I was so sad to read that lightbycoco removed her content from her channel, although going full time into a new job, I can completely understand it. I went through the same thing.
The good news is there are other. Videos on digitizing your data, particularly from the Dallas Genealogical Society.
Their videos are from a few years ago, but still very relevant.
This one is the start of the series on Backing Up Your Files.
Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Addictive
I had forgotten how addictive genealogy is until I found my father in the 1940 US Census this evening, and ended up finding out more about his mother than the family knew. Wow.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Online Genealogy Volunteer Opportunities
For those who do not know, there are a few opportunities where anyone can help with the digitization process of genealogical records.
One of these, recently mentioned in the comments section for a previous blog post (thank you, Kevin), is the RecordAGrave app on Facebook.
The easiest link for it is here: www.recordagrave.com
The resulting text can be found on www.findagrave.com.
Another opportunity to spend a little free time is with the LDS Church's Records Extraction Program. It used to be called FREP when I was first introduced to it.
This isn't digitizing LDS records per se, but is digitizing the microfilms kept in the granite vaults outside Salt Lake for a number of years. The pictures have been digitized, however now those pictures have to be put into text that can be used on the FamilySearch.org web site.
Looking for a productive way to spend your summer? This just might be the answer.
One of these, recently mentioned in the comments section for a previous blog post (thank you, Kevin), is the RecordAGrave app on Facebook.
The easiest link for it is here: www.recordagrave.com
The resulting text can be found on www.findagrave.com.
Another opportunity to spend a little free time is with the LDS Church's Records Extraction Program. It used to be called FREP when I was first introduced to it.
This isn't digitizing LDS records per se, but is digitizing the microfilms kept in the granite vaults outside Salt Lake for a number of years. The pictures have been digitized, however now those pictures have to be put into text that can be used on the FamilySearch.org web site.
Looking for a productive way to spend your summer? This just might be the answer.
A Benefit of Keeping A Written History
One of the benefits is to allow your progeny to see what your life was like and what you did.
Here's a good example:
The Handy Chronicles
Here's a good example:
The Handy Chronicles
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
What Census Records Can Teach Us
I've learned a lot of things about my family from Census records, so I was really appreciative to see this on CNN.com today:
What Census Records Can Teach Us
For starters, I learned with whom and where one of my Father's Sisters was raised in the 1930's, and the name of my paternal grandmother.
I learned one of my ancestors was boarding with a family in the 1880 Census.
What have you learned about your ancestors from Census records?
What Census Records Can Teach Us
For starters, I learned with whom and where one of my Father's Sisters was raised in the 1930's, and the name of my paternal grandmother.
I learned one of my ancestors was boarding with a family in the 1880 Census.
What have you learned about your ancestors from Census records?
Monday, December 27, 2010
100 Grandchildren
Between children, grand-children, great grand-children and 2nd great grand-children, this woman has at least 100 offspring. Hopefully they'll record her stories, I'm sure she has a lot to tell in her 98 years of life.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
A Big Thank You
To Geneabloggers for the nice link to this blog!
Geneabloggers.com
Also a big welcome to anyone who shares my love for genealogy. As I've said before, it's addictive and you meet the nicest people while working in genealogy.
Thank you!
Geneabloggers.com
Also a big welcome to anyone who shares my love for genealogy. As I've said before, it's addictive and you meet the nicest people while working in genealogy.
Thank you!
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Genealogy
For those of you, my long time and new friends, who are into genealogy, there is only one word I can think of to describe it. Contagious! :-)
I was into locating my genealogy as a teenager, and became more heavily involved with it when Decker died back in 2000. Being a member of the Mormon faith, we are big on locating our ancestors, not just for the temple work involved, but also because of the stories and how their lives impact ours today.
There is a lot more to genealogy than just names and dates. As I just mentioned there are also the stories. Everyone has them, some are fun stories, some are downright depressing. Some, however, such as stories about incidents within the family and health related information, can actually help people know what medical issues they should be looking for that are genetically passed from one generation to the next. For example: I didn't know breast cancer was in my family (both Mom's side and Dad's side) until a few years ago when one of my aunts passed away from it. That's when it began to be discussed within my family.
As with many families, particularly ones where people didn't want to talk about the history of the family, this can be especially daunting, and sadly it takes a tragedy for things to come out. The good news is, once it does, the younger generation will at least have that information as part of their own history and they will hopefully pass it on.
Every family has their own sets of stories, and mine is no different.
I posted a few of the ones pertaining to deceased members of my family onto a web site I created as part of a Web Page Design class I took in 2001-2002. I need to update it, as several other family members (including my Father) have since passed away.
There are also a lot of online resources for people to locate stories as well as family members they didn't know existed. The social aspect of the internet has really propelled this ability to share this information with a lot of people, which has been quite a miracle in my eyes.
When Decker died back in 2000, I felt the pressure to finish the work he had tried to do, but was unable to finish at his unexpected death. He was the High Priest Group Leader in our Ward, and as such was responsible for getting the Family History (genealogy) work going in the Ward. While he was unable to get a class going, I got one going after his death.
Because of his encouragement that I take computer classes (he said my logical thinking was perfect for programming skills), I used those classes to create a program to tutor people on how to use the Church's software to submit located ancestors for temple work. This program was called Ascending The Temple Steps. At the time I was inspired by God to make it, the Church used the PAF program along with a new computer software called Temple Ready to get floppy disks ready with the names to be turned in to the Temple. This ground breaking software alone cut down the months long process of submitting paperwork to Salt Lake for approval into just a few minutes.
