Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 10 November 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, 11 November, 5 p.m.:  Deeds Not Words: Finding Your Merchant Marine Ancestors, by Michael L. Strauss

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 17 November, 5 p.m.:  Separating and Merging Identities of Same-named Men, by Shannon Green

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 18 November, 11 a.m.:  Surname Projects and DNA Projects, by Mags Gaulden

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Why I Love — and How to Use — the Newspaper Collections at MyHeritage, by Sunny Morton

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 122: African American Research Part 2

*  Genealogy Connection:  #74 - Michael Cassara - Speaker



*  Fisher’s Top Tips:  #222r - Creating a Timeline Helps

*  Ancestral Findings:  Famous Civil War Battlefields | AF-395

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library: England Jurisdictions Map 1851 by Vivien Brown











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Review: "Genealogy at a Glance: Swedish Genealogy Research," by Robert Johnson, JD, CG

 The Genealogical Publishing Company in Baltimore has published another in its series of "Genealogy at a Glance" laminated research guides - this time for Swedish Genealogy Research, by Robert Johnson, JD, CG.

This "Genealogy at a Glance" booklet has four laminated pages on one 11" x 17" paper (folded). It is designed to give the user the basic elements of genealogy research in the allotted space. They provide an overview of the facts a researcher needs to know in order to begin and proceed successfully with research in the subject.

The description of the Swedish Genealogy Research  booklet includes:

The first notable Swedish migration to North America took place between 1638 and 1655, when the colony of New Sweden was established along the lower reaches of the Delaware River. The vast majority of Swedes immigrated during the period of the Great Migration, 1850 through 1930, and by the time the 2000 U.S. federal census was taken, there were 4 million Americans claiming Swedish roots.

In just four laminated pages, this “at a glance” guide by Robert Johnson, JD, CG, gives you all the information you’ll ever need to begin tracing your Swedish ancestors. After a discussion of Swedish immigration and migration, Johnson offers details about the Swedish language and Swedish surnames that will help you unlock your Swedish family history. He then goes on to highlight the major record sources, repositories, and online resources. Sprinkled throughout are tips and additional references for you to consult.

If you have Swedish ancestry, there’s no better place to begin or proceed with your family history research than Genealogy at a Glance: Swedish Genealogy Research.

The booklet has these sections:
  • Contents
  • Quick Facts
  • Swedish Immigration to North America
*  New Sweden 1638-1655

                    *  Sweden's Great Migration 1850-1930

                    *  Migration Records
  • Unlocking Swedish Family History
           *  Names

  • Major Record Sources 
                     *  Household Examination Records

                     *  Birth/Christening, Banns/Marriage, and Death/Burial Records

                     *  Moving Records

                     *  Tax Records

                     *  Census Records

                     *  Estate Inventories

                     *  Court Records

                     *  Military Records

                     *  Land Records
  •  Repositories
           *  Riksarkivet (National Archives)

                     *  Landsarkiven (Provincial Archives)

                     *  Kirsarkivet i Stockholm (Military Archives

  • Other Online Resources
                    *  www.arkivdigital.net 

                    *  www.swedishgenealogyguide.com

                    *  www.isof.se/Sprak/Namn/Ortnamn/Ortnamsregistret/Sok-i-registret

                    *  www.soldatreg.se

                    *  www.ddss.nu

                    *  www.stadsarkivet.stockholm.se

                    *  www.malmo.se/stadsarkivet

                    *  www.lantmateriet.se

This booklet is designed primarily for the person who has little experience and understanding of Swedish Genealogy Research and provides an overview of the basics of finding Swedish genealogy resources.

For someone like me that teaches and talks about genealogy a bit, it is invaluable because I can pull it out and provide some guidance to my student or colleague interested in the subject.

The beauty of these "Genealogy at a Glance" booklets is that they are very light and portable in a briefcase or laptop case. They are fixtures in my research case.

This four-page laminated booklet costs $9.95,  plus postage and handling. You can order it through the Genealogical Store, or use the link for the Swedish Genealogy Research booklet and click on the "Add to Cart" link.  I recommend buying these booklets at seminars and conferences where they are offered in order to avoid the shipping costs.

