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DearLISTENERS & READERS,
The newest genealogy podcast, 11 March 2008 DearMYRTLE's FAMILY HISTORY HOUR genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to any .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes, just search for "DearMYRTLE" and click to subscribe for free.

You don’t need an iPod to listen, any .mp3 player or your computer (with the speakers turned on!) will do. For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com. Please note the new "play button" for those who wish to listen to the podcast via the internet.

THIS WEEK'S GUEST
Elizabeth Powell Crowe, author of the brand-spanking new Genealogy Online 8^th Edition. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008. Libbi has been writing for over 30 years. Her previous editions of Genealogy Online have sold a combined total of nearly 200,000 copies. Her work has appeared in Civil War Times, PC World, C|Net, and Digital Genealogist. She has been a presenter at the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University and at GENTECH. Myrt is happy to welcome Libbi back to the podcast.

MIGHTY MOUSE TOUR See DearMYRTLE’s The BEST of the Internet for Genealogists – 9 March 2008

1. BLOG: Jaisa’s “Here's Where I'm at With Analyzing My mtDNA Results

2. INSTRUCTION: Women's History page posted at the Library of Congress website.

3. DATABASE SITE: Sally Routledge’s “Victorian Place Name Abbreviations

4. SCANNED IMAGE SITE: A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia

5: PODCAST: Anna-Karin's Genealogical Podcast Series, posted at http://annakarin.libsyn.com

6. VIDEO: War Letters posted at RootsTelevision.com.

7. COMMENTARY: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 posted at the Library of Congress website.

8. INNOVATION: Picasa Web Albums by Google.com.

9. MOST INTERESTING THREAD: “FTM 2008 Crashes (a lot!)” posted at the RootsWeb Message Board for Family Tree Maker Software beginning 5 Jan 2008.

10. ETHNIC STUDIES: Lithuania Global Genealogical Society posted at www.lithuaniangenealogy.org

LINKS WE MENTION

• Jonathan Walker's www.mexicanfhr.com which lists links for most Spanish speaking countries and regions of the world, not just Mexico.

• Mimi Lozano's www.SomosPrimos.com

• Debut of GenealogyBank.com's Hispanic Newspaper Collection.

DearMYRTLE's BLOG ENTRIES SINCE THE LAST PODCAST

• Ancestry's "Bad Baby Names" book

• Godfrey: showing up on WVR

• Printing & citing blog entries

• 2008 Logan Family History EXPO (Myrt has 2 presentations)

• The BEST of the Internet for Genealogists – 9 Marc 2008

• BYU Workshop on Family History Technology - NEXT WEEK (Myrt has 5 presentations)

• Challenge: 4 March 2008 podcast episode (it is now working!)

• Hispanic newspapers at GenealogyBank.com

Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt
DearMYRTLE,
Your friend in genealogy.
Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com
http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com

© 2008 Pat Richley All Rights Reserved.

