The Northeast Washington Genealogical Society proudly presents their 2008 Fall Seminar with Margie Beldin on Saturday, October 18th from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM in the basement of the Colville Public Library (195 S. Oak). "Exploring Your Genealogical Horizons" is the topic of the day, with the following four classes:
* Church Records of the United States
* City Directories and Their Genealogical Value
* Research Outlines, Guidance and the New Family Search Wiki
* Learning from the Pros
Special pricing for members ($25) and non-members ($27) will end on October 10th. Registration for $30 will be at the door beginning at 8:00 AM Saturday morning. The price includes lunch,handouts, door prizes and lots of freebies. If you would like to take advantage of the lowered price, mail your checks payable to NeWGS, c/o Colville Public Library, 195 S. Oak, Colville, WA 99114.
This event is co-sponsored by the Colville Public Library and the Stevens County Rural Library District.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
EWGS Blog is Recipient of the "I Love Your Blog" Award
Kathryn Doyle of the California Genealogical Society and Library Blog has awarded this blog the "I Love Your Blog" Award! This was a meme that was going around the genealogy blogosphere a couple of weeks ago, and I've only just now posted the announcement. Kathryn specifically wanted to honor genealogical society blogs, and she did a great job in her selections. She recommends checking out Chris Dunham's (a.k.a. The Genealogue) Genealogy Blog Finder to find society blogs.Thanks, Kathryn, for the award!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Press Release from Itsourtree.com
In spite of rising energy prizes: itsourtree.com brings the family closer together.
Energy costs are constantly rising while the budget for family visits is shrinking. There is less money left in the wallet for the trip to the grandparents. Online family network itsourtree.com sets itself the target to bring the family closer together by means of the platform’s communication features.
The medium internet is a quick and free alternative to stay in contact with the family even at long distances. Building a common family tree is the first step to simple family communication. Other relatives can be searched for in the database and then invited to collaborate in the family tree, photos of the last family reunion can be shared with all relatives. The easy-to-use message system keeps the relatives up-to-date on everything and they get over a cancelled visit more easily.
Itsourtree.com, the fastest-growing family network worldwide, has become an important research and communication tool for both genealogists and families all around the globe. So far, more than 5 million families use the platform to combine genealogy with the fun of family connection.
About itsourtree.com
Apart from the English site, the services are available in Germany (www.verwandt.de), in Poland (www.moikrewni.pl), Spain and South America (www.miparentela.com), Portugal (www.meusparentes.com.pt), Brazil (www.meusparentes.com.br), the Netherlands (www.verwant.nl), Italy (www.parentistretti.it) and France (www.familleunie.fr). The platform will continue expanding to other European countries as well as worldwide. Itsourtree.com is supported by leading Business Angels and Neuhaus Partners, a well-known venture capitalist.
Energy costs are constantly rising while the budget for family visits is shrinking. There is less money left in the wallet for the trip to the grandparents. Online family network itsourtree.com sets itself the target to bring the family closer together by means of the platform’s communication features.
The medium internet is a quick and free alternative to stay in contact with the family even at long distances. Building a common family tree is the first step to simple family communication. Other relatives can be searched for in the database and then invited to collaborate in the family tree, photos of the last family reunion can be shared with all relatives. The easy-to-use message system keeps the relatives up-to-date on everything and they get over a cancelled visit more easily.
Itsourtree.com, the fastest-growing family network worldwide, has become an important research and communication tool for both genealogists and families all around the globe. So far, more than 5 million families use the platform to combine genealogy with the fun of family connection.
About itsourtree.com
Apart from the English site, the services are available in Germany (www.verwandt.de), in Poland (www.moikrewni.pl), Spain and South America (www.miparentela.com), Portugal (www.meusparentes.com.pt), Brazil (www.meusparentes.com.br), the Netherlands (www.verwant.nl), Italy (www.parentistretti.it) and France (www.familleunie.fr). The platform will continue expanding to other European countries as well as worldwide. Itsourtree.com is supported by leading Business Angels and Neuhaus Partners, a well-known venture capitalist.
