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Learn from a professional archivist how to preserve, protect and archive family records, photographs and artifacts. Best practices for organization, purchasing archival materials and practical records preservation that any home archivist can achieve! Learn how to process your collection of genealogical records from start to finish. Learn the steps archivists use to process small and large records collections at the archives and how you can use these steps to get a handle on your family records collections!
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Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them! This Friday enjoy "Research in the Equality State - Wyoming Research Tips" by Cari Taplin, CG.
Research in the Equality State - Wyoming Research
This presentation will give a broad overview of the history of Wyoming and how it’s development into a state will affect your research strategies. We will examine records, repositories both online and off, and take a look at a sample case study.
About the Presenter
Cari A. Taplin is related to Roy Rogers. Or at least that's what her family told her. As a result, finding her true heritage has been her focus since the year 2000. She is a native of Wood County, Ohio but migrated to Wyoming, Colorado and now Pflugerville, Texas which is just outside Austin. Cari holds the Certified Genealogist® credential and has served in a wide variety of volunteer and leadership positions for state, local, and national societies. She currently serves on the boards of the Association for Professional Genealogists and is the Vice President of Membership for the Federation of Genealogical Societies. As the owner of GenealogyPANTS, she provides speaking, research, and consultation services. Cari focuses on midwestern and Great Lakes states and methodology.
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Did you know that September 27th is Ancestor Appreciation Day? Ancestor Appreciation Day sounds like a holiday made especially for family historians especially since it falls just days before October which is Family History Month in the United States. This day is meant to be a time to reflect and appreciate our ancestors' lives but for the family historian, Ancestor Appreciation Day is really everyday since we don't confine our passion for genealogy to just one day a year.
However, how can we spread what we know and love about our ancestors to our family? How can we take that personal appreciation one step further? How can we help our families celebrate Ancestor Appreciation Day? We all joke about the stereotypical eye rolling that family members do at the mere mention of family history, so what can you do to change that indifference to a real interest?
Family history is boring to non-genealogists because it is often presented as just names and dates. When we tell stories, add images, and make it personal, family history comes alive. Some ideas you could try with your family include:
Take a DNA Test or explain DNA results to your family.
Gather family recipes for a cookbook.
Digitize old photos and upload them to a cloud based sharing website. Encourage family members to download and print off their favorites.
Create a Facebook page for an ancestral couple or family line and invite everyone to share photos and memories.
Create and print a decorative chart for your siblings and cousins. Janet Hovorka shows 101 Ways to Design a Genealogy Chart in this Legacy webinar .
Invite family to view an online tree you’ve created. Don’t forget to add digitized images and photographs.
Upload your family photos and other photo memories off your phone and onto a photo printing website and create simple albums to share. You can find family photo project ideas by watching Denise Levenick’s webinar, 12 DIY Photo Projects to Share Family Stories.
Encourage everyone to share a memory of family, holidays, or traditions at your next family dinner or get-together.
Help younger family members interview their parents or grandparents about their lives. If they have a cell phone, remind them to record the interview and then share it with others (with permission from the interviewee). Kimberly Powell shares 50 Questions to Ask Relatives About Family History that provides some great questions to get them started.
Tell your family one story from the life of an ancestor you've researched. Use photographs, maps, or even music to make that story interesting.
I know you’re thinking, “Gena, how in the world can I get one of these projects done in such a short amount of time? Afterall, Ancestor Appreciation Day is today!”
I know, but isn’t the point that as family historians, every day is Ancestor Appreciation Day? We don’t need a special day to help us remember that and neither does your family. Take some time today to do something small to share with your family your passion for your ancestors whether they are generations removed or those you’ve recently lost. Passing on their memories is what’s important, no matter what the day is.
44.4 million new records were added in the first half of September: 9.7 million from three new collections, and 34.7 million added to 6 existing collections from the Netherlands.
The new collections include a New York City Birth Index, a New York City Death Index, and the Australian World War II Nominal Roll, 1939–1945. The updates to existing Netherlands collections include Civil Deaths, Marriages, and Birth collections as well as Church Baptisms, Church Burials, and Church Marriages collections.
Here is a full breakdown of the new and updated record collections:
Collection
Description
Number of Records
Link to Search
New York City Death Index, 1862–1948
An index to deaths recorded in New York City between 1862 and 1948.
An index of Australians who served in the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force or in the merchant navy during World War II.
