An obituary for Dolores Aguilar was published on 16 and 17 August 2008 in the Vallejo [California] Times-Herald. It read:
"Dolores Aguilar 1929 - Aug. 7, 2008
"Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008. She will be met in the afterlife by her husband, Raymond, her son, Paul Jr., and daughter, Ruby. She is survived by her daughters Marietta, Mitzi, Stella, Beatrice, Virginia and Ramona, and son Billy; grandchildren, Donnelle, Joe, Mitzie, Maria, Mario, Marty, Tynette, Tania, Leta, Alexandria, Tommy, Billy, Mathew, Raymond, Kenny, Javier, Lisa, Ashlie and Michael; great-grandchildren, Brendan, Joseph, Karissa, Jacob, Delaney, Shawn, Cienna, Bailey, Christian, Andre Jr., Andrea, Keith, Saeed, Nujaymah, Salma, Merissa, Emily, Jayci, Isabella, Samantha and Emily. I apologize if I missed anyone.
"Dolores had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life. I speak for the majority of her family when I say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed and there will be no lamenting over her passing. Her family will remember Dolores and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years. We may have some fond memories of her and perhaps we will think of those times too. But I truly believe at the end of the day ALL of us will really only miss what we never had, a good and kind mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. I hope she is finally at peace with herself.
"As for the rest of us left behind, I hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again. There will be no service, no prayers and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart. We cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes. So I say here for all of us, GOOD BYE, MOM."
Isn't that a sad commentary for a life? Was it a "real" obituary - did her daughter really mean to run something so "down?" Apparently so, according to Snopes - see the commentary here.
Can you imagine a great-great-grandchild doing genealogy research in the year 2050 and finding this gem that lists all of the family members. Unfortunately, it doesn't list the surnames of the daughters, the grandchildren or great-grandchildren. But then the "Mother of all Genealogy Databases" will probably know them already, right? Or not. If there isn't a MOAGD available, it will be an interesting family history project.
My other thought is "will the 'sins' of the parents be visited on the descendants even to the fifth generation?" I sincerely hope not.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Family Photographs - Post 19: Smith/Carringer Newlyweds
I'm posting old family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless posts like others do - I simply am incapable of having a wordless post.
Here is one of the most precious (to me) images from my Smith/Carringer family collection:
This Cabinet Card is of Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946) and Abbie Ardell (Della) (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944). It was taken at the Chicago Studio in San Diego )located at the Corner of 7th and H Streets in downtown San Diego - H Street is now Market Street), California in between September 1887 (when they were married in Kansas and arrived in San Diego ) to early 1889 (Della had their first baby in May 1889). My first impression was that this was a wedding picture since they are in very formal clothes. It may well be their formal wedding picture - there may not have been a photographer in Wano, Kansas in 1887.
The clothes are, however, different from those in the pictures put into their marriage certificate - seen here. I think that Austin's hair looks sparser and lighter in the certificate picture, and they both look older in the certificate picture.
This photograph was handed down from Austin and Della (Smith) Carringer to their son Lyle Lawrence Carringer, to their daughter Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (who married Fred Seaver) to me, their son.
Here is one of the most precious (to me) images from my Smith/Carringer family collection:
This Cabinet Card is of Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946) and Abbie Ardell (Della) (Smith) Carringer (1862-1944). It was taken at the Chicago Studio in San Diego )located at the Corner of 7th and H Streets in downtown San Diego - H Street is now Market Street), California in between September 1887 (when they were married in Kansas and arrived in San Diego ) to early 1889 (Della had their first baby in May 1889). My first impression was that this was a wedding picture since they are in very formal clothes. It may well be their formal wedding picture - there may not have been a photographer in Wano, Kansas in 1887.
The clothes are, however, different from those in the pictures put into their marriage certificate - seen here. I think that Austin's hair looks sparser and lighter in the certificate picture, and they both look older in the certificate picture.
This photograph was handed down from Austin and Della (Smith) Carringer to their son Lyle Lawrence Carringer, to their daughter Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (who married Fred Seaver) to me, their son.
Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 19: Source Reports
I installed FamilyTreeMaker 2008 in early July and uploaded a large database to see how it worked. I also started a new database to test other program features. Please see the list at the bottom of this post for the earlier posts.
In this post, I want to display some pages from the Source Reports generated by FamilyTreeMaker 2008.
I'm using my 4th-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816), in my database as a starting point for these reports.
When you click on the [Publish] icon on the top menu, you see a list of the different Charts and Reports that can be generated in the left-hand panel. I clicked on "Source Reports" and got this screen:
There are three types of Source Reports available:
1) Source Usage Report - this report displays all of the sources you have and lists the individuals and facts associated with each source. The user can select Immediate Family, All Individuals or Selected Individuals. I selected Immediate Family and received a three page report for Benjamin Seaver's family. The first page is shown below:
In this post, I want to display some pages from the Source Reports generated by FamilyTreeMaker 2008.