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Disclosure: Genealogical.com contacted me recently and asked me to provide a review of this booklet. They mailed me a review copy for my personal use as remuneration for this review.

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Monday, November 9, 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 8 November 2020

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

1)  Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Board Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday.  The society is still perking along with four Zoom meetings every month.  I reported on the Newsletter, Research Group meeting, and DNA Interest Group meeting.  There will be no Holiday Luncheon in December this year, and the elections are postponed until the COVID-19 crisis is past.

2)  Wrote, edited and distributed the CVGS "Family History Gazette" newsletter for November on Sunday to the current society members. This issue includes information about the next program meeting on the Mayflower, a spotlight on past board members, summaries of the October meetings, link lists of genealogy news, interesting blog posts, recent YouTube videos and upcoming Family Tree Webinars presentations, plus society involvement articles.  The newsletter will be on the CVGS website soon.
3)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) DNA Interest Group meeting on Saturday in a Zoom meeting hosted by Colin Whitney, featuring Kathleen Hernandes presentation on Endogamy.  There were about 30 in attendance.

4)  Participated in today's Mondays With Myrt Zoom webinar.  We discussed file backups, RootsMagic TreeShare feature, Remembrance/Veterans Day, Dave's War of 1812 pension file on Fold3, my post about mining obituaries on Ancestry, Frank's Germany birth record annotations, and more.

5)  Watched one Family Tree Webinars video - In Black and White: Finding Historical Newspapers From Around the World, by Gena Philibert-Ortega.

6)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of my 7th great-grandfather #566 John Young (1649-1718) of Eastham, Mass. for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.  

7)  Transcribed a probate record in Amanuensis Monday -- 1685 Bond and Order to Administrate the Estate of George Barbur (1617-1685) of Medfield, Massachusetts  for Amanuensis Monday today.  

8)  Added Notes to 26 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors.  Ancestry added 35 new DNA matches this past week.  I added 2 more ThruLines to my RootsMagic tree.  MyHeritage added 14 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 38,535 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 143).

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 59,841 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 116), and 127,977 source citations (up 182).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree twice this week updating 253 profiles, and I resolved 1,497 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 139,487 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily.   I have 145,178 MyHeritage Record Matches to be resolved and work on them weekly.

11)  Wrote 15 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which one was a press release.  The most popular post last week was Mining the Newspapers.com Obituary Index Record Hints on Ancestry with over 447 views.  

12)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much in Week 34 of COVID-19 isolation.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday, and it wasn't too busy.  We went to indoors church on Sunday. It rained this past weekend and turned cool.  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing genealogy, eating, sleeping and a little yard work, and I started another new crime fiction book on my laptop.

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1685 Bond and Order to Administer the Estate of George Barbur (1617-1685) of Medfield, Massachusetts

    This week's document for transcription is the 1685 Bond and Order to Administer the Estate  of George Barbur (1617-1685) of Medfield, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 1,404 in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate court records. 

Image 6 of 6:

The transcription of this bond and order is:

Know all men by these presents that we Samuel Barbur
of Meadfield Innholder, Jonathan Bridgham and Joseph
Bridgham of Boston, Tanners, all within the County of Suffolke 
Massachusetts Colony in New Engl. are holden and stand firmly
bound and obliged unto m^r John Hubbard of Boston Treasur'r
for the s'd County of Suffolke in the Sum of Three hundred
pounds to be paid unto the s'd Treasure'r , his Successo'rs in s'd
Office or assignes in currant money of New England
To the true payment whereof we do binde and oblige
our selves and either of us by himselfe our heires Exec'rs
and Adm'rs jointly and severally firmly by these presents
Sealed with our Seales.  Dated in Boston the fifteenth
Day of May Ann'o Dom'i One thousand six hundred Eighty
and five 1685.

