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Premium Episode 27 – Google Goodies
Date Published: July 12, 209
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RECORDS ROUNDUP
Ancestry Updates:
Added:
Canadian Censuses, every ten years between 1851-1916 completed
The Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War
Updated:
1810 United States Federal Census
U.S. School Yearbooks collections
U.S. City Directories
French Deaths by Guillotine, 1792-1796
Australian Convict Transportation Registers – First Fleet, 1787-1788
Varese, Lombardia, Italy: Civil Registration, 1866-1937
Coming Soon:
The Virgin Islands Slave Records
Improved version of the 1820 U.S. Federal Censuses
Update of the Immigration Collection with large additions to their U.S. Naturalization Originals and the Passenger and Immigration Lists
Improve the 1830 U.S. Federal Censuses.
Updating of their Jewish Collection
MAILBOX:
Genealogy Gems Premium Member Michael Brown wrote to say that the folks at Ancestry told him that in the not too distant future we will be able to see when a piece of data was added to a family tree so that we can determine which data came first. Stay tuned!
GEM: Profile America
Across the U.S. On a Horse – July 9
GEM: GLORIOUS GOOGLE GOODIES!
The Compound Gadget – here’s how it works:
It allows you to combine any of the gadgets you currently have on your iGoogle homepage into one gadget. So for example, let’s say you have a lot of genealogy blogs that you follow and read, and you have created a separate tab in iGoogle just for blogs because you had so many. By combining all of the genealogy blogs in the one Compound Gadget they can all reside on your one iGoogle page only taking the space of one Google gadget.
Direct link to the Compound Gadget (Update: No Longer Available)
If you have already have multiple tabs on your iGoogle page, be sure the click on tab where you want the Compound Gadget to be added before you go to the gadget. And make sure that all of the gadget that you want to consolidate in the Compound Gadget also reside on that tab page.
To move a gadget all you have to do is click and grab the title of the gadget and drag it over on top of the tab on the left side of the screen where you want that gadget to reside and then drop it by letting go with your mouse.
How To Edit the Compound Gadget:
1) Re-title the gadget
2) Select all of the gadgets you want consolidated in the compound gadget. You’ll find all the gadgets on that tab listed in the compound gadget. Just click the checkboxes for the ones you want.
3) Click the SAVE button
Quick PDF Converter gadget:
The Quick PDF Converter gadget allows you to select a file on your hard drive and instantly have it sent to your email as a pdf file.
How to Get the Genealogy Gems TV Channel Google Gadget on Your iGoogle page:
1) Go to the Genealogy Gems Channel on YouTube
2) Scroll down just a bit to the second box in the left column called “Connect with Genealogy Gems”
3) Click the ADD TO GOOGLE Button and it will automatically place a Genealogy Gems YouTube gadget in the left hand corner of your iGoogle home page.
To move the Gadget:
Just grab the title bar and drop and drag it to wherever you want on your page. Hover you mouse over the video and you’ll see a play button appear and arrows navigating forward and backward. Click the the right hand arrow and it will show you the next video on my TV channel. By click the the PLAY arrow the video will play right there in your gadget. By click the words Genealogy Gems it will take you to the full TV channel page on YouTube. If you have a free youtube account you can click the Subscribe button you see there in the gadget and you will receive immediate notification when I post a new video.
Multiple iGoogle Themes
How To Change the Theme for a Particular Tab:
1) Click on the tab you want to add the theme to
2) Click the Change Theme link in the upper right corner next to the ADD STUFF link
3) Click the More Options link
4) Select the theme you want
Can’t decide on a theme? Then you might want to select the theme called “Theme of the day” Each day when you’ll log on to a new theme!
GEM: Profile America
Frontier Closes July 12
Read Frederick Jackson Turner’s paper The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
(Photo left: Frederick Jackson Turner)
Make To Make Sure You Receive Your Free Genealogy Gems e-Newsletter:
1) Add the Genealogy Gems email address to your email contact list so that your email provider won’t mark the emails as spam. The address is <genealogygemspodcast@gmail.com>
2) Check your spam folder to see if by chance some of the emails have been rerouted there.
3) If you’re not receiving the e-newsletter an email at <genealogygemspodcast@gmail.com> with your name, the email address you want the e-newsletter to be sent to, and identifying yourself as a Premium Member and we’ll be sure that we have you in the e-newsletter system.
Email Lisa with questions or comments anytime or call the voice mail line at 925-272-4021 and leave a recorded message that I can play here on the show.
Premium Episode 28 – Google Alerts Gadget, Family History Charts
Date Published: July 27, 2009
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NEWS:
New at FamilySearch Record Search pilot this week:
– Cheshire, England Non-conformist records covering 1671-1900
– Index only – 74,925 records
– Index of the Minnesota State Census of 1895
– Images of the New York State Census of 1905
http://pilot.familysearch.org
Noteworthy collections recently completed at familysearch that will be online in the near future:
– The Blackford County Indiana Marriages, from 1811 to 1959
– Indiana Marriages, 1882 through April 1905
– Massachusetts Marriages, for the years of 1896 and 1897
MAILBOX:
Premium Member Jenna Mills wrote in share her thoughts on geo-tagging.
