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FREEReg for Parish Record Searches in the UK

The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been extracted from parish registers and non-conformist church records in the UK. The recording of baptisms, marriages and burials in parish registers began in England in 1538.

This is a part of the FreeUKGEN Project and companion project to FreeBMD, which is a database of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837.

Records are to be made freely available through a search engine only, not as complete sets of data for a church. For complete transcriptions, where available, refer to the local County Records Offices, or Family History Societies.

The FreeREG database is just a finding tool. It should not be considered to be *proof*, or indeed that it is always 100% accurate, or contains all of the information in the actual register. Once you have found a record, then write to the relevant Family History Society or County Record Office, who, for a small fee, will obtain a print from the original register for you. In many cases you can also purchase a full transcript of the register from the FHS.

Search now at http://freereg.rootsweb.com/

Old Disease Names and their Modern Definitions

Reuben Crosby's cause of death was "gored by a bull." This is listed on the death record of my 5th great-grandfather in 1867. This cause of death was quite easy for me to understand.

However, on most of the death records I've viewed, the cause of death ranges from billiousness, to diptheria, to poliomyelitis -- certainly terms that are not as common today, and even have modern equivalents.

A good resource for understanding the medical terms used on your ancestor's record of death is found at Old Disease Names and their Modern Definitions.

Other links to diseases and medical terms is found at http://www.cyndislist.com/medical.htm#Diseases.

Santa Clara, CA Legacy class

Saturday, November 12, 2005; Santa Clara, CA

Millennia's Geoff Rasmussen will demonstrate Legacy 6.0 at the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group's monthly meeting. Anyone can attend - membership isn't required.

9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

875 Quince Avenue, Santa Clara, CA

Legacy products will be available for purchase (saves on shipping!)

For directions, or more information, visit http://svpafug.org/monthlymeetings.html

1851 England Census Now Online

Ancestry.com has now published the images and indexes to the 1851 England census.

The 1851 English census lists the names, ages, occupations, relationships to the head of the household, and parish and county of birth (except foreign births, which may give country only) of each member of the household.

Click here to begin your search.

Genealogy Quote

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

-- Helen Keller

Certified Genealogists

BCG Press Release
17 October 2005
BCG Credentials
For immediate release
For additional information contact:
Connie Lenzen, CG, at clenzen@dialoregon.net

The Board for Certification of Genealogists announced that, effective immediately, it has consolidated three research categories into one category that will be called Certified Genealogist^SM. All those holding a current credential as Certified Genealogical Records Specialist^SM, Certified Lineage Specialist^SM, or Certified Genealogist^SM will hold the designation of Certified Genealogist^SM. The board also established application requirements for the single credential and voted to continue the existing renewal requirements for those already certified.

The Board reached the decisions after extensive talks at the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees in Salt Lake City on October 16. Incoming board president Connie Miller Lenzen, CG^SM, of Portland, Oregon, explained that the change has been made for two reasons. “First, regardless of the type of work they do, all genealogists have the same skills. Second, having three research categories was confusing to both the genealogical community and the general public. The categories were different, but the differences were not well understood. We expect that the public can now more easily hire a certified person without being concerned about the differences. The one thing that will not change is the Board’s commitment to excellence in genealogical work.”

In May 2004, the Trustees approved the following motion, Lenzen continued: “Anyone demonstrating competence in all general skill areas of research, evidence analysis, kinship determination, and reporting should be eligible for certification as a genealogist, without further distinction or limitation. Upon implementation, all certified persons in any research category would hold the designation Certified Genealogist^SM.” After more than a year of discussion, soliciting input, planning, and writing, the Board voted on the final draft of the revised application guide.

The new requirements have been designed to test the four skill areas used by all genealogists. The requirements are:
1. Acceptance of the Genealogist’s Code.
2. Background resume
3. Document work with a BCG-supplied document: transcribe, abstract, and evaluate the document, prepare a research plan.
4. Document work with an applicant-supplied document: transcribe, abstract, and evaluate the document, prepare a research plan
5. Research report prepared for a client
6. Case study of conflicting or indirect evidence
7. Kinship determination project. The project is to include at least three couples in successive ancestral generations. The project may be in the form of a narrative genealogy, narrative lineage, or narrative pedigree.

