Friday, March 22, 2013

WANT TO WIN A "GLEANINGS"?

To celebrate the official return of Spring, Malcolm and Chris Moody of Archive CD Books Canada, are running a competition for you to win one of five Gleanings that the Archive CD Books Canada are going to give away.

All you have to do is make your way to their Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/ArchiveCDBooksCanada “LIKE” their page, scroll down to their posting announcing this competition and “LIKE” that posting, and you are entered. They will let the competition run for a week and on the 28th of March they will message the winners via. Facebook telling them how to collect the prize.
The easiest way to review all of their Gleanings is to go to their web site www.archivecdbooks.ca/acdbcanada.html and navigate to the “Search Page”.

In the “Product Number” slot enter “CAG” (without the parenthesis), click on “Search” and you will get a list of the almost 100 titles they have available. Clicking on the “More” button to the right of each entry will take you to the page for that Gleaning in their catalogue so you can read more about it. Make a note of your selection so you can tell them which one you have chosen when you win.

Gleanings are a downloadable files containing a complete digital (PDF) image of a short publication, or an extract from a longer one, which contains some useful information about subjects of value to genealogists and historians. By eliminating the “transport media” (the CD) they can offer these valuable “snippets” at affordable prices and deliver them almost immediately, directly to your computer.

Go to www.archivecdbooks.ca/acdbcanada.html

RootsTech Is Growing!

FamilySearch has just announced that the RootsTech  conference is expanding this fall into 17 centres in 16 countries.

And the year following that, they will hold 600 RootsTech Conferences around the world – it is going global!

They expect 120,00 people to attend these conferences.

You can go to RootsTech 2013 at www.rootstech.org

Thursday, March 21, 2013

New Logo for FamilySearch

It looks like there is going to be a 'new look' for FamilySearch, with a new logo and landing page to be debuted in April of 2013.

The news of this happening come from DearMyrtle, having witnessed its unveiling at a supper the other night at RootsTech 2013.

Pictures from the people who attended the dinner is on her Facebook page at https://plus.google.com/s/%23RootsTech

Thanks, DearMyrtle!

RootsTech 2013 – Live Streaming Day 3




March the 23rd will be the last day of Live Streaming of the RootsTech 2013 Conference.

It is reported that there are 6,800+ people who have registered for the conference- which starts today! And that doesn’t count ‘walk ins’. So it should be a well attended conference.

Here is the schedule for Saturday –

Saturday    

10:30 AM Eastern  Keynote - David Pogue and Gilad Japhet

11:45 AM Eastern Using Technology to Solve Research Problems - Karen Clifford

1:00 AM Eastern Digital Storytelling: More than Bullet Points - Denise Olson

Join the conversation at #RootsTech

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Ancestry UPDATE: Find A Grave Index




Find A Grave has been updated, and now has 5,012, 693 records online. Find A Grave was started a few years ago, and as the website says its mission “is to find, record and present final disposition information from around the world as a virtual cemetery experience”.
    
If you want to view the original data, go to Find A Grave at www.findagrave.com

          

RootsTeck 2013: Live Streaming Schedule Day 2



 
By now, you will understand that I will watch all of the Streaming Video sessions,  and here is the schedule for Friday -  

Friday 22 March 2013       

10:30 AM Eastern  Keynote - Jyl Pattee and Tim Sullivan

11:45 AM  Eastern Researching Ancestors Online - Laura Prescott

1:00 AM Eastern FamilySearch Family Tree - Ron Tanner

3:45 PM Eastern Google Search… and Beyond - Dave Barney

4:00 PM Eastern From Paper Piles to Digital Files - Valerie Elkins

And Pat Richley-Erickson  of  DearMYRTLE blog fame is going to be a roving reporter at RootsTech.

Go to DearMYRTLE Live! at RootsTech 2013, and check her ‘schedule’.


RootsTech 2013 is at www.RootsTech.org

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Tracing Forward - Searching for Relatives in Recent Times



Toronto Branch of the OGS has just issued a Call for Presentations for a fall workshop titled “Tracing Forward - Searching for Relatives in Recent Times”.

The aim of this workshop, to be held on Saturday 26 October, is to offer new ideas, skills or tools to help researchers trace members of their expanded family trees, people who might still be alive or recently deceased. We are hoping to receive proposals from professional genealogists, family historians, private investigators, legal experts and heir searchers.

The deadline for proposals is Friday 31 May

The website is at www.torontofamilyhistory.org