Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 13 October 2020

 Welcome to Genealogy News and Education Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.


1)  News Articles:




2)  New or Updated Record Collections:





3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes







4)  Genealogy Education - Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

 GeneaWebinars Calendar



*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 14 October, 5 p.m.:  Dealing with Endogamy, by Paul Woodbury

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone:  Web Surfing? Turn on Incognito Mode for Privacy, by Marian Pierre-Louis

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Use MyHeritage Records to Quickly Discover and Write the Story of Your Ancestors, by Devon Noel Lee

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 118 - Revisiting Research Logs

*  The Genealogy Guys: Podcast #385 


*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 100: It’s a Celebration!



6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Going Further with Scottish Genealogy - Hannah Bell















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MyHeritage Releases Major Collection of Historical Norway Church Records, 1815–1938

 I received this information from MyHeritage today:

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I’m pleased to announce the release of a new historical record collection: Norway Church Records (1815–1938).



The records in this collection were digitized in collaboration with the National Archives of Norway (Arkivverket), and consist of 42.2 million indexed records and high quality scans of the original documents. The records include births & baptisms, marriages, and deaths & burials. This release is the first time the collection’s images are fully indexed and searchable — making it easier than ever to research your Norwegian ancestors. The addition doubles the number of Norwegian historical records on MyHeritage and brings the total number of historical records on MyHeritage to 12.6 billion.

Please find the official blog post here with some nice example records from this collection.

The records in this collection cover a critical period in Norway’s history, beginning just one year after its secession from Denmark.
This important collection helps overcome the significant gaps in Norwegian censuses taken from 1801 to 1865. Five censuses were collected in Norway during those years, but they did not record names of individuals, making the church records the definitive source for genealogical data during that period.

Due to Norwegian privacy laws, the birth & baptism records released in this collection extend until 1919 (inclusive), the marriage records extend until 1937 (inclusive), and the death & burial records extend until 1938 (inclusive).

In the Norway Church birth and baptism records, a child was often recorded with only his or her given name(s) without an expressly recorded surname, as it was assumed the child would take either a patronymic surname from their father or take a hereditary surname. To overcome the challenge of the missing surname, MyHeritage inferred two possible surname variations for each individual, so users can search for either the patronymic or hereditary surname to find the correct record. MyHeritage indexed the surname variations to make them discoverable, but the actual records were not modified, and the surnames were not inserted into them, to preserve their authenticity.

The Norway Church Records (1815–1938) collection is an indispensable resource for anyone who is looking to learn more about their Norwegian roots during this time period. With the release of this collection, MyHeritage now offers 80 million historical records from Norway, 57 million historical records from neighboring Sweden, and 107 million records from Denmark, positioning MyHeritage as the leader in Scandinavian family history research.

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NOTES:  This is a wonderful record collection, and I look forward to finding and saving images of my wife's (and my descendants!) ancestors in these records.  I did a lot of Norwegian research in the 1998-2000 time frame on FamilySearch microfilm of these church records, earlier church records, census records, bygdeboks and other resources, but did not collect many record images at the time. I have dipped into the Norwegian records on Arkivverket several times for a specific record, but not for several years, and have very few source citations for these records other than a general reference to the FHL microfilms..  

Hopefully, MyHeritage will also digitize and index the earlier church records in the future.

The bigger soon-to-come opportunity for me is the expected listing of the church records of Linda's ancestral families in the Record Matches on Ancestry for this specific collection.  All of her known ancestral families after 1815 are in my MyHeritage Family Tree, but I don't have images or sources for many of the entries.

I searched for and easily found the page with the 1850 birth and baptism record of Linda's great-grandfather - Torger Sjursen (1850-1933) in Mølster (a town in Voss) from the MyHeritage collection:

The birth (26 March 1850) and baptism (9 June 1850) record for Torger Sjursen, son of Sjur Torgersen and Brita Olsdatter, is:

This is very cool!  More fun genealogy work to do!  Thank you, MyHeritage!

Linda and I visited Norway in the summer of 1999 and had a wonderful time in Oslo, Voss (one of her ancestral towns) and Bergen.  In Voss, we enjoyed a guided tour of inda's ancestral farms with the wife of one of the Liland farm and hotel owners, and a visit and lunch with the present farm family (cousins of Linda!) at the Liland farm at the west end of the lake near Voss.  Leland is Linda's maiden name, from the farm in Voss.

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Disclosure:  I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years.  I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product.  This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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Monday, October 12, 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 11 October 2020

  Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Board Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday and reported on the 3 Zoom meetings and the Newsletter.  Wrote, edited and published a 12-page newsletter for October via email to the members on Sunday.
2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society monthly Program Zoom meeting on Saturday featuring two talks by Shannon Christmas.   

