I purpose we make use of some of the new Internet tools available to coordinate an effort to learn more about our Parry and Hale ancestors.
Keep records on RootsMagic and/or PAF
PAF (Personal Ancestral File) can be downloaded from FamilySearch.org - free
RootsMagic can be downloaded from RootsMagic.com, there is a free version.
Do temple work. RootsMagic has links to new.FamilySearch.org and within the program you can share data between your computer and the church database. We can find what ordinances need done and then search for any additional information needed to complete the records and clear the names.
Keep all records of Herb and Clara’s ancestors on a free website, designed by RootsMagic and housed on Dropbox - free. Not an easy address - do we want to buy a web address for about $30 a year? Or does someone have an appropriate web domain?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27177074/Parry/index.htm
Help search for historical records. Keep a record of searches and documents that help tell the story of our ancestor’s lives on GoogleDocs. Choose an ancestor to work on and fill in the form with the information you find or don’t find. If you write down that you searched Ancestry.com using this spelling of the name and these dates, and didn’t find anything the next person can use a different spelling or something or skip that search.
Save copies of documents you find online or scan into the computer in Dropbox - “Parry shared folder.” I can email you an invitation to download Dropbox and to share the folder. With Dropbox you can store and share up to 2 gig of info in the clouds. You can also set up other “shared folders” with other groups or family. I have some files and histories in that folder you can look at.
Keep a journal or log or blog of our activities and successes on Blogspot. This is also a good place to upload stories and pictures. I have set up a blog at http://herbparry.blogspot.com/ . This is another Google program and you can post to the blog by going to Blogger.com. If you have your own Google account, I can send and invitation for you to join as an author with your own sign in. I have put a lot of websites that are helpful to family history research on the blog also.
Links to others sources on the web, such as the family pages for the Hales, Johnsons and Pratts. I have put some links on the website and on the blog.
We also have the Parry page on facebook.com, that we can use to tell each other what we are doing. I use Skype to talk to and see Debbie and family in New Jersey. It is another free Internet program we can use to keep in touch. Please help me learn how to use all these tools - and others that come along - to our advantage.
This is a place for their descendants to share information about the family and ancestors of Herb and Clara. We also have some websites that will help in searching records on the Internet and some resources that can help. I will upload pictures I have to this site.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Favorite Family History Websites Compiled by Kip Sperry General Ancestry Insider Dear Myrtle's Genealogy Blog Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Family History Expos Genealogy and Family History.com Genealogy Blog Genealogy Blog Finder Genealogy Blogs (ProGenealogists) Genealogy Gems News Blog Genealogy Newsline (Family Roots Publishing) Genealogy's Star.com Genea-Musings Renee's Genealogy Blog RootsMagic Blog TechnoGenealogist BYU Family History Library, Harold B. Lee Library BYU Family History Archives BYU Harold B. Lee Library Catalog BYU Digital Archives BYU Idaho Special Collections and Family History BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project BYU Independent Study: Free Genealogy/Family History Online Courses BYU Family History Lab, 1031C JFSB Finding Sources at the BYU Family History Library Religion C 261 Family History Online Lessons Religion C 261 Online Syllabus and Textbook
FamilySearch New FamilySearch FamilySearch Labs FamilySearch Forums FamilySearch Indexing FamilySearch Research Wiki FamilySearch Training System ("Sandbox") Family History Library, Salt Lake City Library Catalog of the Family History Library Maps at FamilySearch (England Jurisdictions, 1851) Research Classes Online
About.com Genealogy Forum Ancestry.com Message Boards CousinConnect.com FamilySearch Forums Genealogy.com GenForum GenealogyWise Forum Looking4Kin Rootsweb Message Boards
About.com Genealogy Access Genealogy Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana Ancestry.com BYU Family History Library, Harold B. Lee Library Canada Libraries and Archives Genealogy Centre Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet FamilySearch Genealogy.com Genealogy Gems Genealogy Gems Podcast Genealogy.org Genealogy.com GenForum GenealogyToday GenealogyWise: The Genealogy Social Network GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy Kindred Trails myGenShare.com Olive Tree Genealogy RootsWeb.com Sirius Genealogy Treasure Maps Genealogy USGenNet USGenWeb Project WorldGenWeb Project Vital Search Worldwide Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts Brigham Young University—BYU Family History Library, Provo, Utah Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, Houston, Texas Dallas Public Library—Genealogy Section Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah Family History Library Catalog, Salt Lake City, Utah Godfrey Memorial Library Library of Congress, Washington, DC Los Angeles Public Library—History and Genealogy Department, Los Angeles, California Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, Missouri National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC Newberry Library—Genealogy Collections, Chicago, Illinois New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts New York Public Library, New York, New York St. Louis County Library—Special Collections Department Sutro Library—California State Library, San Francisco, California Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio WorldCat Census Finder: A Directory of Free Census Records Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet Easy Google Genealogy Searcher Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory Family Tree Magazine 101 Best Websites of 2010 GenealogyBuff.com Genealogylinks.net GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy Linkpendium (A Directory of Genealogy Links) ProGenealogists: 50 