I first shared my little program on CD's to members of my Ward. Then the Stake leadership found out about it, and I began making CD's to the Stake. They told their friends and family about it, and before too long I was creating CD's and shipping them all over world, as far away as New Zealand. Because the program I made was HTML based and the tutorials were on PDF's, this allowed for an easier time for people worldwide to enjoy the contents of the CD. Pretty soon, though, I was spending hundreds of dollars on CD's and shipping charges, so I made the decision to post it onto the internet for easier location and ability to use.
Thankfully the Church now has a new secured system that has combined membership records with the genealogy records to give members a centralized location to locate, submit and collaborate with family on their genealogy and temple work.
I've left up the Ascending The Temple Steps web site though, it's a little more of a nostalgic look at how far things have come within the last 10 years (even more depending on how long you've been doing genealogy) with the technology.
http://members.cox.net/dawnbushman1/StartHere.html
The New Family Search web site for the Church:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
After the success of the Ascending The Temple Steps program, I was asked to be a part of a Stake Committee to create a Family History program to teach children via our Primary about Family History. The result of our work can be found on my web site, an internet version of the paper workbook and disk the committee made called Turn Your Hearts:
http://members.cox.net/deckerbushman1/turnyourhearts.html
These and other links can be found on a section of my personal web site called Genealogy Pages:
http://members.cox.net/dawnbushman1/genindex.html
Happy hunting!
I was into locating my genealogy as a teenager, and became more heavily involved with it when Decker died back in 2000. Being a member of the Mormon faith, we are big on locating our ancestors, not just for the temple work involved, but also because of the stories and how their lives impact ours today.
There is a lot more to genealogy than just names and dates. As I just mentioned there are also the stories. Everyone has them, some are fun stories, some are downright depressing. Some, however, such as stories about incidents within the family and health related information, can actually help people know what medical issues they should be looking for that are genetically passed from one generation to the next. For example: I didn't know breast cancer was in my family (both Mom's side and Dad's side) until a few years ago when one of my aunts passed away from it. That's when it began to be discussed within my family.
As with many families, particularly ones where people didn't want to talk about the history of the family, this can be especially daunting, and sadly it takes a tragedy for things to come out. The good news is, once it does, the younger generation will at least have that information as part of their own history and they will hopefully pass it on.
Every family has their own sets of stories, and mine is no different.
I posted a few of the ones pertaining to deceased members of my family onto a web site I created as part of a Web Page Design class I took in 2001-2002. I need to update it, as several other family members (including my Father) have since passed away.
There are also a lot of online resources for people to locate stories as well as family members they didn't know existed. The social aspect of the internet has really propelled this ability to share this information with a lot of people, which has been quite a miracle in my eyes.
When Decker died back in 2000, I felt the pressure to finish the work he had tried to do, but was unable to finish at his unexpected death. He was the High Priest Group Leader in our Ward, and as such was responsible for getting the Family History (genealogy) work going in the Ward. While he was unable to get a class going, I got one going after his death.
Because of his encouragement that I take computer classes (he said my logical thinking was perfect for programming skills), I used those classes to create a program to tutor people on how to use the Church's software to submit located ancestors for temple work. This program was called Ascending The Temple Steps. At the time I was inspired by God to make it, the Church used the PAF program along with a new computer software called Temple Ready to get floppy disks ready with the names to be turned in to the Temple. This ground breaking software alone cut down the months long process of submitting paperwork to Salt Lake for approval into just a few minutes.
I first shared my little program on CD's to members of my Ward. Then the Stake leadership found out about it, and I began making CD's to the Stake. They told their friends and family about it, and before too long I was creating CD's and shipping them all over world, as far away as New Zealand. Because the program I made was HTML based and the tutorials were on PDF's, this allowed for an easier time for people worldwide to enjoy the contents of the CD. Pretty soon, though, I was spending hundreds of dollars on CD's and shipping charges, so I made the decision to post it onto the internet for easier location and ability to use.
Thankfully the Church now has a new secured system that has combined membership records with the genealogy records to give members a centralized location to locate, submit and collaborate with family on their genealogy and temple work.
I've left up the Ascending The Temple Steps web site though, it's a little more of a nostalgic look at how far things have come within the last 10 years (even more depending on how long you've been doing genealogy) with the technology.
http://members.cox.net/dawnbushman1/StartHere.html
The New Family Search web site for the Church:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
After the success of the Ascending The Temple Steps program, I was asked to be a part of a Stake Committee to create a Family History program to teach children via our Primary about Family History. The result of our work can be found on my web site, an internet version of the paper workbook and disk the committee made called Turn Your Hearts:
http://members.cox.net/deckerbushman1/turnyourhearts.html
These and other links can be found on a section of my personal web site called Genealogy Pages:
http://members.cox.net/dawnbushman1/genindex.html
Happy hunting!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
The Countdown Has Begun...
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| Census Image from the U.S. 1880 Census |
I've posted an image from Ancestry.com of one of the sheets from the 1880 U.S. Census. This has been, for me, the grand daddy of all census records. The 1890 Census was lost due to a fire in the Library of Congress and the 1870 Census doesn't have the details of information the 1880 Census does.
The further back you go, the less information there is in census records, which is where other types of records, such as birth and death records from the State and/or County of residence, or records from Churches (such as christening or burial records) come into play. The older census records, do, however, give you an idea of where people were located so you know where to look for the other records.
You can tell this is a passion of mine, can't you? It has been for many, many years. :-)
Many thanks to my Family History Consultant friends for sending me this link, this will definitely be another news source for me to put on my RSS feed!
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
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