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This is the twenty-eighth edition of the FREE Genealogy Newsline.
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New Databases Posted at FamilySearch for Australia, Estonia, Mexico & U.S. with Additions for UT, CA, IL, ID, ME, MN, MS, OH, & WI
The following press release was received from FamilySearch:
28 September 2011: New records collections from Australia, Estonia, Mexico and the United States can now be searched for free at FamilySearch.org. In addition, new records were added to Austria, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Honduras, Poland, South Africa, and Spain collections. Find your ancestors now at FamilySearch.org.
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The Be All and End All to Genealogical Citing Sources
When I first picked up Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, I read the Forward and Acknowledgement then skimmed a few pages. I immediately shut the book and said something to the effect of, “this is too academic.” Then I thought about it. My friend and the author, Elizabeth Shown Mills, is an academic. Now, before you get excited, let me explain.
I find practiced scholars and academics have a particular way of writing. I would not wish to read a novel written in such a style or tone. However, a thoroughly vetted and practical guide such as Evidence Explained merits the tone of academia and is well served, in this case, by the author’s expertise and serious approach to the subject of citation. I cannot imagine a more thorough rendering of citation for all types of sources. Mills has gone far beyond the basics of citing books, newspapers, and other common sources. She has taken on all types of records from archives and artifacts to church records to just about any resource a genealogist might come across.
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To order your copy of Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace; please visit Family Roots Publishing; Item #: GPC3843
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JOIN US ON THE SALT LAKE CHRISTMAS TOUR - DECEMBER 4-10, 2011
We are in preparation for the twenty-seventh annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour, December 4 through 10, 2011. There are numerous trips to The Family History Library, sponsored by genealogical societies and commercial firms. However, The Salt Lake Christmas Tour has been highly successful because we have the highest ratio of professional researchers to attendees of any genealogy research tour using the Family History Library.
Our attendees, many of whom return year after year, always get the help they need to overcome their difficult research problems. Attendees can research their ancestors with the help of our experienced professional genealogists – not just for a day or two, but all week long! Beside the assisted research, the Christmas Tour offers numerous classes during the week. Thomas MacEntee will be joining us again this year, offering a total of 10 classes and workshops during the week. For more information, see: www.saltlakechristmastour.com We’d love to have you join us.
Get a sneak peak at the upcoming tour, read these articles:
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Creatures of the Night
Two crazy nights of outdoor fun - without the fright! ... All ages are invited to the Ogden Nature Center for fun, non-scary, trailside education and adventures!
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XTERRA USA Championship Excites Record Crowd
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - September 27, 2011- Over 3,000 spectators lined the transition areas and trails holding signs that read "I Love Lance", "I Love Melanie", "I Love Nico" and "I Love Caveman" providing the 2011 USA Championship its largest crowd ever. The event will be captured in a one-hour television special that will be broadcast on ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX affiliates across the country providing tremendous exposure to Utah.
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Sometimes you come across book where the cover just screams, “pick me up, you know you cannot resist. That is how I felt when first seeing Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, 1876. First, the book is huge, these are maps after all. Closed, the book measures in at 14” x 17.5”. The paper is off white, a light cream, not yellow. The cover is ornate, full of detail and life. Then, you open up this wonderful atlas.
The two page centerfold is a plat, or plan, for Indianapolis from W. Durant, Civil Engineer, St. Charles Illinois. The lines are clean and beautiful, very easy to read. The map is nearly a work of art considering the tools to be had in the mid to late 19th century.
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Family Roots Publishing has the Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, 1876 available today. Order here, Item #: IHS002.
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German Map Guide Vol. 40 - Westphalia II - Arnsberg - is Now Shipping
Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Westphalia II, covering the RB of Arnsberg has just been published by Family Roots Publishing Company. This is volume 40 of the German Map Guide series. This volume includes a total of 5,548 places – mostly towns, found in the Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Westphalia (RB Arnsberg). The book also includes a master index to Volumes 39 and 40, which covers all of Westphalia. Written in English by Kevan Hansen, the volume was principally written to help family historians resolve where their family may have gone to church – and left vital records behind that may be seen today. This is the fortieth of a series covering all of Germany. The series is still in production. In many cases, even the smallest places are listed in this series – some with as little population as one person! These places are as of about 1870. If the place existed prior to that date, it will most likely be listed. If the place was named after that date, the chances drop.