The Condition of this present Oblig'con is such that whereas L'ters
of Adm'con to y'e Estate of Cap'ne George Barbur late of Meadfield
dece'd intestate are granted unto the above bounden Samuel, his
son, an Inventory whereof he hath exhibited upon Oath.
If therefore the s'd Samuel Barbur do and shall well and truely
Administer all and singular the goods and Estate of his said
late Father Cap'ne George Barbur, according to law, and within
twelve months next coming or sooner if required, render unto
he Court for s'd County a just and true accompt of his said
Adm'con and shall likewise be accountable and responsable
for the s'd goods and Estate unto the s'd Court or their Order
whensoever Lawfully called thereunto Then this above written
Obliga'con to be void and of none Effect, Or else to abide and
remain in full force power and virtue.
Sealed and delive'd
in y'e presence of us                                Samuel Barbur
Warner Wosendonck                               Jonathan Bridgham
Is'a Addington Clre.                               Joseph Bridgham

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #1,404 (6 images), George Barbur of Medfield, 1685; "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 25 June 2020); from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.

George Barbur (1617-1685) married Elizabeth Clarke (1620-1683) in 1642 in Dedham, Massachusetts.  They had nine children:

*  Elizabeth Barber (1641-1642)
*  Mary Barber (1643-1643)
*  Mary Barber (1644-1700, married 1666 Jonathan Morse (1643-1727)
*  Samuel Barber (1647-1736), married 1676 Sarah Millens (1654-1721)
*  John Barber (1649-1688), married 1674 Abigail Babcock (1656-1693)
*  Elizabeth Barber (1651-1714), married 1669 Daniel Morse (1641-1702)
*  Hannah Barber (1654-1705), married 1686 Ebenezer Babcock (1662-1716)
*  Zechariah Barber (1656-1705), married 1683 Abiell Ellice (1662-1716)
*  Abigail Barber (1659-????), married 1691 Samuel Thorne (1655-????).

George Barbur died intestate on 13 April 1685 in Medfield, and the Inventory on his estate was taken on 23 April 1685.  On 15 May 1685, bond was given in the amount of 300 pounds by Samuel Barbur, Jonathan Bridgham and Joseph Bridgham, and the Court appointed Samuel Barbur as administrator of the estate of his father, George Barbur.  The Court ordered the administrator to administer the estate and provide an account in one year.  There are no papers in this estate file that list the heirs, the distribution or the account of this estate.

George and Elizabeth (Clarke) are my 8th great-grandparents, through their son Zechariah Barber (1656-1705) who married Abiell Ellice (1662-1716) in 1683 in Medfield.  

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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, November 8, 2020

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 1 to 7 November 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:

*  Becoming Sherlock Holmes of DNA Matching by Deb Ruth on Deb's Adventures in Genealogy.

*  Legacy Tree Onsite: 7 Overlooked Irish Genealogy Resources You Should Be Using by a writer on Legacy Tree Genealogists.

*  Records Aren't Always Where You Expect Them To Be by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots.

*  Looking For Livana by Schalene Dagutis on Tangled Roots and Trees.

*  The Year Grandma Ferguson's Chickens Drowned by Tonya Ferguson on Gathering Leaves For My Family Tree.

*  Distant DNA Matches: What To Do With Them? by Diahan Southard on Your DNA Guide.

*  Introducing a Google for Genealogy by Dallan Quass on RootsFinder.

*  Newspapers And Ancestry - Good Value or Rip-Off? by Margaret O'Brien on Data Mining DNA.

*  Ancestry users: Don’t Forget to Check Family Search by Janine Adams on Organize Your Family History.

*  Introducing DNA Tidbits -- DNA Tidbit #1: Triangulation by Robert Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  Genealogy Tips: Lessons Learned From Writing a Cemetery Book by Gena Philibert-Ortega on GenealogyBank Blog.

*  How To Prepare DNA Research Reports For Sharing by Nicole Elder on Family Locket.

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, 6th Nov 2020 by Crissoulli on That Moment In Time.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme -- November 7, 2020  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte,

*  Saturday Serendipity (November 7, 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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150 Million Profiles Connected in Geni World Family Tree

 I received this information from Amanda at Geni.com recently:

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I'm excited to let you know that Geni's World Family Tree now connects over 150 million profiles!

