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<< CEMETERIES
~ Search the Ancestry.com's Cemetery Databases free from Friday, October
29th until the 3rd of November at:
http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/cemetery.htm
~ When visiting a cemetery, consult a conservation specialist before
attempting to clean stones. For a list of gravestone "do's and
don'ts,"
visit the Web site of the Association of Gravestone Studies at:
http://www.berkshire.net/ags/qrubbings.shtml. Leaflets are also available
by writing to: The Association of Gravestone Studies, 278 Main Street,
Suite 207, Greenfield, MA 01301,
http://www.berkshire.net/ags/.
~ Be especially watchful of children in a cemetery. Age can make some grave
markers very unstable and could topple, causing serious injury. If you
think you will be distracted and unable to watch them carefully, it is best
to leave them at home.
~ Report any suspicious activity in cemeteries this weekend (or any time)
to local police. Someone's ancestors are buried in there and their grave
deserves the same respect that you wish for your ancestors'.
~ Volunteer to help transcribe a local cemetery. We are losing much of the
information available in cemeteries to the ravages of time and vandalism.
We need to act now to preserve what is there.
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Ancestry Weekly Digest
Brought to you by the publishers of
"The Source" and "Ancestry" Magazine
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For the week ending 30 October 1999, Happy Halloween!
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This Weekly Digest features the following:
FEATURE ARTICLE
----- "Haunting Halloween Tips and Links for the Family Historian" by
Juliana S. Smith
MORE NEWS AND ARTICLES FROM THE ANCESTRY DAILY NEWS
----- "Illinois State Marriage Index Tips" by Michael John Neill
----- "Top Ten Tips for More Productive Research" by Roseann Hogan, Ph.D
----- "Baptism and Christening Records" George G. Morgan "Along Those
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HAUNTING HALLOWEEN TIPS AND LINKS FOR THE FAMILY HISTORIAN by Juliana S.
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Editor's Note: This article has been edited down from its original size due
to space considerations. Full-text can be found at:
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_28_99.htm#3
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A HAUNTING LEGACY
~ Does your ancestor still haunt the local cemetery or your ancestral home?
Have you been inexplicably drawn to a resource that unraveled a family
mystery? Have your ancestors spoken to you in a mysterious way? Share the
story of your family ghost, a spooky coincidence you have discovered in
your research, and other ethereal ancestral stories on the "Haunting Tales"
message board at
FamilyHistory.com:
http://www.familyhistory.com/messages/Messages.asp?id=79587. Document these
stories for your family history and share them with younger family members.
You might spark the interest of another generation of family historians.
~ Take lots of photos (some in black and white because they will outlast
color prints) of your little "trick or treaters," decorations, and document
any Halloween traditions in your family. Share them with other family
members on a ghoulish MyFamily site.
http://www.myfamily.com/
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CEMETERIES
~ Search the Ancestry.com's Cemetery Databases free from Friday, October
29th until the 3rd of November at:
http://www.ancestry.com/ancestry/search/cemetery.htm
~ When visiting a cemetery, consult a conservation specialist before
attempting to clean stones. For a list of gravestone "do's and don'ts,"
visit the Web site of the Association of Gravestone Studies at:
http://www.berkshire.net/ags/qrubbings.shtml. Leaflets are also available
by writing to: The Association of Gravestone Studies, 278 Main Street,
Suite 207, Greenfield, MA 01301,
http://www.berkshire.net/ags/.
~ Be especially watchful of children in a cemetery. Age can make some grave
markers very unstable and could topple, causing serious injury. If you
think you will be distracted and unable to watch them carefully, it is best
to leave them at home.
~ Report any suspicious activity in cemeteries this weekend (or any time)
to local police. Someone's ancestors are buried in there and their grave
deserves the same respect that you wish for your ancestors'.
~ Volunteer to help transcribe a local cemetery. We are losing much of the
information available in cemeteries to the ravages of time and vandalism.
We need to act now to preserve what is there.
____________________________________________________________________
GHOSTS
~ Keep the ghosts in your family around by documenting your family's
history now. For help with this project, visit the Family History Month
page at:
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/famhistory.htm
~ When possible, visit the old "haunts" of your ancestors. Photos taken can
liven up the family history, and on site research can reveal local
resources that you may not be aware of.
