected] chairperson, Charlotte Weiler, by email Roots Magic…..……..Lori Collins at [email protected] and she will put you in 303-954-0393 [email protected] contact with persons who may be able to help. Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay 303-972-2701 [email protected] If you would like to provide a ride, also contact DNA…………………Earl Beaty Charlotte. 303-494-8713 [email protected] CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 20 May-Jun 2011
2011 CGS-CIG Genealogical Seminar Sponsored by the Colorado Genealogical Society - Computer Interest Group & Denver Public Library
Embracing 21st Century Technology for Your Family History Research
Featuring Drew Smith Author of “Social Networking for Genealogists” & Co-Host of Genealogy Guys Podcast Saturday, May 28, 2011 9:30 – 4:00 PM DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY Lower Level Conference Center (Broadway entrance only), 13th & Broadway, Denver
9:00 a.m. Check-in Begins with Free Continental Breakfast 9:30 a.m. Welcome
9:45-12:30 p.m. Morning Sessions – Social Networking for Genealogists & Effective Online Queries: Technology Tools to Help Manage Your Research
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Check our website at --http://www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm or call Sandy Ronayne, 303.750.5002. Great Door Prizes including Drew Smith’s book, Social Networking for Genealogists, two Ancestry.com memberships, Megan Smolenyak-Smolenyak’s book “Who Do You Think You Are?” and more!
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Fall Forum Sat. Sept. 24, 2011 9 a.m.-4 p.m. “Effective Internet Searches” (see page 3)
In This Issue: CIG & CGS Programs……..2 Workshop Meeting From the President…………3 CIG Fall Forum.…………….3 Roots Magic………………….4 Mon. Oct. 10, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. 1940 Census……………….4 Reunion for Mac……………5 Footnote to Fold3……….….7 Workshop Sessions: Favorite Websites………….8 Workshop Sessions: Pikes Peak Library…..…....9 Legacy 1871 Canadian Census…..9 Family Tree Maker Lulu.com……..……………..9 The Master Genealogist Summer Genealogy Trip. .10 Denver Community Maps..11 Roots Magic Meeting Location………….16 DNA Committee Members……..17 Scanning & Digital Photography September CIG Program
Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 Program Speaker: Janice Prater * * * * * * “Using Fold3.com” UPCOMING CIG MEETINGS: (formerly Footnote.com) All Monday CIG meetings are held at: Christ the King Lutheran Church, Fold3 – the very recent name change from 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado Footnote has frustrated some and angered a few. It continues to be a very powerful genealogy resource with the promise of Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. expanded content. Learn some of the ways it Speaker: Janice Prater can be used to enhance your research. For “Using Fold3.com” (formerly Footnote.com) those already using this site, please be willing (See article on name change on page 7) to share your thoughts and ideas on the v alue of this site for your personal research. Sharing Monday Oct. 10, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. tips with others is one of the best ways to Workshop Meeting learn.
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UPCOMING CGS PROGRAMS: All Friday night programs held at: Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado
Friday, Sept. 16, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Pat Roberts “Out of the Computer and Onto the Shelf -- Self Publishing with Lulu” Drew Smith and CIG President, Sandy Ronayne
Pat will share her experiences and enthusiasm On Saturday, May 28, CIG held a great Spring about self-publishing both personal memories and Seminar at the Denver Public Library. We ancestors’ life stories. welcomed national speaker, Drew Smith, who gave us an informative day of ways to embrace new Come early and enjoy our Annual Ice Cream Social ! technology for our genealogical research. We heard presentations on social networking, blogging, and writing effective electronic queries. Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Mona Lambrecht Thank you to Drew and all who helped to make our “Rethinking Online Genealogy -- Spring Seminar a success. Free Websites You Probably Never Thought About”
Mona uses Internet research to locate records that will enhance her community-based projects and she has also developed a group of free resources that can advance your search. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 3 Sept-Oct 2011
CIG Fall Forum
From the President Effective Internet Searches by Sandy Ronayne Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011 Dear CIG Members, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m
I hope you’ve all had a great summer. The CIG 2011-12 year will be wonderful. We will Jump start your fall genealogical research by be having terrific programs, wonderful joining us for a Fall Forum on Saturday, workshops, and fun special events – including September 24, 2011, at our regular meeting our Fall Forum on Effective Internet Searches. site, Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 S. Please join us for as many of these activities Patton Ct., Denver. as you can. This year’s forum will focus on effective I want to give a special thank you for all our Internet researching. The morning session will wonderful volunteers. feature Kelly Glenn and Sandy Ronayne demonstrating Ancestry.com, Fold3.com (formerly Footnote.com), and other subscription databases. In the afternoon, Barbara Price will discuss free internet genealogy search sites, including familysearch.org.
The forum is free for CIG members and $10 for non-members. Registration is required. Please contact Sandy Ronayne at [email protected] to register.
Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. with the forum beginning at 9:00 a.m. Come early and enjoy CIG Volunteers honored at the June Meeting: a great continental breakfast. Coffee, tea, Ray Henney, Sharon Mahler, Earl Beaty, soda and water will also be provided. We will Nancy Ratay, Vern Tomkins, Ed Richard, Mike have a one-hour lunch break and you are free Jones, Sandy Ronayne, Lynette Dick, Pat to bring a brown bag lunch. There are also Purcell, Kelly Glenn, and Zoe Lappin. several fast food restaurants nearby on (not pictured: Lori Collins, Linda Hartlaub, Sheridan or Federal (none are within walking Bobbi King, Gary Ratay and Charlotte Weiler) distance). Congratulations to Earl Beaty who was our Don’t Wait! Register Now! Volunteer of the Year!
Please consider joining the CIG volunteer team. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 4 Sept-Oct 2011
Roots Magic The third webinar was “Running RootsMagic on a Mac” (August 29). It By Lori Collins explained how Mac users can use RootsMagic with using Microsoft Windows. Welcome Back Everyone! Since our last Try to catch one or all of these, because meeting, RootsMagic you never know what you could learn. has been busy with some updates. The latest update (4.1.2.0) If you have any questions or problems, call can be downloaded at: or email me at [email protected] www.rootsmagic.com. This latest update is to help get into FamilySearch.org. There has been some problems getting into their site from RootsMagic. They have also been busy making Personal Historian 2. As of this writing, it is in the beta stage , but 1940 CENSUS RootsMagic is giving us a screenshot of what the program will be. You can find this Ancestry has screenshot at announced that it will http://www.facebook.com/PersonalHistorian have the indexed 1940 If you purchased Personal Historian after census on their site March 1, 2011, you can get Personal beginning about mid-April 2012, and that there Historian 2 for free. will be FREE access through 2013. Ancestry While we were on summer break, so were will make the census searchable by 45 fields, the RootsMagic webinars. The y are now including address, county, state, parents’ back in full swing. During the month of birthplace, in addition to the name. If you can’t August, there were three. Even though the wait for Ancestry, then you can use NARA webinars have already taken place, they website, but you will only be able to search by can still be watched or downloaded at census enumeration district. Thanks to http://www.rootsmagic.com/webina rs/ Genealogy Insider for this information.