3)  Participated in today's Mondays With Myrt.  We discussed Netherlands divorces, divorce records, the FamilySearch wiki, Canning food practices, the BOAAG scam, my Ephraim Wight probate records, Miss Peggy's obituary and funeral card collection, and upcoming TV Shows. 

4)  Watched one Family Tree Webinars video - Advanced DNA Techniques: Deductive Chromosome Mapping, by Blaine Bettinger.

5)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of my 7th great-grandfather #562 Nathaniel Pierce (1655-1692) for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.  


7)  Tried out the MyHeritage Mixtiles feature to create wall art pieces using six wedding photos of my ancestors - see Use MyHeritage Family Photos To Make Stunning Wall Art with Mixtiles.

8)  Added Notes to 40 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors.  Ancestry added 95 new DNA matches this past week.  I added one more ThruLine to my RootsMagic tree.  MyHeritage added 17 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

9)  There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 37,895 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 136).

10)  Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 59,300 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 89), and 127,049 source citations (up 275).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree twice this week updating 195 profiles, and I resolved 1,165 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 135,109 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily.    

11)  Wrote 15 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which one was a press release.  The most popular post last week was Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Top 5 or 10 Fee-Based Genealogy Sites  with over 270 views.  

12)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much in Week 30 of COVID-19 isolation.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday, and it wasn't too busy.  We went to church on Sunday morning.  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing genealogy, eating, sleeping and a little yard work, watching the Padres games, and started another new mystery book.  My Padres lost the NLDS playoff series to the Dodgers, but I got over it.

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Use MyHeritage Family Photos To Make Stunning Wall Art with Mixtiles

 The MyHeritage Blog posted New: Turn Your MyHeritage Family Photos into Stunning Wall Art today and I experimented with it over the weekend, and want to share my experience.

Here is a short video of the process from MyHeritage:


MyHeritage has contracted with Mixtiles to print 8x8 (inches) photo tiles that can stick and restick to your wall without using hammer and nails.  

I have many black and white photographs in my family history collection, and used the MyHeritage Photo Colorizer and Photo Enhancer to "improve" them and bring them to life.  However, you can use any photograph - black and white, or color.

For this experiment, I wanted to colorize and enhance the photographs of the people who "made me me" - the parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and even one set of 2nd great-grandparents for whom I have wedding photographs.  My plan is to put these six photographs on the guest bedroom wall.

After colorizing and enhancing the photographs, I started the process of submitting them to Mixtiles.  Here was my process:

1)  On my MyHeritage Photos page (Family tree > Photos), I clicked on the photos I wanted to use )below with an orange check mark).  I picked 6 photos: 


2)  After selecting the six photos, I clicked on the "Print as wall art" button at the top of the screen above, and saw:

There were my six photographs, but they are not centered or zoomed appropriately.

3)  I clicked on the "Continue" button at the top of the screen above, and saw:

4)  Here are the six photos and I need to adjust each of them - Zoom in and position.  Also, I chose the "Edge" scheme for the edges of the photos on the screen below.  

5)  For each photograph, I clicked on the photograph and each one opened with the ability to Adjust the photo.  The Zoom bar is below the photograph, and I can drag the photo to place it where I want it, as I've done with the 4th photo on the screen above:

After adjusting each photo, here are my six photographs that I want to submit to Mixtiles:

Who are the "people who made me me" in the photos above?  I chose photos of my ancestral couples at about the time they married.

*  Henry Austin and Della (Smith) Carringer, my maternal great-grandparents, married 1887.
*  Devier and Abbie (Vaux) Smith - my maternal 2nd great-grandparents, married 1861.
*  Lyle and Emily (Auble) Carringer - my maternal grandparents, married 1918.
*  Randy and Linda (Leland) Seaver - us! married 1970.
*  Frederick W. and Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver - my paternal grandparents, married 1900.
*  Frederick W. and Betty V. (Carringer) Seaver - my parents, married 1942.

Of course, I can place them on the wall in any arrangement I choose.

Unfortunately, I don't have photographs of three sets of great-grandparents or the other seven sets of 2nd great-grandparents.  I do have individual photos of some of them and will try to make digital images of them at a later time.

6)  I'm ready to "Checkout" so I clicked on that button, and the Checkout screen appeared:

The retail price for 6 tiles is $72 plus tax, so $12 each.  On the screen above is a 35% promo code, so my cost would be $50.89 for 6 wall art tiles.  

However, MyHeritage provided me with a single-use promo code so that I received six Mixtiles for free providing I wrote about the process and the result.  Thank you, MyHeritage!  My six Mixtiles will arrive on Friday, 16 October and I look forward to sharing them with you on the bedroom wall.

There is also FREE worldwide shipping for Mixtiles ordered through MyHeritage, and discounts on future orders within a time frame.