~ Trace the history of an ancestral home (haunted or not). For more
information on how to trace a house history, see "If These Walls Could
Talk: Tracing a House History," by Linda Herrick Swisher, (Ancestry
Magazine, Sept/Oct 1997)
http://www.ancestry.com/magazine/articles/househis.htm
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SKELETONS
~ Be sensitive to the feelings of other family members when bringing those
skeletons out of the closet. For more on this, see "Family Secrets," by
George G. Morgan in "Along Those Lines . . ."
http://www.ancestry.com/columns/george/07-10-98.htm
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MORE NEWS AND ARTICLES FROM THE ANCESTRY DAILY NEWS
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ILLINOIS STATE MARRIAGE INDEX HINTS by Michael John Neill
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_25_99.htm#3
Michael gives you tips for searching this important database.
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TOP TEN TIPS FOR MORE PRODUCTIVE RESEARCH by Roseann Hogan, Ph.D "Ancestry"
Magazine, July/August 1998, Vol. 16, No. 4
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_26_99.htm#3
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GEORGE G. MORGAN: "ALONG THOSE LINES . . ."
"Baptism and Christening Records"
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_29_99.htm#3
George discusses how Church records can provide an abundance of information
if you know where to look.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE (PRO) HONG KONG NOW ONLINE
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_26_99.htm#4
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NEHGS AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS IMLS GRANT
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_27_99.htm#4
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CONTACT INFORMATION (NE to NJ)
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_27_99.htm#6
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IN THE NEWS ONLINE
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_26_99.htm#5
"Information Age Losing Memory," by John Waggoner (USA Today)
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ANCESTRY QUICK TIPS
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If you have a suggestion you would like to share with other researchers,
send it to: mailto:editor@ancestry-inc.com Thanks to all of this week's
contributors!
As an addendum to Mary-Kaye Dombrowski's tip about funeral cards
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/10_18_99.htm#4 , many of my older cards
also list the funeral home that handled the burial on the bottom of the
card. Sometimes funeral homes have information in their records worth
obtaining. And, as with cemeteries, you might be able to find other family
funerals out of the same site.
Christine Bauman
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I recently had the sad chore of disposing of a thirty-year collection of
greeting cards, which had been sent to my elderly parents who had to go
into a care home. I'd like to caution adult children of these folks not to
just toss all these cards into the trash without viewing them first. I
found many family photos of very distant cousins plus many annual Christmas
letters containing dates of birth, marriage, and death of family members.
These distant cousins may turn out to be genealogy pals with whom you can
share information.
K.S. Hayes
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"This past summer I took a trip to visit my husband's great aunts and
uncles. I anticipated that they might have some family photographs and
documents of value to the family history, but that they would probably not
want to give them to me or be very happy about having them removed from
their homes for copying. I had noticed the new, very small flatbed scanners
in the stores and decided to try copying electronically. I bought a scanner
for $80 that plugs in to the parallel port on my laptop computer. With my
laptop and small scanner I scanned over one hundred photographs and
documents while visiting relatives in four states. No photo ever left the
home of its owner--many did not even have to be removed from their
albums--yet I have priceless copies to share with other family members. By
the way, laptops can be rented if you need one for only a short time
period.
Kristi Gebhart
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"When writing to a cemetery and asking them to check burials, ask them to
check all available lists such as regular burials, cremations, potter's
field, military lists. I've had three occasions where cemeteries have told
me they had no record of burial when they checked the burial list. In one
instance my ancestor had been cremated, which was a different list. In
another, my ancestor had been buried in potter's field, and in the third,
it was a Civil War burial, which was a different list. In all instances I
had quit looking at a particular cemetery when they told me "no record" on
the first try. When I went back years later and asked about "other lists,"
I found my relatives had been there all the time and I had wasted precious
time looking for them elsewhere."
Kathie Groll
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"Carved in stone," I found out recently, does not mean "fact." Many
years
ago I photographed the headstone on my great-grandparent's grave, and used
the information as a reference for my research. I knew from family members
that my great-grandmother's name was not complete, and my
great-grandfather's name was spelled wrong. Tip of the iceberg of error, it
turned out. Having a general idea of my great-grandmother's full name, I
sent queries to the county she died in--with no results. I tried other
counties. No luck. Finally, I sent away with the name on the headstone.
Voila - a death certificate. The death certificate was filed under her
abbreviated name, not her full name--but I realized that Granddad, who told
me her name, did not know his mother's real name! Studying the death
certificate, I discovered that the years on the headstone were wrong, each
by one year. Then, I sent away for great-Granddad's death certificate.
Guess what? His date of birth differs between headstone and death
certificate as well! Out of seven pieces of information on one headstone,
only one was completely right--I hope? The headstone information was
provided by family members at the time of engraving. Oddly, a Bible page a
cousin recently sent me has the correct information. Who knows what
happened all those years ago, but it proved to me not to take the
information