Webinars ( WEB sem INARS ) are online seminars, usually in the form of a PowerPoint presentation where you can hear the presenter’s voice and see the charts. Some of the most recent webinars (these are FREE) include: * Getting the Most Out of Footnote at http://blog.footnote.com/the-worlds-first-footnote-webinar/ . * New England Historic Genealogical Society has quite a few online seminars at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/events/online_seminars.asp * Ancestry.com has many webinars
Some guy named Randy Seaver will present a program called The Nooks and Crannies of Ancestry.com at the Computer Oriented Genealogy Group ( COGG ) meeting of the North San Diego County Genealogical Society ( NSDCGS ) on Tuesday, 13 October at 10 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Carlsbad (CA) City Council Chambers (1200 Carlsbad Village Drive, Carlsbad CA 92008) and is open and free to the public. The publicity for the program says: Randy Seaver will enlighten his audien
Filed Under:
GenealogyTagged:
Ancestry Com,
Carlsbad Ca,
Carlsbad Village Drive,
City Council Chambers,
County Genealogical Society,
Genealogy Group,
Nooks And Crannies,
North San Diego,
North San Diego County,
Publicity,
San Diego County,
Seaver
My erstwhile genea -friend, The Genealogue (Chris Dunham ), has posted The Laziest Man in Genealogy (with not even a question mark!) saying: I must say I'm disappointed that Randy Seaver refuses to update Ancestry. com's 1930 U.S. census index to include the birthplaces of all the wives and children. He seems to be willing to do it for his relatives, but not for the millions of people who don't show up in his GEDCOM files. And he calls himself a Geneaholic ...
Filed Under:
GenealogyTagged:
Ancestry Com,
Birthplaces,
Census Index,
Dunham,
Erstwhile,
Gedcom Files,
Genealogy,
Lol,
People,
Question Mark,
Relatives,
Seaver,
U S Census
From the Article: Ready to find an obituary? While there’s no all-inclusive online obituary search resource, trying a few new search strategies can help. + Start with Ancestry.com for historic newspapers and obituaries. Remember, a tree posted by another branch of the family could include a scanned obituary for your relative. + Next, search the websites of newspapers that were considered local to the community in which your ancestor lived. Be sure to check newspapers in the hometown, bi
I posted Six weeks and counting ... yesterday because I could not think of something else to post, so I whined that Ancestry.com had not put my corrections to an 1870 US Census entry into their index yet. Voila! This morning my email inbox showed five messages from Ancestry.com like this one: I submitted corrections for five persons, and received five emails. I believe that this is just a coincidence that I squeaked yesterday and the action was taken yesterday. Good timing, I think! W
Next Page »