The first webinar was “Research Tools in Find out what questions RootsMagic” (August 16). It talked about were asked, view a 1940 the assortment of research tools that are U.S. map, or see a phenomenal. It also explained that the To- countdown to the number Do-List is essential to a genealogist by of days until release. To helping to set goals and give you ideas read more details about about places to search. the 1940 census visit http://www.1940census.net/. The second webinar focused on “Getting http://www.1940census.net/. Help using RootsMagic” (August 24). They discussed how to use the Help function in Roots Magic, as well as their other products - all for FREE. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 5 Sept-Oct 2011
Reunion for Mac - You can change the name that will appear Multimedia in Sources in a report and it will not change the name by Nancy Ratay of the file on your hard drive. There will be a special notation style if you change the At our June workshop we name (see example below). This is now a touched on the fact that you linked file. If you should move the file to can attach multimedia to your sources. At another location, you will have to relink it at the time I had not done much with that yet. some time. I also mentioned that was partly because I had been reorganizing my hard drive and So, now you have a file linked. I had one I did not want to have to relink everything. had tried out earlier called Now that I am fairly happy with the SDC10745ElizabethLawtonHindleBaptism reorganization (anybody ever totally linked to my Elizabeth Lawton Hindle card. happy?), I took a look at how it works, This file was a photo of the microfilm from particularly in relation to reports and web the Family History Library. It was not pages. checked sensitive, so I was curious why it did not show up on my recently updated When you add a source citation to a card web site. Fortunately, Reunion is smart and make a new source, you get a variety enough to make you deliberately add of choices of types of sources. For multimedia to your web pages. More about instance, if you choose “Vital Record” a whys and why nots later. There appear to window will then appear with a preset be several ways to exclude multimedia group of source fields for vital records. If from web pages and reports and only a few you don’t like those, you can chan ge them to include. To include your multi media in or you can use the second button, “Free - your web site, go to Preferences, then to Form Text” and type whatever you feel is Web. Click on Sources in the list and you important and/or appropriate. There are too can choose how many sources you want many ways to edit or personalize your listed per endnote page. There are also 2 sources to cover here. The manual could additional buttons: Include multimedia file be helpful for this. I want to focus this list and Include multimedia files. If yo u column on the last button, “Multimedia.” check the first box, you can then select the second if you desire. There are instances When you first click Multimedia the window where you might want to list the files, but will be blank with 3 headers: a photo, the not have the images go with it. word “Description” and the international NO symbol. The photo column will indicate In Preferences > Reports you can make what type of multimedia you are attaching. choices about what will appear in your It could be a photo, a movie, a pdf, a printed reports. You can check “Include document or an audio recording. The multimedia file list.” Notice that this does second column will list the name of the file not include printouts of the files you select and will be the name as you themselves, it is only lists of what they are. have it on your hard drive. The third If you are making a book of your relatives column has a check-box. If this particular you probably would want to have more file could be sensitive or if you don’t want it control over where these actual photos and published with any reports, check this box. files might appear anyway. You can still view it directly from Reunion. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 6 Sept-Oct 2011
The endnote for my trial run with the above If you are not planning on making your own linked file looks like this: web site, then I would tell you to link away! 4. “Baptism of Elizabeth Lawton Hindle,” 18 It makes it much easier to locate that February 1827, Staleybridge, Cheshire, document again if it is also linked to the England, Old St. George’s Church, people it goes with. If you contemplate Staleybridge, England Parish Registers, doing a web site, be aware of the size of FHL BRITSH Film 2356038, Family History including a large number of images and Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. File: also the copyright issues involved. SDC10745ElizabethLawtonHindleBaptism. tif
If I had changed the description of the file it Hurry! Free Access Ends 9-5-11 would look like this: 4. “Baptism of Elizabeth Lawton Hindle,” 18 Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family February 1827, Staleybridge, Cheshire, history resource, will have free access to its England, Old St. George’s Church, popular U.S. and International Immigrat ion and Staleybridge, England Parish Registers, FHL Naturalization records through the Labor Day BRITSH Film 2356038, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. File: Elizabeth Lawton holiday ending September 5th. During this Hindle Baptism time, all visitors to Ancestry.com will be able (SDC10745ElizabethLawtonHindleBap tism.tif) to search for free the indices and images of new and updated U.S. immigration records as well Now the question is when to, or not to, as selected international immigration records attach the actual file for a web site. I would from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, like to link all of the census images I have Australia, Canada, Germany, Sweden and pulled to the relatives to whom they Mexico. Free access available at ancestry.com. belong. However, I would not like to think of the server space that would be needed Ancestry.ca will also be providing free access for all of those files! Also there is the to the world’s largest collection of digitized question of copyright since these would be online Canadian immigration records through from Ancestry.com and would pose a September 5. This includes the complete copyright violation if they appeared on my Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935. Other web site as they are on Ancestry. I would collections included in the free access period mark “sensitive” all of these so they would are Border Crossings: From U.S. to Canada, never appear as part of my web site. But if 1908-1935. Free access to the complete I have original documents, i.e. a marriage collection of Immigration and Travel databases certificate, that only I have, I might want to is available at www.ancestry.ca/immigration. be sure that it would appear on my web site as part of the sourcing. If you tell the Web Preferences to “Include multimed ia files”, a researcher viewing your web site Happy Halloween can click on the link and the actual image October 31, 2011 of the file will appear on a separate page. Reunion takes care of this for you – you don’t have to know how to do it – only how to link it to your files. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 7 Sept-Oct 2011
and other institutions. This combination of innovative technology and access to strategic partners provides subscribers with an easy way to search original documents and discover stories about the Footnote.com people, places and events in the conflicts Announces New Focus on Historical that shaped America and the world. U.S. Military Records and Changes Name to Fold3 "We have already begun expanding Fold3's robust military collection to include LINDON, UTAH -- (August 18, 2011) - new pension application files and draft Footnote.com, a premier destination for cards," said Brian Hansen, General discovering family history records, today Manager of Fold3. "It's truly gratifying to announced it will now focus primarily on help researchers easily discover at home offering the finest and most comprehensive what they previously could find only by collection of U.S. Military records available traveling to an archive." on the internet. The site gathers the most valuable U.S. military records, photos and Fold3's significant collections illumi nate stories to help family historians and others history that was once hidden. For example, discover and share the memories of those Fold3's World War II photos, Missing Air who served. Crew Reports and JAG case files include detailed information about the ordeal of As part of this new focus, the n ame of the Louis Zamperini, subject of the New York site will change from Footnote to Fold3. Times Best Seller, Unbroken. Similar The Fold3 name is derived from the third stories about millions of service men and fold in a traditional military flag folding women lie undiscovered within the records ceremony which "is made in honor and available on Fold3. remembrance of the veteran departing our ranks who gave a portion of his or her l ife Fold3 will continue to operate as a for the defense of our country to attain subsidiary of Ancestry.com, the world's peace throughout the world." largest online family history resource, which acquired Fold3 as part of its Fold3 is the web's premier collection and purchase of iArchives in 2010. In addition destination for original U.S. military to connecting more closely to its military records, helping people find and share collection, the rebranding helps distinguish more than 74 million images of historical Fold3's value as a highly complementary documents and photos. These records brand to Ancestry.com. Many family include valuable collections from the historians and genealogists may use Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Ancestry.com to find an ancestor who World Wars I and II and America's more served in the military and then use Fold3 to recent engagements in Vietnam and discover the details of their service. elsewhere. Specializing in digitization of paper, microfilm and microfiche collectio ns, To begin searching for your family's military Fold3 brings many never-before-seen history, go to www.fold3.com. historic documents to the web through patented processes and unique from Bobbi King partnerships with The National Archives CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 8 Sept-Oct 2011
