Present
were: Bill R., Peggy V., Rick B., Linda L., Linda B., Sherry J., Denis H.,
Barbara B, David R., Frank, Margie, Elizabeth D., Judy S., Judith C. and Sylvia.
Reminder
of upcoming meetings:
Genies
German Group, June 1st.
Request a zoom invitation if you would like to come.
Genies
Monthly Meeting, June 21st at 1:00 by Zoom
In
July Judith will be attending a conference and won’t be in attendance. Bill R.
will be the Zoom host.
Peggy
V: A librarian in Delafied, WI provided some clues for her research on her
Murphy-Brown ancestors. They were from the Irish Free State. Not sure about
finding records in Ireland, as a fire destroyed many. David R. suggested
working with parish records which were not affected by fire.
BILL R is using Adobe LightRoom Classic
to deal with images. He took a Zoom class at Whatcom Community College to learn
about it. Now he knows how to import/tag images. The program has many
applications.
RICK is enjoying using Family Search.
He is categorizing members on FS and so far has found over 200 with additional
information such as birthdays and other recorded information.
[Judith: FS is the best place site for
us to archive our information. The Mormon church is dedicated to collecting and
archiving records from the past, present and will continue to do so well into
the future, and is the most likely site for our descendants to have access to
our family histories.]
DENIS is researching his ancestors from
Germany. Some moved to Albany, NY. There is a website and books on his German
ancestral name. There is even a mountain named for the family in Whatcom
County.
ELIZABETH is still working on the interlibrary
loan book and history of Newbury County, N. Carolina. She is finding lots of
history. She says from all her research she has learned it is hard to be a
pioneer settling in a new place. There are so many challenges.
JUDY S wants to contact Elizabeth
regarding her S. Carolina ancestors.
FRANK & MARGIE mentioned a free
webinar on Eastern Europe. Frank’s Baltimore family came from Eastern Europe
and he is using Ancestry to find out the name of the ship they came on.
DAVID is keeping his records with
Family Search because they are the best place to store them. Your tree can go
up on FS as a private tree which only you can edit, or as part of the collaborative
“Family Search Family Tree” in which anyone can add or change the tree. This
enables you to get notifications about who has changed what, and you can do
your own editing. {Judith: This is done
by following each person you want to be notified about. In the Person view on the right side across
from the person’s name, click on Follow.]
BARBARA is working her way through
German church records to learn about her ancestors. She has attended lots of
webinars on Zoom. She says she has a high percentage of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA,
possibly meaning someone as recent as a grandparent, and is trying to find out
who as there does not appear to be any family information for that ethnicity.
LINDA L watched a webinar on Ships’
Passenger Lists and has found a lot of useful information. People were often
criminalized and deported for minor infractions of the law. She has also found
that ArchiveGrid is a very useful collection of archived material from
WorldCat.
LINDA B is working on ancestors from
Prussia and finding records to corroborate her own records. She has also found
that the Milwaukee church where her ancestors attended has a website. She
intends to write to them and find out where they keep their parish records.
SHERRY is using Family Locket and
Evernote to keep a research log. She wants a more permanent record-keeping
system stored on her own computer rather than with one of the sites such as
Ancestry which may not be permanent. She is also researching her German
ancestors using a genealogy group for Eastern European Jewish ancestry.
SYLVIA has had a breakthrough of sorts
in identifying her paternal family side. A new DNA mystery 3rd
cousin appears to belong to the maternal side of that tree, while another
mystery 3rd cousin is linked to the paternal side. Using shared
matches color-coded by family line, she will now be able to determine which
shared matches are on which side of the family, and what are the family names
and locations of their ancestors. She also watched a seminar by Diahann
Southard on finding mystery cousins, where she learned tips on how to identify
them and their relationship to you.
FURTHER
INFORMATION AND BUSINESS
Judith watched a talk by Stephen P.
Morse. His website https://stevemorse.org/index.html
is called One Step Webpages with extensive tools and tricks for finding and
accessing records of all kinds. He began
with an emphasis on immigration but has now expanded to include anything that
interests him.
Find-A-Grave now has a new monthly
newsletter you can sign up for.
Judith says Google’s Blogger and
Feedburner are discontinuing the feature to send blogposts to email addresses. We have been using this to send out our blogposts. Update: Bill is setting up a Google
Group where we can all post items of interest and the Minutes too, directly to
the site. The Blog currently has 60
email addresses. Everyone will be moved over to the new group in the next
month. If you receive a message to
confirm membership, please respond.
NEXT MEETING: June 21st,
2021 1:00 pm via Zoom