Complete details for each requirement will be posted on the BCG website, www.bcgcertification.org, by December 1 of this year. Beginning January 1, 2006, only applications using the new requirements will be accepted. The new BCG Application Guide will be available at the National Genealogical Society conference in Chicago in June 2006.

The trustees also determined that individuals certified by BCG will still need to renew their certification every five years and that requirements for renewal will remain the same as they are now, regardless of the certification category previously held. Those requirements include an updated resume and the submission of up to four work samples. Current holders of the CGRS^SM and CLS^SM credentials will have until November 1, 2006 to make the transition to the CG^SM credential. BCG’s teaching categories, Certified Genealogical Lecturer^SM and Certified Genealogical Instructor^SM, are not affected by the change to a single research credential.

Also unchanged is the two-step application process. Individuals file a preliminary application form and then have up to one year to submit their completed portfolio. Those who have already filed a preliminary application form will have the opportunity to decide whether to continue under the previous requirements or convert to the new requirements. Any preliminary applications filed on or after January 1, 2006 must follow the new requirements.

Since its founding in 1964, The Board for Certification of Genealogists has promulgated--in research, lectures, and publications--attainable, uniform standards of competence and ethics that have become generally accepted throughout the field. Its publication, The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual, sets forth the currently accepted standards for all areas of genealogical research.

Legacy Tip: Choose your Startup View

Legacy 6's new Legacy Home tab has been so popular, that many users would like this tab to be the tab that automatically appears when they start Legacy.

In fact, you can easily customize Legacy 6 to startup with any of the following options:

• Legacy Home
• Family View
• Pedigree View
• Descendant View
• Chronology View
• Index View
• Research Guidance
• or start with the last-used view

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Click on the Options menu in the upper right.
2. Click on Customize.
3. Click on the General tab.
4. In the Program Startup section, select the desired startup view.
5. Click Save in the lower left.

Census Taker Burns Forms

from The Yomiuri Shimbun -

A census taker from Bando, Ibaraki Prefecture, burned census forms after reportedly becoming angry with uncooperative people, according to the prefectural government.

"I can't deal with people who live in apartments. Can I just burn all the forms?" he reportedly said in a phone call to city hall.

Read the whole story here.

Are Those Internet Genealogy Subscription Services Really Worth It?

There are many good genealogy subscription services available on the Internet. I have subscribed to most of them at one time or another. Are they really worth it? My answer is YES.

Let me give one example in the way of an unsolicited testimonial. For nearly 30 years I searched unsuccessfully for the parents of my great-grandmother Margaret Ann O'Brien. I had only meager information from one old letter, the 1881 census of York Co., Ontario, and her rather incomplete 1883 death certificate.

Over the years I had searched all O'Brien and variant surnames in every available York Co., Ontario, census; read and re-read every O'Brien will; perused county land records over and over; as well as searched church and cemetery records. I also searched records for the adjoining counties. None of these efforts paid off. It was obvious that the O'Brien family came from somewhere outside my search area and that I had to broaden my efforts considerably -- unfortunately Ontario is a big province.

Then I subscribed to Ancestry.com and searched for the name Margaret O'Brien from Ontario. Wow! There she was! At the top of the Search Results list under Census Records there were two Margaret O'Brien entries for the 1861 Durham Co., Ontario census!

There were entries for other counties, but I had a gut feeling about Durham County: Margaret Ann O'Brien married my great-grandfather Frank Lyall about 1875. Frank's grandfather, as well as some aunts and uncles, had lived in Durham County -- maybe he met Margaret there while visiting. Subsequent research into Durham County records proved my hunch. I couldn't have done it without my Ancestry.com subscription!

I don't advocate signing up for every subscription service available. That can be very expensive and redundant. Before you subscribe, check out the service thoroughly. Keep in mind these points:

· Consider the cost. I can't afford to fly to Salt Lake City as often as I would like, so an online subscription service makes sense. Furthermore, when I can get to the Family History Library, my research is more productive because I have done my "homework" online.