Favorite Websites: from Lynette Dick from Linda Hartlaub St. Louis Public Library Obituary Index http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/obit.htm OHIO: If you have relatives who have This index of names was obtained spent time in Ohio from both the Death Notice and (Don’t we all? I think the Burial Permits listing, as well every person I’ve met as Obituary Articles, found in the has had at least one St. Louis Post Dispatch. relative who has Death Notice entries generally include the date spent some time in Ohio), you will be of death; names of spouses, children, and interested in the project by familysearch.org parents; place of the funeral; and place of They have completed an extensive filming of interment. the marriage records of all of the counties in Burial Permits generally include address, age, Ohio and are finishing the indexing of the film, and cause of death. Burial Permits are Some counties are still coming online identified in this index with (*). (Cuyahoga County is 76% done), but browsing Obituary Articles generally include greater through the Ohio documents can yield some detail about an individual, including occupation, long lost documents.....without the cost of brief biography, relatives, etc. Obituary Articles certified copies from the state. On the family are identified in this index with (#). search home page, go to USA, Canada and Mexico collection and then click on “Ohio, County Marriages”. Nebraska State Genealogical Society Tombstone Photo Project
CHICAGO: Searching in Cook County, Illinois, http://tombstones.nesgs.org/index.php couldn’t be easier. Historical Cook County has The mission of the Nebraska State set up a web page for those Genealogical Society Tombstone Photo with ancestors in the Project is to “capture digital images of all the Chicago and Cook County area. tombstones in the state of Nebraska.” You can http://cookcountygenealogy.com/SignIn.aspx run a Quick Search for a surname from the is their outstanding page. You will need to set main webpage and limit the search by county. up a free account, and then proceed to search You can also browse the tombstone images by for all those names you need. You can order cemetery. copies of birth, death and marriage certificates online (check their time parameters in order to The data fields in the database include the full obtain the documents), pay by credit card for name of the deceased, cemetery name, as little as $6.00, and a copy of the document county, and the date on which the file was will appear in your email. updated. When you click on the surname it opens the page with the photograph of the tombstone. If there is more than one person with the same surname buried in the cemetery or plot, a list of links to the photographs of those individuals will be listed under the heading Similar County Records. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 9 Sept-Oct 2011
Using Lulu.com by Sandy Ronayne
Do you have some family stories, pictures, histories, PIKES PEAK LIBRARY DISTRICT register reports, recipes, or by Linda Hartlaub other interesting tidbits to share with your family? I thought you did. One easy and inexpensive way to For those of us who live South of the Denver produce a professional book is with metropolitan area, or for those who are tired of http://www.lulu.com. After seeing the many books battling the traffic to get to the Denver Public Pat Roberts has done with lulu.com, I had to try it. Library, try a day trip to Colorado Springs and visit Pat gave me pointers on how to use this online self- the Pikes Peak Library District’s genealogy publishing software system. collection. Much of their genealogy collection is located at the Penrose Library at 20 North Cascade I had been working on a book on my grandfather’s Avenue in Colorado Springs. The District also World War I experiences. Walter Myers enlisted in offers many classes throughout their system and the Navy a day before the World War I draft the upcoming events can be found at registration. I believe he did not want to take a http://www.ppld.org/programs-events or browse chance on being sent to the trenches of France. their entire special collections at Walter wrote about his Navy experiences daily in http://www.ppld.org/regional-history-and-genealogy- history – he enjoyed being a signalman, but did not home like working in the scullery. I borrowed his diary In the meantime, can do online research using their from a cousin and transcribed it. I included the special collections database. The resource page is transcription, two letters he wrote to my located here grandmother (including his proposal of marriage), http://more.ppld.org:8080/SpecialCollections/geneal and many pictures that he took with the first camera ogy/GenealogySites.asp?category=Census%20%2 he owned. 8U.S%29#Census%20%28U.S%29 or easier, use the District’s home url, and click on I wrote the draft in Word and uploaded it to the tab marked “websites”. lulu.com. The process was very easy. You can upload Word, PDF, or RTF (Rich Text Format) documents. You can make a hardcover or a Library and Archives Canada paperback of various sizes. Images can be jpg, gif, has placed the 1871 census or png – I also added tiff images. online. The information covers Once you have the four provinces that were part of th e uploaded your file, you Dominion of Canada in 1871: New Brunswick, can review it, and if Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. you’re satisfied, make full-color front and back The free online database provides digitized covers. Then, you can click to make the book images of original census returns featuring the print-ready and order name, age, country or province of birth, one copy or several nationality, religion, and occupation of copies. I ordered one Canada's residents at the time. The database is copy as a proof copy – searchable by Name, Given Name (s) and Age, it cost $7.12. Lulu.com has videos and/or geographical information such as and articles to Province, District Name, District Number, and demonstrate how to Sub-district Number. publish a book. Support is available via live chats and email – but no toll-free number. Lulu has lots of options and is definitely worth a http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/c look. If you want more info, contact me at ensus-1871/index-e.html [email protected] CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 10 Sept-Oct 2011
wondering how and when I could meet her, MY SUMMER GENEALOGY and this was how my summer genealogy TRIP trip started. . . .
By Lori Collins Jordan, my grandson, was going to visit his father in Michigan and needed a ride back Some years back when my mother was home. So, Jesse (my 7-yr. old neighbor alive, she took me to an old church and boy I have watched since birth) and I were cemetery in Illinois. At the time, we were going to pick him up and then go on to living in Wisconsin. Since I was born close Illinois. I made arrangements with my to Chicago, she thought that I might like to newfound cousin to have lunch on see our old house and go to a church. We Wednesday and then stay with another went to this church, which was where my cousin for a few days. We arrived in Il linois Grandparents (my mom’s parents) were on Sunday and spent a few days in a hotel married. My mom also told me that some (of course, we had to have a pool). On of her relatives were buried there. And of Tuesday, we picked up my cousin and course, I took some pictures, but it was went shopping. The boys said, that many years later when I was looking at cemeteries were not what they would like some pictures that I was reminded of our to do, so, I let me cousin watch them, while trip together. For the life of me, I could not I went to lunch. I met my newfound cousin, remember the name of the church, let Mariann, for lunch and then we went to the alone the cemetery name. cemetery. I was shocked at all of my relatives that were buried there. Since So, after some digging, I contacted my there were so many, I grabbed my camera cousin Judy to see if she knew the name of and started taking pictures. I was hoping the church. She remembered the name of that Mariann and I could have spent more the church and said the cemetery was right time together, but more relatives were next to it. I wrote the name of the church coming from Germany and she had to get down on paper and decided that I would home. Had we timed our trip a week later, “Google” it. Sure enough, the church had we may have been able to meet them, but a website. I clicked on their website and then I wouldn’t have been able to have was checking it out when I came across a lunch and get to know her. I h ad such an “History of the Church”. As I was paging enjoyable day that I wished it would have through, I noticed that my Great - lasted longer. I had also made plans to visit Grandfather’s cross and prayer book were another cemetery, but it was so hot (131 there, as well as a photo of my degree heat index) that I decided I would Grandmother as a child. I decided to email have to come back. Even though it’s the church to see if they could give me any almost a year away, I am making plans to information. They forwarded my email to a visit next year! member of the church who emailed me back, and said that she was the one who The best thing about this trip, besides put most of it together. I was so excited going to the cemetery and getting a lot of that I was getting all of this information information, was that I now have a very from her. Besides all of the information important person in my life, and I have the she was giving me, she also told me she internet to thank for that. was my cousin. By this time, I was CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 11 Sept-Oct 2011
Exploring Denver Community Maps on the DPL Website
by Lynette Dick
This past Spring, Roger Dudley of the Denver Public Library and a CGS member, presented a short program on using the DPL website to assess Denver property records. This was very interesting, but there are several steps to getting the information. When I tried to recreate the search, I got lost. So, I then visited Roger at the DPL and he helped me step by step. I thank him for taking the time to walk me through this process.