I'm using my 4th-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816), in my database as a starting point for these reports.
When you click on the [Publish] icon on the top menu, you see a list of the different Charts and Reports that can be generated in the left-hand panel. I clicked on "Source Reports" and got this screen:
There are three types of Source Reports available:1) Source Usage Report - this report displays all of the sources you have and lists the individuals and facts associated with each source. The user can select Immediate Family, All Individuals or Selected Individuals. I selected Immediate Family and received a three page report for Benjamin Seaver's family. The first page is shown below:
2) Source Bibliography Report - this report creates a bibliography for your family tree based on the source information you have entered. This report creates a complete bibliography for all sources in your database. The list of sources looks like this (but I don't have "perfect" source citations, - this is GIGO):
3) Documented Facts Report - this report lists all of the Facts in your tree for which you have source information. In this report, you can select Immediate Family, All Individuals or Selected Individuals. I chose Immediate Family and the first page is shown below:
Each of these reports is fairly standard and very useful. You can determine which facts you have source information for. Of course, if you have done a poor job of sourcing all of your information, as I have, you will get poorly written citations and a fairly short list!
Previous posts in this series:
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 1: Loading. Installing the program and uploading an existing database file.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 2: Exploring. Looking around the uploaded database file to see what the different views look like.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 3: The Menus. Most of the menus were itemized and described.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 4: Starting a New Tree. I started a new tree and added some people demonstrating the program options to do this.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 5: Adding a Source. I added sources to the Facts that I previously entered.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 6: Adding Children to a Family. I added children to a family.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 7: The Person Menu. I described the items in the Person menu and attached a spouse to a person.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 8: Finding a Person in the database. I described three ways to Find a person.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 9: Places I. I explored the vagaries of the Places icon.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 10: Places II. The different map types are discussed and displayed.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 11: Places III. The method to Resolve many places with standardized place names is explored.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 12: Charts I. Introduction to Charts and examples of pedigree and descendants charts.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 13: Charts II. Examples of Hourglass, Relationships and Vertical Pedigree Charts.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 14: Charts III. Examples of large wall charts created by FTM 2008.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 15: Genealogy Reports. Description and display of Register (descendant) and Ahnentafel (ancestor) Reports.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 16: Person Reports. Description and display of 5 different reports, including Individual Reports and Custom Reports.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 17: Relationship Reports. Description and display of Family Group Sheet, Kinship Report, Marriage Report, Parentage Report, and Outline Descendant Report.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 18: Place Usage Reports. Description and display of the Place Usage report.
The next post will start a series on Media - the photos, audio, video, and document images that you can add to your database.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
New FamilySearch web site testers requested
I received this notice in email from Tina, about the LDS New FamilySearch site:
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is developing a new version of the FamilySearch.org Web site. This new Web site will help individuals identify ancestors and link them to families, and it will help Church members perform temple ordinances for their ancestors.
Can you volunteer an hour of time to help evaluate this new Web site? Do you know someone else who might be interested? We are looking for feedback to help make the Web site as easy and enjoyable to use as possible. We are especially interested in feedback from individuals who are new to family history.
Anyone over age 18 interested in participating in this evaluation is invited to go to the following Internet address to sign-up: http://labs.familysearch.org/temple/static/signup.htm
Thank you for your interest and enthusiasm. We greatly value your time and opinion.
Sincerely,
The FamilySearch User Experience Evaluation Team
Family History Department
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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That certainly looks interesting, doesn't it? I'm tempted to sign up just to get a sneak peek at the site!
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is developing a new version of the FamilySearch.org Web site. This new Web site will help individuals identify ancestors and link them to families, and it will help Church members perform temple ordinances for their ancestors.
Can you volunteer an hour of time to help evaluate this new Web site? Do you know someone else who might be interested? We are looking for feedback to help make the Web site as easy and enjoyable to use as possible. We are especially interested in feedback from individuals who are new to family history.
Anyone over age 18 interested in participating in this evaluation is invited to go to the following Internet address to sign-up: http://labs.familysearch.org/temple/static/signup.htm
Thank you for your interest and enthusiasm. We greatly value your time and opinion.
Sincerely,
The FamilySearch User Experience Evaluation Team
Family History Department
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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That certainly looks interesting, doesn't it? I'm tempted to sign up just to get a sneak peek at the site!
Table of Contents for New England Historical and Genealigcal Register - July 2008
The Table of Contents for the July 2008 issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Volume 162, Number 3, Whole Number 647), published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, includes:
Page 163 - Editorial
Page 164 -- The English Origins of Elizabeth Dowse, Wife of Governor Samuel Allen of New Hampshire, by Martin E. Hollock.
Page 174 -- Gowen Wilson of Hingham, Exeter and Kittery, by Ken Stevens
Page 181 -- The Mays of Washington, Massachusetts, and the Parents of Nancy (May) Fletcher and Susan (MAy) Seagers, by Christopher Challender Child.