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DearLISTENERS & READERS, The newest genealogy podcast, DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 4 Mar 2008 is available for listening via computer or transferred to any .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes, just search for "DearMYRTLE" and click to subscribe for free. You don’t need an iPod to listen, any .mp3 player or your computer (with the speakers turned on!) will do. For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com. Please note the new "play button" for those who wish to listen to the podcast via the internet. TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK Mark Tucker, the compiler of the Genealogical Research Map . Mark is a software architect by day and a family historian on as many nights and weekends as possible. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems and has been developing software professionally for more than fourteen years. He is a member of NGS and the author of the ThinkGenealogy blog that discusses innovation in genealogy software. Mark will be presenting at the March 2008 Brigham Young University Computerized Genealogy Conference, and is anticipating an in-home visit from Dick Eastman and the Footnote.com team. (Gosh, how Ol’ Myrt here would like to sit in on that experience!) MIGHTY MOUSE TOUR See DearMYRTLE’s BEST of the Internet for Genealogists – 2 March 2008 for specifics on the following award-winning websites: 1. BLOG: Karen E. Livsey’s "Holland Land Company Records: Land Research in Western New York State"   2. INSTRUCTION: GenClass.com 3. DATABASE SITE: Legacy.com’s Memorial Websites 4. SCANNED IMAGE SITE: Ancestry.com. British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920 5. PODCAST: Biography Podcast 0018: Liliʻuokalani, Queen of Hawaii 6. VIDEO: Family Survival Kit (hilarious, you MUST see this!) 7. COMMENTARY: Chris Dunham’s "Top ten worst ways to begin a Family History (Find the literary reference to Dick Eastman’s newsletter.) 8. INNOVATION: Wikipedia the free online encyclopedia 9. MOST INTERESTING THREAD: Editor ‘Jasia" pulls together 18 genealogy blog entries from all over the internet for the "Carnival of Genealogy, 23rd Edition " about "school days". 10. ETHNIC STUDIES: Robert Ellis’ "Looking for an Ancestor in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1914 LINKS WE MENTION Board for Certification of Genealogists. BCG Genealogical Standards Manual. Orem: Ancestry.com. 2000. · Legacy Charting free pre-release edition download · · Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for Family Historians. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. 1997, reprinted 2006. · · Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. 2007. · · Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Analysis - A Research Process Map. Board for Certification of Genealogists. 2006. · · Mills, Elizabeth Shown, editor. Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. 2001. · · Mills, Elizabeth Shown. QuickSheet: Citing Online Historical Resources Evidence! Style. First Revised Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. 2007. · · Evidence: A special issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. National Genealogical Society Quarterly 86 (Sept 1999) no. 3. · · Christine Rose’s Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case from Amazon.com LINKS TO DearMYRTLE’s RECENT BLOG ENTRIES · · Cyndi’s List will be up again soon (it is!) · · Geni.com wins top PC Magazine Award · · Genealogical Publishing partners with FamilyLink · · LostCousins changes · · Holocaust fraud solved by source documents · · Archive CD Books Australia & Gould Genealogy: Partner · · Halvor Moorshead retires tomorrow (This gives him more time to do research and present at seminars.) · · Across My Desk: 27 Feb 2008 · · Syllabus materials for MAF Family History Expos Happy family tree climbing! Myrt DearMYRTLE, Your friend in genealogy. Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com © 2008 Pat Richley All Rights Reserved.

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DearLISTENERS & READERS,

DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 26 Feb 2008 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to any .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes, just search for “DearMYRTLE” and click to subscribe for free.

 

You don’t need an iPod to listen, any .mp3 player and even your computer (with the speakers turned on!) will do. For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com. Please note the new “play button” for those who wish to listen to the podcast via the internet.

 

TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK 

Sharon Sergeant is a professional genealogist, specializing in large complex projects, including international tracing, property settlements, provenance of artifact collections, large migration and occupational group projects. Sharon creates and manages teams of specialists for each project. Through her website www.ancestralmanor.com she provides teleconference seminar educational programs. Sharon serves on the Massachusetts Genealogical Council board organizing on-site educational conferences and records access advisory. She also performs public relations services for many national and international genealogical society events and services. This interview starts 12 minutes into the podcast.

 

Bruce Buzbee, creator of Family Atlas software that “lets you add your own sets of custom markers to the map. For example, you could create a red triangle marker for places where your direct ancestors were born, or a green circle where anyone with the surname Jones was buried. Markers make it easy to visually see migrations or clusters in your family data. You can create unlimited sets of markers which can be hidden or displayed with a simple checkbox. Family Atlas also lets you add sets of markers by hand, meaning you can create maps even without importing your genealogy data. So you can create custom sets of markers like "Civil War Battles" or "Our Vacation Spots".  You can use both hand entered and data-based markers on the same map.” See: www.FamilyAtlas.com. The interview starts 47 minutes into the podcast.

 

MIGHTY MOUSE TOUR  (38 minutes into the podcast)
Join Myrt click-by-click as she visits the Board for Certification of Genealogists website www.bcgcertification.org – its more than an online business card with contact info. There are examples of research models, links to articles describing standards of excellence in genealogical research and instruction. See especially Genealogical Proof Standard from the Board for Certification of Genealogists BCG website “The GPS reflects a change from the term "Preponderance of the Evidence," used earlier to describe the high standard of proof BCG had always promoted. (For further information about this topic, click here for information on BCG's decision and here for a detailed article on this subject.) Case studies in national genealogical journals, such as the National Genealogical Society Quarterly and The American Genealogist, illustrate the GPS.” Elements discussed in this podcast include: Proof is a fundamental concept in genealogy. In order to merit confidence, each conclusion about an ancestor must have sufficient credibility to be accepted as "proved.[…] Acceptable conclusions, therefore, meet the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS).” The GPS consists of five elements:

·         a reasonably exhaustive search;

·         complete and accurate source citations;

·         analysis and correlation of the collected information;

·         resolution of any conflicting evidence; and

·         a soundly reasoned, coherently written conclusion.

