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BRING YOUR RESEARCH TO THE LIBRARY
How many times have you been visiting with family and wished you had brought your research with you? The conversation turns to family history, and you're struggling to remember names, dates, and family stories. But who wants to lug around all those papers at a picnic or outing? And worse still, you risk losing or ruining precious research documents. Now you can take your family history everywhere you have Internet access, including GEDCOM files (viewable in pedigree software), notes from other site members, old pictures, scanned images of original documents, and any other files you have stored on your MyFamily.com site. Your site will be a sure-fire hit at the family reunion. Don't ever be caught unprepared for a family get-together again. Start your MyFamily.com site today at:
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DATABASES OF THE DAY (Free for 10 Days!)
Craig County, Virginia Births, 1853-1896
Bordering West Virginia and located twenty miles north of Roanoke, Virginia, Craig County was formed in 1851. This database is a collection of birth records from the county between 1853 and 1896. Taken from existing county documents held by the state, it provides valuable information regarding over 7300 children. Researchers will find the child's name, race, sex, birth date, and parents' names. Page numbers refer to the original county document from which these records were taken. For researchers of Virginian ancestors, this database can be a valuable research tool.
Bibliography: Fridley, Beth. "Craig Co., Virginia, Birth Records, 1853-1896." [Database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.
To search this database, go to:
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Bennington, Vermont Cemetery Inscriptions
Once a part of New Hampshire in the 1750s and New York in the 1760s, the town of Bennington, is now located in the southwestern corner of Vermont. This database is a collection of headstone inscriptions from cemeteries in the town and contains nearly 12,000 records. Each record provides the name of decedent, sex, birth date, death date, age, and death location. In many cases it provides the names of parents or spouse. Additionally, it reveals veteran information, location of the headstone within the cemetery, date the inscription was recorded in this collection, and the transcriber's surname. To those seeking ancestors from western Vermont, this can be a helpful and informative database.
Bibliography: Cassano, Lynne M., ed. "Bennington, Vermont Cemetery Inscriptions." [Database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999.
To search this database, go to:
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California Narratives: Land of Gold
Originally from North Carolina, Hinton Helper was an outspoken critic of slavery who lived in California in the 1850s. This narrative is the account of his life on the West Coast and includes his commentary on the economy and living conditions of the area. He also includes descriptions of the morals and intelligence of the populace, along with descriptions of San Francisco, Stockton, and Yuba River. For researchers attempting to understand the broader context in which their ancestors may have lived, this can be a useful account of California in the 1850s.
Bibliography: Library of Congress. "California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years." Vol. 75. [Database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Helper, Hinton Rowan. "The Land of Gold." Baltimore, MD: H. Taylor, 1855.
To search this database, go to:
http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3991.htm
Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), Obituaries, 1993-1999 (Update)
Bibliography: UMI Company. "Obituaries from the Sun-Sentinel, 1993-1999." Orem, UT: Ancestry Inc., 1999.
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http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/3628.htm
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ANCESTRY.COM UPDATES CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI, 1261-1900
Ancestry has just updated the Cambridge University Alumni databases online, adding the remaining volumes and combining them in one database with advanced searching capabilities.
"Alumni Cantabrigienses" was compiled by J. A. Venn, a former president of Queen's College. This list of all known students, graduates, and officers at The University of Cambridge offers information from the university's earliest records through 1900. This is quite an impressive span when one considers that the earliest records of the university date from around 1261. The entire collection contains 10 volumes in 2 sets, which contain over 150,000 records. The compilation was completed in 1921.
Every entry offers important information which may include any of the following: notable accomplishments, occupation, birth date, birth place, other schooling, spouse's name, parent's names, siblings, and other important associations.
Cambridge University Alumni, 1261 to 1900
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Bibliography: Venn, J. A., comp. "Alumni Cantabrigienses." London: Cambridge University Press, 1921.
DOS GUYS
By Michael John Neill
"DOS GUYS" is a band appearing at a local establishment in the town where I work. As I passed the marquee, I wondered who "DOS GUYS" were and came up with three possibilities:
1) "DOS" was a misspelling or mispronunciation of "those."
2) "DOS" referred to the number "two" indicating two guys would be appearing.
3) "DOS" referred to "disk operating system," indicating the guys had refused to migrate to Windows®.
The third item originated as a bit of humor, but turns out to be just as important as the first two.
DOS is THOSE
Did your ancestor speak with any type of slang or in a dialect that was difficult or impossible for the clerk or census taker to understand? Maybe that's why things are difficult to read.
DOS is TWO
Does the term you don't understand come from a foreign language, and was somehow inserted into the document? Did the priest slip in a phrase of Latin when the rest of the baptismal entry was in German?
DOS is DISK OPERATING SYSTEM
Some terms come and go and there will be a day when few people know that DOS can stand for "disk operating system." Does the document contain a term or phrase that is outdated now or has a "new" meaning? Never hurts to check.