· Take advantage of free trial subscription offers. This is an excellent way of finding out how you like the service. If you are on a tight budget, don't forget about libraries and archives! Some institutions (not all) subscribe to AncestryPlus, Heritage Quest or related services. Libraries and archives are supported by your tax dollars and overdue book fines, so you might as well use them!

· Make sure that the service offers the kinds of records for the time periods countries, states, counties, etc. that will help you. Some Internet sites are strong in one area; others in another. For example, the The New England Historic Genealogical Society (http://www.newenglandancestors.org) is a regional Web site brimming with resources and databases for the northeastern United States.

· Look at how the data is organized at the Web site. For example, I like Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com because it's easy for me to focus my search on a specific location or type of record. I simply select a country and click on a state or province. I am then shown a list of available databases that pertain to that location. On the other hand, some web sites don't make it easy for you because their information may be poorly organized. (Web designers are not librarians experienced in cataloging.)

· Look at the search engine. Does it allow Soundex searches and wild card searches? Can you add key words to your searches? Soundex and wildcard searches will help you find all of the pertinent records, regardless of spelling variations. Key words will allow you to filter your search, thereby eliminating superfluous Search Results. On the other hand, the search engines at some web sites can only find exactly what you type with no other options. This can result in missed records or hundreds of irrelevant returns (not enough or too much).

· Do the search results provide links to images of the original documents? Most online subscription services do offer links to images of censuses and occasionally family histories or other records. I mention this here because I print these images, where available. In most cases these are just as good as photocopies made from books or printouts made from microfilms at libraries and archives! These images can also be saved as files that you can attach to your source information in Legacy. (Be sure to document the complete source information on each printout.)

· Documentation is highly important. The online service you choose should provide full bibliographic citation for the source of the information. At Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com, Heritage Quest and other Web sites each database is fully described and includes the source of the information. It fairly easy to copy and paste these citations into the Master Source list in Legacy. For example:

Platt, Lyman. Irish Records Extraction Database [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-.

The author's name should be pasted into the author field, the title into the title field, and so forth. Be sure to select the appropriate options for formatting when in the Master Source screen.

Jim Terry

Humor: the Census

Census Taker: "Good morning, madam, I'm taking the census."

Old Lady: "The what?"

Census Taker: "The c-e-n-s-u-s!"

Old Lady: "For lans sakes! What with tramps takin' everythin' they kin lay their han's on, young folks takin' fotygrafs of ye without so much as askin', an' impudent fellows comin' roun' as wants ter take yer senses, pretty soon there won't be nothin' left ter take, I'm thinkin'."

--1890 Harper's Weekly

Picture from the Past - Book Releases Genealogy Bug

Walking by University of Arizona's Main Gate one day, I came across a book displayed in the Arizona Bookstore window, "Los Tucsonenses" by Tom Sheridan.

I went in, asked for a copy and just for the heck of it browsed through the index to see if I'd find any familiar family names. And there he was. Jesus Maria Celaya, my maternal grandfather. I then looked up the page referring to him and was hooked. I'd been bitten by the genealogy bug.

. . . Continue reading here

Internet Tip: Adjust the Text Size

It's well-known - the Internet has a lot of good information. If only we could read it. . . .

Some of us have more aged "experienced" eyes. The words on the screen just aren't big enough sometimes. Fortunately, for those of us who use Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox Internet browsers, the text size is easy to increase.

Internet Explorer instructions:

1. Click on the View menu.
2. Click on Text Size.
3. Select the desired text size (largest, larger, medium, smaller, smallest).

Firefox instructions:

1. Click on the View menu.
2. Click on Text Size.
3. Select the desired text size (increase, decrease, normal).

Give it a try with this newsletter article. Let us know if this helped - leave a comment below.

Legacy Tip: View More Children at a Time

In the Family View there is room to display up to 15 children at once. By default, however, only 10 children appear. It is helpful to be able to see more at a time, especially if you have turned on the displaying of the 1/2 children (explained in Your 12-Step Checklist to Using Legacy training CD).

