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Thanks to Thomas MacEntee for the following challenge:
"Time Tomorrow at 8:00am - September 10 at 11:00pm
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More Info Week 36: Check out the Family History Library catalog (http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp). In terms of its library collections, there are no rivals. From this web page, you can search by place, surname, keyword, title, film/fiche, author, subject, and call number. Try all of them. Don’t do actual research with this exercise. Instead just click links and see all the catalog has to offer. Many of these... items can be rented for a small fee and viewed at your local Family History Center (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/library/FHC/frameset_FHC.asp). You do not have to be a member of the LDS Church to utilize this service. If you write a genealogy blog, tell readers what you found during this exercise, or describe the types of materials you’ve received through this genealogy tool.
52 Weeks To Better Genealogy is a series of weekly prompts that are a bit more challenging and are geared towards those new to the field of genealogy and family history as well as those who want to brush up on some skills which might be a bit rusty."
As always, this site amazes me!
Simply by typing in my main surname search "Bean", I was met with a plethora of sources to check on research!
Unfortunately for me, the branch of the family Bean that I am working on, was not represented in the many titles of work [356] that came up during the search. But, this I already knew, and so was not disappointed.
I have often utilized this site looking for a source of material to do research with, and so I highly recommend it. While I have not been able to break through my own brick wall, I have through several client's walls, and what a wonderful feeling that is!
Give it a try!
Showing posts with label 52 Weeks To Better Genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 52 Weeks To Better Genealogy. Show all posts
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
52 Weeks To Better Genealogy - Challenge 7
The newest [week 7] challenge for the 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy is:
"Play with Google Maps (http://maps.google.com). This is a helpful tool for determining the locations of addresses in your family history. Where your ancestral homestead once stood may now be a warehouse, a parking lot or a field. Perhaps the house is still there. When you input addresses in Google Maps, don’t forget to use the Satellite View and Street View options for perspectives that put you were right there where your ancestors once stood. If you’ve used this tool before, take sometime and play with it again. Push all the buttons, click all the links and devise new ways it can help with your personal genealogy research. If you have a genealogy blog, write about your experiences with Google Maps, or suggest similar easy (and free) tools that have helped in your own research.
This challenge runs from Saturday, 13 February 2010 through Friday, 19 February 2010."
Well, this was one challenge I absolutely loved!!!
I input three of my known addresses as a child. And actually came up with the 4th place as well!!!
The program is easy to operate, and I found it ALOT of fun!
By inputing the address, I was taken to the satellite view. By switching to the street view, I was literally taken to a point where I was standing in the middle of the street viewing the address.
With simple manipulation you can move up and down the street, and even onto the lot where the address is located.
One simple thing I wish Google would do is make it possible to save the photo's!!! However, you can print and then scan them. While the quality is "poor" for a snapshot, it does give me a snapshot I would otherwise not have of the homes where I lived as a child!
Here is the home where I spent most of my growing up years, located at 4600 Krick Street in Norfolk, Virginia [yep, my Daddy was a sailor in the US Navy!!!]. It was located on the corner of Krick and Early Streets. Unfortunately the beautiful holly bushes that Daddy had at the fron of the house are gone now, as are the crepe myrtle trees that lined Early street, and the Blue Mountain Fir that Mama and Daddy had planted in the front yard. But the house is basically unchanged. Even the 6-foot chain-link fence is in the back that Mama and Daddy put up for our beloved German Shepherd's, Angel and Uhla.
[I hated to leave there! I cried and begged my Mama and Daddy to send me to boarding school! I did not want to move to the country! - I HATED the country back then!] I used to fantasize about one day buying the house and living there again. Sometimes I still do!
This exercise evoked a ton of memories! As I "walked" around the houses where I grew up, I recalled so many things I thought I'd forgotten! There was the little duplex we lived at when my baby sister was born! Then the little cottage one block from the beach where we lived when my Grandma Bean came to live with us. Then the little house we lived at when I went to first grade! And lastly here, where we lived until I started high school.
Thanks GeneaBloggers for this walk down Memory Lane!