This huge milestone was possible thanks to the collaboration of over 13 million users and over 200 volunteer Curators from all over the world. The World Family Tree has grown faster than ever with over 11 million profiles added in the last year.

Geni’s World Family Tree allows millions of people to work together to research and preserve their shared ancestry for future generations. By combining research into a single shared family tree, users are able to concentrate on pursuing new leads instead of repeating the same research over and over again. Over time, the quality and accuracy of the tree continues to improve as new information is discovered, errors are corrected, and new connections are found. With more and more profiles added every day and overlapping branches merged, Geni has become one of the premier go-to reference sites for global genealogy. 
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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Geni.com, and have received no other financial considerations from Geni, but have from MyHeritage, the parent company of Geni.

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Saturday, November 7, 2020

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Your Oldest Ancestral Item

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1)  Lorine Mcginnis Schulze on her Olive Tree Genealogy blog asked this question several weeks ago in http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2020/10/what-is-your-oldest-ancestral-item.html.

2)  So have at it - what is the oldest ancestral item in your collection of artifacts and stuff?  

3)  Tell us all about it in a blog post of your own, in comments on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.  Be sure to link to them in a comment on this blog post.

Thank you to Lorine for the idea and to Linda S. for suggesting it.

Here's mine:

*  I have a spoon collection with many spoons, including one silver spoon stamped with "1694" on it, but I can't find it in my piles of stuff.

*  I have a small rocking chair in the living room that was probably made by my great-grandfather Henry Austin Carringer, who was a carpenter, in the 1880s or 1890s.

*  I have an end table that was bequeathed to me by my father's sister, Geraldine (Seaver) Remley in 2007.  She said it belonged to her great-grandmother, Sophia (Newton) Hildreth (1834-1923).

*  I have a spoon holder with spoons with initials of Knapp women from the mid-1800s handed down from my Auble grandmother.

*  I have two small encased photos of the Devier J. Smith family from the 1870 time frame.

*  I have a Union Case with ambrotype photos of Isaac and Lucretia (Smith) Seaver from the 1860s.

*  I have framed photographs of the Richmond family from the 1880-1900 time frame.

*  I have a scrapbook and other published books from the 1880-1910 time frame with photos and clippings pasted into them, handed down from my Carringer and Smith  ancestors.

*  I have published books from the 1860 to 1890 time frame, including two McGuffey readers, handed down through the Carringer and Kemp lines.

I'm sure I've forgotten some things.  Then there is our stuff from my parents family and my family.  

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Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 31 October to 6 November 2020

 The following record collections were listed on the Recently Added and Updated List on Ancestry.com during the period from  31 October to 6 November 2020: 

The ADDED and Updated record collections are:

*  Rhineland, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1533-1950; indexed records with record images, Updated 11/4/2020

*  Iowa, Records of Persons Subject to Military Duty, 1862-1910; indexed records without record images, ADDED 11/4/2020

*  Iowa, Armed Forces Grave Registrations, 1835-1998; indexed records without record images, ADDED 11/4/2020

*  Oldenburg, Germany, Birth Records, 1876-1905; indexed records with record images, Updated 11/4/2020

*  Oldenburg, Germany, Marriage Records, 1876-1930; indexed records with record images, Updated 11/4/2020

*  Oldenburg, Germany, Death Records, 1876-1960; indexed records with record images, Updated 11/4/2020

*  Web: U.S., Mining Accidents, 1839-2006; indexed records with record images, ADDED 11/4/2020

*  England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936; indexed records with record images, Updated 11/4/2020

*  UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923; indexed records without record images, Updated 11/4/2020

*  Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923; indexed records with record images, Updated 11/3/2020

*  Dresden, Germany, Marriages, 1876-1922; indexed records with record images, Updated 11/3/2020

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The complete Ancestry.com Card Catalog is at    http://search.ancestry.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx.  

By my count, there were 3 NEW collections ADDED this past week, per the list above.  There are now 32,866 collections available as of 6 November, an increase of  4 from last week.   

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary all-access subscription from Ancestry.com, for which I am thankful.  Ancestry.com has provided material considerations for travel expenses to meetings, and has hosted events and meals that I have attended in Salt Lake City, in past years.


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