FamilySearch Press Release: Summit County Ohio Court Receives Grant
Summit County Ohio Court Receives Grant
Hundreds of thousands of historic records will be freely available online
Hundreds of thousands of historic records will be freely available online
Salt Lake City, Utah—Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, and the National Association of Government Archive and Records Administrators (NAGARA) announced on July 24, 2008, that Judge Bill Spicer and the Probate Division of the Summit County Common Pleas Court in Akron, Ohio, were awarded a 2008 grant for the digitization of Summit County marriage, birth, and death records. The court’s grant was one of only two awarded in 2008. This significant grant will make it possible for Summit County to digitally preserve and provide free online access to select historical documents.
The project targets 1840 to 1980 marriage records for over 550,000 individuals, birth records prior to 1908 for over 46,000 individuals, and death records prior to 1908 for over 22,000 individuals. A free, searchable name index linked to the digital images of the original records will be available to the public through the probate court’s Web site www.summitohioprobate.com and the grant partners’ sites.
“As a result of the grant, our Website, which was chosen as one of the 10 best in the country by the National College of Probate Judges, will now have the added distinction of being a model for the state and country for accessing historical court records,” said Judge Spicer. “Not only will it improve access, but by reducing the need to see the often-fragile originals, it will make the court’s job of preserving hundreds of thousands of original records easier. The project is a far-sighted and important effort in preserving local history. On behalf of the court and the citizens of Summit County, I thank the project sponsors for selecting Summit County Probate Court as its 2008 grant recipient.”
This is the first year that this national grant was offered. It is sponsored by Ancestry.com and FamilySearch and administered by NAGARA. Under the grant, FamilySearch will digitize the original documents on-site in the Summit County courthouse by the end of 2008, and Ancestry.com will create an electronic index linked to the images. The entire project is scheduled for completion in 2009. The commercial value of the grant is estimated to be $150,000.00.
Outside of this and similar business transactions, no legal or other affiliation exists between FamilySearch and The Generations Network.
About FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization that maintains the world's largest repository of genealogical resources. Patrons may access resources online at FamilySearch.org or through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries. FamilySearch is a trademark of Intellectual Reserve, Inc. and is registered in the United States of America and other countries.
About the Ancestry Global Network
The Ancestry global network of family history Web sites is wholly owned by The Generations Network, Inc. It consists of nine Web sites – www.ancestry.com in the U.S., www.ancestry.co.uk in the UK, www.ancestry.ca in Canada, www.ancestry.com.au in Australia, www.ancestry.de in Germany, www.ancestry.it in Italy, www.ancestry.fr in France, www.ancestry.se in Sweden and www.jiapu.cn in China. Ancestry members have access to 7 billion names contained in 26,000 historical record collections. Tree-building and photo upload are free on all Ancestry websites. To date, Ancestry.com users have created more than 7 million family trees containing 700 million profiles and 11 million photographs. Nearly 5.8 million unique visitors logged onto Ancestry.com in August 2008 (comScore Media Metrix, Worldwide).
Sunday, October 5, 2008
FamilySearch Indexing Update: 3 October 2008
Over 29 million new names were posted this past week on the FamilySearch Record Search pilot. Kudos to the FamilySearch volunteer indexers for their monumental contributions! The chart below lists the current indexing projects and their completion status. Volunteers can help any time by registering or downloading a current project at www.familysearch.org (click on Index Records>Volunteer or Start Indexing) or www.familysearchindexing.org.
Project Spotlight: United Kingdom, Cheshire Poor Law
The United Kingdom, Cheshire Poor Law indexing project is currently 82% complete. We would like to finish this project by the end of next week, 10 October 2008. If volunteers have time to donate before October 10th, try doing at least a batch or two (or more) from this project. (To download a batch from a specific project, click the Download From… button in the My Work section of the indexing application’s start page, select the project from the list, and click Download.)
The Cheshire project includes several types of records kept by the workhouses in Cheshire County, including the Chester Union Workhouse at Hoole, from 1848-1967. Some of the poor in the community would go to the workhouses for only a short time. Some ended up spending the rest of their lives there.
