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Weekly Wrap-up: Dec. 13-19, 2020
It was a very casual week here; enjoying the cooler temperature (cooler for Southern California, anyway) and listening to a lot of podcasts. This Week (Dec. 13-19) 1. Continued to manually add in relatives to MacFamilyTree. Currently at 151/186 people (+76 from last week). I ended up doing a little research while copying over info and so more people were added to the tree overall (last week was at 150-something total). Most of my direct ancestors had huge families, like 8-10 kids, so it very quickly adds up. My workflow for MFT is starting to really (ha) work for me, and I’m glad I purchased it a few months ago.…
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Webinar: Tips for Interviewing Relatives (American Ancestors)
Title: “Tips for Interviewing Relatives” Presenter: Stephanie Call, Associate Director of Archives and Education at Wyner Family Heritage Center at NEHGS Date viewed: December 17, 2020 (1h) Permalink: https://www.americanancestors.org/education/learning-resources/watch (or Youtube) Summary: The oral tradition of a family is perhaps just as important as the evidence you find in document-based research. Even if you learn that not all of the details are 100% accurate, these stories provide important clues to begin—or continue—your research, give life to names and dates on a page, and may provide information not found in records. But how do you start the conversation, stay on track, and record the information provided? This webinar will offer some…
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Webinar: From the 18th to the 21st: The Records of Prohibition (BCG)
Title: “From the 18th to the 21st: The Records of Prohibition” Presenter: Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL (LegalGenealogist.com) Date viewed: December 15, 2020 (1h15m) Permalink: https://familytreewebinars.com/download.php?webinar_id=1286 Summary: The 18th amendment took effect in January 1920 and ushered in more than a decade of Prohibition until repealed by the 21st Amendment in December 1933. In those few years, so many records were created for juice joints and bootleggers, revenuers and Untouchables—producing a gold mine for researchers. Notes: I attended this webinar due to having at least one branch of the family in the bootlegging business. I don’t know much about them yet, but I thought it would be fun to…
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Obituary for Grant Mitchell, 1920
Amanuensis Monday – this daily prompt, developed by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch, encourages bloggers to transcribe family letters, journals, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. (An amanuensis is someone employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.) Today’s transcription is an obituary for my great-grand uncle, Grant Mitchell, who died December 19, 1920. Original text: Tue, Dec 21, 1920 – 16 · The News-Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com From Newspapers.com. Citation: GRANT MITCHELL. (1920, December 21). The News-Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), p. 16. Retrieved December 14, 2020, from https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65312097/ Transcription: GRANT MITCHELL Grant Mitchell, aged forty-five years, died on Sunday morning at 8 o’clock…
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Weekly Wrap-up: Dec. 6-12, 2020
I finally decided to get back to genealogy blogging this week! This year’s been a horrible for trying to stay focused on anything for long, but I’m determined to at least accomplish SOMETHING before the end of the year. As part of that, I’m going to start keeping track of what I do each week. This Week (Dec. 6-12) 1. Continued to manually add in relatives to my new genealogy program, MacFamily Tree. Currently at 75/157 people. I decided to manually build my new tree so I could double-check sources, download documents, and make sure everything’s matched correctly. Sometimes GEDCOM imports put things in weird places, and I’d rather just…
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Webinar: Same Name, Must be the Same Person (Georgia Genealogical Society)
Title: “Same Name, Must be the Same Person” Presenter: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer Date viewed: December 10, 2020 (1h15m) Permalink: Available only to members. ConferenceKeeper link for reference. Summary: An unprepared family historian can waste valuable research time tracking a supposed ancestor who isn’t actually in the person’s family; on the other hand, the family historian might not realize that an ancestor used more than one name. This talk discusses points related to personal identity to keep in mind when researching. Learn the kinds of unique identifiers that you can use to recognize ancestors, no matter what name they used, and differentiate them from other same-named people, so you will research your…
