FamilySearch announced today that select presentations from this year’s RootsTech conference are now available online.

The available sessions are:

Jay Verkler – “Turning Roots, Branches, Trees into Nodes, Links, Graphs” Click to view Click for bio See “Jay Verkler Opens RootsTech Conference” for my report Barry Ewell - “Digitally Preserving Your Family Heritage” Click to view Curt Witcher - “The Changing Face of Genealogy” Click to view Click for bio See “RootsTech ...

By Myra Lee Adams Goff In 1980, a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark was designated here in Comal County. This landmark is the grotto right behind the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The story behind this particular designation is important to all of us because it reminds us of that dreaded word “Pandemic” that we became so familiar with just a few years back. Don’t we have flu every year? Yes. Do we have flu pandemics every year? No. In 1918 a flu pandemic (epidemic on a large scale) broke out worldwide killing an estimated 50 to 100 million people in the world with ...

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Do you keep a schedule? Do you stick to it or once you write something down, your brain says, “OK. That’s done”? Lists, like grocery lists, are a little like schedules and come in handy. For example, when you get home from the grocery store, you can check off what you forgot. Maybe Prince Carl kept a schedule and maybe it looked like this: Have the servants pack for a trip to Texas. What should I take? Maybe a bathing suit? Trinkets for Indians? Guns? I’ve heard about buffalos. Never seen one but I hear they come in handy. Get to Texas ...

Meet the Author The “Adelsverein” trilogy can be purchased at Sophie’s Shop at the Sophienburg. Author Celia Hayes will be the guest speaker at the Scholarship Brunch of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Ferdinand Lindheimer Chapter, on Saturday, March 12. Brunch and book review are $20. Reservations may be made by calling Roberta Schmidt at (830) 626-2225 before Feb. 28. By Myra Lee Adams Goff Author Celia Hayes has written a historical novel called “Adelsverein”. It’s actually a trilogy (three books, one story). Novels are not my favorite form ...

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Waggoners or Teamsters were important to early New Braunfels. They not only led the wagon trains of the early German settlers but they hauled freight to and from the frontier, especially the Gulf coast. G. Fred Oheim, editor of the Zeitung’s Jahrbuch in 1943, named 340 teamsters who “transported merchandise to New Braunfels from Indianola, Lavaca, Victoria, Cuero, Kingsbury, Luling, Marion, Austin and San Antonio from 1860 to1877 for Ernst Sherff alone.” Sherff was owner of a large merchandise business in New Braunfels that he purchased from ...

Please mark your calendar for the next CCGS monthly meeting.

Please mark your calendar for the monthly CCGS meeting.

Please mark your calendar for the monthly CCGS meeting.

The 2010 convention of the Texas State Genealogical Society will be in Waco, Texas across the street from the Waco Suspension Bridge over the Brazos River. The convention is hosted by the Central Texas Genealogical Society and the theme is "Bridging Generations".

Cyndi's List was first published on March 4, 1996. I have a hard time believing that was 15 years ago. One of the questions I get asked a lot is how Cyndi's List got started. Each fall our local society meets to share what we did over the summer. In the summer of 1995 I bought a new computer with a blazing fast 9600 baud modem, preloaded with AOL software. I immediately started looking for genealogy resources online. I took what I had found to our society meeting in September 1995—one printed page of everything I found online. I had ten copies to hand out just in case someone else ...

Recently, on the Cyndi's List Facebook page, on an unrelated topic, the following two statements were made:"Be careful with the LDS thing. Very little documentation."

"Yes, my ancestors on one side joined when the church first began - lots of wrong, wrong, wrong info on them on the LDS site!!! No verification of information at all. It's like going on Ancestry and just grabbing family trees without documenting the info!"

I was disappointed with the very general, broadly condemning, generic statements that were made about an invaluable resource to ...

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine gives us snapshots of web sites as they were on previous dates. This can be a very useful tool for people who are looking for web sites that they visited in the past. For genealogy, the archived web pages can serve as both good and bad research tools. A person's genealogical research naturally evolves over time. New information is found, mistakes are corrected, and data is edited. In theory, a person's genealogy web site should also evolve over time. So, a glimpse at an archived copy of a web page can help you see how the evolution of a web ...

Last Tuesday a reader on Facebook asked this question: "Cyndi: Can you put forth some suggestions on how to use Facebook for genealogical purposes/research? Thanks."Here's a quick run-through of ideas based on my knowledge of the features available with Facebook. Obviously, Facebook is a great way to network with other genealogists. You can make friends with fellow genealogists, learn from one another, and expand your genealogical horizons. When all else fails, you can always get a pick-me-up from your Facebook friends. Facebook is just one more way to publish information online. It gives ...

DearREADERS,In previous blog posts, Ol' Myrt here experimented with WikiTree.com and some embeddable widgets. See:DearMYRTLE's WikiTree: 5 generation updatable pedigree widget BETADearMYRTLE's Embedding a pedigree chart in your blog?With today's email comes news that Chris Whitten the genuis behind WikiTree has made the embeddable family tree widgets available for all bloggers and website owners: 22 March 2011 - WikiTree.com WikiTree is proud to announce the release of its new “widgets” that enable you to freely display a family tree ...

My apologies to the Wizard of Oz folks. IF I ONLY HAD A CLUE… I could while away the hoursConsulting with some web sitesOf family history fame I could save the data to my discShare it with my Uncle FritzIf I only had a clue. There’s my mother’s second cousinOur e-mails would be buzzingIf I could understand How to trace things back to AdamOr at least beyond my GrammaIf I only had a clue. OH WHY, just tell me whyThe internet is popular with some?I can’t find a thing perhaps becauseI am all THUMBS….And haven’t begun. I’d be absolutely ...