Thursday, February 23, 2017
4 MARCH 2017, RANDY SEAVER PRESENTS
Our esteemed Randy Seaver will be presenting another step to learning about genealogical research. 4 March 2017 1 pm to 4 pm
This event is taking place at Bonita-Sunnyside Library, Community Room, 4375 Bonita Rd. Bonita, CA near the Sheriff's Office and Golf Course.
Searching and Research.
I know that Searching is one thing and Research is another so looking forward to the talk.
Monday, February 20, 2017
Ancestry tid bit, name searching.
Was out searching for some information and some how fell into this interesting page on Ancestry.
I tried out several names and chuckled about some.
Doing the Scott, Hoffman, Jones, Foulk surnames for a start.
It may pay for you to go to a library if you do not have Ancestry and try this area for more knowledge potential about your name. County Libraries have Ancestry to use and I am told that
San Diego City Libraries do also.
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=foulk
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=jones
You can go to the above link and put the name you want to learn about in taking out the one I used and get some interesting data.
I tried out several names and chuckled about some.
Doing the Scott, Hoffman, Jones, Foulk surnames for a start.
It may pay for you to go to a library if you do not have Ancestry and try this area for more knowledge potential about your name. County Libraries have Ancestry to use and I am told that
San Diego City Libraries do also.
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=foulk
http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=jones
You can go to the above link and put the name you want to learn about in taking out the one I used and get some interesting data.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Natural Disasters and the Affect on Our Trees
Due to the many events taking place in the USA right now, thought this was a good topic.
Have you checked family stories out as to the effect the story had to do with natural occurring disasters?
Recently listening to a speaker at the SDGS Saturday event. The topic was diseases and infections and how fast or slow they worked. How they spread etc.
Can you imagine being in the path of a Tornado, Hurricane or massive Flood? What about Fire?
Worse is, are you prepared for any of these events?
Let alone the fact that our country has eradicated many diseases that other countries have not.
How did we do it? We did it with Vaccinations, and cleaning up our act for wounds and work etc.
Not many other countries have come this far. Some yes, But think about this, we have let many families enter the United States. Many of the children have not gotten inoculated and they are then exposing us to have to relive what our Ancestors did sometimes just our parents age.
Most diseases wipe out the very young or the older generations.
I am not against anyone coming to our country but I am worried about the exposure we are putting our people in when they arrive with out the proper care. Medical evaluations.
Having suffered with Measles, Mumps, Chicken Pox, and the other Measles, I do not recommend it for anyone to endure. When did I get these ailments ? Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade mostly.
Realizing these diseases affect ones, hearing, eye site, and other parts of our body forever.
Then we later had Polio scare and then a vaccine for it also.
Then we look at the wind taking away half of your home or water inundating your home.
Both of these events are traumatic and devastating.
What happens to your records, your keepsakes, your very important pictures you are retrieving from the 4th great grandparents?
My worst disaster to this point was no one told me that after you save data on discs, they need updated or the next computer can not read them. Yes. 25 years of research still looking for someone that can open so I can read them.
My other situation was military moves and the things broken or lost in transit. I had 10 years of letters from my Great Grandmother, Gone. Pictures gone, No way to replace.
Articles broken when not handled appropriately, but money does not bring the article back.
You may want to set aside some time and see about water proofing some of your information and
converting to newer system before to late for computerized data.
The one thing I want to say after loosing much early Huffman/Hoffman data with the Cedar River Flooding in IOWA. IF it gets wet. Freeze it. I am told that freezing the articles will take out the water over time and you can salvage a percentage of wet paper and books etc.
Cousin dumped data then called to tell me I did not get there quick enough and I was crying since he did it before calling me and we needed the Indian records and some other articles desperately or
at least felt that way.
Give this some thought and maybe act upon some of it.
Thanks
Have you checked family stories out as to the effect the story had to do with natural occurring disasters?
Recently listening to a speaker at the SDGS Saturday event. The topic was diseases and infections and how fast or slow they worked. How they spread etc.
Can you imagine being in the path of a Tornado, Hurricane or massive Flood? What about Fire?
Worse is, are you prepared for any of these events?
Let alone the fact that our country has eradicated many diseases that other countries have not.
How did we do it? We did it with Vaccinations, and cleaning up our act for wounds and work etc.
Not many other countries have come this far. Some yes, But think about this, we have let many families enter the United States. Many of the children have not gotten inoculated and they are then exposing us to have to relive what our Ancestors did sometimes just our parents age.
Most diseases wipe out the very young or the older generations.
I am not against anyone coming to our country but I am worried about the exposure we are putting our people in when they arrive with out the proper care. Medical evaluations.
Having suffered with Measles, Mumps, Chicken Pox, and the other Measles, I do not recommend it for anyone to endure. When did I get these ailments ? Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade mostly.
Realizing these diseases affect ones, hearing, eye site, and other parts of our body forever.
Then we later had Polio scare and then a vaccine for it also.
Then we look at the wind taking away half of your home or water inundating your home.
Both of these events are traumatic and devastating.
What happens to your records, your keepsakes, your very important pictures you are retrieving from the 4th great grandparents?
My worst disaster to this point was no one told me that after you save data on discs, they need updated or the next computer can not read them. Yes. 25 years of research still looking for someone that can open so I can read them.