Now I'm looking for family photographs that I can enhance, colorize and make wall art for my daughters, for my wife, for my brothers, for my brother-in-law, and close friends.  I'm thinking of  Christmas gifts.

This process was very simple once I had the colorized and enhanced photographs.  

Of course, anyone can use Mixtiles to upload digital photographs to the website and obtain the wall art for a price.

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Disclosure:  I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years.  I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product.  This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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Copyright (c) 2020, Randall J. Seaver

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1723 Petition and Orders in Estate Papers of Ephraim Wight (1646-1723) of Medfield, Massachusetts

  This week's document for transcription is the 1723 Petition and Orders in the Estate File of Ephraim Wight (1646-1723) of Medfield, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 4,702 in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate court records.  The will and witness affidavits were posted last week in Amanuensis Monday -- 1717 Will of Ephraim Wight (1646-1723) of Medfield, Massachusetts.

Image 3 of 9:

Image 8 of 9:

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The transcription of these papers is:

[Image 3 of 9]

Medfield March y'e nineth 1722/3
To the honoured Judge of Probate of wills
my Sisters are unsatisfyed with me fereing i have not fully put a stop
to the proovanet my H'd father's will so called or rather the will of others
in his name knowing our father to be a very Religeous good man
esteemed but not capable to make a will legally more than seven
years last past brings forth y'e hardship of our humble Request
not to proove y'e will of our H'd father Ephraim Wight sen'r
late of Medfield Deceased untill we can know what it is
and when it is prooved to appear at the prooveing of sd
will at y'e Court we humbly subscribe our names
to this our humble Request  }
not to proove s'd will           }           Nathanill Partridge
untill we com to y'e court.   }           Lidya Partridge
                                                         Thomas Boyden

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Suffolk Ss.   By the hono'ble Samuel Sewall Esq'r Judge
                                of Probate &c.

To Ephraim Wight and Daniel Wight both of
Medfield Exec'rs of the Last Will & Testament
of Ephraim Wight late of Medfield deced & to
David Ellice one of the Witnesses to ye s'd Will
Greeting.
I Do hereby Cite and Require you to appear at the Probate
Office in Boston on Monday the first day of April
next at Elevena Clock in the forenoon to prove ye Will of ye s'd
deced and to make answer to Such Questions as Shall be
asked of you in that Behalf & you are the s'd Executors are
directed to Notify in time all the partys Interested & concerned
Specially the Testators Children that they my be present
at the time afores'd to make their objections against the
proving of the s'd Will.  Hereof you are not to fail.
Dated the 25'th day of March Anno Dom 1723.
                                              In y'e Name & by Order of
                                              the s'd Judge of Probate
                                                 Ben'a Rolfe Cler.

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Ephraim Wight's Will
proved April 1'st 1723

4702             p'd 17/6'd

N.B. After y'e Will was proved
a Caveat was lodged by some of the
Testators Children ag't y'e prov'g the  ???
Therefore ordered that no Letters
Testamentary be given out hereupon
until David Ellice one of y'e Witnesses
thereto Shall ^appear yo^ make Oath to ye same
& all y'e Testators Children be p'rsent
at the proving thereof.
Exec'rs to give notice to all y'e partys
concerned.

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #4,702 (9 images), Ephraim Wight of Medfield, 1723; "Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1636-1893," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 24 September 2020); from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.

Ephraim Wight (1646-1723) married Lydia Morse (1645-1722) in 1668 in Medfield, Massachusetts.  They had nine children:

*  Lydia Wight (1669-1741), married 1686 Nathaniel Partridge (1660-1741).
*  Esther Wight (1671-????)
*  Ephraim Wight (1673-1744), married 1702 Sarah Partridge (1674-1763).
*  Miriam Wight (1675-1746), married 1701 Joseph Allen (1676-1727).
*  Nathaniel Wight (1678-1748), married (1) 1704 Sarah Ellis (1687-1705), (2) 1706 Mehitable Hinsdale (1687-????).
*  Daniel Wight (1680-1744), married 1721 Lydia Estee (1695-1748).
*  Bethia Wight (1683-1756), married 1708 Malachi Bullard (1685-1726).
*  Deborah Wight (1685-1717?), married 1707 Thomas Boyden (1682-1770).
*  Ruth Wight (1688-1747), married 1715 Abraham Harding (1691-1768).

Ephraim Wight wrote his will on 27 September 1717 and bequeathed land and/or money to his wife and children in specific bequests.  He appointed two sons, Ephraim and Daniel, as executors, with three witnesses to the signing of the will.  

His wife, Lydia, died 14 July 1722, and Ephraim died 26 February 1722/3 in Medfield, Massachusetts.  The executors took the will to the Suffolk County Probate Court on 11 March 1722/3, and two of the witnesses swore under oath that Ephraim Wight was of sound disposing mind.  The third witness did the same on 1 April 1723.