Premium member Diane Lott wrote in to ask a question about immigration and naturalization through Hawaii. AAnswer provided by Joe Beine http://www.genealogybranches.com/ “Tips for Determining Your Ancestor’s Probable Port of Arrival For Arrivals at U.S. Ports from Europe 1820-1950s” by Joe Beine http://www.genealogybranches.com/arrivalports.html
Jim’s Answer:
Hawaii was annexed by the US in 1898, which could complicate this matter a bit. However, she might try searching for the ship’s passenger list and the person’s naturalization record. It’s possible she might find a passenger list for both the Hawaiian arrival and the later one on the West coast. If she doesn’t have the Hawaiian passenger list, she might check the microfilmed index (available from the FHL) described here:
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/miscports/hawaii.html
Ancestry indexes for 1897 (and later).
San Francisco: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/miscports/sanfrancisco.html
Seattle: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/miscports/seattle.html
If the person was naturalized after Sept 26, 1906 the naturalization record should give port and date of arrival, and the name of the ship. Contact Marian Smith (USCIS historian) if you need more help with this. http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
GEM: Profile America – July 28
Enjoying Cooler Air
Read and View Willis Carrier’s Patent
GEM: Google Alerts Gadget
Google now offers you a way to create an RSS feed for your Google alerts so that you can track them right there on your iGoogle page.
How to Create A Google Alert Gadget:
1. Sign in to your iGoogle page
2. Go to your Google Alerts at http://www.google.com/alerts
3. Click the “Manage Your Alerts” link
4. Click the EDIT link for the google alerts you want to create a gadget for
5. Click the “Deliver to” down arrow and select “Feed”
6. Click SAVE
7. Click the alert’s orange feed button which will open the RSS feed page
8. Highlight the URL address in the browser for that page
9. Press the CONTROL key and the C key on your keyboard to copy the address to your computer’s clipboard
10. Go back to your iGoogle page
11. Click the “Add Stuff” link in the top right of the page
12. In the left hand column of the Add Gadgets page click the “Add Feed or Gadget” link next to the orange RSS button A little box will pop up.
13. Paste the URL address you copied into the box by pressing CONTROL + V on your keyboard, then 14. Click the ADD button.
15. Go back to your iGoogle page.
16. Your new Google Alert gadget will be in the upper left corner
How to change the number of results:
1. Click the little menu down arrow in the title of the gadget
2. Select EDIT
3. Select the number of alerts you want from the drop down menu
4. Click SAVE
GEM: Profile America – July 31
A Long Time Cereal Favorite
View and read the Henry Perky’s patent for his shredded wheat biscuit.
GEM: Janet Hovorka, Generation Maps
Generation Maps
Janet shares her ideas about family trees, inheriting genealogy, and the healing power of family history.
Photo Below: Lisa with Janet Hovorka “The Chart Chick”
The Chart Chick Blog
Attend Lisa’s Classes:
The Family History Expo genealogy conference is coming to Sandy Utah (just outside Salt Lake City)August 27 & 28, 2009
For more information on the expo go tohttp://www.familyhistoryexpos.com
Email Lisa with questions or comments anytime or call the voice mail line at 925-272-4021 and leave a recorded message that I can play here on the show.
Premium Episode 29 – Prison Records
Date Published: Aug. 10, 2009
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NEWS
Ancestry.com has decided to go public and has filed an IPO this month to raise $75 million , and have expanded their online Jewish family history record collection in collaboration with the American Jewish Historical Society and the Routes to Roots Foundation. They can now offer subscribers online access to more than 200,000 Jewish records.
To search through all the new Jewish record collections and Ancestry.com’s entire Jewish Family History experience visit http://www.ancestry.com/JewishFamilyHistory.
Google is adding three-dimensional images of Europe to Google’s Street View Maps.
MAILBOX:
Emails from Premium Members Valerie Brown & Tina Kelly
Visit the Measuring Worth website which does Retail Price Index and Average Earnings in Pounds Sterling.
GEM: Top 10 Reviews
Get a comparison of the top 10 Photo Books
GEM: Prison Records
Interview with Ron Arons, author of the Jews of Sing Sing
GEM: Block Posters
For enlarging and printing out large charts / ancestor photos etc.
GEM: Profile America – Silver Mine Opens – August 11, 2009
Learn more about the Silver Mines at the Ophir Silver Mining Special Collection #NC56 at the University of Nevada
Genealogy Conference:
Family History Expo genealogy conference
Sandy Utah, just outside Salt Lake City
August 27 & 28, 2009.
It promises to be a terrific weekend and I’m really looking forward to getting a day in at the Family History Library as well. For more information on the expo go to http://www.familyhistoryexpos.com