We are indexing birth and baptism records, death and burial records, admission registers, and creed registers. The information gathered depends upon the record type and includes the names of those admitted, admission dates, religion, names of children, names of parents, birth dates, baptism dates, names of the deceased, death and burial dates.
These are not all of the Poor Law records but a significant portion of them. It is estimated that these records include 500,000 names. [The population of Cheshire County during the time period of these records is uncertain, but the population in 2001 was 673,781—so a significant portion of the community is represented in these records.]
Current Projects, Record Language, and Percent Completion Status:
Alabama - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
79%
Argentina Censo 1869 - Buenos Aires
Spanish - 1869
66%
Brandenburg Kirchenbücher
German - 1789-1875
8%
California - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
28%
España Lugo Registros Parroquiales
Spanish - 1530-1930
6%
Florida 1945 Census
English - 1945
24%
France, Coutances, Paroisses de la Manche
French - 1792-1906
7%
Guanajuato Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
56%
Guerrero - Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
35%
Illinois - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
15%
Massachusetts - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
15%
Morelos - Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
68%
New York - 1870 US Federal Census
English - 1870
55%
Nicaragua, Managua Civil Records
Spanish - 1879 - present
8%
Quintana Roo - Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
88%
Trento, Italy Baptism Records
Italian - 1784-1924
7%
UK - Cheshire - Poor Law
English - 1848 -1967
82%
Venezuela Mérida Registros Parroquiales
Spanish - 1654 - 1992
0.3%
Project Spotlight: United Kingdom, Cheshire Poor Law
The United Kingdom, Cheshire Poor Law indexing project is currently 82% complete. We would like to finish this project by the end of next week, 10 October 2008. If volunteers have time to donate before October 10th, try doing at least a batch or two (or more) from this project. (To download a batch from a specific project, click the Download From… button in the My Work section of the indexing application’s start page, select the project from the list, and click Download.)
The Cheshire project includes several types of records kept by the workhouses in Cheshire County, including the Chester Union Workhouse at Hoole, from 1848-1967. Some of the poor in the community would go to the workhouses for only a short time. Some ended up spending the rest of their lives there.
We are indexing birth and baptism records, death and burial records, admission registers, and creed registers. The information gathered depends upon the record type and includes the names of those admitted, admission dates, religion, names of children, names of parents, birth dates, baptism dates, names of the deceased, death and burial dates.
These are not all of the Poor Law records but a significant portion of them. It is estimated that these records include 500,000 names. [The population of Cheshire County during the time period of these records is uncertain, but the population in 2001 was 673,781—so a significant portion of the community is represented in these records.]
Current Projects, Record Language, and Percent Completion Status:
Alabama - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
79%
Argentina Censo 1869 - Buenos Aires
Spanish - 1869
66%
Brandenburg Kirchenbücher
German - 1789-1875
8%
California - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
28%
España Lugo Registros Parroquiales
Spanish - 1530-1930
6%
Florida 1945 Census
English - 1945
24%
France, Coutances, Paroisses de la Manche
French - 1792-1906
7%
Guanajuato Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
56%
Guerrero - Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
35%
Illinois - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
15%
Massachusetts - 1920 US Federal Census
English - 1920
15%
Morelos - Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
68%
New York - 1870 US Federal Census
English - 1870
55%
Nicaragua, Managua Civil Records
Spanish - 1879 - present
8%
Quintana Roo - Censo de Mexico de 1930
Spanish - 1930
88%
Trento, Italy Baptism Records
Italian - 1784-1924
7%
UK - Cheshire - Poor Law
English - 1848 -1967
82%
Venezuela Mérida Registros Parroquiales
Spanish - 1654 - 1992
0.3%
FamilySearch Record Search Update: 29 Million New Records Added
Over 29 million names or record images were added this week to FamilySearch’s Record Search pilot. Significant data was published from 2 indexing projects (1860 and 1870 U.S. Censuses), 3 digital image collections [Vermont Probate Files, Quebec Parish Registers, and Cheshire Church Records], and 3 enhanced vital record index collections [Mexico and Germany Baptisms].