Page 187 -- Richard Godfrey of Taunton, Massachusetts, and His Children and Grandchildren, by Helen Schatvet Ullman.
Page 199 -- A Husband for Abigail Pattee: James Lamb of the 78th Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders), by Virginia M. Ryan and Marie Lollo Scalisi.
Page 204 -- Richard Scarrit of New London and Branford, Connecticut, by Diane Leblanc Delbridge.
Page 212 -- Identifying Mercy, Wife of Thomas Hinckley of Harwich, Massachusetts, As Mercy (Bangs) (Hinckley) Cole, by Glade Ion Nelson (concluded from 162:112).
Page 222 -- New England Articles in Genealogical Journals in 2006, by Henry B. Hoff.
As always, this peer-reviewed scholarly journal finds interesting and helpful articles for the New England researcher, even if they aren't his families (they almost never are it seems). I do have a probable connection to the Bangs and Cole families through my elusive Elizabeth Dill.
I usually find a research nugget or two when I review the articles. One of the clues in the Abigail Pattee article was a diary entry of her brother, Matthew Patten, which refers to her as "Sister Lamb." In this article, there is also the reminder that colonial women may have married English soldiers.
Page 163 - Editorial
Page 164 -- The English Origins of Elizabeth Dowse, Wife of Governor Samuel Allen of New Hampshire, by Martin E. Hollock.
Page 174 -- Gowen Wilson of Hingham, Exeter and Kittery, by Ken Stevens
Page 181 -- The Mays of Washington, Massachusetts, and the Parents of Nancy (May) Fletcher and Susan (MAy) Seagers, by Christopher Challender Child.
Page 187 -- Richard Godfrey of Taunton, Massachusetts, and His Children and Grandchildren, by Helen Schatvet Ullman.
Page 199 -- A Husband for Abigail Pattee: James Lamb of the 78th Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders), by Virginia M. Ryan and Marie Lollo Scalisi.
Page 204 -- Richard Scarrit of New London and Branford, Connecticut, by Diane Leblanc Delbridge.
Page 212 -- Identifying Mercy, Wife of Thomas Hinckley of Harwich, Massachusetts, As Mercy (Bangs) (Hinckley) Cole, by Glade Ion Nelson (concluded from 162:112).
Page 222 -- New England Articles in Genealogical Journals in 2006, by Henry B. Hoff.
As always, this peer-reviewed scholarly journal finds interesting and helpful articles for the New England researcher, even if they aren't his families (they almost never are it seems). I do have a probable connection to the Bangs and Cole families through my elusive Elizabeth Dill.
I usually find a research nugget or two when I review the articles. One of the clues in the Abigail Pattee article was a diary entry of her brother, Matthew Patten, which refers to her as "Sister Lamb." In this article, there is also the reminder that colonial women may have married English soldiers.
Piggly Wiggly and more
Lori Thornton started a meme about the Stores of Yesteryear on her Smoky Mountain Family Historian blog. She suggested that genea-bloggers write about their memories of the stores from their past. The meme suggests these questions:
* What stores do you remember from the past that aren't around any more?
* Where were they located? (I know some of you moved around a lot.)
* What did the store sell?
* Do you have any special memories associated with those stores?
Even casual readers of Genea-Musings know that I grew up in the city of San Diego, on the block bounded by 30th Street (on the west), Hawthorn Street (on the south), Fern Street (on the east) and Ivy Street (on the north). Our apartment was at 2119 30th Street.
View Larger Map
Before my grandparents moved to Point Loma in 1951, my mother and grandmother would go to the stores at the corner of Fern Street and Juniper Street - one block north and one block east from our house. 30th Street jogs at Juniper, so that going north on Fern, you go smoothly onto 30th north of Juniper. After my grandparents moved, my mother continued shopping there until a new store was built nearby.
I couldn't remember the names of all of the stores, but I sure remember going to the Piggly wiggly grocery store. Amazingly, there is still a chain of these stores - see http://www.shopthepig.com/. I checked the 1950 and 1955 city directories for San diego to determine the names and addresses of the stores of yesteryear in my neighborhood. Here they are:
* 3004 Juniper Street (northeast corner of 30th and Juniper) - Burlingame Sundries - this was a typical "drug store" that had a fountain, a pharmacy and sold odds and ends
* 3014 Juniper Street - Piggly Wiggly grocery store - I was in this store many times (!) but can't recall specifics. I'm pretty sure my mother bought fruit, vegetables, cereal, eggs, dairy, and household supplies here. I'm not sure about meat.
* 3020 Juniper Street - Burlingame Barber Shop - every month my brother and I got butch haircuts from Mr. Haynes and later Mr. Roy.
* 3022 Juniper Street - Burlingame Shoe Service - my mother occasionally took shoes here for repair and re-soling.
* 3015 Juniper Street (southeast corner of Fern and Juniper) - Zoellner's Meat Market and Juniper Food's grocery - my mother bought meat here, but not much food as I recall. I do recall that the store had a great selection of candy and gum...