My other situation was military moves and the things broken or lost in transit. I had 10 years of letters from my Great Grandmother, Gone. Pictures gone, No way to replace.
Articles broken when not handled appropriately, but money does not bring the article back.
You may want to set aside some time and see about water proofing some of your information and
converting to newer system before to late for computerized data.
The one thing I want to say after loosing much early Huffman/Hoffman data with the Cedar River Flooding in IOWA. IF it gets wet. Freeze it. I am told that freezing the articles will take out the water over time and you can salvage a percentage of wet paper and books etc.
Cousin dumped data then called to tell me I did not get there quick enough and I was crying since he did it before calling me and we needed the Indian records and some other articles desperately or
at least felt that way.
Give this some thought and maybe act upon some of it.
Thanks
Saturday, February 11, 2017
Filling in the Blanks on Your Personal Tree
I just realized with all these quizzes going around on Facebook, we can use them to fill in our personal time line with data, YES. : > )
The one I just read I think would be a very good one for all genealogists to answer and add to your tree time line file.
Going to post it here for you all to utilize and remember the past.
I think this will fill in 4 years nicely and help you remember things forgotten.
Thanks Cousin Cheryl.
The one I just read I think would be a very good one for all genealogists to answer and add to your tree time line file.
Going to post it here for you all to utilize and remember the past.
I think this will fill in 4 years nicely and help you remember things forgotten.
Thanks Cousin Cheryl.
Your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be!
1. The year ?
2. Did you car pool?
3. What kind of car did you drive?
4. It's Friday Night Football were you there?
5. What kind job did you have.
6. Were you a party animal?
7. Were you considered a jock?
8. Were you in the Band?
9. Were you a nerd?
10. Did you get suspended?
11. Can you sing the fight song?
12. What was your school mascot?
13. If you could go back and do it all again would you?
14. Are you still in contact with people from high school?
15. Do you know where your high school crush is?
16. What was your favorite subject?
17. Do you still have your High School ring?
18. What did you do at lunch?
19. Did you graduate with the class?
20. Did you apply to go to College?
Saturday, February 4, 2017
MyHeritage.com Presentation, the good, the bad and the ugly.
My Heritage.com was an adventure unto itself today. I spent four days going over my presentation to make sure it would go smooth. Then MyHeritage.com changes the program on Wednesday. NO FAIR.
Then I rehearse for two more days, discuss with cousin if this was good and was told yes for Beginners we should start here.
This morning I get on my laptop and the webpage was not coming in, what the heck. So
Shirley came over and we got it going again. I rehearsed again what I was going to cover and she
suggested some more details in some areas so suggested she do that part. Thanks Shirley
No we did not expect that site to pop up and shut me off, nor when she took over did we expect her system to also experience trouble.
I came home and talked to grandson and his comment was maybe someone in library at that time was attempting to mess with our programs ie computers, ie hacking? He suggested I need to contact the library tomorrow in case other people experienced this problem. Thank you Zachary.
The program went on with Gary sharing his computer for Shirley to finish going over the areas within the MyHeritage.com site that users need to be aware of. Interesting to learn we all tend to do a certain amount of this differently.
We covered the various topics on the system and then the various topics within the program.
It was interesting to see how the program came up different for various people.
It felt disjointed to me badly. I apologize that my system shut down as you all saw. I had no control of what the computer was doing and I use it only for presentations. So the computer is not exposed to the world to often.
As I was answering an attendees question, Shirley had trouble and then she borrowed Gary's to finish presentation. (This is what made Zack think someone in library was playing with computers).
Hope you all learned a little bit especially that I am not computer smart, smart but can generally move around and do research and do charts and understand instructions.
This program is stored in a cloud not on your computer and since my system crashed 18 months ago, I have been trying to get the data off computer into cloud so it can not be damaged or lost.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Then I rehearse for two more days, discuss with cousin if this was good and was told yes for Beginners we should start here.
This morning I get on my laptop and the webpage was not coming in, what the heck. So
Shirley came over and we got it going again. I rehearsed again what I was going to cover and she
suggested some more details in some areas so suggested she do that part. Thanks Shirley
No we did not expect that site to pop up and shut me off, nor when she took over did we expect her system to also experience trouble.
I came home and talked to grandson and his comment was maybe someone in library at that time was attempting to mess with our programs ie computers, ie hacking? He suggested I need to contact the library tomorrow in case other people experienced this problem. Thank you Zachary.
The program went on with Gary sharing his computer for Shirley to finish going over the areas within the MyHeritage.com site that users need to be aware of. Interesting to learn we all tend to do a certain amount of this differently.
We covered the various topics on the system and then the various topics within the program.
It was interesting to see how the program came up different for various people.
It felt disjointed to me badly. I apologize that my system shut down as you all saw. I had no control of what the computer was doing and I use it only for presentations. So the computer is not exposed to the world to often.
As I was answering an attendees question, Shirley had trouble and then she borrowed Gary's to finish presentation. (This is what made Zack think someone in library was playing with computers).
Hope you all learned a little bit especially that I am not computer smart, smart but can generally move around and do research and do charts and understand instructions.
This program is stored in a cloud not on your computer and since my system crashed 18 months ago, I have been trying to get the data off computer into cloud so it can not be damaged or lost.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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