"Play with Google Maps (http://maps.google.com). This is a helpful tool for determining the locations of addresses in your family history. Where your ancestral homestead once stood may now be a warehouse, a parking lot or a field. Perhaps the house is still there. When you input addresses in Google Maps, don’t forget to use the Satellite View and Street View options for perspectives that put you were right there where your ancestors once stood. If you’ve used this tool before, take sometime and play with it again. Push all the buttons, click all the links and devise new ways it can help with your personal genealogy research. If you have a genealogy blog, write about your experiences with Google Maps, or suggest similar easy (and free) tools that have helped in your own research.
This challenge runs from Saturday, 13 February 2010 through Friday, 19 February 2010."
Well, this was one challenge I absolutely loved!!!
I input three of my known addresses as a child. And actually came up with the 4th place as well!!!
The program is easy to operate, and I found it ALOT of fun!
By inputing the address, I was taken to the satellite view. By switching to the street view, I was literally taken to a point where I was standing in the middle of the street viewing the address.
With simple manipulation you can move up and down the street, and even onto the lot where the address is located.
One simple thing I wish Google would do is make it possible to save the photo's!!! However, you can print and then scan them. While the quality is "poor" for a snapshot, it does give me a snapshot I would otherwise not have of the homes where I lived as a child!
Here is the home where I spent most of my growing up years, located at 4600 Krick Street in Norfolk, Virginia [yep, my Daddy was a sailor in the US Navy!!!]. It was located on the corner of Krick and Early Streets. Unfortunately the beautiful holly bushes that Daddy had at the fron of the house are gone now, as are the crepe myrtle trees that lined Early street, and the Blue Mountain Fir that Mama and Daddy had planted in the front yard. But the house is basically unchanged. Even the 6-foot chain-link fence is in the back that Mama and Daddy put up for our beloved German Shepherd's, Angel and Uhla.
[I hated to leave there! I cried and begged my Mama and Daddy to send me to boarding school! I did not want to move to the country! - I HATED the country back then!] I used to fantasize about one day buying the house and living there again. Sometimes I still do!
This exercise evoked a ton of memories! As I "walked" around the houses where I grew up, I recalled so many things I thought I'd forgotten! There was the little duplex we lived at when my baby sister was born! Then the little cottage one block from the beach where we lived when my Grandma Bean came to live with us. Then the little house we lived at when I went to first grade! And lastly here, where we lived until I started high school.
Thanks GeneaBloggers for this walk down Memory Lane!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Challenge #5 - 52 Weeks To Better Genealogy
GeneaBloggers sent out the following challenge this morning:
"Play with WorldCat.org. WorldCat is a massive network of library content that the public can search for free (user name and password not required). Not every library is a part of WorldCat, but the vast size of the network makes it an important genealogy tool. If you are looking for a specific book or publication, enter the identifying information into the WorldCat search box and see which libraries hold the item. You may even find that you can get the item through your library’s inter-library loan program. Don’t forget to search for some of your more unusual surnames and see what comes up. The goal is to play with WorldCat and examine its possibilities for your own research. If you’re already familiar with WorldCat, play with it again. The network and collection grow and change constantly. If you have a genealogy blog, write about your experiences with searching WorldCat for this exercise.
This challenge runs from Saturday, 30 January 2010 through Friday, 5 February 2010.
And remember - as Amy says - these should be fun exercises! Don't feel that you have to participate each week, nor should you beat yourself up if you miss one or more challenges. We all have so much that we want to accomplish - let alone what we want to accomplish with our genealogy blogs. This series should be one which, by the end of 2010, helps you to be a better genealogist."
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And so, with the four man family lines that I research for my family I went in search of what merial was out there. [I've never been able to find alot that pertains to any of the four lines, but for the sake of the exercise I did endeavor to give it the ol' Scout try!]
On my paternal side I am researching the Bean and Faudree families. The following turned up:
Bean- -
Bean Family History
American Genealogical Research Institute - 1978
OLC # 51585950
The Bean Family of Maryland
Margaret Bean Langley - 1984
OLC # 11261216
NOTE: There were literally hundreds of volumes of "Bean Family" related texts, but only these 2 appeared
to relate to anything near what my "orphan" Bean's information might be in.