I would like to share the steps, so you too can locate property owned by your relatives in Denver. These property records are from the late 1800s to 1950. If you currently own property in Denver and are interested in doing a house history, this website will also be of interest to you.
My search was for my grandparents’ home at the corner of Iliff Ave. and Williams St. near the University of Denver. They lived there from the 1930s until 1970.
To begin, visit the DPL homepage at http://denverlibrary.org/ . You can either click on the blue Western History & Genealogy link on the right side of the page and then click on the Creating Communities link, or click directly on the Creating Communities link at the bottom left of the main library page (shown below). CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 Sept-Oct 2011
From the Creating Communities page, click on the Building Histories link at the top of the page, then to Assessor Records on the left.
These Assessor Records are a 27 volume collection that provides an index to City of Denver Grantor/Grantee information and can give you a chain of ownership of Denver property. There is generally no indication of whether or not there is a structure on the property. The Assessor Volumes cover the time period from the late 1800’s to the 1950’s. Earlier recor ds are on microfilm and more recent records are on cards arranged by Parcel Number. Both of these collections may be found in the Western History/Genealogy Department on the 5th Level of the Central Library.
In order to search the Assessor Records, you wi ll need the Legal Description of the property:
Subdivision or addition name Block and lot numbers of the specific property
These can be found on title deeds or tax records. You can also obtain this information online through the Denver Assessor’s Office.
The records for each block are arranged by lot number (the Description column). New pages were added on top of older ones so the earliest transactions are found on the last page. By followi ng the chain of Grantor/Grantee numbers you will be able to follow the ownership of your property.
The Western History/Genealogy Department can provide help in interpreting these records and can help with information on tracing the history of a Denver building. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 13 Sept-Oct 2011
If you already know the neighborhood name, you can click on it on the list on the right side. Otherwise, you can use the colored neighborhood map, which enables you to zoom in to find streets.
Use the + sign to zoom in to help the address and your neighborhood.
I am searching in the University neighborhood. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 14 Sept-Oct 2011
By clicking on the University neighborhood, a map will appear with red flags. These flags indicate blocks. Most blocks have one flag. For blocks with many homes, there may be two flags.
By clicking on a flag, you will see the Legal Description of the block: Evanston 2nd Filing, Block 38, Volume 11: East Kensington to Exposition Addition. The description gives you the option to click on the Original Record.
You also have the option to view the neighborhood in Map view (above) or Hybrid view (next page). CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 15 Sept-Oct 2011
Below is the Hybrid view, which is a current satellite map. Click on the plus sign to zoom in.
When you find the block you are looking for, click on Original Record (shown below) which is an architectural drawing of the block. This shows the lot numbers. I know they lived on the corner, which is Lot 46. And I know, at one time, they also owned Lot 45. If you don’t know the lot number (the address is not on a corner or is in the middle of the block), start by clicking on Page 2 with a list of the grantor’s names. When you find the name you are looking for, the lot number will be on the left. Then, you can go back to look at the Page 1 map to find the actual location of the lot. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 16 Sept-Oct 2011
By clicking on page 2, I find my grandparents listed on the first line as grantors of Lot 46 and 19” of Lot 45, Filing #5964-169, dated 11/10/1945. Page 3 shows my grandfather and his first wife, purchasing the same lots on 3/19/1936. When I clicked on pages 4 and 5, I found all of the previous owners back to 1917.
Success! 2301 S. Williams St., Denver, Colorado (Evanston 2nd Filing, Block 38, Lot 46)
For real property data, the DPL Creating Communities webpage has a link to the Denver Assessor’s Office. You can obtain current information there about a property in Denver by entering the property address, or the property''s parcel identification number. The office is located in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building at the intersection of Colfax and Bannock on the fourth floor.
Good luck searching! CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 17 Sept-Oct 2011
Meeting Location The Monday meetings are held at 7:00 pm at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., in CIG Website Address southwest Denver. The church is at the corner of Iliff Ave. and So. Patton Ct. in the Harvey Park www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm area. When coming from the north: Take Federal or The website of the Computer Interest Group of Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right the Colorado Genealogical Society is linked from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans above. Our web page is a link on the Colorado to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks Genealogy Society website. to the church at Iliff Ave. Information about our program and workshop When coming from the south: Take Federal or meetings and seminars are available on this Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from site. Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to CIG has a Facebook page for CIG members the church at Iliff Ave. and other interested persons. You must be a Facebook member to access this group site, but joining Facebook is free!