The 5,317,387 records in the New York City Death Index contains information on deaths recorded in New York City. This collection helps individuals in locating New York City death records between 1862 and 1948. It contains information on county and date of death, age at death, and certificate number.
Death certificates represent one of the key primary sources for family information. They were typically issued within days of a death and include many details about a person’s life. Frequently, they contain age, birthplace, parents’ names and birthplaces, and the cause of death.
The 2,233,470 records in the New York City Birth Index contains information on births recorded in New York City. This collection helps individuals in locating New York City birth records between 1878 and 1909. This index contains the certificate number and information on county and date of birth.
Birth records represent one of the key primary sources for family information. They were typically issued within days of birth and contain the parents’ names at minimum. Many times they contain additional parental details, including places of birth, ages, number of children, and religious affiliation for baptism and christening records.
This collection of 2,235,950 records consists of the World War II Nominal Roll of Australia. The roll was created as a commemoration project for Australians who served in the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force, or in the merchant navy during World War II. The records contain the following searchable information on the service person: surname, given name(s), date of birth, place of birth, date of enlistment, locality on enlistment, place of enlistment, and date of discharge. The surname and given name(s) for the person’s next of kin are also given.
This collection — which now totals 41,415,249 records — is an index to civil death records from throughout the Netherlands from the years 1811–1965. Records typically list the name of the deceased, age, death date, and death place. Sometimes the names of the deceased’s parents and/or spouse are also listed. Source information is provided to help locate the original record.
Civil registration — the recording of births, marriages, and deaths by civil authorities — was officially instituted in the Netherlands on March 1, 1811. However, in some areas of the Netherlands, civil records were kept as early as 1795.
This collection — which now totals 28,131,957 records — is an index to civil marriage records from throughout the Netherlands from 1811–1965. Records typically list the names of the bride and groom, their birthdates and birthplaces, occupations, parents’ names, and their marriage date and place. The names of former spouses, and the names of the witnesses are also often provided.
This collection — which now totals 23,631,397 records — is an index to baptismal records from various churches and localities throughout the Netherlands. Records typically list each child’s name, baptism date, birth date, and parents’ names.
Church records are extremely important because they are the primary source of vital information prior to the institution of civil registration. In the Netherlands, most people attended either the Dutch Reformed or Catholic churches, but other denominations existed as well. Please see the archive list below for locality coverage. The majority of the records date between 1580 and 1811, though the extent of year coverage can vary by locality.
This collection — which now totals 31,860,820 records — is an index to civil birth records from throughout the Netherlands from 1811–1915. Records typically list each child’s name, birth date and place, and parents’ names. In some cases, other information such as the names of witnesses may also be provided.
Birth record Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher
The birth record of the famous Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher is in the collection. His work often explored mathematical ideas.
Convex and Concave (1955) by Maurits Cornelis Escher, [Credit: Museu de Arte Popular, Lisbon, Portugal]
He was born on June 17, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, to George Arnold Escher, a civil engineer, and Sara Adriana Gleichman.
This collection — which now totals 5,327,033 records — is an index to burial records from various churches and localities throughout the Netherlands from 1601–1811. Records typically list the name of the deceased, burial date, and burial place. In some cases, the deceased’s age, birthplace, and names of possible relatives may also be listed.
This collection — which now totals 4,119,666 records — is an index to marriage records (marriage banns and marriage ceremonies) from various churches and localities throughout the Netherlands from 1580–1811. Records typically list the names of the bride and groom, their marriage date, residences, and religion.
Church marriage record Dutch landscape painter Jan van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a well known 17th century Dutch landscape painter whose work greatly influenced the work of other landscape artists of his time. On August 5, 1618, Van Goyen married Annetje Willems van Raelst in Leiden, Netherlands. Their marriage record can be found in the Netherlands, Church Marriages, 1580–1811 collection.
View of Emmerich, a landscape painting by Jan van Goyen, 1645, [Credit: Cleveland Museum of Art]
All these newly updated collections are now available through MyHeritage SuperSearch™. Searching these records is free, but a Data or Complete subscription is required to view the records, save them to your family tree, and access Record Matches. Our Record Matching technology will get to work and notify you automatically if any of these records mention a member of your family tree. You’ll then have the ability to review the record and decide if you’d like to add the new information to your family tree.