LINKS WE MENTION

• Solving the Mystery of the Sheboygan Dead Horse Photo
• RootsMagic – genealogy management software
• GEDCOM – definition from Eastman’s Encyclopedia of Genealogy 
• Christine Rose’s Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case from Amazon.com  

LINKS TO DearMYRTLE’s RECENT BLOG ENTRIES

·         Magna Carta at the National Archives

·         Woomail: very private e-messaging

·         Irish Research Cruise of Caribbean: Jan 2009

·         BookShelf: Deciphering Gothic Records

·         BEST of the Internet for Genealogists Award 24 Feb 2008

·         Imorial Advanced Social Networking Site Helps Bereaved

Happy family tree climbing!

Myrt     

DearMYRTLE,

Your friend in genealogy.

Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com

http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com  

 

© 2008 Pat Richley All Rights Reserved.

DearLISTENERS & READERS,

DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 19 Feb 2008 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to any .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes. You don’t need an iPod to listen. For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com. I’ve added a new “play button” for those who wish to listen to the podcast via the internet.

 

TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK 

Geoff Rasmussen from the Millennia Corporation to discuss the soon-to-be released Version 7 of Legacy Family Tree, and the upcoming 2008 European Cruise. This interview starts 18 min. 15 seconds into the podcast.

 

Craig Manson, best known for his outstanding GeneaBlogie found on the web at: http://blog.geneablogie.net joins Myrt to talk about his new project HARP HISTORICAL APPELLATE REVIEW PROJECT “Setting the record straight, sponsored by GeneaBlogie, MansonMEdia & the Law Offices of Craig Manson. You've heard the story that Great-Uncle Festus was a no-good horse thief. But was he really? Did he get a fair trial? Did he have a good lawyer or even a lawyer at all? Can his name be cleared all these decades later?” This interview starts 43 min. 24 seconds into the podcast.

 

LINKS WE MENTION

·         Family History Library. www.FamilySearch.org

·         Humphery-Smith, Cecil R. The Phillimore atlas and index of parish registers 2^nd Revised Edition. Chichester, England: Phillimore C1995. 306 p. ISBN/ISSN 0850339502.

·         Church of England (author) Parish Church of Bisham [Berkshire, England] General register (baptisms, burials, marriages) 1560-1812; Marriage banns 1754-1900. Microfilm of original bound manuscript, filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1980-1995. Family History Library British Floor Film # 1040719 Items 5-8.

 

LINKS TO DearMYRTLE’s RECENT BLOG ENTRIES

• Video from St. George Expo
• Castro has resigned from power
• BEST of the Internet for Genealogists Award 17 Feb 2008
• READER'S FEEDBACK: Software suggestions for Newbies
• US suggestions for Newbies
• News sources for Newbies
• Software suggestions for Newbies
• Julie M. Case – RIP
• Pic from St. George Feb 2008
• New Beginners Genealogy Magazine
• SD: WPA Graves Registration Project online
• FindMyPast.com adds >1 million to burial index
• NARA marks WWI Veteran's 107th birthday
• Revolutionary War - Hessian deserters

Happy family tree climbing!

Myrt      J

DearMYRTLE,

Your friend in genealogy.

Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com

http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com  

© 2008 Pat Richley All Rights Reserved.

 

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DearLISTENERS & READERS, DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 12 Feb 2008 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to any .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes. You don’t need an iPod to listen. For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com .  TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK  Lisa L. Cooke to discuss customizing iGoogle as your own genealogical “cockpit” control of the internet, and her Heritage Crafts and Displays Video series. Lisa is the producer and host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, a weekly audio and video genealogy show available through www.GenealogyGems.TV and iTunes, and the author of Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies. Lisa has been featured in Ancestry, Family Tree and True West Magazines, and The New York Times.  She also is the creator of the popular "Socks to America" and other family history videos on RootsTelevision. Congrats to Lisa, as your podcast is coming up on its first birthday later this month. Contact Lisa or subscribe to her free email through her website. This interview starts 13 min. 10 seconds into the podcast. John Hamrock, about how US researchers should get started on their Irish Family History. National Library of Ireland, Roman Catholic Church records, before 1858 Church of Ireland (Episcopal) Dublin and the many public records lost in fire of 1922 except for locally held documents. Also Tithe Applotment Books, Griffith’s Valuation and the Hearth Tax (Eastern Counties).  John specializes in Irish family research. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and holds a Diploma and a Certificate in Genealogy/Family History (First Class Honours) from the National University of Ireland, UCD Dublin. John’s book Tracing Roscommon Ancestors is a comprehensive guide for those tracing families in County Roscommon, where common family names include Kelly, McDermot, Beirne, Regan, Flanagan, O'Connor, McDonagh, and Quinn. It is filled with information on what the records contain, and how and where they can be accessed.  It is well-illustrated with maps and with examples of the types of records to be found.  It also has an extensive listing of references to estate records and also to family histories.  Contact John at through his website. This interview starts 27 min. 33 seconds into the podcast. MightyMouse TOUR The BEST of the Internet for Genealogists Award - 3 Feb 2008 The BEST of the Internet for Genealogists Award - 10 Feb 2008 LINKS WE MENTION Teen publishes Irish family history novel Last living US WWI Vet 1-Step Improvement - 1920 Federal Census Give it your all  FROM THE BOOKSHELF Schaefer, Christina K. The Great War: A Guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and Volunteers. Find out more at Genealogical Publishing Company www.Genealogical.com Herber, Mark D. Ancestral Trails. The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History, Second Edition. New & used through Amazon.com.  Links to some of DearMYRTLE’s recent blogs:   Footnote.com Opens Records to the Public in Honor African Americans NARA: Guides to the American West African American Lives 2: Feb 6th NARA: 22nd Annual Preservation Conference March 10, 2008 APG Youth Scholarship deadline 28 Feb 2008 Seattle: New Jewish FH Resources with Jerry Watt WVR to add World Collection 4 Feb 2008 Nat'l Archives restores evening & weekend research hours 1871 Census - 10 new counties added

Happy family tree climbing!

Myrt     

DearMYRTLE,

Your friend in genealogy.
Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com

http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com

© 2008 Pat Richley All Rights Reserved.

 

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DearLISTENERS & READERS,
DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 4 Sept 2007 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to your .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes.

For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com . 

 

TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK 

Schelly Talalay Dardashti, ...

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DearLISTENERS & READERS,
DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 28 Aug 2007 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to your .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes.

For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.DearMYRTLE.com .

TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK
FootnoteMaven, our favorite genealogical footnoter of note! Maven shares her suggestion about embedding identifying info in the scanned image of an ancestor’s photo. She’s not talking about adding a text label to the bottom of the image itself, she’s talking simple additional file information. See her blog entry titled “Get Organized: Store Information Directly In Your Photographs” for screen shots using Adobe Photo Shop. Ol' Myrt here has tried this with Corel’s Paint Shop Pro, and it works!

MightyMouse TOUR
Research Outlines by our friends at FamilySearch.org provide ideas for genealogical studies in specific localities throughout the world. After explaining how to locate this valuable how-to collection online, Myrt provides a step-by-step tour of the Germany Research Outline in .pdf format, including information on how to navigate the .pdf file using Acrobat Reader. Feel free to pause, rewind and replay the .mp3 file, until you get the hang of using these valuable research outlines.

LINKS WE MENTION

• Adobe Photo Shop and the more affordable Adobe PhotoShop Elements
• Corel’s Paint Shop Pro
• Genealogy sites at no cost to users?
• Genealogy website management revisited
• READERS’ FEEDBACK: Improving society presentations
• Numbers, ranking & Ancestry.com
• Ancestry withdraws offensive database
• ACROSS MY DESK: Neat videos on the net for genealogists
• GenealogyBank - 3 million records from 122 newspapers
• Ancestry speaks about this week's fiasco

BLOG ENTRIES FROM DearMYRTLE this week, not mentioned in the podcast include:

• Finding Civilian Employee Deaths overseas
• Genealogical.com offers penny shipping
• Legacy Road Communications

For more information about listening to Myrt’s genealogy podcasts see DearMYRTLE’s Podcast how-to info .

For more information about other genealogy & history podcasts see What’s on DearMYRTLE’s iPod?

Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt
DearMYRTLE,
Your friend in genealogy.
Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com
http://www.dearmyrtle.com

© 2007 Pat Richley, All Rights Reserved.

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DearLISTENERS & READERS,
DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 21 Aug 2007 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to your .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes.

For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com/.

TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK

• Geoff Rasmussen of LegacyFamilyTree.com to discuss what’s coming down the pike for Legacy version 7 including compatibility with the much-anticipated new FamilySearch, also yet to be fully released. 
• Pierre Cloutier of ProgenySoftware.com to discuss GeneLines , software to place your ancestor's life in a timeline format, in relation to other family members and to points of local and national history.
• Genealogy bloggers “Jasia” of CreativeGene and Schelly Talalay Dardashti of Tracing The Tribe to compare & contrast the use of the terms “genealogist” and “family historian”.

MightyMouse TOUR – dropped this week in favor of the extra interview.

LINKS WE MENTION

• Downloadable free version of Legacy Family Tree software. The Standard edition is free!
• Online Legacy video tour
• Legacy Training Videos
• 2008 Legacy Family Tree European Cruise Myrt is going!
• Genelines for Legacy
• Genelines for Ancestral Quest
• Genelines Universal Edition - reads all file formats, including PAF, Family Tree Maker, Legacy, Ancestral Quest, Ancestry Family Tree, and GEDCOM. Great for anyone using more than one genealogy record manager.
• Download free historical timelines for use with your Genelines 2.1 Universal Edition. There are over 80 timelines to choose from, including one from each US state.
• AmazonFresh - home delivery of groceries.
• Are we family historians or genealogists? UPDATE by Schelly Talalay Dardashti.
• Genealogist vs Family Historian, Who Are You? by Jasia. 
• Carnival of Genealogy The 30th edition focus on “genealogical conferences & seminars. Coordinator Jasia explains “Our group of writers are for the most part veterans of the conference circuit. Read on to hear their insights, observations, and fantasies. Let the carnival begin...”
  
  The 31st edition will be edited by Craig Manson at GeneaBlogie , and the topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: "Confirm or Debunk: Family Myths, Legends, and Lore." The deadline for submissions is September 1st. You can submit your blog article for the next edition using our carnival submission form . Past posts and future hosts can be found on the genealogy blog carnival index page .

DearMYRTLE’s Blog entries since the last podcast:

• Coweta Georgia fire closes genealogy collection
• Eastman: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Dept Video
• Triangulation: Analysis of historical documents also in podcast format
• WorldVitalRecords.com Now Available in 100 Family History Centers
• North America Local and County Histories to go Online
• Italian & German database access through Steve Morse
• Keeping Genealogical Records Open Workgroup (KGROW)
• DearMYRTLE's genealogy podcasts
• What’s on DearMYRTLE’s iPod?
• Mobile website for The National Archives, UK
• Records Preservation & Access Committee (FGS/NGS)

For more information about listening to Myrt’s genealogy podcasts see DearMYRTLE’s Podcast how-to info .

For more information about other genealogy & history podcasts see What’s on DearMYRTLE’s iPod?

Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt
DearMYRTLE,
Your friend in genealogy.
Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com
http://www.dearmyrtle.com/

(c) 2007 Pat Richley All Rights Reserved.

 

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DearLISTENERS & READERS,
DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour 14 Aug 2007 genealogy podcast is available for listening via computer or transferred to your .mp3 player if you choose to download the file. An alternative would be to download the file automatically via iTunes. For a complete list of current DearMYRTLE podcasts visit: http://podcasts.dearmyrtle.com.

TOPICS & GUESTS THIS WEEK

Cecil Wendt Jensen, CG, author and editor of several books of interest to Polish American researchers. Cecil, daughter of Elzbeta Przytulska, is devoted to dispelling the myths that Polish records were destroyed during the wars and the language barrier makes research too difficult.

Using the techniques she once used with her high school students and in her own family research, she is completing a "how to" book on Polish genealogy. "Sto Lat" highlights the techniques she employed to find the ancestral villages of her grandparents who hailed from Prussia, Russian Poland and Austrian Poland (aka Galicia). 

After a thirty year career in education she transitioned to professional genealogy in 1998. She is a Certified Genealogist (CG) and maintains a website "Michigan Polonia". http://mipolonia.net. Contact her via email: cjensen@mipolonia.net Cecil’s books include:

• Images of America: Detroit's Polonia
• Detroit’s Mt. Elliott Cemetery
• Detroit’s Mt. Olivet Cemetery
•  STO LAT: A modern Approach to Polish Genealogy (soon to be released) 

MightyMouse TOUR

• www.GoogleGuide.com (then click Cheat Sheet (2-page quick reference)
• GoogleGuide: Making Searching even faster

LINKS WE MENTION

• Wiki Polish Americans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-American
• Polish Partitions http://www.rootsweb.com/~polwgw/ausgeruss.html
• Polish Genealogical Society of America  http://pgsa.org
• Hoffman's Books http://www.pgsa.org/Books/books.htm
• Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, Second Edition by William F. Hoffman “The first half consists of 12 chapters explaining the origins and meanings of Polish surnames. The second half is an index of some 30,000 common surnames, organized by the roots they came from, with indication of how many Polish citizens bore each name as of 1990. Published 1997, 592 typeset pp. (xii + 580), perfect bound, paperback, 6 x 9". US $25.00
• First Names of the Polish Commonwealth: Origins & Meanings by William F. Hoffman and George W. Helon. “This book is a collaboration between William F. Hoffman, the author of Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, and George W. Helon, former president of the Polish Genealogical Society of Australia; which provides information on thousands of first names encountered during the course of researching ancestors who came from any part of the old Polish Commonwealth. It includes names of Czech, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish origin. When relevant, it also gives the equivalent forms of names in most of those languages, e. g., Polish Piotr = English Peter = Latin Petrus = Russian Hemp, etc. An introduction and three chapters of historical and linguistic background are followed by a 300-page list of names. Appendices include charts with information on the Polish, ancient Greek, ancient Hebrew, Russian Cyrillic, and Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabets, as they apply to name derivation and usage, as well as a list of Cyrillic forms of common Jewish first names. The format is soft-cover, 6 x 9 inches, perfect bound, vi + 426 pages, ISBN 0-924207-06-X; cover design by Lisa Terlecki.” US $20.00
• Discovering Roots, Kasia Grycza  http://www.discovering-roots.pl/
• Poznan Project Lukasz Bielecki  http://www.discovering-roots.pl/poznan_project/project.htm
• Kartenmeister  http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp

DearMYRTLE’s Blog entries since the last podcast:

• Was on-site 1907 research any easier?
• National Archives Celebrates Hispanic American Heritage
• Conversation on the Congressional Black Caucus
• MacFamilyTree 5 Sneak Preview
• Find A Grave: 16 Million Grave Records & WorldVitalRecord.com
• SSDI goes over 80 Million records
• Redesigned Family Tree Maker 2008 software 
• READERS’ FEEDBACK: Footnote & preservation
• Alabama: Loose Record Project web indexing initiative
• Accessing Footnote.com
• Preserving old family bibles
• RootsTelevision & Megan at FGS
• Legacy Genealogy Cruise 2008 - Europe
• WorldVitalRecords.com traffic surges 400%
• Podcast how-to info
• Another link for heartbreaking courthouse video
• Courthouse video: a picture is worth a thousand TEARS
• Cornell University: newest partner in Library Project at Google
• Footnote.com's newest images
• WWI British Army Pension Records online at Ancestry.uk

For more information about listening to podcasts see DearMYRTLE’s Podcast how-to info .

Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt
DearMYRTLE,
Your friend in genealogy.
Myrt@DearMYRTLE.com
http://www.DearMYRTLE.com

(c) 2007 Pat Richley All Rights Reserved.

 

 

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