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Do you have a question about your computer genealogy program? Digital imaging or scanning? DNA research? Internet research? Location of internet records? This column is for you. No question is too simple. Maybe someone else is wondering the same thing. Email your question to the editor at [email protected] and it will be forwarded to one of our workshop leaders. Then, watch for your question and answer in upcoming newsletters. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 18 Sept-Oct 2011
Help the Editor! Steering Committee Elected Officers Please help make this President………….…..Sandy Ronayne newsletter a success by 303-750-5002 [email protected] submitting articles or ideas Vice President/Programs..Linda Hartlaub…….. for articles relating to computer genealogy to 303-884-1858 [email protected] me to include in this newsletter. Please be Secretary…………….Kelly Glenn……….... generous with your submissions of your 303-810-9975 [email protected] Treasurer…………….Sharon Mahler….…...... favorite genealogical websites, a new website 303-757-3669 [email protected] you have discovered, breakthroughs using the internet, and genealogical news and meetings Steering Committee Appointed Officers of other societies. Articles and ideas for Membership………..Charlotte Weiler articles may be emailed to me at 303-548-7250 [email protected] [email protected]. Deadline for articles is Publicity…………….Lori Collins the 25th of even-numbered months. 303-954-0393 [email protected] Newsletter & Hospitality………..Lynette Dick 303-986-7910 [email protected] Next deadline is October 25, 2011. Historian…………….Sharon Mahler Thank you for your help, 303-757-3669 [email protected] CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay Lynette Dick 303-972-2701 [email protected] Council Liaison…….Sandy Ronayne Editions of this newsletter are printed five times a 303-750-5002 [email protected] year in Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Sep-Oct and Nominating Committee Nov-Dec. Zoe Lappin, Vacant, Vacant ©You may re-distribute articles from this newsletter Workshop Leaders only with the permission of the Editor. If you have a question, comment or suggested topic for a Workshop, feel free to call or email the respective Workshop Leader. MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard CIG Members may request a membership roster 303-355-2592 [email protected] from Membership Chairman, Charlotte Weiler by The Master Genealogist emailing her at [email protected]. A roster …….Patrick Purcell of specific genealogy program users is also 303-973-2185 [email protected] …….Bobbi King available. 720-839-4952 [email protected] ……Mike Jones 303-447-9649 [email protected] Legacy…………….…Vern Tomkins RIDE ARRANGER 303-922-3639 [email protected] Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay Do you need a ride to our program 303-972-2701 [email protected] meetings? If so, contact our membership Roots Magic…..……..Lori Collins chairperson, Charlotte Weiler, by email 303-954-0393 [email protected] at [email protected] and she will put you in Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay contact with persons who may be able to help. 303-972-2701 [email protected] DNA…………………Earl Beaty If you would like to provide a ride, also contact 303-494-8713 [email protected] Charlotte. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 19 Sept-Oct 2011
Colorado Genealogical Society/ Computer Interest Group (CGS/CIG)
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Our Fallll Forum wiillll focus on effectiive Internet researchiing. The morniing sessiion wiillll feature Kelllly Gllenn and Sandy Ronayne demonstratiing ancestry.com, folld3.com (formerlly footnote.com), and other subscriiptiion databases. In the afternoon, Barbara Priice wiillll diiscuss free iinternet geneallogy search siites, iinclludiing famiillysearch.org.
Thiis forum iis free for CIG members and $10 for non-members. Regiistratiion iis requiired. Pllease contact Sandy Ronayne at [email protected] to regiister. CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 20 Sept-Oct 2011
Sept. 12, 2011 Program Meeting “Fold3.com” by Janice Prater
Sept. 24, 2011 CIG Fall Forum
Oct. 10, 2011 Workshop Meeting
Nov. 14, 2011 Program Meeting “Evernote” by Cari Taplin
No December Meeting
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In This Issue: Treasurer''s Report……..…..2 CIG & CGS Programs……..2 Thank Yous…………………3 Workshop Meeting
From the President…………4 Mon. Feb. 13, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Master Genealogist.………..4 Family Tree Maker………....5 Legacy……………………....6 Workshop Sessions: Roots Magic………………...7 Reunion for MAC……….….8 Legacy 21st Century Genealogy…..9 Family Tree Maker Favorite Websites………...10 The Master Genealogist Findagrave Update…..…...10 Finding Hometowns………11 Roots Magic Meeting Location………….12 Reunion for MAC (Feb. & June Only) Ride Arrangers……………13 Scanning & Digital Imaging (Oct. & Apr. Only) Committee Members……..13 CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 2 Nov-Dec 2011
Treasurer’s Report November CIG Program Sharon Mahler, Treasurer
As of 9/30/11: Checking Account Balance $7409.02 “Evernote”: A Tool for Everything and Total Bank Accounts $10465.55 It's Great for Genealogy Too! CIG November 14, 2011 Program Income Statement 9/1/11-9/30/11: Speaker: Cari Taplin Income $649.62 Expenses ($500.84) Cari will walk you through many of the Total +148.78 features of Evernote, an amazing organizational tool that is free, for both Mac and PC. She will go over the different * * * * * * interfaces, applications and additional mobile features. She will also take a look UPCOMING CGS/CIG PROGRAMS : at some examples of ways you can use All Monday CIG meetings are held at: this to organize your genealogical research Christ the King Lutheran Church, and other things as well! 2300 So. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado
Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. January CIG Program Speaker: Cari Taplin “Keep Your Computer “Evernote” Humming” CIG January 9, 2012 Program Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: Art Thayer Speaker: Art Thayer “Keep Your Computer (PC) Humming” Art will tell us how to keep our favorite machines up and running for a long time. * * * * * * Learn the common pitfalls that put us in danger of losing our data, and how to UPCOMING CGS PROGRAMS: prevent disaster. All Friday night programs held at: Christ the King Lutheran Church, Attention Mac Users! 2300 S. Patton Ct., Denver, Colorado The January program meeting, Keeping Your Computer Humming, will be mainly Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. be relevant to PCs. I thought if you wanted Speaker: Larry Dodge to come and get some extra Reunion “Using Timelines to Analyze Your software time, we could meet in the library Research” conference room behind the kitchen. I may not be available in June for our “regular” Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. meeting and thought I could offer this one Speaker: James K. Jeffrey instead. I plan on running the Reunion “Treasures That Await the Researcher in workshop in February as well. Email me if the Western History/Genealogy Collection you are interested in having this extra at Denver Public Library” Reunion meeting in January. Nancy Ratay [email protected]
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To Earl Beaty for running our DNA workshop for two years. Earl has retired from his workshops, due to health issues. To Lynette Dick, who along with Sherry Broderick of CGS, represented CIG at the Lakewood Family History Fair on October 22, To Linda Hartlaub for serving as our Vice 2011. Also, to Kelly Glenn for jumping in at the President-Program Chair for two years. Linda last minute to teach a very well-received class has had to resign due to health issues. She on Social Networking. has been replaced by Lori Collins.
To Ray Henney for serving as our Treasurer From Lori Collins: for two years. Our new Treasurer is Sharon I would like to thank Sandy Ronayne for asking Mahler. me to fill the Vice-President position for the remainder of the term which was unfortunately vacated by Linda Hartlaub due to health issues. Lucky for me, Sandy and Linda have been willing and able to help me make this a smooth transition. Without them, I could not do it. Again, thank you Sandy and Linda and everyone else for your support and patience as I learn the ropes. I am very excited and look forward to another great year with CIG!
To, Barbara Price, Kelly Glenn and Sandy Ronayne for presenting CIG''s successful Fall Seminar on Saturday, September 24. Save the Date Saturday, May 26, 2012 Annual CIG Seminar at the Denver Public Library
Speaker: Dick Eastman To Sharon Mahler, Lori Collins and Jordan Ludwig for representing CIG on October 22, Editor of Eastman’s Online 2011, at the Annual Family History Festival of Genealogy Newsletter the Black Genealogy Search Group of Denver.