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Please visit Family Roots Publishing, to order:
Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Westphalia II – Arnsberg – with full index of included towns, by Kevan Hansen, 304 pp
The book is also available in a hard cover library-quality binding:
Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Westphalia II – Arnsberg – with full index of included towns, by Kevan Hansen, Hard Cover, 304 pp
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Search 1 Billion Genealogy Records Now Online at GenealogyBank.com
NAPLES, FL — September 16, 2011— GenealogyBank.com, the largest and fastest-growing provider of newspapers for family history research, announced today a massive expansion of the nation’s most extensive searchable collection of U.S. newspapers online. The company has added over 134 million newspaper articles this month; its newspaper collection now contains over 1 billion genealogy records encompassing the years 1690 to the present day, more than any other genealogy website online. The U.S. newspaper archives collection now offers over 5,700 newspapers from small towns and big cities in all 50 states to search for family history.
The U.S. newspaper archives collection provides fascinating insights into your ancestor’s daily life. The information and images contained in the newspaper archives also reveal insightful historical and cultural trends about fashion, politics, sports, and social issues over the past 320 years of U.S. history. With the addition of the new genealogy records, family historians can more easily discover rich details that provide context for their ancestors’ lives.
“For decades, family historians had to travel across the country to hundreds of libraries to access these newspapers - now with GenealogyBank.com they are instantly available 24/7 at the click of a mouse,” says Director of Genealogy Products for NewsBank, inc., Tom Kemp. “GenealogyBank provides exclusive access to more than three centuries of important genealogical information such as obituaries, marriage and birth announcements, as well as interesting and often surprising stories about our ancestors.”
The vast online newspaper archives collection also includes African American and Hispanic American newspapers from 1827-1999. This robust and rare content helps many more Americans discover the inspiring stories of their ancestors who paved the way for a better, more diverse America.
Kemp adds, “Toward our stated goal of creating the single most comprehensive resource of newspapers for family history research, GenealogyBank will continue to digitize millions of articles each month from newspapers across the U.S. that will greatly expand and increase the depth of our collections.”
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SaveEveryStep.com; A New, Free Website for Saving Those Precious Memories
SaveEveryStep.com is about nostalgia. So many of us who lose loved ones only to realize you might not have known them as well as you thought. Have you said, “I didn’t ask those life questions when I should have, when I had the chance.” Site founder Helen Spencer experienced these feelings and made similar statements. When Helen’s mother passed she was inspired to help others avoid these disappointments. She put together SaveEveryStep.com.
At no cost to the user, this new website provide the means for anyone to save living memories, as they occur, or as a collection of past events. SaveEveryStep encourages mixing stories with photographs. How often have you looked at an old photograph, even one with labels identifying the people, date and place? Have you ever wondered what they were doing and how they were feeling. What is the story behind the photo. SaveEveryStep helps you record both.
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Thinking of Going to Salt Lake City?
If you’re considering a research trip at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City NOW IS A GREAT TIME! The Salt Lake Plaza Hotel which is located next door to the Family History Library is offering special genealogy discounts for September and October 2011. Your discount will depend on the dates you reserve. They offer microwaves and refrigerators in every room, a full service restaurant, complimentary wireless hi-speed internet and a complimentary airport shuttle. Call them at 800-366-3684 or e-mail at admin@plaza-hotel.com and mention the Genealogy Newsline to receive your discount rate.
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French-Canadian Research: At a Glance
Adding to our collection of reviews for the Genealogy At-a-Glance series is French-Canadian Genealogy Research by Denise R. Larson. Like each guide in the series, this guide is a colorful, four-page quick sheet of facts and resources related to a specific topics of research, in this case, French Canada.
Each sections (listed below under ‘Contents’) contains key information, predominately historical, about the specific type of records available, followed by references. The author, also, includes a few tips to help the researcher. A key part of this guide is found under the “Unlocking French-Canadian Family History” section. In addition to information on surnames and the immigration of Huguenots, the author covers two key geographic regions, Quebec and Acadia. Acadia represents modern day Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and parts of New Brunswick. All-in-all, the guide is a straightforward, easy-to-use, primer for Canadian family history research.
READ THE FULL REVIEW, including table of contents, at: http://www.genealogyblog.com/?p=14350
Please visit Family Roots Publishing, to order: Genealogy At-a-Glance: French-Canadian Genealogy Research; Item #: GPC3286
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Recent Reviews and Special Offers
Listed here are links to some book reviews you may have missed. Some are recent reviews and others have been so popular we have decided to list them again. Click the title to see the review, or click the FRP link to order a copy. Enjoy!
Michigan at a Glance
Michigan Genealogy Research proves itself another great addition to the Genealogy At-a-Glance series. Like each guide in the series, this four page quick sheet was written by an expert on the topic. In this guide, Carol McGinnis, provides an historical background to Michigan area settlers and the records documenting their lives in the region.