Even if you never hear them perform, remember "DOS GUYS." Their name may be just the ticket to enhance your genealogy performance!
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
GRANDMA'S WORDS OF WISDOM
Dear Juliana,
The ladies at Mannofield Church, Aberdeen, Scotland, plan to print and sell a book in aid of local charities within the next few months. The idea is to find or recall the passing wisdom of our Grandmothers, such as "You are never too old to learn." The title is to be "Grandma's words of wisdom."
Contributions from your readers would be appreciated and their work will be acknowledged in the book.
One of my contributions will be this self-explanatory poem;
Little duties still put off
Will end in never-done.
"Bye and bye, is soon enough,"
Has ruined many a one!
Another is; "Elbows off the table!" (A telling off for displaying the table manners of the lower classes!)
And, "Dinna bow the bass." (This being an old Scottish saying combining some Low German words. Literally it means "Do not kick over ["bow" pronounced "boo" and meaning "bend"] the corner of the mat [bass] or you or another could fall over it. Metaphorically, it means something like; "Do not do wicked things inside your own house."
Kind regards, Ron
Ronald_Caseby@email.msn.com
CALENDAR CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION
Dear Editor,
Your quote, "Scotland, while still a separate kingdom before its union with England under James VI and I, converted to 1600 by order of the Privy Council," seems to have a phrase missing from somewhere in this sentence, for I do not understand it as it is, and if its intended version is "in 1600" instead of "to 1600", then it omits mention of the delay in the ten-day correction.
At http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-01/essay-6.html you will find--
"In 1599 Scotland chose to start the next new year on 1st January, but did not adopt the ten-day correction until England did so in 1752 (by which year it had become eleven days)."
The relevant text is as follows--
The Kingis Majestie and Lordis of his Secreit Counsall, undirstanding that in all uthiris weill governit comoun welthis and countryis the first day of the yeir beginnis yeirlie upoun the first day of Januar, comounlie callit New Yeiris Day, and that this realm onlie is different fra all uthiris in the compt and reckoning of the yeiris, and his Majestie and Counsall willing that thair sall be na disconformitie betwix His Majestyie his realm and liegis and uthiris nichtbour countreyis in this particular, bot that they sall conform thaimselffis to the ordour and custom observit be ally uthiris countreyis, especiallie seing the course and sesoun of the yeir is maist propir and ansuerabill thairto, and that the alteratioun thairof importis na hurt nor prejudice to onie pairtie: thairfoir His Majestie, with advice of the Lordis of his Secreit Counsall, statutis and ordainis that in all tyme coming, the first day of the yeir sall begin yeirlie upoun the first day of Januar, and thir presentis to taik executioun upoun the first day of Januar nixt to cum, quhilk sall be the first day of the M and six hundreth yeir of God . . ."
(Yes, my spellchecker is working.)
With best wishes,
William Hogarth
____________________________________
Mea culpa. That quote should have read "in 1600." Thanks William!
FAMILY HISTORY FAVORITE AWARD
In recognition of excellence in providing the genealogical community with these valuable research tools, Ancestry.com is happy to announce the following "Family History Favorites."
IMMIGRANT SHIP TRANSCRIBERS GUILD
http://istg.rootsweb.com/
This award is appropriately given on the one-year anniversary of this project. The project's success is owed to "500 volunteers who work diligently to decipher and transcribe passenger lists which are then uploaded to [the] website." Aside from two volumes of 1,000 passenger lists that have been transcribed, another feature of the site is "The Compass," which contains links to various emigration and maritime sites. Those interested in joining this ambitious project should go to:
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IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (INS) HISTORY, GENEALOGY, AND EDUCATION PAGES
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/index.htm
This well-organized new section of the INS website provides researchers with record location information, historical background, helpful articles, a glossary of terms, and guides to various immigration records. Many of the guides are illustrated with images of actual records making it extremely helpful. Downloadable forms and fees schedules (including G-639 FOIA request forms) are available at:
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/formsfee/index.htm
This award will be presented every week to sites that provide valuable information to researchers.
ANCESTRY QUICK TIP
W"Requesting a book in a library's closed-stack collection usually requires copying a call number onto a slip of paper. When checking a library catalog, see if more than one edition of the book is on the shelves. Some reprints may have an index, whereas the original may not. Many county history reprints fall into this category.
"If a book is unindexed, check to see if a separate index was compiled at a later date. If so, submit a call slip for the index as well.
"I learned this the hard way. When I originally examined a county history, it was a reprint with an index. When I requested what I thought was the same book again, the call number was for the unindexed original. It really wasted valuable time."
Linda Herrick Swisher
Hobart, IN
Thanks to Linda Herrick Swisher for today's Quick Tip! If you have a research tip that you would like to share, you can send it to:
Editor@ancestry-inc.com
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
"If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody."
- Chinese proverb
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