The recording of today's webinar by Jeanie F. Glaser, "Genealogy for Houses" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

 

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Tired of asking her mother to explain how she was related to a family member she called “Aunt” (but was actually first cousin once removed to); Jeanie sat down and began building her family tree a decade ago. If you’re reading this, you know what happened next. Ever since, Jeanie has been enraptured by her uniquely American tapestry of family history. She is an 11th generation Pennsylvania Dutch descendant, living in the same county as her 7th great-grandparents; she’s also the descendant of 20th century Italian immigrants, Quakers, Huguenots, Highland Scots, and Africans enslaved in New York, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Jeanie’s undergraduate major in Philosophy at Swarthmore College honed her capacity to evaluate evidence and the strength of arguments, which are critical skills in genealogical work. A concentration in Art History cultivated her enduring fascination with the history of the built environment around her. Jeanie’s enthusiasm for peeling back the many layers of a house or landscape is nourished by the experience of sharing the stories found within each layer and seeing how those stories richen others’ perceptions of their own homes and surroundings, which previously seemed so ordinary and unremarkable. Jeanie is a professional genealogist and house historian, a member of APG and NGS, and volunteers her time in various capacities with multiple historical and preservation organizations.

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On the last Friday of each month, we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This month enjoy "Key Online Record Collections for Researching Your Mexican Ancestors" by Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS. 

Key Online Record Collections for Researching Your Mexican Ancestors

This lecture provides an overview of the key record collections available online to research your Mexican and Mexican-American ancestors.

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The recording of today's webinar by Grant Din, "Angel Island's Immigrants from 80 Countries: Stories from the West Coast Counterpart to Ellis Island" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

The recording of today's webinar by Daniel Horowitz, "Top tips for reviewing Smart Matches™ and Record Matches" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free.

 

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Grant Din has conducted genealogical research for over thirty years and currently serves on the board of the California Genealogical Society. He served on the staff of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation for eight years and currently volunteers there to manage the Immigrant Voices website with over 220 stories of West Coast immigrants from throughout the world. Grant's interest in genealogy started at a wedding reception in his youth, where a relative showed him a page from a family tree showing he is in the 36th generation of the Gong family (he's also a 24th generation Owyang). He holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University, an M.A. in public policy analysis from Claremont Graduate University, and a B.A. in sociology with emphasis on urban studies from Yale University, and has traveled throughout the U.S., China, and Japan for his research. Recently, Grant was a part of the research team for The Six, an upcoming film about the Chinese who survived the Titanic. He has over thirty years of experience in the Bay Area non-profit sector and lives with his family in Oakland, CA.

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The webinar will be live on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at:

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Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage, providing key contributions liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers and media, as well as lecturing, and attending conferences around the world. Dedicated to Genealogy since 1986, he was the teacher and the study guide editor of the family history project "Searching for My Roots" in Venezuela for 15 years. Daniel is involved in several crowdsource digitization and transcription projects and holds a board level position at the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA).

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I love historical records. And it’s probably no surprise that I especially like to read, analyze, and study the records that women left behind. Even when it’s not my ancestor, it helps me to understand a different sense of place and time. And it helps me as a researcher to learn about the history of a specific place leading to additional research questions and records that the source points to.

So let’s take a look at a source and work on an initial analysis. This source is a diary I bought off of eBay. It’s a little different because it’s not written in chronological order (despite the diary have a printed chronology) and it’s not in a traditional “diary” book.

Before we get started, how would you start analyzing a source that you know little about ? Some things I would look for and describe include:

• The provenance of the source (if known)
• The look of the source (bound, loose papers, handwritten, typed, etc.)
• The date(s) of the source (publication date, handwritten dates, etc.)
• The author of the source
• The place of the source
• Initial observations of the content (names, topics)

What would you look for to start your analysis?

After examining the item I would take some time to transcribe or abstract the information to make it readable and easily accessible for further study and analysis. My experience is that when you transcribe/abstract you pay closer attention and notice things that you don't with just a passive read.

Looking at the cover and the title page of this item, what do you notice? Is there anything missing? What questions do you have?

Here are a few pages from the diary. What do you notice?

Diaries aren’t just a record of the owner but they include information about their FAN club. (Friends, Associates, and Neighbors). Because of this, it is a valuable community source, not just an individual family source. In this particular diary, there are some pages that include the names and events affecting other people like this one.

Finally, what research question(s) do you have? What are you curious about? 

Remember, we aren’t doing research at this point. We are simply analyzing what we see so we can go on to learning more about what the diary reveals. So we will hold off doing a search for these names until a future blog post. Once portions of the diary are transcribed we can start looking at what to research and where.

I’m interested in hearing your experience in working with historical diaries. Please share in the comments below.

Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, instructor, and researcher. She blogs at Gena's Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera. You can find her presentations on the Legacy Family Tree Webinars website.

Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar members a new short ten minute or less TechZone video just for them! This Friday enjoy "What do MyHeritage AutoClusters Tell Me?" by Paul Woodbury.

What do MyHeritage AutoClusters Tell Me?

Paul Woodbury demonstrates how to interpret DNA AutoCluster reports.

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