About.Com Ancient Maps - Our World Long Ago.

Have you looked at About.com? Maps, Ancient Maps many are here very very interesting to see.

They have data on more than maps. This is a site that everyone should be glancing at, every so
often to remember the boundary changes and make up of the Old World our past came from.





http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/maps/ss/mapsindex.htm?utm_term=Ancient%20People%20of%20Europe&utm_content=p1-main-1-title&utm_medium=s

Map of the Ancient World at ABOUT.COM

URL's for Research of Books, Etc.

Having just posted about the Canadian Url to reach data electronically that they did  not have before.
I saw  few people looked at the post.

Obviously, not even intrigued to learn what the information may do for them.

So as we have learned, practice the best medicine in research.

Going to post a url for Lancaster Co., PA research via a book.

Not everything goes through paid sites.

Colleges, Universities and other mediums have shared their access to help people in research.

Hope it helps someone to learn more.


 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, deed abstracts and Revolutionary War oaths of al...
https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3996867&from=fhd


Yes it is free.

CNDHI is Alive

How Can You Get Involved?

CRKN is pleased to announce that CNDHI (affectionately pronounced “candy”) is now live at http://cndhi-ipnpc.ca. CNDHI is funded in part by Library and Archives Canada as part of the Documentary Heritage Community Program.

More data at this link.  Yes we have Canadian Ancestors and Kin, do you?

http://crkn.ca/communications/the-canadian-national-digital-heritage-index-cndhi-is-now-live

Join the community: Submit your digitization projects to CNDHI by emailing info@cndhi-ipnpc.ca.

Just In from Daniel Horowitz NEW FEATURE

My Heritage has released a new feature.

 Dear friends,

I hope you are well. I'm currently in Birmingham, England; attending the WDYTYA Live event but that does not stop me to have the pleasure to spread good news; a new technology we have just released, Book Matching, which automatically finds matches for people in your family tree on MyHeritage in our vast collection of 450,000 digitized historical books.

Book Matching is exclusive to MyHeritage. It uses full semantic text analysis to compare books with family trees, bringing you relevant excerpts when it finds narrative describing people in your family tree, with extremely high accuracy.

Book Matching brings you exciting new information about your family, that you may not have found anywhere else, allowing you to expand your family tree and add more information to family tree profiles.

Please see the press release below, and please find an image attached.

If you have any questions, please contact me, or my colleague, Aaron (aaron@myheritage.com)

Thanks

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MyHeritage Releases Exclusive Book Matching Technology for Family History

MyHeritage users to automatically receive relevant excerpts from digitized books that reveal information about their ancestors and relatives

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah, April 7, 2016 — MyHeritage, the fastest-growing destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history, has launched today a revolutionary addition to its suite of technologies: Book Matching. This innovation automatically researches users' family trees in historical books with high precision.

In April 2012 MyHeritage launched SuperSearch™, a search engine for historical records, which has since then grown to include 6.6 billion historical records, including birth, marriage, death and census records. By implementing its vision of enhancing genealogy with technology, MyHeritage then developed a line of unique and sophisticated technologies that automatically match the records from the search engine to the 32 million family trees uploaded by its users.

In December 2015, MyHeritage expanded its data collections to include digitized historical books, with an initial corpus of 150,000 books of high genealogical value. This collection was tripled last week to 450,000 books with 91 million pages. With a team of more than 50 dedicated curators, MyHeritage aims to add hundreds of millions of pages of digitized books to the collection each year.

As of today, MyHeritage users will receive matches between profiles in their family trees and the books from this collection. The Book Matching technology analyzes the book texts semantically, understanding complex narrative that describes people, and matches it to the 2 billion individuals in MyHeritage family trees with extremely high accuracy. This breakthrough technology is the first of its kind, and is exclusive to MyHeritage.

Book Matching has produced more than 80 million matches, and this number will continue to grow as the collection grows and as the family trees on MyHeritage continue to expand. Book Matching is currently available for English books, and the technology is being enhanced to cover additional languages. In addition, de-duplication technology is being added in the next few weeks to remove duplicate books that have been scanned and OCRed more than once by different sources.

“No one has ever done this before," said MyHeritage Chief Technology Officer, Sagi Bashari. “Our Book Matching technology reads hundreds of thousands of books for you, every hour, comparing them to your family tree and pointing you to relevant excerpts about your ancestors with almost no false positives. MyHeritage is the first to offer full semantic text analysis in this way, and the genealogical breakthroughs speak for themselves. You will be amazed at the value of books for your research."

“I've personally seen what this new technology can do, using my own family tree,” said blogger and lifelong genealogist Leland Meitzler. “It found well over 500 books with information on my family, most of which I'd never seen before. All kinds of ancestors and relatives can now be added to my tree! To say that this new search technology changes everything would be an overstatement, but not by much.”

Genealogist James Tanner said: “This advanced technology from MyHeritage opens up a whole new world of research possibilities that were almost completely unavailable in the past. I have always valued the content of the older genealogy books because the people who wrote them were contemporaries with my ancestors. Being able to search these books on a large scale will change the way most of us have been doing genealogy and our attitude towards the books that have been there all along but were not searchable.”

Dick Eastman, of Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter, summed up MyHeritage’s latest innovation: "MyHeritage Book Matching is like having a huge library at your fingertips, with a twist; there is a magical librarian who tells you exactly which books have information about your ancestors."

Book Matches are available at www.myheritage.com and are generated automatically for any family tree built on the website or imported into it. A Data subscription is required to view Book Matches.

