Logan Utah Regional Family History Center -----Weekly Newsletter----- 11 July 2007 - Vol 8, No 27 In This Issue Announcements Family History Tips Questions/Answers Favorite Websites Surname Queries New Acquisitions Remember... Sign Up Quick Links... More about LFHC Class Schedule 2007 Newsletter Archive Old Newsletter Archive Training CD FH Consultant register Priesthood register FamilySearch Indexing Everton Catalog Please help make this newsletter a success by submitting your Family History questions, tips, favorite websites, queries & quotes to share with others. Submit here or click reply. Announcements Extended Saturday Hours at the FHC - We would like to extend our Saturday hours to better serve our patrons, but need additional staff to do so. If you have the skills (or a desire to learn) and would like to serve a short shift on Saturday (9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. OR 12:30 to 5:00 p.m.), please contact Brother Ray at the Center (755-5594) World's Largest Genealogy Database - By the end of 2007, the Shanghai Library expects to complete the world's largest genealogical database. It will contain about 50,000 Chinese family trees. The database contains Chinese families' lives and histories going back 1,000 years. The genealogical documents cover 335 common and 90 rare surnames. The database will be available online so Chinese families everywhere can do the research of family documents from home. Family History Tips Record Precise Information: For each of your ancestors' vital dates (birth, marriage, and death), always record the precise location as it existed at the time of the event. That means listing the town, the county or parish, and the state for U.S. events. For foreign locations, the town, province, and county should be recorded. More important, because boundaries and jurisdictions change so much over time, make certain you have the correct county or state or province or country listed as it existed when the event occurred. This is important to you for purposes of locating copies of records and important for future researchers who want to confirm your research and obtain copies for themselves. ---"Tips from the Pros: Record Precise Locations as They Were" from George G. Morgan, 24-7 Family History Circle Blog, 5/25/07 Mayflower Ancestry - I found this book to be very helpful concerning Mayflower Ancestry. "A Brief History of the Mayflower Pilgrims", compiled by Michel L. Call for the Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Society, copyright 1983, Salt Lake City. ---Ann Didericksen Questions/Answers
QUESTION: Tell me how I can obtain info from the files in Salt Lake City on my ancestors. They came from Dissen and Niederbecksen, Germany. ANSWER: You can obtain information from Salt Lake City by ordering the microfilm at your local Family History Center. Some public libraries also have this capability. To determine if there are films that would be of help to you, go to FamilySearch.org and click on the Library tab, then select Library Catalog. Using the Place search, enter the locality. Remember, different types of records are kept at different jurisdictional levels. For example, Dissen is in the Hanover jurisdiction. If you search for records in Dissen, you'll only find 1 church record. If you search for records in Hanover, you'll find a much larger selection of categories and records to choose from. When you find a film you'd like to use, print out the information and take to your nearby FHC and fill out an order form. The cost is $5.50 for approximately 45 days of viewing time. QUESTION: How do you mark direct line on the latest version of PAF? ANSWER: You can mark direct line ancestors on cascading family group records only. Select File > Print > Family Group. If the Mark Direct Line option is grayed out, mark the Cascading option first and select the number of generations you want to print. QUESTION: I have two laptops, and was wondering how I can keep both laptops current with each other on the PAF data I enter? I work on one in particular a lot, but also use the other one occasionally to enter family data. I would really like to keep both up to date on the family data files. ANSWER: Backup the file you have just updated (File>Backup). Go to 2nd computer and restore the backup (File>Restore). QUESTION: In the mixup of French-Canadian names and "dit" (or) names, ordinance work was done for a person which now we find out was not an actual person. What action can, or should, we take now? ANSWER: Since the ordinance is only valid if the person accepts it, nothing needs to be done for that ordinance. Just research the correct person and submit his name for ordinance work. In the NewFamilySearch program, you will have the ability to dispute information and you can add your research findings to explain the incorrect person. QUESTION: In PAF, how do I indicate that a child is adopted? ANSWER: Right-click on the child's name, in Family view, and select Edit Parent Links. In the relationship to parents box select adopted. Favorite Websites The USGenWeb Search Engine - The USGenWeb project began ten years ago as an effort by volunteers to put data of interest to genealogists on the Internet. The records are organized by counties and states and are available at no charge. Now a new search engine is available to search the data called Search Us. To visit the site, go to: www.usgenweb-search.us ShoeString Genealogy provides Family Historians with information about how to research their ancestors both on the Internet and in libraries and other repositories. Besides how, it indicates where- locations for information and the relative value of each. It focuses on lowering the costs of research and raising the quality of information obtained. Although not all resources are free, many are. Go to shoestringgenealogy.com/ssg1.htm
