Events in Southern California - for May

  Okay I am sending you over to this site and you can read the events for this coming month.

  Maybe you will find a speaker or topic that you may want to consider going to.

 

[CA-SCGS] Upcoming SoCal Genealogy Events - May 2016 Posted: 20 Apr 2016 10:00 AM PDT

 

Carpooling can some times be arranged.  

Lemon Grove Library 6 to 7:50 pm Ap 20 Tonight Land Records

Land Records

Land Records will be covered this evening in a presentation w a handout and links for you to learn more on your own.

I even learned there is going to be Live Streaming talks on Land Records from NGS.

If NGS posted this I missed it but this is from Judy's Blog and her  link is listed below.

http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/

 Registration for the live stream from the National Genealogical Society conference in Fort Lauderdale will close at midnight, Friday, April 22, 2016.

There are two tracks being offered this year:

• In Track One, “Land Records and Maps,” there are five lectures on Thursday, May 5, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. The lectures will cover deed books and private land claims, how to utilize mapping apps, Google Earth, and GPS to enrich your research, and maps and gazetteers for English and Welsh research.

• In Track Two, “Methods for Success,” there are five lectures on Friday, May 6, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. The lectures will cover methodology techniques for use with historical context and DNA, as well as problem solving using a combination of resources.

Registration is $80 for one track and $145 for two tracks, but is discounted for NGS members: for members, it’s $65 for one track and $115 for both. All registrants will receive an electronic version of the NGS 2016 Family History Conference Syllabus.

You can register for the live stream at the NGS conference registration page, and more information can be found on the live streaming page.

Judy thanks for the posting. 

When in doubt give it a try.  Having found many records via using Deeds and Warrants and Patents this may really be of help to people.  

MyHeritage Community is launched.

MyHeritage.com has created a community based help and research source for us to use.  This is  so  amazing.

Wondering who in our area will first have major success with this endeavor.

Daniel Horowitz sent us a message regarding this new activity.

You can read more about this at this link.  Hoping this is exciting for you as it is for me.

It is like back to the  you help me and I help you form of genealogy I grew up a part of.

I do not mind paying and volunteering but I think some things have gotten way out of hand financially.

Please enjoy and let Daniel H know how you like this.

He is listed on the blog page posted here.


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Please see the press release below and attached image. A blog post about MyHeritage Community is live on the MyHeritage blog, with some great examples of how users are helping one another. The link is: http://blog.myheritage.com/2016/04/introducing-the-myheritage-community-receive-help-or-help-others

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

Thanks, 

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  )

Society Saturday....... Vital Information ---Mark your Calendar Germanic Research

Toni Perrone shared this at our meeting today and sent this for all to see.  Yes you may share this.   

Awesome event, very exciting news.

Sample article for your society newsletter

Ideally for newsletters published in April or May

Questions, contact Kent Cutkomp: (612) 920-8118, KCUTKOMP@comcast.net

 International Germanic genealogy conference  set for July 2017 in Minneapolis, Minn.

Save the dates July 28-29, 2017, for the first international conference organized by the German-American Genealogical Partnership.

Our society has joined this new and growing international Partnership of Germanic societies across America and Europe. Our members receive a special Partnership discount off the regular conference rate. Registration for the conference, to be held in Minneapolis, Minn., opens in January 2017.

The conference theme — “Connections: International. Cultural. Personal.” — will shape presentations and personal opportunities for both Germanic genealogy professionals and individual hobbyists.

A block of rooms has been reserved for conference attendees at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest Hotel. You will be able to book rooms at a special rate beginning in August. A special reservation phone number and Marriott link will be available. Watch for more information.

The German-American Genealogical Partnership was begun last year by genealogical society leaders in America, Germany and other countries. Their purpose is to expand cooperation among societies nationally and internationally for the benefit of their individual members. The 2017 international conference is one of several major Partnership initiatives. Hosting the 2017 Partnership conference is the Minnesota-based Germanic Genealogy Society.

In Research, Do You Track the Weather?

In Research, Do You Track the Weather?

Several years ago I was doing a class on research at the Lemon Grove Library and then they closed for remodeling the Encyclopedia's I was using disappeared. Never to be seen again, they were
very important to genealogists.

You have missing people, you think they were hatched.  It just may be they were caught in one of the
 many horrid strong storms that hit the country early in our time.

Have you read of the Hurricane that wiped out many people early?

Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 - Track

 I found this on Ancestry but I suspect that google may find us more of what that great set of Encyclopedia's was sharing.

We have Hurricanes, Tornado's, Sand storms, Massive Floods, Fires and other events of nature.

In all of these events we generally lost lots of people, seldom did we loose just a few but it did happen once in a while. 

Early times on the East Coast was a fascinating for weather events. A furious Ice Storm paralyzed the east coast. It was feared that NYC's was going to suffer some damage, but the political people thought the farmers and outlying areas would be froze to death. Ironic, NYC had more deaths because they depended on delivery and other people and the country folks knew to be prepared because there was no one near to help them in most of the open area.

The people in the apartments in NYC and other small cities depended on the milk man, the vegtable man, the meat man, the coal man and when they could not manipulate the streets, people began  to die from cold and and hunger.  Death was far greater in the larger cities than the outlying areas.

This head line reminded me of that series of books think there were 12 books and we were on no. 4 or 5. White with red and blue lettering about weather. One day I will find the title of them and my old papers.  

Be aware many things affected why you can not find your kin. This is just one more thing.

Puzzle Pieces, by Susi Pentico

Puzzle Pieces, That is What They Are

Putting together new data into my program, my mind said, new pieces to the puzzle.

Yes, they are new pieces to the puzzle.  That is why we ask or are supposed to be asking each family member for help in resolving our lost data.

Each member of the family takes away a different thought besides their shared thoughts. Each person remembers activities differently in prospective to their selves instead of others.  It is like a cup of water, is it half empty or half full. It is how we perceive it. 

Easter was a great event, Easter was an okay event, Easter happened lets move on.   

So what did Grandad do?  O he farmed, O he worked for others, Yes, he built things to use, So what did he really do?

Depending on your prospective of what you absorbed while visiting or talking to him or to others that is your answer.

A prime example I have in our tree is a 5th Grandfather.  He had a very busy life. Every census he listed himself as a Farmer.  But, O yes that word is there.  He built bridges, he designed the first free standing circular stair way for his daughter and grand daughter's home, he shared in the building of barns and homes.  I suspect he was truly an architect.  One bridge they had trouble with and he showed them how to resolve the problem. Last I heard bridge still there. I have the clipping with the stairwell and article in the paper for the stairway.

So it is all in your prospective and your relatives prospective of life and happenings.  

How many of the early people could read and write and sign their names and were schooled?

We have at least one of those in our lines, Thomas Scott in Halifax Co. Va. He owned books, several in fact.

Truly wish more was written about the man. Few men let alone less women were learned to read and write in the 1700's.  Even into the 1800's school were just starting to be built and some were home schooled if the family already had the knowledge to do these things. 

In those times it was more important to make sure that the fields were planted, the gardens were growing and the sheep and animals were fed.  After all you needed wheat for flour, garden for eating and sheep for wool and clothing.

Just examples of needs verses today. 

So share your puzzle pieces on an ancestor we may share, we may end up with a more whole human than slanted.

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