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The Secret of Enjoying a Happy Life: Join CIG From the President The happiest Americans report 7-8 hours of social interaction a day–face time, not It soon will be 2012 – I wonder what it will bring Facebook. Joining a club that meets just once in technology breakthroughs for family per month can have an effect on your history/genealogy. I hope to learn some new happiness equivalent to doubling your salary. ideas at the 2012 RootsTech conference in
Salt Lake City, February 2–4. The theme of Salt Lake City, February 2–4. The theme of From Bllue Zones .com “Liive Happiier” this conference is bringing Technology and Genealogy Together–which is of course what we at the CGS/Computer Interest Group also strive to do. We help family historians use existing and emerging technologies to improve their family The Master Genealogist history research. One of the newer technologies is the use of From Lynette Dick Evernote to organize and track family history. There are desktop versions, a web version, and smartphone versions, all of which sync so that you can have access to your notes no matter where you are. The tag line on the Evernote home page sums it up: www.tmgtips.com “Use Evernote to save your ideas, Visit the above website to get TMG Study things you see, and things you like. Guides, Tutorials, Articles, Tips and Mailing Then find them all on any computer, List phone or device you use.” Cari Taplin will discuss Evernote at our http://www.rootsandthreads.com/tmg/ November 14 meeting - a meeting you won’t The above website from DeAnna Burghart want to miss. features some "Cheat Sheets" she has Also, mark your calendars now for our 2012 developed: spring seminar (26 May 2012) – Dick Eastman • Single-page list of commonly-used will present a day-long program. One of his codes, variables, and shortcuts. topics will be “The Family History World in 10 • Custom Report "Cheat Sheets" (for v. Years Time” - This talk looks in the crystal ball 6.x and 7.x only) to discuss changing research trends, a These are two-page cheat sheets changing audience and a look at changes DeAnna has created to help design being made now by “the cloud” and the growth reports without having to tab through all of handheld devices that are “online all the the options. She uses them for time” as it affects genealogy. Customization backup, Constructing As CIG members, we want to be prepared to model reports, and Backwards project meet the technological changes. Please join design us in this quest. Sandy Ronayne If you have questions about The Master CIG President Genealogist , the workshop leaders are Mike Jones [email protected] , Pat Purcell [email protected] and Bobbi King [email protected] .
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preview, and the right side will be “chart Tips for Printing Family options”. You can adjust the box sizes by Tree Maker Trees selecting the third icon from the left which appears right under "chart options". When you from Lynette Diick do this, another options box will appear which will allow you to adjust your box sizes, box outline colors, and chart border.
Check out this website for more Family Tree Maker printing tips:
http://www.ancestrypriintiing.com/famiillytree.htmll Adding Photo and Media Items You can add records such as Birth, Marriage, If you have questions about Family Tree Maker, the Death and census including maps, family workshop leader is Ed Richard. You may email him photos, important family documents, and oral at [email protected] history interviews into the media folder for use in reports, scrapbooks, or books.
You can download photos from your digital *Family Tree Maker 2012 is Now Available* camera, scanned photos or documents, or We located copies of this new version at photos from the Internet or an attachment in an Costco warehouse for $49.99. This includes a email message into the Windows ‘My Pictures’ six-month subscription to Ancestry.com-U.S. or ‘Pictures’ folders. records. The six-month subscription can also be added to your current subscription. It’s recommended that all photos should be at least 300 dpi resolution for printing documents or charts. Documents can be at 100 to 200 dpi resolution. Re-size your photos prior to including them on your chart. This will help avoid printing problems when large file size The follllowiing artiiclle iis from Eastman’’s Onlliine photos are added. Geneallogy Newslletter and iis copyriight 2011 by Riichard W. Eastman. It iis re-publliished here wiith To add a media item into FTM 2011, select the the permiissiion of the author. Informatiion about the Person tab in the People workspace. Select newslletter iis avaiillablle at http://www.eogn.com. the Media tab at the bottom, then select the Family Tree Maker 2012's New TreeSync new button to add a new media item to the Feature Explained media folder. Select the photo or document folder in your computer. You will see a TreeSync is perhaps the most interesting new preview of the photo or document for feature of Family Tree Maker 2012. TreeSync verification. Select the OK to complete the gives you the ability to sync one Family Tree transfer. Maker tree and one online Ancestry tree. Writing in the Ancestry.com Blog, Tana L. Family Tree Maker Box Sizes Pedersen has written an explanation about the You can change the size of your printed workings, strengths, and limitations of the new genealogy chart by adjusting the width of the feature. You can read Tana''s article at boxes. If you have a large or long family tree http://goo.gl/wm9zv chart, adjusting the box sizes could reduce the total size by many inches.
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Legacy Tip criteria it may even be possible to identify unknown individuals in old photos.) Make the from Lynette Diick image come alive!
Tips and Tricks:
• In the past you had to go to an individual or marriage and then assign each picture one-at-a-time, selecting http://www.llegacyfamiillytree.com/tiips.asp the location and filename each time. Now, with the new Picture Center, you If you use Legacy Family Tree, check out their can view a list of your pictures and a list website where they have some tips about of individuals side-by-side and make adding photos. I’ve added a few of them assignments with the click of a button. below: You can even assign a picture to more than one person at a time. Just To add a new picture to the Picture Gallery, highlight all the people you want to link click the Picture button and the Load Picture a picture to and click the Assign dialog box appears. It prompts for the path button. It was never easier or faster to and name of the picture file you want to attach. add pictures to your family members. The pictures can be previewed in this window The Picture Center is a feature found so you can make sure you are selecting the only in the Legacy Deluxe Edition. correct one. (Whenever a picture is attached to an individual, only the picture file name is • Did you know that pictures, sounds and included in the Family File database. The videos in an individual''s Picture Galley actual picture file is not included.) When a can be copied and pasted to other picture has been selected, it is loaded into the individual''s Picture Gallery? Just right- Display Picture window where you can view it click on a picture for an options menu and add captions and descriptions. Clicking where you will find Copy and Paste Close from the Display Picture window adds listed. the picture to the next available location in the Picture Gallery. • Did you know that word processing documents, as well as some other When adding or scanning a photo, please keep kinds of files, can be added to an in mind that every photo has a special context individual''s Picture Gallery? Use the (who, what, where, when and why). Be sure to Sound button to attach the file. To view include names, dates, places and the occasion the file, simply highlight it in the Picture for the photo whenever you know this Gallery and click the Play button. information. Examine the original photo, if possible, for names, dates, places, event, plus If you have questions about Legacy Family studio identification and location. Ask Tree, the workshop leader is Vern Tomkins. knowledgeable relatives about the story behind You may email him at the picture. All of this information should be [email protected] added to the caption and description boxes in the Display Picture window. When dates are not known, it may be possible to estimate them from the apparent ages of the subjects (especially family groups with children), clothing, hairstyles, type of photo, time frame the studio was in business, etc. (Using these CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 7 Nov-Dec 2011
Roots Magic 4 Story Filters By Lori Collins Filters the master story list Saves and reuses the filters that are in PERSONAL HISTORIAN 2 place Filters the stories that are included in your published book With the new Personal
Historian 2 that came out recently, I decided Tools that some people might not know some of its Date calculator when entering dates new features. I was truly surprised that there Pop-up calendar when you are entering were a lot of additional features in the new dates software. Gazetteer to look up places
Displays these places on a map General Features Place name standardization and geocoding It can run in Vista, 2000, XP and Windows 7
It has a Single file database format These are just some of the features that are in It supports the International character sets the new Personal Historian 2. One thing I through the Unicode integration questioned was if it could be imported into The integrated backup and restore help other programs. My question was answered. keep your data safe Not only can you use it in RootsMagic, but Best of all: FREE tech support other genealogy programs as well. Another
time saving piece of advice is that you do not Organizes your Personal Histories have to uninstall Personal Historian1 to install Can write unlimited stories Personal Historian 2. Just download PH 2. Can list your stories on the screen Then, import your data from PH1 to PH2, go to Customizes the story list layout File>Import>Convert Version 1. Can edit the story at any time
Add a journal entry story……and more The cost for this program is $29.95. If you
purchased the original software after March 1 st , Story Editing 2011, and registered it, then you get the PH2 Use multiple fonts in your stories upgrade free. If you purchased Personal Can use any paragraph style Historian 1 before that date, you will get $10.00 Can add images off the price. Spell check
Thesaurus
Text-to speech will read your story to you Speech-to-text takes dictation……and more
Story Organizing Allows you to create an outline for every one of your stories Rearranges your outline items Copies your outline to a word processor …..and more
Search Features Can search for text in the story that you are Honor Our Veterans writing now Friday, November 11, 2011 Can search and replace the current story Do full searches across all of the stories CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 8 Nov-Dec 2011
Reunion for Mac - Preferences>Speed Names and correct the Speed Names spelling for FUTURE entries or totally delete it if you also have a correct entry. It will not
change the card you are on or have previously by Nancy Ratay entered data on, but it will keep the error from reappearing. I periodically try to go through the list just to see if there are any errors I haven’t caught.