* 3019 Juniper Street - The Juniper Cafe - a hole-in-the-wall restaurant - I don't recall ever going there.
* 3021 Juniper - Grier's Bottle Shop - a liquor store. My grandmother (who had an alcoholic father) would never have even walked past this store!
* 3023 Juniper Street - Metro Cleaners - a dry cleaning store.
* 2201 Fern Street (northeast corner of Fern and Ivy) - E. W. Wrede & Sons - a furniture upholstery store.
* 2205 Fern Street - Cottage Bakery - bread, donuts and more.
* 2207 Fern Street - Rich's Dressmaking - a women's clothing store.
* 2209 Fern Street - Fern Street Beauty Shop - a hairdresser
* 2204 Fern Street (northwest corner of Fern and Ivy) - Gay's Place Cafe - a bar - my mother and grandmother would walk on the other side of the street.
* 2236 Fern Street - the Bonnie Bell Cafe - a bar and cafe.
* 2234 30th Street - San Diego Public Library branch.
* 2238 30th Street - Sunset Cleaners - my mother went here for dry cleaning.
* 2248 30th Street - Burlingame Hardware and Paint
* 2302 30th Street (northwest corner of 30th and Juniper) - Scotty's Television Service - a TV store in 1955.
* 2308 30th Street - Boydston's Dry Goods - a store selling cloth and sewing essentials
* 2312 30th Street - Burlingame Meat Market - I don't remember going here either!
Visiting many of these stores was almost a daily occurrence. As I recall, we had ice boxes in the 1950's and not refrigerators. We had milk delivered every day, and my mother bought fresh produce and meat every day at the stores.
For real "shopping" trips to a department store, my mother would take the #2 bus north on 30th Street to University Avenue (the sign over the intersection said North Park) and the J.C. Penney's store there. Or she would take the #2 bus south on 30th and then west on Broadway to downtown San Diego and go to Marston's Department Store, Woolworth's and Walker's Department Store.
My grandfather worked at Marston's at 6th and C Streets in downtown San Diego from 1905 (a cash boys) to 1961 (head accountant), and my grandmother worked there as a cashier for many years. Our family had an emotional attachment to Marston's!
My elementary school was south on 30th eight blocks at 30th and Ash Streets. On the way home, we often stopped at Krueger's (a five-and-dime store) at the corner of 30th and Beech, and at a small store on the corner of 30th and Grape Streets.
I wish that I had pictures of these places to show what they look like. I drove through the neighborhood several weeks ago, and most of the buildings are still there. The Piggly Wiggly store was replaced by a DD Williams Paint store in the later 1950s, the Meat market at 3015 Juniper became a five-and-dime store, etc.
About the time that the Piggly Wiggly store left the 30th and Juniper location, a Safeway store was built on the east side of Fern Street between Hawthorn and Grape Streets (one block east and south of our house). My mother walked there every day to shop, and since they had a larger store with more commodities, she rarely went up to the 30th and Juniper stores, except for the barber shop, the cobbler and the beauty shop.
Ah - the memories of my childhood. I wish I could remember more of them. I've posted about some of them in 30th Street Memories - Part 1 and Part 2.
* What stores do you remember from the past that aren't around any more?
* Where were they located? (I know some of you moved around a lot.)
* What did the store sell?
* Do you have any special memories associated with those stores?
Even casual readers of Genea-Musings know that I grew up in the city of San Diego, on the block bounded by 30th Street (on the west), Hawthorn Street (on the south), Fern Street (on the east) and Ivy Street (on the north). Our apartment was at 2119 30th Street.
View Larger Map
Before my grandparents moved to Point Loma in 1951, my mother and grandmother would go to the stores at the corner of Fern Street and Juniper Street - one block north and one block east from our house. 30th Street jogs at Juniper, so that going north on Fern, you go smoothly onto 30th north of Juniper. After my grandparents moved, my mother continued shopping there until a new store was built nearby.
I couldn't remember the names of all of the stores, but I sure remember going to the Piggly wiggly grocery store. Amazingly, there is still a chain of these stores - see http://www.shopthepig.com/. I checked the 1950 and 1955 city directories for San diego to determine the names and addresses of the stores of yesteryear in my neighborhood. Here they are:
* 3004 Juniper Street (northeast corner of 30th and Juniper) - Burlingame Sundries - this was a typical "drug store" that had a fountain, a pharmacy and sold odds and ends
* 3014 Juniper Street - Piggly Wiggly grocery store - I was in this store many times (!) but can't recall specifics. I'm pretty sure my mother bought fruit, vegetables, cereal, eggs, dairy, and household supplies here. I'm not sure about meat.
* 3020 Juniper Street - Burlingame Barber Shop - every month my brother and I got butch haircuts from Mr. Haynes and later Mr. Roy.
