October 26th - How are you celebrating during Family History Month?
This is the last week of Family History Month here in the USA. So what have you been doing to celebrate in October?
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Have you been attending any webinars? Did you attend NARA's virtual genealogy fair last week (if you missed it live, you can watch the recordings at their YouTube Channel)? Have you taken on a project for the month - whether that is cleaning up something in your Legacy family file or volunteering at a genealogy or historical society?
Are you busy working on your personal family history or perhaps a one-name study or a one-place study? Have you been following along here in the LVUG Community this month with the (mostly) daily prompts?
Today it is your turn - share what you have been doing during Family History Month with the rest of us (comment below). We still have a week left so if you haven't done anything special yet, why not close out the month with an activity or two.
I attended a seminar in OKC with Cyndi Ingle on October 24th. Of all the seminars I have attended, this one was very special. She conveyed a lot of information in a relatively short time. I have also worked through my "error" reports on Legacy. I have purchased a new computer and am preparing to work through Windows 10 as opposed to Windows 7. Then I will rest. :-)
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention that I volunteer at the Oklahoma Historical Society two days each week working in the photographic collection.
ReplyDeleteGreat Judy Burns
ReplyDeleteI went to a genealogy conference in my area 2 weeks ago, GenealogyCOMO, FamilySearch's conference. I'm still cleaning up my database and fixing potential problems.
ReplyDeleteMy goal this year was to organize all the family photos up until 1960 when my parents married, ID all individuals, scan, give each picture a unique ID number, put in archival binders, add labels to pictures, add to Legacy, create an index for my album. I was making great progress and thought I would complete my goal but then my mother found another whole album. Well, guess my 2015 goal is going to carry over to 2016. :) I have to say I am quite proud how nice my album has come out. Anyone I've shown the album to has been quite impressed. But on the other hand, maybe they were just being nice to me since they are my friends. Lol.
ReplyDeleteNo Yvonne Tallini I think others realize what a task it is to organize photos - and if you are including the labels and adding to Legacy - well done! We did a similar project with the dad's 74 carousels of slides and we chose to have them professionally scanned because we knew otherwise we would never finish! Going through the digitized images and adding the individual and stories has been a trip down memory lane and I am glad we are doing it now, but it is a long-term project. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI have begun researching my German ancestors with help from the Mecklenburg Facebook group especially. This past week, I made my first visit to my local Family History Center and began the process of looking at my first borrowed microfilm (church records from Parkentin Parish, Germany). I've been reading and practicing deciphering old German script as well as building a German vocabulary of genealogically important words. It's a new chapter and a stretch for my genealogical skills,, but I'm loving it and loving the new people I'm meeting as a result.
ReplyDeleteMelanie Armstrong I don't know that our Legacy files are ever perfect but we just keep at it and enjoy the process. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteLynn Dosch I think that Michele of Legacy has German roots as her one-name study is based (at least at the outset) with German records. Facebook has some great groups for any special interests in genealogy, I belong to a few of them. Also really useful for local genealogy groups who have a presence online.
ReplyDeleteDigging into German church records and discovering I was blissfully ignorant about what had previously been published about my father's line. Sons are really nephews, uncles are probably fathers, mothers are not the right grandmothers and am I ever happy that these records were microfilmed.
ReplyDeleteThat will keep you busy Mary Trogg. Yes we should be thankful that so many have gone before us to (1) keep records - some with better handwriting than others, (2) to make their records available to be copied, and (3) for those who have copied, microfilmed, scanned and shared these records with us - all over the world!
ReplyDeleteTessa Keough , that's a perfect way to lead into November with our gratitude for those who have gone before us and felt it important to leave records behind and for those who work diligently to make them available to the descendants.
ReplyDeleteWow - Lynn Dosch you summed it up beautifully!
ReplyDeleteI am so impressed. Well done ladies. I have little to report. OK, nothing. I do have several long term projects I dabble in now and then. One is to copy all the Find A Grave memorials into the "Research" tab on Legacy. I had the misfortune of having worked very hard on several memorials only to loose the work due to a mess with Find A Grave and a bitter volunteer. IT is a huge long story, but, I ended up with the memorials, worked on upgrading them, then, Find A Grave fussed around and all that work was lost, simply because, I felt the info would ALWAYS be there, and did not keep a copy in my files. I am in the "D"s. A way to go. Hopefully that will not happen again. SIGHHH
ReplyDeleteCarol Stevens an interesting lesson (don' we have building up that kind of knowledge). So in light of issue, what did you change about your process? I ask because we all think something online will always be there (wrong) or will be found at the Wayback Machine (wrong again). I guess the rule is - if you would like a record of something, make sure you make a record (either a screen capture, or a transcript, or a scan, or [fill in the blank]). Let us know what you are doing to recreate that wheel. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteCarol Stevens Yes, please, share more info. I'm relatively new at posting things to Find A Grave. How is it that info posted on Find a Grave disappears? People? or Find A Grave making changes. I've been posting some things and I don't want them to disappear!
ReplyDeleteSorry Tessa Keough and Lynn Dosch for the delay in getting back to you. We are packing up to leave for the winter. One week from today we pull out.
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Lynn, the situation was very complicated, involved the staff at Find A Grave, it was NOT a normal type of situation. They did a merge or something and the biographical data was lost. I would strongly suggest that you make copies of each memorial and storing somewhere. You could do as I do and put the info in the Research tab. Or, maybe in a burial fact. Or screen capture somewhere. I prefer to just copy/paste into the Research tab as it is easy to do and easy to replace if I want and easy to share if I want.
Tessa, I have not recovered or redone the memorials, yet. Sadly, the memorials now are more or less bare boned. I spent MANY hours on them, probably 3 full days on less than 15. They were glorious, while they lasted. SIGH
NOW, when I do a new memorial, or add to one, edit it in any way, I copy the entire memorial and paste it into the Research notes for that individual on Legacy. Especially if it is one that I spent considerable time on.
Right now, I am focusing on capturing the memorials that I have that connect to my lineage and doing just that. I have many that are NOT my family, and I am skipping those.
I hope that is clear, if you have further questions, please do ask and I'll try to clear up the issues.
thanks Carol Stevens , that info is very helpful and I'm glad it was a weird thing although I'm sorry it happened to you. It sounds like the research tab or death notes might be the best place to store these.
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