Do you want to learn more about SuperSearch™ and Record Matching? Please visit our recently launched MyHeritage Education website where you’ll find practical tips and tricks, articles, how-to videos and more!
MyHeritage will continue to add new records to help you learn more about your ancestors’ lives and uncover your family’s past.
We hope you enjoy searching these newly updated collections. If you make any interesting new family history discoveries, let us know in the comments below!
Learn from a professional archivist how to preserve, protect and archive family records, photographs and artifacts. Best practices for organization, purchasing archival materials and practical records preservation that any home archivist can achieve! Learn how to process your collection of genealogical records from start to finish. Learn the steps archivists use to process small and large records collections at the archives and how you can use these steps to get a handle on your family records collections!
Join us and Melissa Barker for the live webinar Friday, September 27 at 2pm eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.
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About the presenter
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager currently working as the Houston County, Tennessee Archivist. She is also a professional genealogist lecturing, teaching and writing about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual webinar presentations all across the United States for genealogical and historical societies. She writes a popular blog entitled “A Genealogist in the Archives”. She is the Reviews Editor for the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) magazine FORUM. In 2016, she started a bi-weekly advice column entitled “The Archive Lady” that can be viewed at Abundant Genealogy. She has been researching her own family history for the past 28 years.
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The recording of today's webinar, "Unlocking English & Welsh Civil Registration Records” by Mike Mansfield is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.comfor free.
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Civil registration records in England and Wales began in 1837 and can provide extensive information about your ancestors. Learn about these valuable records and how you can access the index to these records on MyHeritage, which allows you to easily procure them from the General Register Office.
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The objective of this webinar is to give viewers concrete examples of how tables and graphs can be used in family history reports and presentations.
Join us and Ruth Wilson Craig, CG for the live webinar Wednesday, September 25 at 2pm eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.
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Ruth Craig has spent most of her professional career as a Professor at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She recently received the credential of Certified Genealogist®, having been drawn into the field when she applied for re-naturalized German citizenship based on her father’s German-Jewish heritage. Her areas of interest include Massachusetts/New Hampshire/New York and French-Canadian genealogy. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Mayflower Society.
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Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.
File Toolbar (Beginner)
Legacy's File Toolbar is very similar in content to the File menu of most Windows programs.
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Notice that the Import, Export, and File Maintenance icons have drop down arrows for more options. Here is what you will see when you click those arrows:
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The Import and Export menus are pretty self-explanatory. You simply pick the format that you need. I will be doing a comprehensive article on the File Maintenance menu at a later date because these options are very important.
Next time we will be looking at the Edit Toolbar.
Find tech tips every day in the Facebook Legacy User Group. The group is free and is available to anyone with a Facebook account.
For video tech tips check out the Legacy Quick Tips page. These short videos will make it easy for you to learn all sort of fun and interesting ways to look at your genealogy research.
Michele Simmons Lewis, CG® is part of the Legacy Family Tree team at MyHeritage. She handles the enhancement suggestions that come in from our users as well as writing for Legacy News. You can usually find her hanging out on the Legacy User Group Facebook page answering questions and posting tips.
Civil registration records in England and Wales began in 1837 and can provide extensive information about your ancestors. Learn about these valuable records and how you can access the index to these records on MyHeritage, which allows you to easily procure them from the General Register Office.
Join us and Mike Mansfield for the live webinar Tuesday, September 24 at 2pm eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.
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Mike Mansfield works for MyHeritage.com as the Director of Content Operations. Previously Mike has worked for Ancestry.com and FamilySearch and has been active in the genealogy and family history domain for the last 20 years. Mike has presented at numerous genealogical conferences and symposia in the United States, England, Scandinavia, and Australia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from BYU and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University.
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I'm excited to be the featured guest speaker at the second annual Genealogy Roots conference in Sandy, Utah. Join me and Lisa Louise Cooke for two days of learning how to apply the latest tech tools, DNA and brick wall busting strategies.
What: 2 days of innovative genealogy education at the Senior Expo
When: October 10 & 11, 2019. 9am-4:30pm
Where: Mountain America Exposition Center, 9081 S. State St., Sandy, Utah
Who: All ages and skills levels
Day 1: Beginner & Genealogists' Skill Tune Up
Day 2: Intermediate to Advanced
Cost: 1 day pass: $49 - 2 day pass: $69
Early-bird Special: $49 for both days. Ends 9/30/19