* 3022 Juniper Street - Burlingame Shoe Service - my mother occasionally took shoes here for repair and re-soling.
* 3015 Juniper Street (southeast corner of Fern and Juniper) - Zoellner's Meat Market and Juniper Food's grocery - my mother bought meat here, but not much food as I recall. I do recall that the store had a great selection of candy and gum...
* 3019 Juniper Street - The Juniper Cafe - a hole-in-the-wall restaurant - I don't recall ever going there.
* 3021 Juniper - Grier's Bottle Shop - a liquor store. My grandmother (who had an alcoholic father) would never have even walked past this store!
* 3023 Juniper Street - Metro Cleaners - a dry cleaning store.
* 2201 Fern Street (northeast corner of Fern and Ivy) - E. W. Wrede & Sons - a furniture upholstery store.
* 2205 Fern Street - Cottage Bakery - bread, donuts and more.
* 2207 Fern Street - Rich's Dressmaking - a women's clothing store.
* 2209 Fern Street - Fern Street Beauty Shop - a hairdresser
* 2204 Fern Street (northwest corner of Fern and Ivy) - Gay's Place Cafe - a bar - my mother and grandmother would walk on the other side of the street.
* 2236 Fern Street - the Bonnie Bell Cafe - a bar and cafe.
* 2234 30th Street - San Diego Public Library branch.
* 2238 30th Street - Sunset Cleaners - my mother went here for dry cleaning.
* 2248 30th Street - Burlingame Hardware and Paint
* 2302 30th Street (northwest corner of 30th and Juniper) - Scotty's Television Service - a TV store in 1955.
* 2308 30th Street - Boydston's Dry Goods - a store selling cloth and sewing essentials
* 2312 30th Street - Burlingame Meat Market - I don't remember going here either!
Visiting many of these stores was almost a daily occurrence. As I recall, we had ice boxes in the 1950's and not refrigerators. We had milk delivered every day, and my mother bought fresh produce and meat every day at the stores.
For real "shopping" trips to a department store, my mother would take the #2 bus north on 30th Street to University Avenue (the sign over the intersection said North Park) and the J.C. Penney's store there. Or she would take the #2 bus south on 30th and then west on Broadway to downtown San Diego and go to Marston's Department Store, Woolworth's and Walker's Department Store.
My grandfather worked at Marston's at 6th and C Streets in downtown San Diego from 1905 (a cash boys) to 1961 (head accountant), and my grandmother worked there as a cashier for many years. Our family had an emotional attachment to Marston's!
My elementary school was south on 30th eight blocks at 30th and Ash Streets. On the way home, we often stopped at Krueger's (a five-and-dime store) at the corner of 30th and Beech, and at a small store on the corner of 30th and Grape Streets.
I wish that I had pictures of these places to show what they look like. I drove through the neighborhood several weeks ago, and most of the buildings are still there. The Piggly Wiggly store was replaced by a DD Williams Paint store in the later 1950s, the Meat market at 3015 Juniper became a five-and-dime store, etc.
About the time that the Piggly Wiggly store left the 30th and Juniper location, a Safeway store was built on the east side of Fern Street between Hawthorn and Grape Streets (one block east and south of our house). My mother walked there every day to shop, and since they had a larger store with more commodities, she rarely went up to the 30th and Juniper stores, except for the barber shop, the cobbler and the beauty shop.
Ah - the memories of my childhood. I wish I could remember more of them. I've posted about some of them in 30th Street Memories - Part 1 and Part 2.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Genealogy classes at San Diego OASIS
I talked to SDGS/CGSSD member Pam Journey at the CGSSD meeting on Saturday, and she told me about two Genealogy oriented classes that will be held this fall as part of the OASIS adult education program in San Diego.
The two classes are:
* 32 Beginning Computer Genealogy
Registration opens 8/25/2008
Have you always wondered what information is available on the Internet about your family? How much do you really know about your family? Now is the time to find the answers to questions about your ancestors: where they lived, how they lived, how they came to the U.S. and lots more. Using the computer, you will learn how to find information on your family, organize that information, and share it with your current family. Knowing your ancestors is knowing yourself. The class will cover how to begin (always with yourself); how to use census records to connect the family today to earlier generations; and how to input the information you find into computer genealogy programs. You will want to bring birth, marriage, and death information regarding yourself and at least the next two previous generations to the class. If you don’t know all of these facts, we will work to fill in the blanks and move on. One warning should be given to prospective class members: This is a very addictive hobby—once started, the need to know more grows and grows. Come have fun, finding how you came to be you.
Instructor: Pam Journey
Monday 10/6/08 - 10/27/08 10:15 - 12:15
$42 4 Sessions Location: OASIS Comp Lab
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155 Beginning Genealogy—Family History
Registration opens 8/25/2008
Genealogy is the study of yourself. Beginning with you, you track the family members who created your life as it is today. Where did each of them come from; where did they marry; where did they die? Why did they move—or did they? These lessons will include methods for recording all the exciting facts about your ancestors. If you always wanted to write a book about your family, come to this class to learn how to gather, organize and create books on your family story. Bring to class any birth, marriage, and death information regarding yourself and at least the next two previous generations. Don’t worry if you don’t know or don’t have all these facts, we’ll help you find the pieces to the puzzle.
