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Daisy E. Reed Passes at Age 67 (tRSSNews): Daisy E. Reed, 67, died Oct. 22, 2009, at her home in Forest Grove, Oregon. A service will be held at 2 p.m. Oct. 31,at the Forest Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1950 Mountain View Lane. A private family committal service will follow at Cornelius Methodist Cemetery. Daisy Marsh was born July 13, 1942, a daughter of William and Hallie (Hanson) Marsh. She was raised on the family
Created on May 21, 2012
John Hanson Beadle’s 1880 “History of Parke County” [Indiana] Reprinted (tRSSNews): Tamie Dehler is reporting in her column in the Tribune-Star that John Hanson Beadle’s 1880 History of Parke County has been reprinted by the Parke County Historical Society , and is available at the Parke County Museum, 503 W. Ohio St., Rockville, IN 47872, open Wednesday through Sunday 1-5 p.m., or the Rockville Public Library , 106 N. Market St., Rockville, IN 47872, open
Created on May 21, 2012
New Tulare Public Library Now Housing Sequoia Genealogical Society’s Collection (tRSSNews): News from Tulare, California: Volunteer Marilyn Hanson is glad the Sequoia Genealogical Society’ s collection of research materials has made the cross- town trip to the new Tulare Public Library . The collection is at the end of a corridor that splits the racks, next to the future home of the library’s tutoring center. Those seeking information about ancestors have had
Created on May 21, 2012
GenealogyBank (tRSSNews): GenealogyBank is the largest online newspaper archive for family history research, now featuring over 4,400 newspapers – an estimated one billion names from 1690 to the present day. Thousands of newspaper issues published in 40 states were recently added to GenealogyBank . New Titles: Expanded Titles: AK—Kodiak Daily Mirror AL—Birmingham Times AZ—Pinal
Created on May 21, 2012
Not Enough People Document Their Lives, Archivist Says (tRSSNews): Everyone has a story to tell and pass along. Someone out there will be interested, said Curt Hanson, an archivist who heads the Department of Special collections at the University of North Dakota’s Chester Fritz Library. For instance, letters written by people who lived through the Great Depression help tell the story of what life was like back then. The description of farming
Created on May 21, 2012
Seattle Voices Audio Exhibit Showcases Enhanced Archives Collection (tRSSNews): The following announcement was written by the Seattle Municipal Archives: SEATTLE - The Seattle Municipal Archives recently launched a new online audio exhibit called Seattle Voices, featuring Seattle government, citizen and activist voices from the past. “As this exhibit grows, it will provide a glimpse into the human dynamic in the legislative process and illustrate the power
Created on May 21, 2012
Ogden Family History Conference Report (tRSSNews): Yesterday, I attend the Ogden Regional Family History Conference held at the Weber State College. This was my first time attending one of the ORFHC conferences and being on the Weber State College campus. I gathered that this was the first year they have held the conference there. The venue was great. I didn't have a problem finding a chair in any of my classes. The grand ballroom where the keynote was held, held 1,000 chairs. They estimated that only 70 chairs remained empty. There were additional people that came in throughout the conference hours, so they felt comfortable saying they had 1,000 attendees. I had heard that the conference planners were concerned about enough people showing up. The attendance would determine if they would be holding another conference there. I thought it an excellent turnout and hope to attend again next year. The conference was free but you needed to download the syllabus off their website at www.orfhc.org . This was not an issue for me. I was glad I checked back on the syllabus Friday night before the conference. It had grown from 116 pages to over 180 pages. They will keep the PDF syllabus on their website for another week. Anyone can download it, it's free! Here are the notes I jotted down on the things I thought of interest. Keynote Address by Ron Tanner, Product Manager, FamilySearch. Ron is a very humorous and lively presenter. I really like his presentations. He has great PowerPoint graphics to entertain you during the presentation. -NFS rolled out to Japan this past Friday -Korea and China's roll-out will be this week. This means all LDS members will finally have access to NFS. -Check out beta.familysearch.org , everything is being migrated over and it will replace www.familysearch.org by the end of this year (except NFS). -The website holds 20 TB of information. -They have 370 servers dedicated to searches alone. -There are 13-20 million disputes on NFS. They will be moved to the Discussion's area. The discussions have a limit of 500 characters, this will be increased. -They will be adding Watch/Notify to Discussions in Nov 2010. Users that have signed up to watch a specific discussion will be notified once a week of any changes being made. -They will be adding the ability to reassign your temple cards. NFS is being redesigned and the changes will come out slowly. The goal is for an Open Edit, one page wiki style page on each individual in the family tree. -This will allow anyone to correct info. -Maintain a history log to roll back changes if needed. -Improve and see SOURCES -Area for theories and speculation, discussions and conclusions -We will be able to send messages to others and make community requests Session 1 - Discussing the Future of NFS by its Product Manager by Ron Tanner Ron went over the new concept for NFS. The code name for the new project is SCOE - Source Centric Open Edit. The goal is switch from "My" tree to "Our" tree. This will make a better environment for researchers to come to conclusions on facts for individuals, based on sources. Once research has been completed on a person, by gathering all sources available on them, users will then able to focus on looking for information on other individuals. If we work as a community greater strides can be made on building the human family tree. We will be able to upload source images to these pages. 