We hear from panelists John Law and Hilary Gadsby about the Guild of One-Name Studies 40th Anniversary Conference, and discover Hilary took a detour on the trip to a cemetery with a surprising result. The Shenandoah Valley, Virginia early settlers and two German books purchased by Mr. Myrt following his Germanic Fraktur SLIG Course are mentioned. Myrt describes the unusual interview she had with Alex Cox from FindMyPast.com as they viewed pages from an American Red Cross Service Center log book. Mentions of Operation Tiger and D-Day bring up tender memories.
10:02:04 From Sheryl Zeringue to All panelists : Good morning from South Louisiana.
10:04:03 From Karen Trearchis : HI Everyone!
10:04:30 From Gloria Oren to All panelists : Hi everyone glad to be back.
10:04:30 From Danine Cozzens : It’s still breakfast time in California, Randy!
10:04:42 From Jennifer Holik to All panelists : Hi everyone from sunny Chicago!
10:05:11 From Karen Trearchis : Hi from sunny Massachusetts, 43 degrees!
10:05:12 From Randy Seaver : it’s a beautiful day in Chula Vista – already up to 70F at 9 a.m. Baseball season started and there is great hope in Padres-land.
10:06:15 From Randy Seaver : I have breakfast before 7 a.m.
10:08:58 From Marian Koalski to All panelists : Doesn’t Legacy have a Spanish switch?
10:10:45 From Valerie Lisk : Familysearch.org will support Spanish.
10:15:38 From Betty-Lu Burton : How do you type international letters that are not found on your keyboard?
10:16:29 From Valerie Lisk : I use my Character Map.
10:19:12 From Deb Andrew to All panelists : Amazon finally put up my review.
10:21:59 From cyndy Bray : Is the Kindle version in color?
10:25:24 From Karen Trearchis : Sounds like a great idea!
10:26:28 From Karen Trearchis : I will see you at NERGC Russ!
10:26:52 From Hilary Gadsby : I bought 2 books from the authors this weekend signed copies.
IMAGE: Shenandoah Valley book digitally preserved at the Internet Archives.
10:36:03 From Dave Robison : One of my Mayflower ancestors fell off the boat! John Howland was “fished” out of the sea. I happy about that otherwise I wouldn’t be here!!
10:38:04 From Valerie Lisk : Dave, Scott Fischer tells the same story!
10:38:27 From Karen Trearchis : My ancestors, The Billington boys, played in the gunpowder room and almost blew up the Mayflower!
10:39:32 From Dave Robison to All panelists : Valerie, I’ll have to talk with him about that! Apparently we could be cousins???
10:41:34 From Betty-Lu Burton : Can you imagine what it would be like if they had to turn around and sail back to Europe.
10:45:45 From Graham Walter : Fantastic!
10:53:23 From Randy Seaver : Does anyone know what Nick Barratt said about the future of family history?
10:59:40 From Robbin Smith : Anybody watch the PBS show Mrs. Wilson? it was a fascinating study of an English woman who found out she was “married” to a bigamist when he died. Turned out he was “married” at least 4 times.
11:02:32 From Danine Cozzens : Chatelain = the keeper of the keys.
11:07:44 From Dave Robison : Dangers of online trees…that’s one of my NERGC topics!
11:08:38 From Marian Koalski : It isn’t just the DNA testers!
11:09:41 From Marian Koalski : Before DNA testing was so cheap, people were swallowing false genealogies for generations.
11:10:15 From Mary Lou Gravatt : I enjoy Randy’s Blog and how he shows how to write a source.
11:10:38 From Kathleen Daetsch : I have been recommending to my matches that they at least take a course at a local library.
11:13:18 From Karen Trearchis : I will be there and will be attending DNA day.
11:13:58 From Karen Trearchis : That’s funny!
11:14:30 From Karen Trearchis : And he is listening to you now! We enjoyed being with you, too.
11:15:07 From Karen Trearchis : My society is Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and we are charter members.
11:15:37 From Pat Stano-Carpenter : Maybe you’ll come to NERGC again! You were a fun addition to the conference.
11:15:44 From Karen Trearchis : It is all volunteers!
11:16:14 From Karen Trearchis : We do much more than 25 hours, hundreds of hours.
11:16:40 From Karen Trearchis : I was a chair for Librarian’s Day several years ago.
11:18:15 From Karen Trearchis : I volunteered for the Boston road show.