Instructor: Pam Journey
Thursday 12/4/08 - 12/18/08 1:15 - 2:45
$18 3 Sessions Location: OASIS 1
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You need to be a member of OASIS to sign up for these classes. You can sign up for free at https://www.oasisnet.org/secure/signup.asp. The MyOASIS for San Diego site is at http://www.oasisnet.org/sandiego/index.htm.
OASIS has a list of cities that it has classes - check http://www.oasisnet.org/cities/index.htm.
What is OASIS? The San Diego site says:
"OASIS is a unique educational program for mature adults who want to continue to learn and be productive during the best years of their lives. Membership is free and open to anyone 50 or older. Members receive a catalog of opportunities three times a year. You can join OASIS online.
"OASIS offers a broad range of stimulating educational classes - from the arts and humanities to wellness, fitness and travel. Pursue an old or new interest, learn how you can stay healthy and active, and make new friends. To find out about upcoming classes, browse our online catalog. "
This is a great opportunity for beginning genealogists to learn useful information to get them started doing genealogy the right way!
Do the adult education schools offer genealogy classes that you, or your society colleagues, might benefit from?
The two classes are:
* 32 Beginning Computer Genealogy
Registration opens 8/25/2008
Have you always wondered what information is available on the Internet about your family? How much do you really know about your family? Now is the time to find the answers to questions about your ancestors: where they lived, how they lived, how they came to the U.S. and lots more. Using the computer, you will learn how to find information on your family, organize that information, and share it with your current family. Knowing your ancestors is knowing yourself. The class will cover how to begin (always with yourself); how to use census records to connect the family today to earlier generations; and how to input the information you find into computer genealogy programs. You will want to bring birth, marriage, and death information regarding yourself and at least the next two previous generations to the class. If you don’t know all of these facts, we will work to fill in the blanks and move on. One warning should be given to prospective class members: This is a very addictive hobby—once started, the need to know more grows and grows. Come have fun, finding how you came to be you.
Instructor: Pam Journey
Monday 10/6/08 - 10/27/08 10:15 - 12:15
$42 4 Sessions Location: OASIS Comp Lab
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155 Beginning Genealogy—Family History
Registration opens 8/25/2008
Genealogy is the study of yourself. Beginning with you, you track the family members who created your life as it is today. Where did each of them come from; where did they marry; where did they die? Why did they move—or did they? These lessons will include methods for recording all the exciting facts about your ancestors. If you always wanted to write a book about your family, come to this class to learn how to gather, organize and create books on your family story. Bring to class any birth, marriage, and death information regarding yourself and at least the next two previous generations. Don’t worry if you don’t know or don’t have all these facts, we’ll help you find the pieces to the puzzle.
Instructor: Pam Journey
Thursday 12/4/08 - 12/18/08 1:15 - 2:45
$18 3 Sessions Location: OASIS 1
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You need to be a member of OASIS to sign up for these classes. You can sign up for free at https://www.oasisnet.org/secure/signup.asp. The MyOASIS for San Diego site is at http://www.oasisnet.org/sandiego/index.htm.
OASIS has a list of cities that it has classes - check http://www.oasisnet.org/cities/index.htm.
What is OASIS? The San Diego site says:
"OASIS is a unique educational program for mature adults who want to continue to learn and be productive during the best years of their lives. Membership is free and open to anyone 50 or older. Members receive a catalog of opportunities three times a year. You can join OASIS online.
"OASIS offers a broad range of stimulating educational classes - from the arts and humanities to wellness, fitness and travel. Pursue an old or new interest, learn how you can stay healthy and active, and make new friends. To find out about upcoming classes, browse our online catalog. "
This is a great opportunity for beginning genealogists to learn useful information to get them started doing genealogy the right way!
Do the adult education schools offer genealogy classes that you, or your society colleagues, might benefit from?
Some Geni.com feedback
I posted my summary of Keith McCarty's presentation at the CGSSD meeting on Saturday about Geni.com in my post Geni.com - Everyone's Related.
There were several comments to my post, and the speaker, Keith McCarty, responded today with the following:
"I would like to thank everyone for the feedback. As you know, Geni has only been around for a year and a half. We have come a very long way since our inception but we are still heavily developing the product. It was great to hear the reaffirmation of the direction that we are going. Everything that was brought up, in terms of features, is already on our road map.