About MyHeritage

MyHeritage is the world's fastest-growing destination for discovering, preserving and sharing family history. As technology thought leaders, MyHeritage is transforming family history into an activity that’s accessible and instantly rewarding. Its global user community enjoys access to a massive library of historical records, the most internationally diverse collection of family trees and ground­breaking search and matching technologies. Trusted by millions of families, MyHeritage provides an easy way to share family stories, past and present, and treasure them for generations to come. MyHeritage is available in 42 languages. www.myheritage.com

Best regards!

Daniel Horowitz

Chief Genealogist Officer & Translation Team Leader

+972-3-628-0047 | daniel@myheritage.com | www.myheritage.com

MyHeritage Ltd., 3 Ariel Sharon St., Or Yehuda 60250, Israel

Thank You Daniel for this information.

                          

Library Research and Finding Dead Ends

Today we had our Board Meeting and lots of topics tossed around.  We are working to bring more attention to the over 3.000 books on the shelves in our Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library.  We have bought and paid for almost all of them. Some of course have been donated.

For some reason people seem to still think they can find all their answers on the internet. Sorry it won't happen but very rarely.

Have you looked at all the books we have though it was downsized some time back.  The Telephone books are gone which were great reference material for confirming past residences.  I re retrieved the ones I gave to library for my library. Many Reference books the Library had disappeared. They had a great series on Indians. Where did they go?  What about all the WHO's WHO's that were on the shelf.
I have two children in those books.  

We are preparing to celebrate Family History Day with the  Library in the Fall.  We hope many sources are found from the various places within the Library. Last tour was a whopping success several years ago.  Data was found in every area of the Library for people to research. Yes, the children's section, videos, tapes, books, magazines, the list goes on.

Remember History has a lot to do with genealogy and one goes with the other.  You can not adequately research an area if you do not know the history of the region.  What happened at various times to make changes and turnovers.  Our early wars made much changes within  our borders.

States had counties and as they developed many counties were re-split creating new counties.   One needs to know those dates because maybe they did not move but the boundary did. Having two lines at the minimum that this happened to.  The same thing happened to some states.

Have you looked at our books on our shelves at the Chula Vista Library on 4th and F St.?

When we started, I had dreams we could become as big as Carlsbad's Genealogy Library but that was dashed years ago when downsizing happened and other events took priority. Yes, there are reference books on line but they are not all the same and do not all carry the same information.

If anyone knows where the Encyclopedia's went from a library that talked strictly about the weather in the USA. I would love to find them again.  

Yes, every library carries a bit of different material for you to look at and learn from.

Did you know South Branch Library has books on some super maps for Genealogists and Historians to use?  Orange Ave Branch.

Anxious to see what the new Imperial Beach Library will carry when completed. I used it often for material on the military in south bay.

We meet also monthly at the Bonita-Sunnyside Library which offers different books. We visit and meet at the Lemon Grove Library once a month and a tour of that library would be fun too.

San Diego Genealogical Society donated their books to the San Diego City Library down town San Diego. Have you been there?  They had a nice selection of important books prior to the building of the library but with the addition from SDGS, they encompass a large floor on one level.

Today someone mentioned the college Libraries. Yes, I have used Southwestern's and Northridge's College Library from when grandson in school there.

Start taking tours and really seeing what your library may hold. You are really missing a lot if you do not.

1. Library: City of Chula Vistawww.chulavistalibrary.com/‎
   Search the Library Catalog. Advanced Search | New Arrivals | eBooks | DVDs. ->.

Chula Vista Genealogical Society Special Event

 Save this Date:  Saturday  30 April 2016   1 P M to 3 P M.

 Make sure you Register please, please.

 Chula Vista Civic Center Library Auditorium

 Special Event Topic-----

 "My Heritage - Amazing Technology Changing the World of Genealogy"

  Presented by:  MARK OLSEN

  Mark Olsen is a Business Development Manager at MyHeritage.  He has a degree in Genealogy
  and Family History with Spanish Emphasis from Brigham Young University.

  Meeting Mark at the Burbank Jamboree several years and working with him when he asked if I
  work with him to launch and learn about the Google HangOut.

  He and Sara are the proud parents of seven children and two grandchildren.
  Mr. Olsen serves as a director on the FGS, Board of Directors.

  MyHeritage has created technology that will blow your socks off. From automatic record match-
  ing to new technology not yet announced MyHeritage is on the forefront of technology.  This
  automation and advances in technology are helping millions connect with their past faster and
  more accurately than ever before.

 
   
   Please register for this event if you intend to attend so we may better prepare the venue.

Tidbits of Data All to Help in Research

Tidbits of Data  All to Help in Research

One of the first things to share  is:  If you do not follow Upfront with NGS, here is their latest information.

SC adds a new online electronic records archive Posted: 01 Apr 2016 03:30 AM PDT

 

Just clips. if you go to that link you can learn more.

Whereas the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH) has online records that are historical, SCERA definitely has a mix of historic records and then also more modern records, including records as new as those created in 2014.

The records available are many, many and should help lots of people. A total of 308,580 record items.

Go to the site and read the information in full.

It is one reason I  follow Upfront with NGS.

Deadfred.com is another site for having fun researching.  

Southwest PA information, surnames and trees are here including VA and WVa, & OH. 

http://www.ourfamilyhistories.com/

http://www.easternusresearch.com/easternusresearch/index.html

http://www.mygenealogyhound.com/

Nice to find things here. 

Of course my favorite always is usgenweb.org and worldgenweb.org and

 Rootsweb.com . are my first to go to sites when teaching beginners and you have run out of ideas.  

 Hoping Ancestry gets the sites back up and working soon.  Some are still very blank.