50 Peta-bytes of storage space is anticipated. To be Open Edit we need: 1. To Talk before making changes 2. Notification set up to alert individuals on changes made 3. Change log with an undo feature New Features needed: 1. Discussion - Done 2. Notifications - coming Nov 2010 3. Change Log - no date given Another big change is that the Ancestral File, IGI, and Pedigree Resource File will be all sucked out of NFS. They will be put into a resource repository that we can link back to, via computer links. This will help clean up all the bad data in there and make the good data come to light, when primary sources are added to verify information. Interesting side note: Since the release of NFS members have gone from a steady 3% temple ordinance submission rate to a double digit increase. Ron touched on this very briefly in either the Keynote address or his class afterwards. The Church is working with various record holders around the work to make their collections accessible to others. There are many different models. Some record holders want to charge a fee to view their records that we link to in the free indexes. He wanted it understood that no money comes to the LDS Church or FamilySearch for the viewing of these records. All monies will be paid directly to the record holders. More than likely you will be redirected to their website to pay them to view the image. Session 2 - I didn't know that! by Joanne Hanson This was an excellent class for beginners, but I only learned one thing new. I have been attending genealogy conferences too long!! There was a Mormon Reformation in 1856 and 1857. Assigned individuals asked members questions from the catechism, after which each was to confess sins related to the questions asked, then members, were to be re-baptized in renewal of their covenants and in reaffirmation of their religious commitments. This is the only time Mormons have used the terms "catechism" and "reaffirmation", you don't hear it now. Some Ward Census records will show the dates of multiple baptisms for members. Here is a list of the questions recorded by Luman Shurtleff (spelling retained) 1. Have you committed murder by shedding inosent blood or consenting there unto? 2. Have you betraid your brethren or sisters in anything? 3. Have you committed adultery by haveing any connection with any women that was not your wife or a man that was not your husband? 4. Have you taken or made use of property not your own without the consent of the owner? 5. Have you cut hay whare you had no right or turned your animal into another persons grain or field without his knowledge or consent? 6. Have you lied about or malissiously misrepresented any person or thing? 7. Have you borrowed anything that you have not returned or paid for? 8. Have you borne false witness against your neighbor? 9. Have you taken the name of Deity in vain? 10. Have you coveted anything not your own? 11. Have you been intoxicated with strong drink? 12. Have you found lost property and not returned it to the owner or used all diligence to do so? 13. Have you branded an animal that you did not know to be your own? 14. Have you taken an others horse or mule from the range and rode it without the owners consent? 15. Have you fulfilled your promises in paying your debts or run into debts without the prospect of paying? 16. Have you taken water to irrigate with when it belong to another persons at the time you used it? 17. Do you pay your tithing promptly? 18. Do you teach your family the gospel of salvation? 19. Do you speak against your brethren or against any principle taught us in the Book of Mormon bible book of Doctrine and Covenants Revelations given through Joseph Smith the Prophet and the Presidency of the Church as now organized? 20. Do you pray in your family night and morning and attend to secret prair? 21. Do you wash your boddies and have your family do so as ofton as helth and clenliness requires and circumstances will permit? 22. Do you labor six days and rest or go to the House of Worship on the seventh? 23. Do you and your family attend ward meetings? 24. Do you preside over your household as a servant of God and is your family subject to you? 25. Have you labored diligently and earned faithfully the wages paid you by your employers? 26. Do you oppress the hireling in his wages? 27. Have you taken up and converted any stay animal to your own or in any manner appropriated one to your benefit with-out accounting theirfor to the proper authorities? Session 3 - Digitally Preserving your Family History and Heritage by Barry Ewell, MyGenShare.com I really like attending Barry's classes. This one did not disappoint. I am going to have to make one of his cookie sheet photo trays. You line a cookie sheet with contact paper and then mark lines on it to square up your images. You can use magnetics to assist in holding down images this way. The area I was focusing in on was his Digital Image and Folder Naming Strategy. Organizing if you don't know by now is one of my favorite subjects. His folder hierarchy is: Surname Folder>Direct Descendant Folder>Category Folder>Image Files He uses common abbreviation Spanish Fork - SF Birth Certificates - BC Correspondence - COR Document - DOC Folders set up by Family line>Surname>Family>Category There is a folder for each generation Ewell - James N 1932 -Correspondence -Document -Histories & Reference -News -Obituary
Created on May 21, 2012
80-Year-Old Man Attempts to Kill Wife's Lover After Genealogy Meeting (tRSSNews): An 80-year-old man launched a hammer attack on his wife's 63-year-old lover after catching the couple kissing, a London court heard. Stuart Pask, a retired production engineer, battered John Hanson over the head repeatedly with a hammer in front of horrified commuters in London's Waterloo Station after a meeting at the Society of Genealogists. Mr. Pask apparently was distraught because
Created on May 21, 2012
Surname/Topic: Hanson [6 found] (pnIndex)