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Harold Henderson, "Calling all genealogy editors, again," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, no. 1268, posted 29 October 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Calling all genealogy editors, again
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
January in Salt Lake: new workshop, new practicum case, new talk
Genealogists don't hibernate during the winter -- we go to Salt Lake City for the APG Professional Management Conference, immediately followed by the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy!
Here's where to find me speaking in Salt Lake City in January 2014:
- Friday afternoon January 10, as part of the Association of Professional Genealogists' Professional Management Conference, a workshop: "The Story of the Story of Jethro: The Making of an NGSQ Article." Registration for the PMC is cheaper if you sign up before January 6, if you are an APG member, and if you are a full-time undergraduate. (Check out our great lineup even if this workshop is not for you.)
A finished article in a top-tier genealogy publication normally shows some ways of cracking a tough research problem. But it necessarily omits much of the research, writing, editing, and agonizing that went into its creation. Workshop attendees will review and discuss the logic, structure, writing, omitted research, and more of a recent article in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Not all professionals will write for NGSQ or similar publications, but the writing and thought habits needed for such articles make other genealogical writing and editing easier.
- Tuesday-Wednesday, January 14 and 15, as part of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy's Advanced Evidence Practicum, a western Pennsylvania problem from the 1800s: analyze and correlate evidence to prove or disprove a family story and determine parentage. Don't be spooked: The early-bird discount for SLIG registration ends October 31!
- Tuesday evening, January 14, a talk open to the public as well as SLIG enrollees (for a fee): "Reading Genealogy: Why Not Follow the Best?" An introduction to and sampling of the five top genealogy publications: NEHGR, NYGBR, NGSQ, TAG, and The Genealogist. They're all hard-core, and they're all different.
Harold Henderson, "January in Salt Lake: new workshop, new practicum case, new talk," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, no. 1267, posted 27 October 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
How I tried to create a tree on Ancestry.com and almost died laughing
True confession: I never had a tree on Ancestry.com until a few weeks ago. (Back in the day, I uploaded my ill-sourced tree to Rootsweb Worldconnect.) So there was quite a learning curve, especially since for research purposes I did not want to start with myself, but to start elsewhen and work downstream.
When I finally did manage to make an entry, the software offered me the option of putting in a source. The obvious box to
click is to search, which produced thousands of irrelevant results. It turned out that to
put in an actual source citation, I had to go to a different screen.
Even then, I had to put up with their assumptions about source
citations.
You can share my experience if you pick a person in your Ancestry tree, go
to their individual profile, then to "Facts and Sources." Select
"Source Citations," and in that window click on "Add a Source Citation."
In that window, under #1 pick "Create a new source." Or just click here. Or google a portion of the below-quoted text in quotation marks.
That window includes
a block of instructional text. I finally got off the learning curve when I read it, and after I could draw breath again:
A source is a document, index, book, person or other material that gives you information related to a fact or event in your family tree. Sources can be original, like an actual document or legible image, or the [sic] can be derivative, like a transcribed copy. Original sources are considered more reliable because they provide irrefutable proof of a fact or event. [italics added]Golly. I remember holding an original birth certificate, quite soon after the event, stating that our newborn baby girl was a boy. Earlier this year I published an article about a fellow who gave three different names for his mother in three different original records. In each of them, he named as his father a man who died three years before he was born. Yeah . . . irrefutable.
Harold Henderson, "How I tried to create a tree on Ancestry.com and almost died laughing," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 24 October 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Halls of Justice, New Durham Township, La Porte County, Indiana
The stories genealogists miss by not looking at court records:
Theodore Hagaman sued Lucas and Arthur Hixon for killing his dog and making his wife very ill (23 December 1879).
Davidson Brothers (dry goods and clothing) sued Mary Gutath for money she owed them (3 April 1880).
Lana Heiden sued Henry Bogue for bastardy (15 October 1881 -- before birth records were kept).
Albert Tuley sued William Tuley over a bay horse (15 December 1881).
William Webber bought two stoves -- a Loyal Acorn and a Black Acorn -- from
Rathbone Sard and Co. in Chicago . . . and didn't pay (12 September
1882).
Polish workers Steppen Aushinsky and Josef Kusz (their names mangled in the record) sued Samuel Davis for their pay for cutting wood (14 May 1883).
Charley Brown failed to work on the road (6 July 1897).
Rosebell Livingston found a stray year-old heifer (4 April 1899).
Not many of Indiana's Justice of the Peace court records have survived; they may perhaps have been regarded as personal property rather than public property. One beat-up book ended up in the county clerk's office. Sometimes legible, it recorded cases heard by various justices between 1879 and 1906, most of them in New Durham Township (around Westville) in La Porte County.
I abstracted the cases and wrote the introduction, Callie McCune proofread them, and the Indiana Historical Society has published them as "La Porte County, New Durham Township Justice of the Peace Court Record Book Records, 1879-1906," part of Online Connections, the digital counterpart to their twice-yearly The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections published on paper. They're free to browse and search -- for those with New Durham research targets, or just for those with an interest in grass-roots litigation more than a century ago.
Harold Henderson and Callie McCune, “La Porte County, New Durham Justice of the Peace Court Record Book Records, 1879-1906,″ Indiana Historical Society On-Line Connections,
2013
(http://www.indianahistory.org/our-services/books-publications/magazines/online-connections/regional/LaPorteCoNewDurhamJPRecs.pdf
: viewed 13 October 2013).
Harold Henderson, "Halls of Justice, New Durham Township, La Porte County, Indiana," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 22 October 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
Good news for Chicago researchers!
Cynthia doesn't step up to the plate often enough, but when she does blog it's a home run! Check out her new guide to Chicago death record indexes.
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