Step-by-step instructions:

1. In the Family View, right-click on any child.
2. Click on View.
3. Select the desired # of columns (1 shows 5 children; 2 shows 10 children; 3 shows 15 columns)

When is a Marriage Date Not a Marriage Date?

Researchers should be aware: When searching out marriage records, you will often find different kinds of documents with slightly varying dates. For example, on March 6, 1828, John Jones obtained a marriage bond in Quebec City, Quebec, in order to marry Lydia Osborne. The bond was signed by Francis Osborne (the bride's father) and John Jones. The actual marriage, however, took place the following day, March 7, at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church.

In addition, there may be certain rare instances where banns were published, or a marriage bond or license was obtained, but the actual marriage never took place. Maybe someone protested or there was a legal problem or the groom got cold feet! The following are some facts related to marriages that will help beginning researchers better understand the various kinds of documents that might (or might not) be found:

• Banns: Banns was the public announcement of an intent to marry, usually read out loud in church on the three consecutive Sundays prior to the marriage. This provided advance notice to those who might have reason to object. When the bride and groom live in different parishes, you can sometimes find banns published in both locations.

• Civil Marriage: A marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman.

• Common Law Marriage: A marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony. No record will be found.

• Consent Affidavit: Consent given by a parent or guardian (usually the father) in cases where the bride or groom was under the minimum legal age for marriage.

• Marriage Allegation: When a man and a woman wished to marry without having the banns read out in church, they usually applied to the bishop or archdeacon for a special license called a marriage allegation. This may have been to avoid the three week delay or simply to avoid the publicity of banns. The couple might also have been away which would have made it difficult to arrange banns in their home parish.

• Marriage Bond: A legal document obtained by an engaged couple prior to their marriage. It provided a guarantee that there was no moral or legal impediment to the marriage. Sometimes the man affirmed in the bond that he would be able to support himself and his new bride. The bond date is usually not the actual marriage date.

• Marriage License: A legal permit authorizing a man and a woman to marry. It is issued upon application at a local court house or city hall. The couple to be married present the license to the person performing the marriage ceremony who, in turn, completes the information and returns it to the office that issued it. This information is then transferred to the couple's marriage certificate. The license application date, often recorded in indexes, is typically not the date of the actual marriage.

• Marriage of Convenience: A marriage for expediency rather than love.

• Church or Parish Record: A register kept by a church of marriages conducted within the congregation. Besides the names of the individuals being married, it may also contain their ages, occupation and residence, the clergyman's name, and possibly the names of sponsors.

And what if you bump into the situation where you have discovered both a marriage bond and a church marriage record? Simply record the actual marriage date and place in Legacy's Marriage Information screen in the normal way. Next add the marriage bond information in the lower half of the screen as an Event. This removes all ambiguity or confusion other researches might have. This same procedure can be used for the publication of banns or license dates.

Legacy classes in Washington State

The Redmond Stake Family History Faire in Redmond, Washington, will be held on Saturday, October 29, 2005 from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm. If you live in the area, don't miss the two classes being taught on Legacy 6.

For more information, contact Mark Hoover at markhoover64@hotmail.com ph. (425) 869 5656; or Bob Mullen at BobMullen6@msn.com ph. (425) 392-2131

Held at Redmond Stake Center, 10115 172nd Ave NE, Redmond, WA

For other Legacy-related events in your area, please visit our calendar at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Calendar.asp

Legacy Update Now Available - 14 Oct 2005 (6.0.0.70)

Legacy 6.0 Deluxe Edition Users

If you have Legacy 6.0 Deluxe Edition then start Legacy and click on the “Install and Download Now” link on the Legacy Home tab. (If you're reading this from within the Legacy Home tab, you'll first need to click on the Home button in the top left.)

Legacy 6.0 Standard Edition Users

Standard Edition users are required to visit our web site in order to download the new update. http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

Changed

• Chronology View - Added a new tab on the Chronology View Options screen to let the user select between Arial and Times New Roman for each column of the screen display.

Fixed

• Timelines in Chronologies - Life range now works correctly in conjunction with the other options.
• Color for timeline events in Chronologies - Was stuck on Orange.  Fixed.
• Fixed a problem with short locations being used wrong after the option was used in the publication center.

