Learning Center-Article Archives. Ancestry.com Learning Center Search What's New The latest from Ancestry.com... Discover First Steps Just getting started? Begin Next Steps Learn about our collections... Explore Our Social Network Get expert advice. Learn 5-Minute Find: Down on the Farm Many of us have ancestors who are listed as farmers on the census. Research Guides Free Download expert advice for tackling your research goals. Translation Help Get translation guides and help for German and other languages Getting Started with Search Learn how to find your ancestors in historical records. Featured Collection. Ancestors Opening Sequence. Opening Sequence Many of you have inquired about the music and graphics used in the Ancestors series, especially in the opening sequence.
The graphics were provided by 4:2:2 Videographic Design of Bristol, England. The theme music for Ancestors was composed by David Lowe. Mr. Lowe's CD, entitled Dreamcatcher, has been released in Britain. Students from Brigham Young University's Music Composition program created the music for all documentary segments except Hannibal Lokumbe, episode 10. For those of you who are interested, the Ancestors opening sequence is now available in the QuickTime video format. Please note: This file is large (1.8 meg) and will take some time to download. Ancestors Opening Sequence (QuickTime format, 1.8 meg) Back to the Ancestors Main Page. Favorite Genealogy Websites / Midwest History / ComPortOne of Rockford Illinois.
TMG Source Templates-Mills Categories. Listed below are the Source Templates designed by Wholly Genes arranged according to citation category names given in Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence! Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1997). Each category shows the template for Full Footnote (FF), Short Footnote (SF), and Bibliography (B) with the appropriate Source Elements. As noted in statements by Wholly Genes, the templates should be reviewed along with the examples given in the cited books and/or in other style manuals. The user should then make changes as thought best for the particular source document being referenced. In reviewing the templates, I find certain templates which I think should be different and have made changes in my datasets according to how I think they should be designed. I include those changes immediately following the Wholly Genes template.
Following some of the templates, I have given examples of how that note might appear when printed in a report. Citing Sources. Genealogy Citation Guides. The rapid growth of the Internet has outstripped the pace at which citation standards have been revised to include Internet sources. So, the purpose of this page is to serve as a guideline, if preliminary, to citing genealogically related material found on the Internet. For the most part, the citation examples below are modeled after traditional citation styles.
Some Helpful General Guidelines: Typically, a modern word processor program will add a hyperlink automatically to a URL once you type it into the document. Usually, printed paper documents have the automatic underlining of the hyperlink removed. Web pages are often transient in nature and material can be published and taken down, removed or edited. Printer software can also be set to print the URL and date of printing at the bottom or top of each page. When citing Internet material it is advisable to make a special note about the accessibility of the information. Samples of Internet Citations. More Ways I Use Evernote for Genealogy.
I started using Evernote about 18 months ago (you can read my original post on the subject here) and I wanted to revisit the topic with some tips and tricks that I’ve picked up along the way, as well as highlight some new features. Evernote really has become more and more useful over the last 18 months, as the company has added new features, acquired companies, and as third parties have built apps to work with Evernote.
Some of the features I’m finding most useful are: Notebook Stacks Stacks are a way to organize notebooks into groups. If you are a OneNote user, Evernote stacks are akin to a OneNote notebook with Evernote notebooks like OneNote pages. Note Links You can imbed links from any Evernote note into any other note (and into outside apps, like calendars, I understand). This screen shot shows the master note with links back to individual web clips. To-Dos Evernote has had checkboxes that let you make to-do lists for quite awhile.
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Sites About Genealogy. Genealogy Resources. Interpretome. Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. From Ancestry.com Wiki Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition, called Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources was published in 1989 and was edited by Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., CG. A revised edition was published in 1992. The current edition, the third, was published in 2004 when the title was changed to simply Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. A sample of a county map for Vermont included in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Resources.
Red Book is designed to help family historians learn where to find information about their ancestors by taking an approach focused on localities. It is an expansive guide to the most useful resources in each of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Major highlights of the content are the county resources published in table format for each state. Third Edition Table of Contents Introduction to Red Book. The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy. The National Archives. Technology & Tools | ManyRoads. As most of you may know by now, I have had what might best be classifies as a “passel of troubles” with FTM 2012; not the least of which has been in establishing and maintaining a stable, updated, environment.
(For more on that please read: FTM 2012 Surprises?!? And Family Tree Maker 2012 running on a Virtual Machine & Win XP ). After about 2 weeks of work, I have found what seems to be a solution. Yay! Perhaps that means I am tenacious… I rather prefer to think I am not stubborn , but maybe I am that, too!?? Nevertheless, here is what I have come up with for a solution to build a clean, safe, pristine environment within which FTM2012 ‘ seems ‘ to be able to run, with greatly reduced breakage and much improved stability. This solution may not necessarily be well suited for the feint of heart, but it is worth consideration given the frustration involved in having non-functional software, which you want to work.
I only allowed for Win7Pro default security settings. Like this: Like Loading... Presenting family genealogies on the web | ManyRoads. Presenting readable, genealogical information, data, and stories is a complex challenge. It seems to me that people’s lives ought to be expressed as more than family trees, dates, and lineages. I have been struggling with this problem for quite a while. Perhaps you have as well. Over the years, I have noticed a few ‘special’ difficulties in making this type of information, useful, accessible, easy to find not to mention human. The major problem areas, for me, have centered around the following: genealogical data & stories can run deep & wide (they may, and often do, involve a lot of data from many locations, sources, and media)genealogical data/ information itself evolves and changes.
Given these challenges and the fact that I use a website environment, one built using WordPress plus GRAMPS; I thought I’d attempt a melding of several techniques and technologies in order to make a more user friendly presentation format for my genealogy information. So my questions now are… ManyRoads- Rabideau & Henss Family Histories. Tips & Opinions | ManyRoads.
As most of you may know by now, I have had what might best be classifies as a “passel of troubles” with FTM 2012; not the least of which has been in establishing and maintaining a stable, updated, environment. (For more on that please read: FTM 2012 Surprises?!? And Family Tree Maker 2012 running on a Virtual Machine & Win XP ). After about 2 weeks of work, I have found what seems to be a solution. Yay! This solution may not necessarily be well suited for the feint of heart, but it is worth consideration given the frustration involved in having non-functional software, which you want to work. First and foremost, I created a single function Windows 7 Virtual PC running in isolation on a guest host ( see Wikipedia for more information on this); my guest host happens to be a Debian Linux PC running Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 201204 . To begin with, I decided I needed to create and then backup a complete, clean, fresh install of Win7Pro (running as a Virtual Machine under Linux).
Introduction to Family History. Okay, welcome to The National Archives, particularly those of you who’re on their very first visit. I’ll assume, because you’re in this talk, that you’re at least fairly new to family history, or you’re not new but you think maybe it’s time you found something out. It’s an introduction to family history it’s not a blow-by-blow ‘how to’ – we do have other talks and lots of support on how to go about it precisely.
It’s more a set of general guidelines and principles that, if you’re new, my driving instructor said, it’s just as easy to cultivate good habits as bad ones, and if you do things the right way from the beginning, and it becomes second nature, you will appreciate it in the future. It’s also very much a case of ‘don’t do what I do, do what I say’, and you’ll get, hopefully, the benefit of learning from my experience and all the things I did wrong. Family history starts at home. [Show image] So don’t take for granted what you know. ‘We are descended from Horatio Nelson’. Creating a legacy from your family history. Ancestry.com Wiki.