"Although Geni may not be a replacement for your current genealogy program, right now. It definitely makes a good supplement. Engagement amongst family members is something that Geni is trying to accomplish. For a genealogist, this means more content to further their research as well as a medium to share their genealogical research. We hear the same story over and over from genealogists which is, "my family just isn't interested." The interest level of the content amongst the family is not the problem. The problem is the medium in which the content is shared. When genealogical content is shared through a medium that is easy to interpret, fun to use, and offers features that even non-genealogists are interested in, then the response and engagement will be much greater. That is what Geni can offer.
"To answer John's question, Geni currently offers MM-DD-Year eg August 18, 2008. In the near future, when we start to Localize Geni, we will offer different ways to enter and display the dates.
"Once again, I would like to thank CGSSD and all of the attendees for enabling me present Geni to them. It was a pleasure.
"Thank you,
Keith McCarty
www.geni.com "
My thanks to Keith for taking the time to respond to my post and the comments. I was wondering if he would "see" what I wrote about his program. He did - the next day he was back to work. I'll bet he has a permanent Google search for key words like Geni.com.
As I stated in my post, I really like the concept that Geni.com is driving towards - getting family members involved in finding and preserving family history and memories. Although I had signed up some time ago to try it out, I had not uploaded a significant amount of family material. I'm going to do that in the near future and invite all of my cousins and brothers and daughters to see how many of them will come aboard. If they do, that's great. If they don't, I will be disappointed.
There were several comments to my post, and the speaker, Keith McCarty, responded today with the following:
"I would like to thank everyone for the feedback. As you know, Geni has only been around for a year and a half. We have come a very long way since our inception but we are still heavily developing the product. It was great to hear the reaffirmation of the direction that we are going. Everything that was brought up, in terms of features, is already on our road map.
"Although Geni may not be a replacement for your current genealogy program, right now. It definitely makes a good supplement. Engagement amongst family members is something that Geni is trying to accomplish. For a genealogist, this means more content to further their research as well as a medium to share their genealogical research. We hear the same story over and over from genealogists which is, "my family just isn't interested." The interest level of the content amongst the family is not the problem. The problem is the medium in which the content is shared. When genealogical content is shared through a medium that is easy to interpret, fun to use, and offers features that even non-genealogists are interested in, then the response and engagement will be much greater. That is what Geni can offer.
"To answer John's question, Geni currently offers MM-DD-Year eg August 18, 2008. In the near future, when we start to Localize Geni, we will offer different ways to enter and display the dates.
"Once again, I would like to thank CGSSD and all of the attendees for enabling me present Geni to them. It was a pleasure.
"Thank you,
Keith McCarty
www.geni.com "
My thanks to Keith for taking the time to respond to my post and the comments. I was wondering if he would "see" what I wrote about his program. He did - the next day he was back to work. I'll bet he has a permanent Google search for key words like Geni.com.
As I stated in my post, I really like the concept that Geni.com is driving towards - getting family members involved in finding and preserving family history and memories. Although I had signed up some time ago to try it out, I had not uploaded a significant amount of family material. I'm going to do that in the near future and invite all of my cousins and brothers and daughters to see how many of them will come aboard. If they do, that's great. If they don't, I will be disappointed.
54th Carnival of Genealogy posted - on Family Language
Donna Pointkouski has posted the 54th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy on her blog, What's Past Is Prologue. The topic for this edition was The Family Language - and what a wonderful variety of languages we all have.
29 bloggers contributed to this tower of Babel - I encourage you to go read every one of them. Some are funny, all are informative. My own contribution was San Diego Slanguage - I picked the local -isms because I didn't have many memories of unique family language curiosities.
The topic for the next Carnival of Genealogy will be Show and Tell! Remember that fun little exercise you used to do in your grade school days? Here’s your chance to do it again Show us and tell us about an heirloom, a special photo, a valuable document, or a significant person that is a very special part of your family history. Don’t be shy now, show us what you’ve got! This is all about bragging rights so don’t hesitate to make the rest of us green with envy! This is your chance to brag, brag, brag, without seeming like a braggart (you can’t be a braggart when you’re merely following directions ;-)… so show and tell!
This next edition will be hosted by Jasia on the Creative Gene blog. The deadline for submissions will be September 1st. Submit your blog article to the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. See ya next time!
29 bloggers contributed to this tower of Babel - I encourage you to go read every one of them. Some are funny, all are informative. My own contribution was San Diego Slanguage - I picked the local -isms because I didn't have many memories of unique family language curiosities.
The topic for the next Carnival of Genealogy will be Show and Tell! Remember that fun little exercise you used to do in your grade school days? Here’s your chance to do it again Show us and tell us about an heirloom, a special photo, a valuable document, or a significant person that is a very special part of your family history. Don’t be shy now, show us what you’ve got! This is all about bragging rights so don’t hesitate to make the rest of us green with envy! This is your chance to brag, brag, brag, without seeming like a braggart (you can’t be a braggart when you’re merely following directions ;-)… so show and tell!
This next edition will be hosted by Jasia on the Creative Gene blog. The deadline for submissions will be September 1st. Submit your blog article to the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. See ya next time!
Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 18:Place Usage Reports
I installed FamilyTreeMaker 2008 in early July and uploaded a large database to see how it worked. I also started a new database to test other program features. Please see the list at the bottom of this post for the earlier posts.
In this post, I want to display some pages from the Place Usage Report generated by FamilyTreeMaker 2008.
I'm using my 4th-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816), in my database as a starting point for these reports.
When you click on the [Publish] icon on the top menu, you see a list of the different Charts and Reports that can be generated in the left-hand panel. I clicked on "Place Usage Report" and got this screen:
The Place Usage Report lists all of the places associated with every person in your family tree. Each entry includes the place name, the names of persons associated with the place name, and each of the person's events that occurred in that place.
I double-clicked on the Place Usage Report icon, and waited ... and waited ... and waited two minutes (I thought I'd broken the program) for a report to appear. A 1,394 page report of all of the place names came up. The first time you click on this icon, you get a report for All Individuals. Only after getting the default report do you have the opportunity to click on Selected Individuals or Immediate Family. Of course, I got 1,394 pages because I have a 20,000 person database and lots of duplicate places. The time to generate the report depends on then umber of persons being analyzed.
You can Cancel the report generation during the process, which I tried. The report generation stopped, but when I clicked on the Immediate Family button and then clicked on Generate Report it still took two minutes to generate a 5 page report.
Later, when I came back to this screen with Immediate Family already selected, it took only about 10 seconds to generate the 5 page report. The first page of the Place Usage Report for the Benjamin Seaver family is shown below:
In this post, I want to display some pages from the Place Usage Report generated by FamilyTreeMaker 2008.
I'm using my 4th-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816), in my database as a starting point for these reports.
When you click on the [Publish] icon on the top menu, you see a list of the different Charts and Reports that can be generated in the left-hand panel. I clicked on "Place Usage Report" and got this screen:
The Place Usage Report lists all of the places associated with every person in your family tree. Each entry includes the place name, the names of persons associated with the place name, and each of the person's events that occurred in that place.
I double-clicked on the Place Usage Report icon, and waited ... and waited ... and waited two minutes (I thought I'd broken the program) for a report to appear. A 1,394 page report of all of the place names came up. The first time you click on this icon, you get a report for All Individuals. Only after getting the default report do you have the opportunity to click on Selected Individuals or Immediate Family. Of course, I got 1,394 pages because I have a 20,000 person database and lots of duplicate places. The time to generate the report depends on then umber of persons being analyzed.
You can Cancel the report generation during the process, which I tried. The report generation stopped, but when I clicked on the Immediate Family button and then clicked on Generate Report it still took two minutes to generate a 5 page report.
Later, when I came back to this screen with Immediate Family already selected, it took only about 10 seconds to generate the 5 page report. The first page of the Place Usage Report for the Benjamin Seaver family is shown below:
This report can be very useful to a researcher to determine the records found in specific locations. However, my database has all of those "notes" and "sources" in it, so I get many items for one location, as you can see in the screen above. This should work better for me after I resolve all of my Place Names and add my source citations properly.
I did not find any way to create a Place Usage Report for a specific country, a specific state, a specific county, or a specific township or city. I think that those reports would be very useful. I can't manage a 500 page report easily ... but I could really use a 10 page report for, e.g., Worcester County, Massachusetts.
To save user time and frustration, it would be helpful to be able to choose the scope of the Place report that the user desires - there should be a way to select Immediate Family, Selected Individuals or All Individuals before the user clicks on the icon to generate the report.
Previous posts in this series:
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 1: Loading. Installing the program and uploading an existing database file.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 2: Exploring. Looking around the uploaded database file to see what the different views look like.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 3: The Menus. Most of the menus were itemized and described.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 4: Starting a New Tree. I started a new tree and added some people demonstrating the program options to do this.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 5: Adding a Source. I added sources to the Facts that I previously entered.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 6: Adding Children to a Family. I added children to a family.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 7: The Person Menu. I described the items in the Person menu and attached a spouse to a person.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 8: Finding a Person in the database. I described three ways to Find a person.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 9: Places I. I explored the vagaries of the Places icon.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 10: Places II. The different map types are discussed and displayed.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 11: Places III. The method to Resolve many places with standardized place names is explored.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 12: Charts I. Introduction to Charts and examples of pedigree and descendants charts.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 13: Charts II. Examples of Hourglass, Relationships and Vertical Pedigree Charts.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 14: Charts III. Examples of large wall charts created by FTM 2008.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 15: Genealogy Reports. Description and display of Register (descendant) and Ahnentafel (ancestor) Reports.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 16: Person Reports. Description and display of 5 different reports, including Individual Reports and Custom Reports.
* Using FamilyTreeMaker 2008 - Post 17: Relationship Reports. Description and display of Family Group Sheet, Kinship Report, Marriage Report, Parentage Report, and Outline Descendant Report.
The next post will cover the Source Reports available in the [Publish] menu.
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