Faudree -
Faudree Family Bible Record, 1869 - 1938
Archival Material - Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
OLC # 122323305
NOTE: The above Faudree manuscript is the only thing pertaining to my Faudree's that I saw. I may
just have to plan a trip to Richmond for this!!!
On my Maternal side there are the following two lines:
Dreher -
Dreher Family Bible Records, 1765 - 1834
Family Bible for descendants of John Dreher (b. 1765) and Catharine Dreher (b. 1768)
OLC # 47813841
Dreher Ancestors and Descendants
By Mildred J. Krannawitter - 1993
OLC # 31157754
Dreher Family Miscellany, 1829-1888
Manuscript Collection German Archival Material
OLC # 145787291
Banet -
No References Foun d
I did find this an interesting challenge. And I actually did find something in the Library of Virginia that may be more than beneficial for me to view [Faudree family Bible]. While my library does not participate in the WorldCat or in interlibrary loan from out of state, I do frequent the Library of Virginia in Richmond about 3 or 4 times a year. I was not aware of this collection, and you can bet that I WILL be seeking it out!
Thanks GeneaBloggers for a great challenge!!!
"Play with WorldCat.org. WorldCat is a massive network of library content that the public can search for free (user name and password not required). Not every library is a part of WorldCat, but the vast size of the network makes it an important genealogy tool. If you are looking for a specific book or publication, enter the identifying information into the WorldCat search box and see which libraries hold the item. You may even find that you can get the item through your library’s inter-library loan program. Don’t forget to search for some of your more unusual surnames and see what comes up. The goal is to play with WorldCat and examine its possibilities for your own research. If you’re already familiar with WorldCat, play with it again. The network and collection grow and change constantly. If you have a genealogy blog, write about your experiences with searching WorldCat for this exercise.
This challenge runs from Saturday, 30 January 2010 through Friday, 5 February 2010.
And remember - as Amy says - these should be fun exercises! Don't feel that you have to participate each week, nor should you beat yourself up if you miss one or more challenges. We all have so much that we want to accomplish - let alone what we want to accomplish with our genealogy blogs. This series should be one which, by the end of 2010, helps you to be a better genealogist."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And so, with the four man family lines that I research for my family I went in search of what merial was out there. [I've never been able to find alot that pertains to any of the four lines, but for the sake of the exercise I did endeavor to give it the ol' Scout try!]
On my paternal side I am researching the Bean and Faudree families. The following turned up:
Bean- -
Bean Family History
American Genealogical Research Institute - 1978
OLC # 51585950
The Bean Family of Maryland
Margaret Bean Langley - 1984
OLC # 11261216
NOTE: There were literally hundreds of volumes of "Bean Family" related texts, but only these 2 appeared
to relate to anything near what my "orphan" Bean's information might be in.
Faudree -
Faudree Family Bible Record, 1869 - 1938
Archival Material - Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
OLC # 122323305
NOTE: The above Faudree manuscript is the only thing pertaining to my Faudree's that I saw. I may
just have to plan a trip to Richmond for this!!!
On my Maternal side there are the following two lines:
Dreher -
Dreher Family Bible Records, 1765 - 1834
Family Bible for descendants of John Dreher (b. 1765) and Catharine Dreher (b. 1768)
OLC # 47813841
Dreher Ancestors and Descendants
By Mildred J. Krannawitter - 1993
OLC # 31157754
Dreher Family Miscellany, 1829-1888
Manuscript Collection German Archival Material
OLC # 145787291
Banet -
No References Foun d
I did find this an interesting challenge. And I actually did find something in the Library of Virginia that may be more than beneficial for me to view [Faudree family Bible]. While my library does not participate in the WorldCat or in interlibrary loan from out of state, I do frequent the Library of Virginia in Richmond about 3 or 4 times a year. I was not aware of this collection, and you can bet that I WILL be seeking it out!
Thanks GeneaBloggers for a great challenge!!!
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