Behind The Name - A fun site for translating names of Ancestors or even coworkers and living family members is Behind the Name, located at behindthename.com/translate.php When trying to find out the Czech translation of Edward, the results were Edvard and Eduard. This handy tool provides a great service to those looking for translations in many languages. They are also broken down by short, variant, pet, Anglicized, Latinized, Medieval, feminine, masculine, elaborated, combination, original, modern, and cognate name type with either masculine, feminine, or neutral genders. Surname Queries Naida Goodwin has donated several photos to the FHC to find homes for. If anyone is related to the following Ephraim, Utah area people, we would love for you to have these photos of your ancestors: Ted Olsen, Katie Olsen, Ervina Smith Glenwood, Ruby Quinn a.1906, Carrie McArthur, Jim Ellison, Drusilla Larsen, Marian Larsen, Cliff Madsen, Charles W. Nibley, Fred Peel, Andrew Andersen. If you have any questions, you can call Naida at 753-0697 or 752-6128 or email her at dotwoodbin e@hotmail.com If you would like to see the photos, contact Sister Lemon at the FHC. I have need to hire a translator to translate some old personal letters from German to English. They were written over a period from 1928-33. Please contact Jeanie Chase, 752-8840. New Acquisitions "The New York Researcher", Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring 2007 "A Genealogy of the Clifton, Leaton, Rourke, and Secord Families", by Ronald Lee Secord "Family History Research in Greece", by Lica Hariclea Catsakis "New England Ancestors", Summer 2007, Vol. 8, No. 3 "Everton's Genealogical Helper", July/August, Vol. 61, Issue IV Microfiche: 6126319 - CALIFORNIA, Sonoma - Vital - Indexes 6126623-26 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Badby - Church 6126641 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Barby - Church 6126748-49 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Boughton (near Northampton) - Church 6126787-88 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Bradden - Church 6126850-52 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Brington - Church 6126882 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Brockhall - Church 6126886 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Broughton - Church 6126893-94 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Bugbrooke - Church 6127016 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Brampton - Church 6127185-86 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Dallington - Church 6127302 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Dodford - Church 6127319 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Duston - Church 6127362-64 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Easton - Church
6127383 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Ecton - Church 6127456 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Farthingstone - Church 6127462 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Fawsley - Church 6127495-96 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Gayton - Church 6127555-56 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Greens- Norton - Church 6127582-83 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Gretton - Church 6127696-99 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Gullsborough - Church 6127601-13 - ENGLAND, Northampton, East Haddon - Church 6127621-22 - ENGLAND, Northampton, West Haddon - Church 6127669 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Harlestone - Church 6127678-79 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Harpole - Church 6127706 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Little Harrowden - Church 6127772 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Nether Heyford & Upper Heyford - Church 6127905-07 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Kelmarsh - Church 6127943 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Kislingbury - Church 6127983-84 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Loddington - Church 6128090 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Middleton- Cheney - Church 6128147 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Newbottle - Church 6128156 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Newnham - Church 6128168 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Newton - Church 6128414 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Norton - Church 6128515-17 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Pattishall - Church 6128580-81 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Peterborough - Church 6128669-72, 74 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Pisford - Church 6128791 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Rockingham - Church 6128809-10 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Rothwell - Church 6128973 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Stowe-Nine- Churches - Church 6129072 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Thrapston - Church 6129097 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Tiffield - Church 6129157 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Upton (Near Northampton) - Church 6129194-95, 97 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Wapenham - Church 6129225-26 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Weedon - Church 6129248-49 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Weekley - Church 6129275 - ENGLAND, Northampton, Wellingborough - Church Remember... Judge Not Regarding whether or not to do the work for someone not worthy: I felt that same way regarding my mother's mother. She treated my mother horribly when she was a child and all but ignored her and us growing up. I had always harbored ill-feelings for all the hurt she had done to my Mom. I obviously never knew her as a grandmother. A few years ago I had a huge amount of slips made up (way too many, I can understand now) but hers was in the pile. I always put off doing her work. The youth had baptised her along with all the others in the pile but I just wanted to forget about her. A couple of years ago, I finally got down to the last five names to be done and took them to the Orlando Temple. While I was having the last five initiatories done, when her name came up, the matron with tears in her eyes said "I don't know who
this is, but you need to finish her today!" I had felt the exact same way. I took her name into the endowment session and was "wide- eyed" the entire time (which usually makes me a bit sleepy, but I digress). I KNEW at that moment that she had accepted the gospel and my heart was immediately softened for her. I now am looking forward to meeting her again. My mom is not a member so does not fully understand what and how I am feeling towards my grandmother now. But she accepts that I feel better about it. We can not judge who has done what to whom. We are only asked to do the work. -- -Sharon, from Lakeland, FL; FHCNET@yahoogroups.com, Sheri Lynn Lemon Logan Utah Regional Family History Center email: ut_cache@ldsmail.net phone: (435)-755-5594