Most Popular Genealogy Websites for 2010 RootsWeb.com State Websites WorldCat ZRoots.com (Barbara Renick) Atlas of Historical County Boundaries David Rumsey Map Collection Generation Maps Google Maps HistoricMapWorks.com MapQuest Maps at FamilySearch (England Jurisdictions, 1851) Panoramic Maps at the Library of Congress Names in Stone (Cemetery Maps) US County Maps by State, 1914 CousinConnect.com Genealogy Freelancers FamilyTreeDNA GENEApro genebase.com (DNA) geni.com (Online Family Trees) Global Genealogists HowManyofMe Kindred Konnections (Online Family Trees) LDS Church: Family History Online myfamily.com MyHeritage.com (Online Family Trees) OneGreatFamily (Online Family Trees) Photo Tree ShoeString Genealogy Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation Surnames: U.S. Surname Distribution Time Capsule TreeSeek (Creates Genealogy Charts from FamilySearch Data) TribalPages (Online Family Trees) Access Genealogy Accessible Archives American Ancestors (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts) American Memory (Library of Congress) American Civil War Research Database Ancestry.com Archives.com Bureau of Land Management, United States CastleGarden.org, Immigrants, 1820-1892 Civil War Archive Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Archive Death Indexes & Records Online DistantCousin.com Early Latter-day Saints: A Mormon Trail Pioneer Database Ellis Island: Immigration Passenger Search FamilySearch Family History Archives at BYU FamilyLink Find A Grave.com FindMyPast (Great Britain) Footnote.com (Historical Records) GenealogyBank.com GenealogyToday Genealogy Gateway Genealogy Trails History Group GenWed.com: Marriage Records Google Books Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 HeritageQuest Online Hugh Wallis’s Genealogical Web Sites Immigrant Ancestors Project at BYU Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Interment.net (Cemetery Records Online) Internet Archive LDS Church Archives: Selected Collections LDS Church History Library Library of Congress Mormon Migration Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868 Names in Stone (Cemetery Records & Maps) National Archives, Washington, DC Newspaper Archive 19th-Century Newspapers ObituariesHelp.org Peerage.com: A Genealogical Survey of the Royal Families of Europe PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) Scotland's People (Scottish Records) State and Territorial Archives One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse The Original Record USGenWeb Project USGenWeb Archives Utah Digital Newspapers Utah Gravestones Utah—Pioneer Online Library WorldGenWeb Project WorldVitalRecords.com Winter Quarters Project Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Washington, DC American Society of Genealogists Board for Certification of Genealogists Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Daughters of Utah Pioneers Family History Expos Federation of Genealogical Societies International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts RootsTech: Family History and Technology Conference Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy Sons of Utah Pioneers Utah Valley PAF Users Group Utah Genealogical Association About Genealogy Free Genealogy Charts and Forms Ancestor Hunt (Genealogy Search Engine) AncestralQuest (Software for Windows) Ask.com (General Search Engine) Easy Genealogy Forms Family Tree Charts FamilyTree Maker from Ancestry.com (Software for PC and Mac) Google: Easy Google Genealogy Searcher Google (General Search Engine) Google Translate (Automatic Translator) Gramps: Genealogical Research Software Just Answer: Ask an Expert Legacy Family Tree (Software for PC) LiveRoots (Genealogy Search Engine) MacFamilyTree (Software for Mac) Mocavo: Free Genealogy Search Engine One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse Personal Ancestral File (PAF) (Software for PC) Personal Ancestral File (PAF) on a Mac RootsWeb.com RootsMagic (Software for PC) Yahoo.com (General Search Engine) Abbreviations Found in Genealogy Abbreviations Found in Genealogy Records Abbreviations Used in Genealogy Census Tutorial FamilyHistory101.com Hugh Wallis’s Genealogical Web Sites Kip’s Tips (Ancestry.com) Mormon Studies Resources Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Research Classes Online Script (Handwriting) Tutorials Online Scottish Handwriting Tutorials ShoeString Genealogy ZRoots.com (Barbara Renick) Revised April 2011 |
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Internet Tool box - some good websites to search.
I recently watched an Webinar and Mr MacEntee shared this research Toolbox and the idea of putting it in a blog so it can be used from any computer.
Research Toolbox
[Editor's Note: most, if not all of these resources are free and can be easily accessed without having to create a login and password. Some sites, such as Ancestry offer some free content but also charges users for premium content. These sites display ($) next to the link.]
General Research
Ancestry http://www.ancestry.com/ ($)
Bing http://www.bing.com/
DAR http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/
Ellis Island http://www.ellisisland.org/
Family Search http://www.familysearch.org/
Footnote http://www.footnote.com/ ($)
Google http://www.google.com/
Google Blog Search http://blogsearch.google.com/
Google Groups http://groups.google.com/
Google News Archive http://news.google.com/archivesearch
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
Internet Archive http://www.archive.org
NARA http://www.archives.gov
Roots Web Search Thingy
http://sitesearch.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search
US Gen Web http://www.usgenweb.org
US Gen Web Archives http://usgwarchives.org/index.htm
World Gen Web http://www.worldgenweb.org
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
Other Research Toolboxes
Cyndi’s List http://www.cyndislist.com
Diigo Gen Res Resources http://groups.diigo.com/group/gensource
English Family History and Genealogy
http://www.pricegen.com/english_genealogy.html
Ireland Genealogy Links http://www.genealogylinks.net/uk/ireland/
Steve Morse One Step http://www.stevenmorse.org
Books and Libraries
250 Killer Archives
http://oedb.org/library/features/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives
ALPL http://www.alplm.org/library/library.html
Allen County Public Library http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx
