tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87690945523109240132012-02-17T12:32:57.955-08:00Sassy Jane Genealogy Blog: Archives & Family HistoryI'm a professional archivist and librarian. My goal is to help you search smart and find more information about your ancestors. The name "Sassy Jane" and the blog's illustrations come from a 1920s ad for "Sassy Jane Rayon Frocks."Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.comBlogger2811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-40077266665590842082012-02-17T04:00:00.000-08:002012-02-17T04:00:04.698-08:00Follow Friday: JustaJoy.com
Have you visited www.justajoy.com? In 2005, Joy Shivar, an antiques dealer in Huntersville, N.C., started a Web site to sell her own antiques. Last year her site morphed in a listings service that connects genealogists with lost family heirlooms with a Web site she
founded in 2005 to sell her own antiques.
For
an annual fee of $20, members can list or buyheirlooms that are engraved orSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-29755778984069847972012-02-16T16:01:00.000-08:002012-02-16T16:06:48.897-08:00Think Like an Archivist on Saturday in San Diego
Looking forward to presenting Saturday at the Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego on primary source research, entitled “Think Like an Archivist: Finding Hidden Genealogical Materials in Libraries and Archives.”
Learn about locating genealogical materials held in manuscript and
photographic collections in libraries and archives worldwide, using
online archival portals and digital Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-89713443057590007602012-02-12T12:24:00.000-08:002012-02-12T12:27:06.227-08:00Fraudulent Mary Todd Lincoln Portrait Exposed
Fraudulent Mary Todd Lincoln portrait, courtesy THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM VIA THE BOSTON GLOBE
If you come from a famous family, you may have more artifacts and records, but are they authentic? It seems this portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, hanging in the governor's mansion in Illinois for decades, is not.
The canvas, which was purchased by Abraham Lincoln’s Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-60881443754850741292012-02-10T04:00:00.000-08:002012-02-10T04:00:02.430-08:00Follow Friday: ArchiveGrid℠
Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly
a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid, a subscriber database that offers genealogists and other users access to archival records and finding aids.
Some of the institutions contributing to ArchiveGrid include:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Art Institute of Chicago
Bostonian SocietySassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-27130678637060498672012-02-07T04:00:00.000-08:002012-02-07T09:46:36.582-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Questions on the 1940 Census
1940 Census poster, courtesy NARA
Anticipation about the release of the 1940 census on April 2
is growing every day. Let’s take a look today at the questions that were asked
and the information you can expect to find in this new treasure trove.
Citizenship:
Starting with the 1900 census, questions were asked about individual
naturalization status with three possible responses: Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-58508076537512280392012-02-05T11:36:00.000-08:002012-02-05T11:36:53.341-08:00Top Three Tips for Organizing Digital Research Files for Genealogy
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Hidden Mother image, courtesy Retronaut
I have to say this is a new one on me. According to the The Hidden Mother Flickr group, there was a "practice where the mother, often disguised or hiding,
often under a spread, holds her baby tightly for the photographer to
insure a sharply focused image."
There are many fascinating examples of this photographic phenomenon, dating from tintypes upSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-24459903766505287072012-01-27T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-27T08:56:45.688-08:00President John Tyler (1790-1862) Has Living Grandchildren
Every genealogist will find this interesting:
John Tyler, the tenth president of
the United States, was born in 1790. He grew up on a Virginia
plantation, became a lawyer, and went on to the White House after the
death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison in 1841.
But
it has been revealed that two of the president’s grandsons are still
alive – and were born nearly 140 years Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-69226206633704208892012-01-25T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-25T04:00:07.823-08:00With DNA Testing, Suddenly They Are Family
Great article a few days ago in the New York Times on genetic genealogy and adoption research. It begins:
Growing up, Khrys Vaughan always believed that she had inherited her
looks and mannerisms from her father, and that her appreciation for
tradition and old-fashioned gentility stemmed from her parents’ Southern
roots. But those facets of her self-image crumbled when she was told,
at Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-32365505225225755212012-01-24T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-24T04:00:08.702-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Using Yellow as Contrast for Faded Handwriting
Today's
tip is simple but effective. When we encountered faded or
difficult-to-read documents in the archives, it could be a challenge to
photocopy or even read the text or handwriting.
To increase the contrast on a faint or faded document, place it inside a yellow-tinted sheet protector
when photocopying. (If the sheet protector you buy is only open on one
end, slit the other side so Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-80945102224598250242012-01-20T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-20T08:42:50.079-08:00Follow Friday: Dictionary Of Occupational Titles
Have you ever found an occupation for an ancestor and you weren't sure what the job actually was? You might find some useful information at the Web site www.occupationalinfo.org.
The U.S. Department
of Labor has compiled this dictionary of occupational titles, codes and job descriptions. Even better, because it was created by the federal government, the information is in the public domain,Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-10955080264495070382012-01-17T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-17T04:00:02.014-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Accessing 70 Million Copyright Records at LC
Do you have an ancestor who published a family history or other work? If so, they may have claimed copyright with the Library of Congress. The image above is a sample from a new digitization project at the U.S. Copyright Office. Staff member Mike Burke recently wrote a blog entry about this new database, which I think may be of some eventual value to genealogists. He writes:
The U.S.Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-11995326181061068532012-01-14T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-14T04:00:02.270-08:00Urge the White House to Support Digitization of Federal Holdings
A
petition drive is underway asking the Obama administration to create a
commission that
will answer–within one year–such questions as: What are our federal
holdings? What would it take to digitize them? How much would it cost?
What are the economic and non-economic benefits?
The National
Coalition for History and Society of American Archivists
urge you to support this effort by Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-3800464967971354862012-01-13T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-14T21:19:34.080-08:00Follow Friday: Using Archives PDF at archivists.org
The Society of America Archivists has published Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research, by Laura Schmidt. Intended as a guide to researchers, especially those who may be new to archival research, you can down the pdf by visiting http://www2.archivists.org/usingarchives.
The content includes:
How
archives function
How
to identify appropriate archives for your research
How
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-18863342247431137992012-01-08T17:52:00.000-08:002012-01-08T19:29:34.565-08:00National Archives YouTube Channel Features New How-To Videos
For the first time, the National Archives has launched online videos of its most popular genealogy how- to workshops. These videos cover genealogical research topics, including census, immigration and military records. Now, these popular workshops led by National Archives experts are available on the National Archives YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/usnationalarchives.
The Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-20788470801226040382012-01-01T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-03T10:05:35.184-08:00Public Domain Day
Today is Public Domain Day, which is designated to celebrate the role of public domain in our culture by highlighting authors who died in
1941 and whose work will enter the public domain on 1 Jan 2012.
A little fuzzy on the concept of public domain?
When
an author's copyright expires, his or her works enter the public domain
where they can be used for any purpose without prior Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-3954488695972485652011-12-30T04:00:00.000-08:002011-12-30T14:59:02.833-08:00Remembering Frieda Caroline Hann (1896-1979)
Frieda Hann, Chicago, c. 1917
Pausing today to remember my paternal grandmother, Frieda Caroline Hann Loe, who was born 115 years ago today at 93 Webster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.
Her Austrian father, Gottfried Hann, died two months before she was born. Her Swedish mother, Anna Lovisa Larsdotter Hann, raised my grandmother and two older siblings with the help of her sister, Hedda Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-63117084455136863862011-12-27T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-14T21:20:07.453-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Getting Ready for the 1940 Census
The online debut of the 1940 census is now only three-and-a-half months away. At 9
a.m. Eastern on April 2, 2012, the National Archives will make the
census available for research free of charge.
The upcoming release of the 1940 census is a classic good news/bad news situation. Good: we get access to those wonderful records and bad because they won't be indexed (at first).
So how do Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-88722213774737503242011-12-24T04:00:00.000-08:002011-12-24T04:00:00.359-08:00Merry Christmas!
No long post today, just a nostalgic trip back through the Sears Wishbook from 1964, when I
got a Skipper doll –
Barbie's little sister for those of you not up on your Barbie trivia –
along with a carload of other longed-for Barbie stuff for Christmas.
If you'd like to look at your Christmas Past, you can visit WishbookWeb.com
and find Speigels 1933, Sears 1940, Lord & Taylor Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-62175297425314993232011-12-16T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-14T21:20:44.014-08:00Follow Friday: Dating Photographs and Visual Literacy
The Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress has a great page up on visual literacy, a term that embraces image history, photographic processes, content, and meaning. If you have ever used a magnifying glass on a photograph to try to read a calendar on a wall or a license plate, then you're employing visual literacy.
LC's site is a great resource, combining links on Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-56094677486296397402011-12-13T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-14T21:21:11.823-08:00Tombstone Tuesday: Lee Soucy, USS Utah Pearl Harbor Survivor
USS Utah Memorial, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 6 Dec 2011
Today's Tombstone Tuesday is a bit unusual because the tombstone is the USS Utah, a converted battleship that was sunk in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941. The USS Arizona and the USS Utah are the only surviving underwater memorials left at Pearl Harbor and only the Arizona is open to the public.
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-63775174645629528492011-12-09T04:00:00.000-08:002011-12-09T04:00:01.245-08:00Follow Friday: Family History and Digital Preservation
The Signal is the blog for the digital preservationists working at the Library of Congress. It's fun and informative for genealogists. Recently they published a two-part post on Family History and Digital Presenvation:
Amassing a collection of digital files raises the issue of how to store
and preserve that collection. Digital genealogy could result in a heap
of text files (such as GEDCom Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-55170858888013815442011-12-07T04:00:00.000-08:002011-12-07T04:00:06.366-08:0070th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Today is the the seventieth anniversary of "a date which will live in infamy," the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that precipitated America's entry into World War II. That day 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded.
Predictably, my favorite book about this event has to do with family history. It's USS Arizona's Last Band: The History of U.S. Navy Band Number 22, by Molly Kent. She Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-21785275721203728892011-12-02T04:00:00.001-08:002012-01-14T21:22:15.768-08:00Follow Friday: The National Archives Puts Its Holdings on the Map Via Historypin
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My husband and I are going to attend the ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor next week. If you're in Washington, you can attend a free public program at the National Archives.
On
Wednesday, December 7th at 7 PM, The National Archives, in partnership
with the Newseum, commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor
attack with a free public program in the Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-6197554399090528982011-11-29T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-29T04:00:06.048-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Oral History for the Family Historian: A Basic Guide
Want to brush up on your interviewing skills before you see relatives over the holidays? I recommend Oral History for the Family Historian: A Basic Guide by Linda Barnickel, published by the Oral History Association.
You can get it through Amazon for $15. The 70-page guide practical advice for conducting family oral history interviews. It also contains an extensive list of sample Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-25620412688859155912011-11-26T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-26T04:00:00.445-08:00Scanning SaturdayIf you're planning on scanning some family photos this weekend, don't forget to use at least 400 ppi and TIF format. I like to use the Canon CanoScan LiDE210 Scanner, a full-sized flatbed that's also very light and portable. And here's someone who put that information to good use:
I attended your seminars at the 2010 California Family History Expo in Pleasanton, CA. You were a dynamic and Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-81951399603285385232011-11-25T12:12:00.000-08:002011-11-25T12:12:50.305-08:00In the Pilgrims’ Footsteps, Through England and the Netherlands in the NY Times
There was a great article in the travel section of the New York Times a few days ago about following in the footsteps of the Pilgrims from England and the Netherlands to Massachusetts.
The 102 passengers who sailed on the Mayflower in September 1620 came
from all over England (and not all of them were religiously motivated),
but the leaders of the separatist movement came from just a Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-5401480134849358762011-11-24T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-24T04:00:01.458-08:00Happy Thanksgiving from Sassy Jane Genealogy
President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from
members of the
Poultry and Egg National Board outside the White House, 16 Nov 1949
Harry S. Truman Library (NLHST)[ARC Identifier 200138]]
Did
you know that the Presidential tradition of pardoning a holiday turkey
did not start with Harry Truman, as commonly believed? I had no idea the
historical record was so murky – something Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-70256683825507906582011-11-23T16:34:00.000-08:002011-11-23T16:35:53.496-08:00RIP, Uncle Don
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-81098714335702238892011-11-23T09:01:00.000-08:002011-11-23T09:01:23.193-08:00How Future Generations Will Remember Us
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-80195560974000174782011-11-22T04:00:00.000-08:002012-01-14T21:22:40.317-08:00Tuesday's Tip: My Top Tip for Interviewing Relatives for Family History
Will you have the opportunity to talk to some relatives
during Thanksgiving weekend? If some of those stories you've heard more than
once or the family member says they can't remember, then ask about historical
events.
One of the best ways to prompt memories in an interviewee is
to ask where they were during historical events. I remember asking my
grandmother about living in Chicago when Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-17360607178343694872011-11-18T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-23T18:07:06.946-08:00Follow Friday: National Archives Now Available on iTunes® U
The National Archives has now joined iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store giving users public
access to thousands of free lectures, videos, books and podcasts from
learning institutions all over the world. Visit the National Archives on
iTunes U at: http://ow.ly/6F13r.
National Archives on iTunes
U is giving teachers, students, and lifelong seekers of knowledge access to
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-59087457699913897882011-11-15T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-15T04:00:22.137-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Latest Additions to Chronicling America Newspaper Database
Last week, the Library of Congress updated the Chronicling America Web
site with more than 190,000 additional newspaper pages in various
titles. The site now provides access to more than 4.1 million searchable
newspaper pages from 581 newspaper titles, published in 25 states and
the District of Columbia between 1836 and 1922. To learn more
about what newspapers have been added or updated, Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-53366439691955185642011-11-11T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-11T09:56:56.023-08:00Veterans Day and Military Records Requests in the United States
In honor of Veterans Day (Happy 11/11/11 to you, btw), the National Archives has released a three-minute video that takes you behind the scenes of a request for military records. View the video on the National Archives YouTube channel here: http://tinyurl.com/VetsStL
NARA's press releases:
By
far the most-requested documents in the holdings of the National
Archives are the military Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-17056570469835621862011-11-09T21:33:00.000-08:002011-11-11T09:57:52.373-08:00A Closer Look: Beware of Photos Bearing False Captions
The blog for the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress has a great post up about photographic literacy, or interpreting the clues that exist in photographs, called Beware of Photos Bearing False Captions. Well worth a look.Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-23337996560271938702011-11-08T04:00:00.000-08:002011-11-21T23:41:24.893-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Use 100% Rag Paper for the Important Stuff
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@Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-3459099365425829812011-11-01T04:00:00.000-07:002011-11-28T20:06:18.329-08:00Tuesday's Tip: Time to Stock Up on Archival Supplies at the Hollinger Fall Sale
Want to shop where professional archivists get their archival supplies? And how about a 15 percent discount at the same time?
Then head to the Fall 2011 sale at Hollinger Metal Edge
to stock up. To be completely honest, I get nervous when genealogists
tell me they buy acid-free supplies at Walmart or other retail outlets
that aren't in the preservation business. Archivists swear by Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-5049404675540222102011-10-28T04:00:00.000-07:002011-11-10T08:10:47.775-08:00Follow Friday: A Visit to the Tenement Museum in New York
Last week, my husband and I were in New York, so we made a beeline for The Tenement Museum
at 97 Orchard Street. Given all the European immigrant ancestors in my family, I've been wanting to go there well before I wrote about the museum last spring.
The museum was established in 1988 with the purchase of 97 Orchard, an 1863 five-story brick
building that has housed an estimated 7,000 people Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-90777477012962216742011-10-25T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-25T04:00:05.059-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934
I
think I am probably my own Madness Monday entry because I drive myself
crazy with an approach-and-avoid response to German records. And since I
have Austrian, Prussian and Pomeranian ancestors, I had to buck myself up before I tried these records.
Lately I've had some great luck using the Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850-1934 aka the Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934
at Ancestry. This Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-49701602010126009552011-10-21T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-21T04:00:01.217-07:00Follow Friday: ContentDM.orgThe site for today’s Follow Friday is CONTENTdm.org,
the creator of the leading digital collection management software used
by libraries and archives to deliver digital collections to users like
you.
While
it isn't necessary to know (or care) what digital collection software
is being used when you view a digitized document online, some background
information can help you stay abreast ofSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-49125768383707086862011-10-20T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-20T04:00:03.138-07:00Treasure Chest Thursday: Anna Larsdotter Hann's Swedish Portrait
Anna
Lovisa Larsdotter Hann (1863-1925
Today's Treasure Chest Thursday
post is about this carte-de-viste
photograph of my great-grandmother Anna Lovisa Larsdotter Hann. Thanks
to the photographer's imprint on the mount, I know she had it taken in
the town of Kopparberg (Copper
Mountain) in Örebro Län, Sweden, probably just before she left for
America on 18 Oct 1888 via Göteborg for Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-88476525960226703892011-10-18T04:00:00.001-07:002011-10-18T18:09:08.271-07:00Tombstone Tuesday: Major Harry Winfield Schenck
Major Harry Winfield Schenck, 1910-1945, United States Military Academy Post Cemetery
Last week I had the privilege of visiting the United States Military Academy Post Cemetery at West Point. Over 100 notables are buried there, but I wanted to pay my respects at the grave of a childhood friend. While we were there, we could not help but be struck many of the headstones and the stories Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-75126493195917905582011-10-15T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-15T04:00:01.575-07:00Home Movie Day 2011: Preserving Your Family Movies
Today is the 9th annual Home Movie Day. This celebration was started in 2002 by a
group of film archivists concerned about what would
happen to all the home movies shot on film during the 20th
century. They knew many people have boxes full of family
memories that they've never seen for lack of a projector,
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-59753621053407225972011-10-11T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-11T04:00:11.446-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Five Simple Things to Do to Preserve Your Family RecordsSometimes projects are so overwhelming, it's tough to get started. So here are five simple things you can do to help preserve your family records:
☞ 1. Move family records and photographs from your attic or garage into the house.
Paper-based
records (and that includes photographs) do best in the same environment
conditions that people enjoy. That means no storage in places where the
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-34111937507888078322011-10-08T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-23T20:13:45.748-07:00Surname Saturday: Schumann of Massow, Pomerania, Prussia
Research has gotten less complicated now that I know my German ancestors really were Prussian. I've had some success lately with the Schumanns, my great-grandmother's line from Pomerania.
Anna Schumann's father, Friedrich Wilhelm, was certainly adventurous. He left his native village of Massow for nearby Freienwalde, where he married his first wife,
Auguste Marie Luise LINDE (Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-20191662984064498642011-10-07T04:00:00.000-07:002011-10-07T07:56:29.780-07:00Follow Friday: Wikipedia Loves Libraries
Wikipedia Loves Libraries is a wiki-coordinated program of
distributed micro-conferences (editathons) to be held at libraries and
archives in cities across North America around October 2011. These events are also held "in sympathy with Wikipedians' moral support of Open Access Week."
One of the goals is:
Editathon of Wikipedia articles on local history and community using library Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-28871445306933744302011-09-30T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-30T04:00:17.226-07:00Follow Friday: Online World War II Indexes & Records for Genealogists
If you're looking for a good overview of World War II records, then militaryindexes.com is for you. In one lovely concise page, they've listed free and commercial resources for World War II records.
One of the links is to the enlistment records in the Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946, a searchable database of 8,706,394 records at the National Archives. Other NARA Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-58513415922827328042011-09-27T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-27T04:00:16.757-07:00Tuesday's Tip: More U.S. Copyright for Genealogists – Orphan Works
Last week I provided a link to downloadable handy guide for genealogists to the complex issue of copyright in the United States.
Today let's talk about a situation genealogists run into a lot: "orphan works," defined as the situation in which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-29117808519759808612011-09-23T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-23T10:14:08.448-07:00Follow Friday: Nutfield Genealogy
Today's Follow Friday is pretty famous: Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Nutfield Genealogy blog. Whenever I get tired of slogging through all my Prussian and Scandinavian research on my family, I take a vicarious trip to New England via Heather's blog and that inspires me to work on my husband's long and distinguished New England family history. I even nourish the hope that someday I'll find a link Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-62981823380582205772011-09-20T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-20T04:00:05.219-07:00Tuesday's Tip: U.S. Copyright for Genealogists
Copyright law in the United States is as old as the country itself and is a complex topic. For genealogists, a basic understanding of copyright is valuable as we negotiate our way through dozens of different types of source materials in the course of our research.
Archivist Peter Hirtle of Cornell University has put together a clear and helpful chart on this complex topic, available here.
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-34007646129561421012011-09-15T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-15T04:00:03.152-07:00Meme: 99 (Plus) Genealogy Things
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I think we can all use a feel-good family history story. How about this one, from Mount Healthy, Ohio, where one where four couples in one family all share the same wedding date?
Wedding bells make a habit of ringing on the ninth day of the ninth month for the marrying Perchermeiers of Mount Healthy. At the same time, in the same church, her grandparents will mark their
golden wedding Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-72763753885064577412011-09-09T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-09T10:39:53.404-07:00Follow Friday: Ireland Reaching Out and Tracking the Irish Diaspora
Are your ancestors from Galway? There's an interesting new project in Ireland that's designed to reach out to descendants from that county called Ireland Reaching Out.
In a recent New York Times article, the project director, Mike Feerick, stated, “The project is based on a very simple idea: instead of waiting for
people of Irish heritage to trace their roots, we go the other way."
I Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-28328333953475108112011-09-03T19:23:00.000-07:002011-09-04T09:34:43.578-07:00Randy Seaver's SNGF: Genealogy Roulette
Randy's mission tonight:
This is a fun meme from Randy at Genea-Musings.
1) How old is your great-grandfather now, or how old would he be if
he had lived? Divide this number by 4 and round the number off to a
whole number. This is your “roulette number.”
2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-59447197789616326402011-09-02T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-02T19:54:00.554-07:00Follow Friday: Great Britain Family Names Profiling
Today's Follow Friday is quick and fun: the Great Britain Family Names Profiling Web site at publicprofiles.org. Surname mapping is pretty common now, but I think they do a nice job here. You can search for 1881 or 1998 and by full or partial name. Even my unusual Mutch Scottish name is in their database and very accurately concentrated in Aberdeenshire.
The Web site has this AboutSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-81783166226089008272011-08-30T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-30T08:36:21.991-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Google Maps and Uncommunicative RecordsI've had a love-hate relationship with turn-of-the-(20th)-century Cook County marriage licenses for years now. To put it as elegantly as possible, they bite. In general, the information is limited to:
• Groom’s name, age• Bride’s name, age• Officiant’s name
• Officiant's address
• Date of marriage• Date of license issue
By contrast, counties Iowa or Ohio in the same periodSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-78347481732236681932011-08-29T11:32:00.000-07:002011-08-29T11:32:38.487-07:00New Access Procedures for Court Records at National Archives Federal Records CentersThe National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) is now providing access to court records
exclusively by online ordering or by mail/fax/e-mail. NARA will no
longer provide on-site court case review services to the public at its
Federal Records Centers.
This change applies to all closed bankruptcy, civil, criminal, and
court of appeals case files that remain in the legal Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-91072182011889960382011-08-25T07:24:00.000-07:002011-08-25T07:24:00.040-07:00Sometimes Tombstones Just Break Your Heart
Old Mission Cemetery, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
I love a good cemetery, but this one just got to me. Beautifully executed in addition to poignant.Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-36723436916253106542011-08-21T22:55:00.000-07:002011-08-21T22:55:43.523-07:00Have You Noticed You Only Find a Bunch of New Ancestors Late at Night?
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-13873043952007354662011-08-19T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T04:00:02.427-07:00Follow Friday: Dead At Your Age
Just a quick and fun Web site for today's Follow Friday called Dead at Your Age. You put in your birthdate (or anyone else's) and the site tells you what famous people you've outlived.
There are also sections for browsing by age of death, dying words, and it also tells you how many days you've lived so far.
Today's info for my birthdate:
You've outlived Chester Alan Arthur
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-4367159866496499552011-08-16T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:16:05.587-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Cloud Computing and Genealogy
I've been taking my own advice lately and using a hybrid approach to backing up my data (including all those family photos, group sheets, primary sources, and other digital genealogical records).
cloud computing should be part of this mix. Cloud computing is all the rage at present. The problem
is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different
definition. For our purposesSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-71211155937490081692011-08-07T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:18:10.504-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Scan Your Scrapbooks
Vintage scrapbooks in your family papers can be one of the most charming and evocative kinds of records passed down from one generation to the next. But archivists tread carefully around scrapbooks because they present a number of preservation challenges.
Scrapbooks sold commercially usually used very cheap and highly acidic paper for a foundation. And scrapbooks by nature have a lot of Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-18143559957050787662011-08-05T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:17:16.410-07:00Follow Friday: The Poznan Marriage Project
Today's Follow Friday post is about the Poznan Marriage Project, a splendid database of extracted nineteenth marriage records. Headed by Łukasz Bielecki, the Poznan Marriage Project contains 651,594 records from civil, Lutheran, and Catholic parishes within the former Prussian province of Posen, now Poznań, Poland.
In addition to the search function available by surname, Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-77417812213909763582011-08-02T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:18:37.801-07:00Tuesday's Tip: When Acid-Free Isn't Good Enough
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Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-30241377939528268492011-07-29T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:19:43.509-07:00Follow Friday: Healing Slavery's Wounds at www.comingtothetable.org
A few weeks ago there was a great article in People magazine of all places called Healing Slavery's Wounds. It's a great article, full of individual stories about genealogists who are the descendants of slaves and enslavers who have come to terms with their shared pasts. For some reason, People doesn't have it online, but you can download a copy here.
The article mentioned a great Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-11362544095527940592011-07-26T13:06:00.000-07:002011-07-26T13:06:16.659-07:00Spatial History: GIS Map-Making and Historical Research
Did you see the piece in the New York Times on the new discipline of spatial history, which combines GIS map-making with historical research? Genealogists are already on the trail of the new insights spatial history can provide. The article, With Digital Mapmaking, Scholars See History, provides some fascinating detail on new research on the decisions made at the Battle of Gettysburg. New Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-28552546805258616672011-07-22T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:19:19.149-07:00Follow Friday: ISGS Ancestor Photo Contest Winners
I'm delighted to say that the photograph of my grandmother, Frieda Hann Loe, at work in a Chicago sweatshop c. 1912 has been selected as one of 12 winners in the Illinois State Genealogical Society's Ancestor Photo Contest.
Visit http://www.ilgensoc.org/ to see the other winners.
Frieda Hann Loe (1896-1979), second from right
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-65196024246984829832011-07-19T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-19T09:20:15.906-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Use TIFFs When Scanning
When libraries and archives scan materials, they try to do it once and do it right. If you want to scan like archivists do, select TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) and scan at at least 300 ppi (pixels per inch). If you can afford the space it takes for larger files, 600 ppi is ideal.
From this master high-resolution scan, you can generate "surrogate" files in other formats on demand. Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-89469824545137230162011-07-18T16:54:00.000-07:002011-07-18T16:54:02.759-07:00Rudolph Time
Sassy Jane's been north to Alaska, where there were reindeer to feed but no cemeteries to visit or repositories to search. Looking forward to getting back into blogging and some actual research. I missed you all!
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-8327699738081514542011-07-14T04:00:00.000-07:002011-07-14T04:00:15.972-07:00Treasure Chest Thursday: The Sullivan Ballou Letter – A Civil War Soldier's Farewell
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Today marks the sesquicentennial Sullivan Ballou's farewell love letter to his wife Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-47181186160347291612011-07-12T04:00:00.000-07:002011-07-12T04:00:13.447-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Intermediate 23 Things Emerging Technology Blog
Last Friday I mentioned a great new blog with hyperlinks to all kinds of emerging technology called 23thingsforarchivists.wordpress.com.
The blog is designed to orient archivists to new media and technologies and what's good for archivists is good for genealogists.
If you've breezed through the first 23 "Things," then there's an intermediate section with an additional 23 Things that will helpSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-89833607257951692512011-07-08T04:00:00.000-07:002011-07-08T04:00:02.432-07:00Follow Friday: Emerging Technology @ 23thingsforarchivists.wordpress.com
If you're looking for a good overview of emerging technology and how they can help your research, visit a new blog called 23thingsforarchivists.wordpress.com.
It has links to 23 “Things” for you to explore,
experiment with, and learn about the new and emerging technologies that
are changing how information is used and created today.
Some of the “Things” might be useful in your research, Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-15119252126059849662011-07-05T04:00:00.000-07:002011-07-05T04:00:15.598-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Use More than One Source to Search the U.S. Census
Now that federal census images are available online from multiple providers, it's always a good idea to search each of them for your missing ancestors.
Some of the reasons why this is a good idea:
• Indexers may interpret handwritten names differently, leading to elusive family members
• Image quality may improve from another provider
• Some years of the decennial census may be Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-51162101638411234882011-07-04T04:00:00.000-07:002011-07-04T04:00:08.987-07:00Happy 4th: The Big Three in Washington D.C.
I really enjoyed my time at the Ask an Expert desk at the Jamboree. One of the questions I got was about how to distinguish between the big three research institutions in Washington, D.C. So here's an overview courtesy of archives.gov:
National Archives:
The National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA) is an independent federal agency that helps preserve our nation's
history and Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-85020626592187026862011-07-01T04:00:00.000-07:002011-07-01T04:00:13.637-07:00Follow Friday: NDIIPP @ the Library of Congress
Are you concerned about saving the bits and bytes of your research?
The Library of Congress is here to help with the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, or NDIIPP (pronounced “n-dip”). Their mission has evolved since the group was first mandated in 2001:
Over the last 10 years we have built a national network of collaborative
partnerships to help preserveSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-82610377945513751022011-06-28T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-28T04:00:10.061-07:00Tuesday's Tip: WorldCat Via an Academic Library
Did you know there are different search interfaces for WorldCat, the world's largest library catalog?
WorldCat has long been a genealogy research staple, containing records for 1.5 billion items in library collections all over the world. In the last few years, OCLC, WorldCat's parent, opened the WC database to the general public. The advanced search interface for the public version is very Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-84788833214877628682011-06-25T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-25T04:00:02.010-07:00Vote in the I Found It in the Archives Poll
The Society of American Archivists launched the I Found It In The Archives! public awareness campaign earlier this year. They reached out to individuals who have
found their records, families, heritage, and other treasures through
archival collections. They set up local contests, selected
finalists, and then encouraged their communities to vote for their
favorites.
Now their winners, Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-8038103943534466242011-06-24T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-24T04:00:04.418-07:00Follow Friday: WhatWasThere.com
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FamilySearch Adds Free Records for 10 Countries - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter.
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Archivists swear by Hollinger Metal Edge, the leader in
this field since 1945. If they say it's acid-free, you can count on it. To
be completely honest, I get nervous when genealogists tell me they Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-35229233559137485242011-06-17T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-17T04:00:05.076-07:00Follow Friday: NEDCC, A Site for Caring for Your Family Papers
Today's Follow Friday is about the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), a non-profit organization that professional archivists rely on for training, advice, and preservation services. A leader in the field of supplying preservation information
to museums, libraries, archives, and historical organizations, NEDCC also does a great job with information for individuals who are Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-13682297472888027642011-06-14T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-14T04:00:01.024-07:00Organizing Your Genealogical Research E-Book
I
had a great time today presenting my session at the Northern San Diego County Genealogy Society's COGG (Computer-Oriented Genealogy Group) on managing your digital genealogy research
environment effectively.
Because
it's a fairly complex topic, the presentation has a lot of detail that
can seem too dense just for an hour's presentation. So I've put together an
e-book, Sassy Jane's GuideSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-72732920274613494342011-06-13T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-13T04:00:19.158-07:00♫ Happy Blogiversary to Me ♫
It's been so fast I can't believe it, but Sassy Jane Genealogy turns one year old today. Many thanks to Thomas MacEntee, who helped me get started at Jamboree 2010 and has been a tireless supporter ever since.
I'm surprised and happy to say that I've had visitors from 74 countries. But mostly I just want to take this opportunity to thank all of my readers and followers. The most popular postsSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-65871541271260791882011-06-12T04:00:00.001-07:002011-06-12T19:44:28.881-07:00Researching Your Chicago Ancestors From AfarToday I'm presenting a session at the Southern California Genealogical Society's Jamboree on Researching Your Chicago Ancestors from Afar.
Over the past few months, I've been putting up posts with detailed entries on resources for digital collections and for various ethnicities. Following are the links I promised in my presentation for those detailed resources:
African-American Genealogical
Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-78574454882194456692011-06-11T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-11T07:58:59.162-07:00Geneablogging @ the JamboreeThis morning I'm joining Thomas MacEntee's Jamboree panel, "Blogger Summit I - Beginner to Blogger in 60 Minutes," to talk about my first year of genealogy blogging.
As I think about some of the questions Thomas poses in this session, it's clear that geneablogging has helped my family research and best of all linked me to a warm and wonderful community of other geneabloggers.
The biggest Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-76661370488463556312011-06-09T04:00:00.001-07:002011-06-09T04:00:11.070-07:00Whee! It's Jamboree!
Jamboree starts tomorrow in Burbank. My plan is to hit some sessions, especially by Thomas MacEntee and Lisa Alzo, visit the Tech Leb to consult the ProQuest Obituaries database, look at some vendors, and get ready for my sessions on Saturday and Sunday.
If you're attending in person, download the schedule here.
And if you can't make it, this year SCGS is streaming some sessions live. YouSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-28863607362260346872011-06-08T12:56:00.000-07:002011-06-08T12:56:47.286-07:00Tomorrow is #AskArchivists Day on Twitter
Tomorrow is Ask Archivists Day. You
can send a question to any archivist who's participating or you can ask
about a specific repository via Twitter.
To get started, follow @AskArchivists on Twitter with your Twitter account. Tweet your question and include the hashtag #AskArchivists.
Archives big and small around the world have signed up, including the U.S. National
Archives, Library ofSassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-70456336157059866142011-06-07T04:00:00.001-07:002011-06-07T04:00:06.807-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Try KhanAcademy.org
“I used to hate history in school. It
was so boring memorizing all those dates.” I used to hear this all the time at the library from new genealogists, who suddenly were discovering the joys of
history as they learned about their ancestors.
So if you slept through the football
coach’s terrible American history classes in high school or even if you’re just
a little fuzzy on some of Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-13993401210200479552011-06-05T17:58:00.000-07:002011-06-06T08:29:35.123-07:00This is the Face of Genealogy
Larsons, Loes & Andersons, Mason Avenue, Chicago, c. 1927. ©SJ Genealogy.
This is the face of genealogy. LA Weekly is lucky that Aunt Vendla (upper left) isn't around anymore to take them to task.Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-75212609306427262162011-06-04T20:32:00.000-07:002011-06-05T19:39:11.996-07:00Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Regrets
Greetings, genea-philes. it's SATURDAY NIGHT - time for more GENEALOGY FUN!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Tell us about your "If I knew then what I know now, I would have..." regret in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook status or note.
To my lasting regret, this week's SNGF is an easy one to state and an impossible one to fix.Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-43410795930026541982011-06-03T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-06T10:35:23.592-07:00Follow Friday: Ask Archivists Day on Twitter June 9
June 9 is Ask Archivists Day on Twitter, so get your questions ready. You can send a question to any archivist who's participating or you can ask about a specific repository.
To get started, follow @AskArchivists on Twitter with your Twitter account. Then on June 9, tweet your question and include the hashtag #AskArchivists.
Archives big and small around the world have signed up, Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-8901967279741386392011-06-02T04:00:00.000-07:002011-06-02T08:32:22.088-07:00National Archives announces First “Wikipedian in Residence”
How cool is this? The National Archives has selected Dominic
McDevitt-Parks as their first Wikipedian in Residence. Dominic will serve as a
liaison between the National Archives and the Wikipedian community.
Dominic, a Master's student in both History and Archives Management at
Simmons College in Boston, brings a passion for history and over seven years of
Wikipedia editing experience. He Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-43009181440736498262011-05-30T04:00:00.000-07:002011-09-04T10:51:36.952-07:00Memorial Day 2011: Marvin McMillan (1922-1944)
Memorial marker for Marvin Ray McMillan, Dermot Cemetery, Stevens County, Kansas
Today I'm remembering my husband's first cousin once removed, Radioman Third Class Marvin Ray McMillan, who was lost at sea on submarine service on 4 July 1944.
Marvin was born in Morton County, Kansas, in 1922, the fourth of five children of Lee Roy Jonathan Vincent McMillan and Lena Saul Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-6950984516221822512011-05-28T18:56:00.000-07:002011-05-28T18:58:36.867-07:00Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: FindaGrave.com
Randy's got a great Saturday Genealogy Fun this week:
Hey genea-searchers, it's SATURDAY NIGHT ... time for more GENEALOGY FUN!!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Go to the Find-a-Grave website (www.findagrave.com)
and search for ancestors that you don't know the burial location of.
How far back in time did you have to go to find this person? Hint #1 -
use your Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-84923850277289196852011-05-27T04:00:00.000-07:002011-05-27T14:50:57.988-07:00Follow Friday: Veterans History Project “How-to-Record-an-Interview” @ iTunes
The Veterans History Project at the
Library of Congress has put together a guidelines for interviewing the
veterans in your family, together with excerpts from veteran
interviews.
Download the guidelines at LC's site on iTunes U, part of the familiar Apple iTunes application.
This distribution system allows users to download select
educational content such as LC lectures, language lessons,Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-85538222379580464902011-05-24T04:00:00.000-07:002011-05-24T04:00:04.706-07:00Tuesday's Tip: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
A few days ago I found a record for a family
member that stated he lived in Union, Wisconsin. What I thought would be
a quick search for the county revealed seven places named Union in
Wisconsin:
Union, Burnett County, Wisconsin, a town
Union, Door County, Wisconsin, a town
Union, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, a town
Union, Pierce County, Wisconsin, a town
Union, Rock County, Wisconsin, Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-80161766442518532352011-05-21T20:08:00.000-07:002011-06-06T10:26:29.718-07:00Organizing Your Genealogical Research E-Book
I had a great time today presenting my session at the Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego on managing your digital genealogy research environment effectively.
Because it's a fairly complex topic, the presentation has a lot of detail that can seem too dense just for a presentation. So I've put together an e-book, Sassy Jane's Guide to Organizing Your Genealogical Research Using Archival Sassy Jane Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18037957512577108722noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769094552310924013.post-33593954557202745522011-05-20T04:00:00.000-07:002011-05-20T09:44:47.807-07:00Follow Friday: North Carolina Maps Project
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For a list of other posts
on Chicago genealogy resources, click here.
I'm getting
ready for my Southern California Genealogical Society 2011 Jamboree session on doing Chicago
genealogical research from afar. In the next few weeks, I’ll be posting
information about various Chicago resources to consider in addition to the
vital records and other sources in the session handout.
Today's list
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