What are Speed Names? You may not even Speaking of spelling variations in surnames. know that this function exists or what it does, We all know that our ancestors’ names were but it works without your knowing it. If you’ve spelled in various ways depending on who ever had to type a city, state, cemetery, church recorded them. I like to use the “Alias/AKA” or surname repeatedly, you will appreciate that field and record all the variations in spelling of Reunion has a helpful auto-fill for those places given names and surnames I run across in this and names you have entered once. You’ve field. You can later search for these variations probably seen the name pop up when you start by using the Find function in the Toolbar and typing it a second time. Speed Names selecting the Alias/AKA field and contains and remembers the last 2,000 surnames and 2,000 then type in the spelling you are looking for. place names you’ve entered or edited. If your You’ll get a list of everyone whose name was Reunion program is not doing this for you, you recorded with this spelling provided you will need to turn on the function. entered them in the first place!
Go to Preferences>Speed Names. At the top Finally, I hope you caught the Attention! of the window there is a Speed Names On and announcement (on page 2) with the CIG Off radio buttons. Make sure yours is program notes. If you are interested in a highlighting ON. If it has been on and has been Reunion workshop on the January program recording names for you it will tell you how night, please email me at [email protected] . may names are in each list. Click Last Names Otherwise, I would not see you until February. or Place Names buttons to view each list. I currently have 1,811 Surnames and 1,390 Place Names. If you know you are going to be entering a lot of a certain surname you could add it here by using the +Add button to enter it before you begin. Do remember that Reunion 100 Years Ago. . . will automatically give a father’s surname to his children. When you add a parent to your *Average life expectancy for men was 47 years existing file it will also automatically give the *Five leading causes of death were: surname to a father, but leave the mother 1. Pneumonia and influenza blank. You can change the surname on any of 2. Tuberculosis these auto-filled names for people you are 3. Diarrhea entering just by clicking on its box and retyping 4. Heart disease the correct information. 5. Stroke *14 percent of the homes had a bathtub What if you made an error in spelling the first *8 percent of the homes had a telephone time? Do you want it to continue to give you *Average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents per hour *More than 95 % of all births took place at home the defective spelling every time? Of course *Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write not. I have accidentally hit Enter or Tab too *6% of allll Ameriicans had graduated from hiigh soon and made errors in spelling many times. schooll Who hasn’t? I don’t want that goof to keep showing up as the auto-fill. So you can go to CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 9 Nov-Dec 2011
The 21st Century be done today with subscriptions to data Genealogist: Using storage companies. This “hard drive in the sky” Social Media will securely store your data so it is available anytime, anywhere. This is now referred to as By S. Kelly Glenn “cloud computing”. Apple has just introduced its iCloud. When you enter information or take With the many changes in internet technology, a picture, it will sync to your iPhone, iPad, iPod it’s hard to keep up. So many sites, some free, and your Apple computer. You Apple devices many require subscriptions, what are we do to? must have iOS 5 to work with iCloud. Google is now testing in Kansas City its ultra- fast internet with download speeds of 1 gigabit The 21 st Century Genealogist will be using per second. That’s about 100 times faster than virtual search rooms where an avatar you create what is available to most of us. These speeds will search libraries and other virtual rooms. will eventually be available to all of us, which The virtual genealogists could experience what will greatly enhance our ability to search, and their ancestor experienced during a civil war use social networking and other media. The battle. Data from your own genealogical 21 st Century Genealogist will be searching for software could download photos and events photos, photo sharing, creating or searching for based on actual facts to recreate this virtual blogs, podcasts and family trees. Facial experience. recognition will be available where faces in old photos could be identified and named. These With all the new technologies coming down the new download speeds will make any search pipeline, groups like our own CIG will be a almost instantaneous for searching vast dominant player in presenting programs to keep amounts of information. Social networking us up on these changes and how we search the sites will be enhanced to include genealogy. internet. Personally, thirty percent or more of More genealogy and family pages are being my family tree has been developed through created on Facebook daily. With over 800 social networking and not through the million users, the chances are getting very good traditional methods I was used to. for finding living relatives or friends. It’s no longer a place just for the “younger” folks. I am looking forward to seeing how technology Social networking will bring genealogists and will change my genealogical research in the families together throughout the world. next five years. I think we will be pleasantly surprised. The 21 st Century Genealogist might not keep their family trees and other data on their computer. Your desktop computer or laptop will be a remote terminal with your computer applications running on a powerful computer at a distant data center. The 21 st Century Genealogist will own an account at one of these data centers where your information will be stored. Only you will choose what is to be public or kept private. Just think, fewer or eventually no backups of your hard drive will Happy Thanksgiving, November 24, 2011 be necessary with no chance of losing your data. It will all be secured elsewhere. This can CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 10 Nov-Dec 2011
Favorite Websites: Pearl Harbor Anniversary
From Lynette Diick http://www.pearlharboroahu.com/
While working recently at the Lakewood Family History Fair, the organizers had a FREE table. On it were family history research books, such as The Source, Redbook and the Handibook. They also had boxes of Family Tree Magazine and Heritage Quest Magazine . Many people enjoyed looking through them. I assumed these magazines were out for FREE because the owners were running out of space to keep th them. December 7, 2011, will mark the 70 anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, If you are one of those Hawaii. “The Day of Infamy”, December 7, who are also running out 1941, launched an epic conflict with Japan. of space, I found you can The USS Arizona and 1,177 of her crew were purchase Family Tree among the first casualties of the Pacific War. Magazine on CD. At the The USS Arizona Memorial stands above the ShopFamilyTree.com sunken vessel and her fallen sailors, serving website, you can also as a reminder of their sacrifice and purchase digital issues. commitment. Visit this website for history, And, they still sell print heroes, photos, maps and more. editions. http://www.shopfamilytree.com/category/family-tree- magazine?r=sftppcg&cid=1020&gclid=CKvApcv- kawCFRF_hwod1ikVpw Find a Grave Update
from Kelly Glenn:
Heritage Quest Magazine is also available on CD. At the website below, they sell a CD that has a fully- For the Hispanic community, I have now searchable electronic posted the following New Mexico cemeteries format for the issues on findagrave.com : published from 1985- Santa Clara Cemetery, Wagon Mound, Mora, 1999. This CD costs NM $24.70. Hillside Cemetery, Wagon Mound, Mora, NM Almost Completed: Saint Anthony Cemetery, http://famiillyrootspublliishiing.com/store/product_viiew. Aguilar, Colorado. php?iid=75. This was an interesting trip. I almost got stuck in a ditch, a metal fence collapsed on me causing a few cuts and bruises, cactus thorns in my feet and shoes. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?