To view past updates, click here.

Support offices closed Oct 15-24

It's that time of year again - Millennia's annual Legacy Cruise 2005

Since all of us will be "working hard" and teaching lots of genealogy and Legacy classes, our support offices will be closed from Saturday, October 15 - Monday, October 24. Email and telephone support will resume Tuesday, October 25.

The sales office will still be open - orders will still be processed and shipped.

Next year's cruise will be to Alaska - read more here.

2006 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy - Register Now

One of the premier genealogy events of the year, the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy begins Monday, 9 January 2006 at 7:00 am and concludes Friday, 13 January 2006 at 9:00 pm. Classes begin Monday morning following the breakfast. Check-in will be available on Sunday evening and Monday morning. Tuition for all students includes the Monday breakfast, Monday evening social, Tuesday 7pm speaker, and Friday evening banquet.

For five days you will be taught by some of the best genealogists in the country.  Select one of nine courses for a comprehensive learning and practicing experience.  The Institute is only one block from the largest genealogy library in the world, the Family History Library.  Most courses cover 20 hours of instruction.

Ranging from the Advanced Methodology Course to individualized Genealogical Problem Solving; from Power Tools for Internet Genealogy to going Beyond the Records of the Family History Library, there is up-to-date training for everyone.  You should reserve your place now.

If you happen to be in Salt Lake during that time but cannot afford the entire day off, there are evening classes open to all, but you must register before hand. You may register online.

To register, or for more information, visit http://www.infouga.org/slc.aspx

Legacy Update Now Available - 11 Oct 2005 (6.0.0.69)

Legacy 6.0 Deluxe Edition Users

If you have Legacy 6.0 Deluxe Edition then start Legacy and click on the “Install and Download Now” link on the Legacy Home tab. (If you're reading this from within the Legacy Home tab, you'll first need to click on the Home button in the top left.)

Legacy 6.0 Standard Edition Users

Standard Edition users are required to visit our web site in order to download the new update. http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com

New

Timelines - Three new timeline files have been added:

• Australian Events
• Pennsylvania - Colonial
• LDS Events

Research Guidance

• Canada - added links to online 1901 and 1911 census indexes
• Canada - added links to online Upper and Lower Canada Marriage Bonds,
  1779-1865
• England - added local histories from the Family History Library's collection
  of Bedfordshire (see Local Histories Tab of the Preliminary Survey)
• Netherlands - added guidance and online links for civil registration (births,
  marriages, deaths)
• United States - added three additional online repositories for the U.S.
  Social Security Death Index

Chronology View

• Added option to select a color for the timeline events
• Timeline events are now automatically filtered to display those that occurred during the person's lifespan

1851 England and Wales Census - Coming Soon

Ancestry.com is excited to bring you the 1851 Census covering England, Wales, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. You'll soon be able to access more than 17 million names indexed for easy online searching.

To learn more, or to be notified when it launches, click here.

Legacy Tip: Alarm Clock

If you're like a lot of genealogists, you get your best work done during the middle of the night.  There comes a point that we should really get to bed - so we'll have enough energy to spend another full day doing genealogy. (Now wouldn't that be ideal!)

Legacy's built-in Alarm Center lets you set a pop-up alarm reminding you to go to bed, pick up the kids, or anything you need.

To use the alarm feature, you must first set the activation time and message:

1. Click on the Options menu and select the Alarm Setting option.  (You can also click on the time indicator at the bottom of the main window.)
2. Specify the alarm display time by setting the hour, minutes and AM-PM indicator. 
3. Turn the alarm on by clicking ON. 
4. Specify the Snooze time.  This is the number of minutes before the alarm message is displayed again if Snooze is clicked.
5. Enter a message to be displayed when the alarm is activated.  This could be a reminder, such as writing that letter to Aunt Mary, or it could be just a note telling yourself that it's late and you have to go to work tomorrow. . . .
6. When everything is set correctly, click OK.