11:19:15 From Karen Trearchis : Yes, Pat we want you and your husband to come to NERGC again!
11:19:32 From Karen Trearchis : Sounds good!
11:19:47 From Cousin Russ : Tami — do you have a question ?
11:23:06 From Jennifer : You might need a tissue tomorrow night!
11:25:32 From Cousin Russ : .
11:29:49 From Jennifer Holik : I cried through both of those BBC videos you posted. So moving to hear his grandpa speak about his experiences.
11:39:07 From Gary Gauthier to All panelists : Thanks for covering this.
11:39:42 From cyndy Bray : I chose to leave my kit on Gedmatch. And not to upload the kits I administer because they are not familiar. Then FTDNA took that option out of my hands and than told me I was a bad person for disagreeing.
11:42:25 From Karen Trearchis : Thank you!
11:42:56 From John Laws : I stayed awake Yipee!!
11:44:32 From Pamela Wells : Have a super day all!
11:49:32 From YvonneDemoskoff : Thanks, Myrt! Bye everyone!
This is the first of a two-part Jewish Genealogy Study Group hosted by DearMYRTLE. In this session Emily advised us to be aware of historical, political, and religious context and reminded us to follow our usual research process working backwards, being as thorough as possible and to remember the FAN principle. We discussed migration patterns, naming systems, translation services and DNA.
Jewish Genealogy Study Group (session 1) this is it!
00:55:36 June Butka: Thank you for the excellent links.
01:32:00 Jane Belmont: I have a postcard written to my grandfather in Vienna that appears to be written in shorthand. How do I find someone to translate? FB translation group page?
01:55:34 Susan Bleimehl: Fascinating topic today. Looking forward to the next one.
01:56:28 Melinda Culpon: Extremely interesting, great job Emily!
You are invited to attend the Jewish Genealogy Study Group series to be held 7th and 14th February 2018. The live broadcasts begin at Noon Eastern. Registration is free, and the webinars will be archived with comments and links we mention here in DearMYRTLE’s blog.
Emily Garber, researcher, speaker and writer, has been conducting family history research since 2007. She specializes in Jewish genealogical research and has worked with records from both Eastern European and German Jewish immigrants. Her client work has included research into narrowly-defined genealogical problems as well as development and writing of broadly-based family history narratives. In June 2013, she toured family shtetlach (communities) in Ukraine and explored archives in Lviv, Khmelnitsky and Zhitomyr.
An archaeologist by training (B.A., and M.A.), she recently retired after a 30+ year career in natural resources management. She holds a certificate from Boston University’s Genealogical Research program. She has created a Kehilalinks webpage (http://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/yurovshchina) and writes a family history blog (http://www.extrayad.blogspot.com).
Emily is Chair of the Phoenix Jewish Genealogical Society and on the board of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society. She has served for several years as one of the moderators of the JewishGen Discussion Group and communications director of the Ukraine Special Interest Group. Emily owns Extra Yad Genealogical Services.
NOTE from DearMYRTLE: The following was just received from our friends at the Genealogical Publishing Company.
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German genealogy experts you say? Traveling from Germany you say? Gathering in Minneapolis you say? Well, this Ol’ Myrt is so there. In fact, Mr. Myrt and I leave within the hour.
The International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP), formerly the German-American Genealogical Partnership, is proud to announce its inaugural conference to be held in Minneapolis, MN. The Germanic Genealogy Society (GGS) is the local host.
Registration is closed for the 2017 IGGC Conference.
I’m quite certain the IGGC instructors will share new research strategies with this Ol’ Myrt. In addition to my 1848ers from Saxony, I’m now working on my brother-in-law’s Bohemian WAGNER family who came directly to New Ulm, Minnesota in 1881. And you can bet I’ll be applying my new-found knowledge as we travel to New Ulm on our way home.
I look forward to attending a class session nearly every hour. There are no ambassadors or official bloggers to my knowledge, but I hope to see many of the usual suspects in attendance. It’s a concept – attend a conference and actually go to classes to learn. As we speak, our favorite German Genealogy Girl, Ursula Krause, has left for the Berlin airport, soon to be on her way. I look forward to meeting her and hosting a brunch in her honor when she travels to Salt Lake following the conference. Here are the two GermanGen Study Group sessions with Ursula from mDearMYRTLE’s YouTube Channel.