Between those two dates, two of the heirs-at-law wrote a letter to Judge Samuel Sewall stating that Ephraim Wight was not of sound mind when he wrote the will, and noted that their sisters were not satisfied with the will.  The Judge ordered the heirs and the third witness to come to Court.  After the court session on 1 April 1723, having heard the three witnesses declare that the testator was of sound and disposing mind, the Court approved the will over the objections of Nathaniel and Lydia (Wight) Partridge (daughter of Ephraim Wight) and Thomas Boyden (widower of daughter Deborah Wight). 

Ephraim and Lydia (Morse) Wight are my 8th great-grandparents, through their daughter Deborah Wight (1680-ca 1717) who married Thomas Boyden (1682-1770) in 1707 in Medfield.

The will written in 1717 twice mentions the heirs of daughter Deborah to receive a portion of the moveable estate.  I interpret that to mean that Deborah (Wight) Boyden had died by 27 September 1717 leaving Thomas Boyden with four small children.  Another interpretation is that Ephraim did not want Deborah or her husband to have a part of the estate for some reason, but he bequeathed to his Boyden grandchildren.  I think the first interpretation probably is correct.

 It is apparent to me that Deborah (Wight) Boyden was not alive when Ephraim Wight wrote his will in 1717 or when Deborah's husband Thomas Wight challenged the will in 1723.

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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Sunday, October 11, 2020

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 4 to 10 October 2020

 Dozens of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.


My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.


Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  Episode 345 – CeCe Moore On Request For Exhumation Of President Warren G. Harding, Genetic Genealogy For Solving Crime, Latest On Her TV Show by Ryan B. on Extreme Genes.

Genetic Affairs Hybrid AutoSegment Cluster by Patricia Coleman on Patricia Coleman Genealogy.

*  Shocking Ethnicity Estimate Leads to Life-Altering Discovery by Paul Woodbury on Legacy Tree Genealogists.

Heads Up on NYC Records Access! and Um...A Retreat by NYC? by Judy G. Russell on The Legal Genealogist.

Using the Draper Manuscripts by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

DNA Technique: Deductive Chromosome Mapping by Anne Young on Anne's Family History.

My Top 10 Fee-Based Genealogy Sites by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots.

*  Statement of Non-Support — Board of African American Genealogy (BOAAG) by Nicka Sewall-Smith on Who Is Nicka Smith?

*  Ancestry Centimorgans and Segments (and Longest Segments) by Margaret O'Brien on Data Mining DNA

*  23andMe Changes – Download Matches Now or Lose Many by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained -- Genetic Genealogy

While You Were Sleeping: 23andMe Disrputs DNA Relatives by Shannon Christmas on Through the Trees.

Why I Love Bite-Sized Family History Projects by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.

Revisit Your Genealogy Journal Often by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree.


Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

Friday's Family History Finds  by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

 Friday Fossicking, 9th Oct 2020 by Crissoulli on That Moment In Time.

This Week's Creme de la Creme -- October 10, 2020  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte,

Saturday Serendipity (October 10, 2020) by John D. Tew on Filiopietism Prism.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and  read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.


Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.


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Announcing Hank Z. Jones' New Book: "The Palatine Families of New York - 1710: A Supplement"

 I received an email from my friend Henry Z. "Hank" Jones, who is an expert on the Palatine Families who came to the Northeast in the 18th century.  He's written several books in the past 40 years about them, and now has a new one.  Hank writes:

"I just wanted you to know that what probably will be my final book on the German Palatines is just out: The Palatine Families of New York - 1710: A Supplement. It contains all my discoveries on the origins of the 847 families made since publication of the original two volume set. I wanted to have all this documented material available in one book to be used as a companion volume to the 1985 set. I started chasing Palatines in 1960 when I was a twenty year old student and Stanford University, and I've never stopped. Sure been FUN!"

The publication information is:

THE PALATINE FAMILIES OF NEW YORK - 1710: A Supplement

187 pages • Softcover • Complete Index of Names and European Places Of Origin

$39.50, plus $3.50 postage and handling (ISBN 978-1-792-441-2)

There are Three ways to order 

THE PALATINE FAMILIES OF NEW YORK - A SUPPLEMENT

  1. Visit the Book Order Form
  2. Or send your check or money-order to:
    "Henry Z (“Hank”) Jones, Jr., FASG, FGBS • PO Box 261388 • San Diego, CA • 92196-1388"
  3. Or you may order via PayPal using the author’s email address:
    "HZJ3@aol.com."
Hank's website is https://hankjones.com/.

I do look forward to seeing this book in a library because I have several of my ancestral families in the earlier books, and there may be more information on them in this book!

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Disclosure:  I have received no remuneration for posting this announcement.  


Copyright (c) 2020, Randall J. Seaver

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