The entire collection can be searched for free directly online at http://pilot.familysearch.org or through the Search Records feature at FamilySearch.org.
Following is a chart of the new data added the week of September 29, 2008.
Collection Name:1860 US Census
Indexed Records: 7,015,614
Digital Images: 7,015,614
Comments: Updated – Illinois reworked; added 22 New states with image links to Footnote.com
Collection Name: 1870 US Census
Indexed Records: 3,308,819
Digital Images: ---
Comments: Updated - 3 new states (MA,NJ,MS)
Collection Name: Vermont Probate Files
Indexed Records: ---
Digital Images: 205,527
Comments: New
Collection Name: Quebec Parish Registers
Indexed Records: ---
Digital Images: 1,361,289
Comments: New
Collection Name: Cheshire Church Records
Indexed Records: ---
Digital Images: 698,970
Comments: New
Collection Name: Mexico Baptisms
Indexed Records: 17,038,268 New; 19,682,189 reloaded
Digital Images: N/A
Comments: Updated - reworked to improve search experience with surnames, dates, etc.
Collection Name: Germany Baptisms
Indexed Records: 20,626,866 reloaded
Digital Images: N/A
Comments: Updated - reworked to improve search experience with surnames, dates, etc.
Collection Name: Germany Marriages
Indexed Records: 4,439,954 reloaded
Digital Images: N/A
Comments: Updated - reworked to improve search experience with surnames, dates, etc.
The entire collection can be searched for free directly online at http://pilot.familysearch.org or through the Search Records feature at FamilySearch.org.
Following is a chart of the new data added the week of September 29, 2008.
Collection Name:1860 US Census
Indexed Records: 7,015,614
Digital Images: 7,015,614
Comments: Updated – Illinois reworked; added 22 New states with image links to Footnote.com
Collection Name: 1870 US Census
Indexed Records: 3,308,819
Digital Images: ---
Comments: Updated - 3 new states (MA,NJ,MS)
Collection Name: Vermont Probate Files
Indexed Records: ---
Digital Images: 205,527
Comments: New
Collection Name: Quebec Parish Registers
Indexed Records: ---
Digital Images: 1,361,289
Comments: New
Collection Name: Cheshire Church Records
Indexed Records: ---
Digital Images: 698,970
Comments: New
Collection Name: Mexico Baptisms
Indexed Records: 17,038,268 New; 19,682,189 reloaded
Digital Images: N/A
Comments: Updated - reworked to improve search experience with surnames, dates, etc.
Collection Name: Germany Baptisms
Indexed Records: 20,626,866 reloaded
Digital Images: N/A
Comments: Updated - reworked to improve search experience with surnames, dates, etc.
Collection Name: Germany Marriages
Indexed Records: 4,439,954 reloaded
Digital Images: N/A
Comments: Updated - reworked to improve search experience with surnames, dates, etc.
Free "Getting Started on Your Genealogy" Classes by EWGS Offered at Spokane Public Library
In celebration of National Family History Month, the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society is offering FREE Getting Started on Your Genealogy classes throughout the month of October. These classes will introduce people to pedigree charts, family group sheets and research through the Internet and the Library's collection. The classes are offered in the Downtown Library computer lab every Tuesday in October at two different times: 11 AM or 6:30 PM. Attend one or a few to reinforce what you learn.
Space is limited in these hands-on classes; to sign up, call the genealogy desk at (509) 444-5357 on Tuesdays (10 AM - 6 PM) or Saturdays (10 AM - 4PM). For more information please visit the genealogy area at the Downtown Library on Tuesdays or Saturdays or visit http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waewgs/.
Space is limited in these hands-on classes; to sign up, call the genealogy desk at (509) 444-5357 on Tuesdays (10 AM - 6 PM) or Saturdays (10 AM - 4PM). For more information please visit the genealogy area at the Downtown Library on Tuesdays or Saturdays or visit http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~waewgs/.
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