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funerals these make good places to research.
Courthouses are another good source, as they not were only for the criminally charged, but they kept records for taxes, land and wills. Within these, one can discover real estate transactions, business records, banking and probate records - all great sources.
Was your ancestor in the military? If so, Finding Your Ancestor’s Hometown the draft cards were loaded with information. If it was before the Civil War, by Lori Collins then pensions, the 1890 Veterans Schedule census, and muster rolls could While working on your family research, you be of help. come across a relative’s name and birth date, but what do you do to find the foreign Was there anything going on in their country they came from? current hometown at the time they lived there? Maybe there was a celebration, a One way is to find some old letters, a graduation, and a wedding that would have wedding announcement or maybe a been in the local town news. postcard that was sent. If this yields nothing, then go back and check the Have you tried a cemetery? These places census, because some of them have the are also loaded with information. They can year of immigration. If you did find him/her, hold the birth date, death date and even a but it doesn’t show the year they came maiden name. Sometimes, they will have here, then check to see who is living on the other family members next to them that same street. Sometimes other family you may not even have known about. members would move close to them. Sometimes when you hit a brick wall, going Besides the census, have you ever back to the beginning is all it takes. Good checked immigration/passenger lists? If Luck in your search! you cannot find them here, there is probably a good chance that they may have come through Canada. Canada was far less expensive and simpler than coming straight into the United States.
Another place to check would be churches. When relatives would come to America, they likely found a church that was close to their home. You could look up the street address in the City Directory to find a Happy Holidays! church near the homestead. Since No December Meetiing – See you iin January! churches had weddings, baptisms and CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 12 Nov-Dec 2011
Meeting Location The Monday meetings are held at 7:00 pm at Christ CIG Website Address the King Lutheran Church, 2300 So. Patton Ct., in southwest Denver. The church is at the corner of www.cogensoc.us/cigmain.htm Iliff Ave. and So. Patton Ct. in the Harvey Park area. The website of the Computer Interest Group of
When coming from the north: Take Federal or the Colorado Genealogical Society is linked Sheridan Blvd. south to Evans Ave. Turn right above. Our web page is a link on the Colorado from Federal or left from Sheridan and take Evans Genealogy Society website. to Patton Ct. Turn south on Patton Ct. two blocks to the church at Iliff Ave. Information about our program and workshop meetings are available on this site. When coming from the south: Take Federal or Sheridan Blvd. north to Yale Ave. Turn left from Linda Hartlaub has established and keeps Federal or right from Sheridan and take Yale to updated a Facebook page for CIG members Patton Ct. Turn north on Patton Ct. three blocks to and other interested persons. Facebook is the the church at Iliff Ave. leading "social networking" site on the Internet. You must already be a Facebook member to access this group site. Joining Facebook is free!
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?? Ask An Expert ??
Do you have a question about your computer genealogy program? Digital imaging or scanning? Internet research? Location of internet records? This column is for you. No question is too simple. Maybe someone else is wondering the same thing. Email your question to the editor at [email protected], and it will be forwarded to one of our workshop leaders. Then, watch for your question and answer in upcoming newsletters.
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Steering Committee Elected Officers Help the Editor! President………….…..Sandy Ronayne Please help make this 303-750-5002 [email protected] newsletter a success by Immed. Past President..Vern Tomkins submitting articles or ideas 303-922-3639 [email protected] for articles relating to computer genealogy to Vice President/Programs..Lori Collins…….. me to include in this newsletter. Please be 303-954-0393 [email protected] Secretary…………….Kelly Glenn……….... generous with your submissions of your 303-810-9975 [email protected] favorite genealogical websites, a new website Treasurer…………….Sharon Mahler….…...... you have discovered, breakthroughs using your 303-757-3669 [email protected] computer, and genealogical news and meetings Steering Committee Appointed Officers of other societies. Articles and ideas for articles may be emailed to me at Membership………..Charlotte Weiler [email protected] . Deadline for articles is 303-548-7250 [email protected] the 25 th of even-numbered months. with the help of Jordan Ludwig Publicity…………….Lori Collins 303-954-0393 [email protected] Next deadline is December 26, 2011. Newsletter & Hospitality………..Lynette Dick Thank you for your help, 303-986-7910 [email protected] Historian…………….Sharon Mahler Lynette Dick 303-757-3669 [email protected] CGS Liaison………..Nancy Ratay Ediitiions of thiis newslletter are priinted fiive tiimes a 303-972-2701 [email protected] year iin Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Sep-Oct and Council Liaison…….Sandy Ronayne Nov-Dec. 303-750-5002 [email protected] Nominating Committee ©You may re-diistriibute artiiclles from thiis newslletter Zoe Lappin, Vacant, Vacant onlly wiith the permiissiion of the Ediitor. Workshop Leaders If you have a question, comment or suggested topic for a MEMBERSHIP ROSTERS Workshop, feel free to call or email the respective Workshop Leader. CIG Members may request a membership roster from Membership Chairman, Charlotte Weiler by Family Tree Maker….Ed Richard 303-355-2592 [email protected] emailing her at [email protected] . A roster The Master Genealogist of specific genealogy program users is also …….Patrick Purcell available. 303-973-2185 [email protected] …….Bobbi King 720-839-4952 [email protected] ……Mike Jones RIDE ARRANGER 303-447-9649 [email protected] Legacy…………….…Vern Tomkins Do you need a ride to our program 303-922-3639 [email protected] meetings? If so, contact our membership Scanning & Digital Imaging…Gary Ratay chairperson, Charlotte Weiler, by email 303-972-2701 [email protected] at [email protected] and she will put you in Roots Magic…..……..Lori Collins contact with persons who may be able to help. 303-954-0393 [email protected] If you would like to provide a ride, also contact Reunion for Mac……..Nancy Ratay Charlotte. 303-972-2701 [email protected] CGS/CIG Newsletter Page 14 Nov-Dec 2011
November 14, 2011 Program Meeting “Evernote” by Cari Taplin
December 2011 No Meeting – Happy Holidays!
January 9, 2012 Program Meeting “Keep Your Computer Humming” by Art Thayer
February 13, 2012 Workshop Meeting
March 12, 2012 Program Meeting “What is OCR Anyway and Why Should I Care? by Gary and Nancy Ratay
April 9, 2012 Workshop Meeting
May 14, 2012 Program Meeting “Cemetery Photography” by Sandra Gill
May 26, 2012 Spring Seminar – Speaker: Dick Eastman
June 11, 2012 Workshop Meeting & Ice Cream Social
CGS/CIG Newsletter Lynette Dick, Editor 7440 West Utah Ave. Lakewood CO 80232
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