When the alarm time is reached (according to the system time set in your computer), the Alarm Message window displays the current time and  message.   You can choose to work a little longer by clicking Snooze, turn the alarm off, reset the alarm to the same time tomorrow or reset the alarm to a new time.

Humor: Without Peers. . . .

When the woman was asked what was the best thing about being 105 years old, she responded "No peer pressure!"

Submitted by Sharon Payne Perdue

If you have a good genealogy joke or anecdote to share, please send it to Editor@MillenniaCorp.com

7 Tips for Shooting Great Digital Photos

Do you have trouble shooting good digital photos? Perhaps you've been taking digital photos for some time, but never really got the beautiful shots you wanted. Maybe you somehow messed up the photos you took of important events, like your daughter's birthday or your trip to Paris.

Read these tips on shooting digital photos and apply them the next time you have a chance. Before long, you'll be shooting photos like a pro!

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Beginning Your Irish Research on the Right Foot

Mention Irish research and many genealogists groan. That's because on 13 April, 1922, a disastrous fire in the Four Courts building (the Public Record Office) in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed virtually all pre-1901 Irish census records, wills, and Church of Ireland parish registers. The result is that Irish genealogical research is more difficult than research in the rest of the British Isles -- More difficult, but not entirely impossible in many instances.

Because the loss of many Irish records, it is highly important that you start your Irish genealogical research in the country of immigration (for example, the United States, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand). Make a comprehensive search of available records in the country of immigration. Search out family traditions; birth, marriage and death records; obituaries; cemetery records; wills; Bibles; census records; plus immigration and naturalization records. Look for the full names of your immigrant ancestors; their dates of birth and/or marriage in Ireland; their place of residence in Ireland; their religion, occupation; dates of emigration, etc. This preliminary research will greatly increase the probability of actually locating Irish records. To have the best chance of success, it is necessary to know at least four things:

· The name of the family
· The parish or townland in which they lived
· The approximate date
· Religious affiliation

A few records were saved from the conflagration and many records can be located at local levels. Reconstructing lost records has been the quest of both historians and genealogists, who have compiled substitute records, plus made available various indices, abstracts, and transcriptions of records that were created before the fire. Despite these gallant efforts, serious gaps in Irish records remain.

In addition, the highly important registers of births, deaths and marriages, which are indexed by quarters, were not housed in the Four Courts building and so did not burn. Most of these vital records date from 1864. Records for births, deaths and Catholic marriages commenced in 1864. Records for non-Catholic marriages date from 1845. The quarterly indices are available on microfilm through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Once a record has been located in an index, it can be ordered from either the General Register Office of Ireland (Dublin) or the General Register Office of Northern Ireland (Belfast).

In addition, there is information available on the Internet. As with other research, you should know the surname, place or residence and approximate date so that you can effectively focus your search on pertinent Web sites.

Here are a few Irish genealogy Internet links to get you started:

· Cyndi's List - Ireland and Northern Ireland. Find useful links to 'How To' articles, county Heritage Centres, maps, gazetteers, censuses, cemeteries and more: http://www.cyndislist.com/ireland.htm

· FamilySearch - Family History Library Catalog. Search the catalog by a specific place in Ireland to learn what records are available in Salt Lake City or that can be ordered through local Family History Centers. Search by surname to find compiled genealogies of your Irish ancestors: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

· The General Register Office of Ireland: http://www.groireland.ie/

· The National Archives of Ireland. Learn how to research your family history and use the records held in the National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/index.html

· The National Library of Ireland. Library material much used by family history researchers includes the microfilms of Catholic parish registers, copies of the important nineteenth century land valuations (the Tithe Applotment Books and Griffith's Valuation), trade and social directories, estate records and newspapers: http://www.nli.ie/default.asp

· The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI). PRONI hold millions of documents which relate chiefly, but by no means exclusively, to present-day Northern Ireland. The earliest record dates from 1219, with the main concentration of records covering the period 1600 to the present: http://www.proni.gov.uk/

· The General Register Office of Northern Ireland (GRONI): http://www.groni.gov.uk/index.htm

· IrishGenealogy.com. Over 200 MB of useful information and databases for Irish researchers: http://www.irishgenealogy.com