Order here: Family Root Publishing Item #: GPC3524
Revolutionary War Pensions Reconstructed
Massive. How else do you describe a book with over 1,000 pages of Revolutionary War Pensions? Well, you could call it a brilliant reconstruction of lost records. Author Lloyd Bockstruck painstakingly reconstructed a list of over 16,000 pensioner with an index of another 15,000 individuals mentioned in the text. Each entry contains the pensioner’s name, state of service, and place of residence. Available details of service may include dates and places of engagements and wounds received, date of death, and names and relationships of surviving family members, especially widows.
Order here: Family Root Publishing Item #: GPC492
The Guide to FamilySearch Online
Without a doubt, FamilySearch has taken the genealogy community by storm in the last couple years. The emphasis placed on the digitizing and indexing of records, and the FamilySearch wiki, in addition to the effort put into New.FamilySearch, is and will continue to be a driving force, allowing genealogists worldwide to locate and record more ancestral data than ever before. This volume provides detailed instructions to the content and organization of all the current FamilySearch websites. Heavily illustrated with screen-shots, the book makes it extremely easy to put into practice what one just learned in the book. If you are already a user of these sites, you will most likely find insights into features and information you likely did not know existed. I certainly did.
Order here: Family Root Publishing Item #: BG01
Some Early Scots in the Maritime Provinces of Canada
The two volume set is based on materials found in the Nova Scotia Archives and the Public Archives of New Brunswick, among others resources, and it draws together a unique collection of miscellaneous records pertaining to Scottish immigrants to the Maritime Provinces. Details of life events such as birth, marriage, and death are revealed along with records ranging from newspaper announcements of marriages and deaths to cemetery records and censuses, and from ships’ passenger lists to land records. The book also contains histories, maps, indexes to ships and much more. Thousands of Canadian-Scottish immigrants are named who otherwise might have gone undiscovered through traditional genealogical research.
Order here: Family Roots Publishing, Volume I Item # GPC4713
Volume II Item # GPC4714
Emigrants in Chains — The Truth be Told
Emigrants in Chains, by Peter Wilson Coldham, examines in detail an often overlooked piece of history. The forced colonization of the American colonies by English prisoners. The book outlines the social, economical, and political reasons England forced as many as 50,000 prisoners to emigrate.
Order here: Family Roots Publishing Item # GPC1109
German Maps & Facts For Genealogy
German Maps & Facts For Genealogy is a book by by Wendy Uncapher & Linda Herrick. This book points out the uniqueness of Germany in over 100 maps including detailed historic maps of kingdoms, duchies, and principalities, to hand-rendered maps showing the religion of the states, location of major rivers, and what was included in Prussia.
Order here: Family Roots Publishing Item # OBK163
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Genealogical Research in Nebraska
A year in the planning, the new Genealogical Research in Nebraska is now available. The book was written specifically for genealogists who have ancestors or relatives who may have settled in Nebraska.
On sale for only $19.95! (regular $25.95); Family Roots Publishing Item # FR0117
Crash Course in Family History; 4th Edition
Crash Course in Family History, 4th edition, is the ultimate blend of utility and beauty. This colorfully-illustrated and artistically-designed book is as eye catching as it is useful. With this 2010, forth edition, author Paul Larsen has listened to what his audience needs are and improved on past editions, creating a handbook every genealogist should have in their library. READ THE FULL REVIEW
Family Roots Publishing is now offering both the print version as well as the eBook version of Crash Course. As an introductory special you can get $5 off either the book or the eBook. Or, you can save nearly $15 dollars when buying the two versions as a combo set. The printed book is nice for easy reading and learning. The eBook has the advantage of one-click access to all the Internet-based resources right from the book, one click and up pop the website. Get both today for just $49.95.
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A Short Listing of Helpful Research Guides
More great Scottish & Welsh books:
The Surnames Of Wales For Family Historians And Others – by John & Sheila Rowlands – $24.45
Welsh Family History - A Guide To Research - Second Edition – edited by John & Sheila Rowlands – $24.45
Scottish Family History – by David Moody – $19.55
Genealogy At A Glance: Scottish Genealogy Research – by David Dobson – $7.79
German Books and Maps:
Witter’s German-English Primer – $6.88
Map Guide to German Parish Registers – Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Westphalia I and the Principalities of Lippe & Schaumburg Lippe, with full index of included towns, Volume 39 of the German Map Guide series, by Kevan Hansen - $34.60
The German Research Companion, Third Edition – by Shirley J. Riemer, Roger P. Minert & Jennifer A. Anderson – $27.44
Google Books:
Google Your Family Tree, by Dan Lynch – $34.95
Google Earth For Genealogy DVD, by Lisa Louis Cook – $11.88
Google Earth For Genealogy, Vol. II DVD, by Lisa Louis Cook – $11.88
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