· GENUKI: UK and Ireland Genealogy. A large collection of genealogical information England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/

· Genealogical Society of Ireland. Articles and publications for Irish researchers: http://www.dun-laoghaire.com/genealogy

· North of Ireland Family History Society. Geared to families with roots in Northern Ireland: http://www.nifhs.org

· Ulster Historical Foundation. Research services and databases (for members): http://www.uhf.org.uk

· The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA). Searchable databases: http://tiara.ie

· Irish Freeholders' Records DatabaseFreeholders' records are lists of people entitled to vote, or of people who voted, at elections. A freeholder was a man who owned his land outright (in fee) or who held it by lease:  http://www.proni.gov.uk/freeholders/ . 

· The Church of Ireland Genealogy and Family History

The archives of the Church of Ireland, and particularly parochial registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, are a primary source for genealogists and family historians. Although many registers were destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, many others have survived and are available to researchers: http://www.ireland.anglican.org/library/libroots.html

· Resources pertaining to all of Ireland
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/irish.html

· World-Wide Genealogy Resources: Ireland, Island of
http://www.genhomepage.com/world.html

· Familia: The UK and Ireland's guide to genealogical resources in public libraries: http://www.familia.org.uk/textindex.html

Originally published 25 Feb 2005 in the Legacy Family Tree newsletter.

Legacy Crossword

Across

4. Maximum entries in the history list
5. Timeline
7. A built-in tool to help you go to bed on time
8. Maximum # of children per marriage

Down

1. Automatically assigned to each person
2. Evidence
3. Combine duplicates
6. The best genealogy program ever

Click on image below for the solution:

 

Legacy 6 Interview on DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour Internet Radio Show

Here's the lineup for today's Family History Hour Internet Radio Show:

• Geoff Rasmussen - Legacy Family Tree version 6
• James W. Petty, AG®, CGRSSM, B.A. (History), B.S. (Genealogy) - headright system in 17th Century Virginia
• Grace DuMelle, author - Finding Your Chicago Ancestors
• Extra input from: Maggie Stewart, editor of the USGenWeb Archives Newsletter

CLICK HERE to listen to the radio show.

Five Golden Rules for Growing Family Trees

from Kimberly Powell . . .

As with real trees, all your family tree really needs to grow and flourish is a little of your time (or a lot if you're as addicted as I am!) and some attention to the basics. Digitized census records, DNA tests, and merge-matching software are wonderful inventions, but applying these five essential rules to your family tree research will go a much longer way to achieving genealogy success.

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Family History Day - California State Archives

Have you ever wondered about your family lineage? Have you ever wondered how to research your family tree? Wonder where to start?

Start planning now to attend the 6th annual Family History Day! You'll find short classes on a variety of subjects: beginning genealogy, what's available at local institutions, computer software and demonstrations, preservation techniques, and much more. Click here for Family History Day 2005 flyer. (PDF 167KB)

• When: Saturday, October 15, 2005 8:30 - 4:00 Click here for class schedule. (PDF 50KB)
• Where: California State Archives, 1020 "O" Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, (916) 653-7715
• Transportation: Take Light Rail to the Archives Plaza stop. Or if you drive, park free in the Golden State Museum parking lots located at 10th and "O" Streets (entrance off alley between "O" and "N" Streets) or at 11th and "P" Streets. Parking available on a first come first served basis.
• For more information: Check out the Root Cellar-Sacramento Genealogical Society web site or call the Genealogical & Historical Council at (916) 682-3381.

Legacy Video Tip: Family View Labels

This quick tip is also available as a FREE video.

There are up to five lines on both the Husband and Wife boxes of the Family View that can display information. Each of these information lines can be changed to other pieces of information you might want to view instead. To change the lines:

Step 1: Click on any of the descriptive labels to the left of the lines.

Step 2: If you would rather view something other than the cause of death, click on the button that has the three dots, next to the cause of death line.

Step 3: This is the list of different field names that you can display. Just click on the desired field name and click Select, then click Close

Notice that the Age at Death is now displayed for each person, here, in the Family View.

This quick tip is also available as a FREE video.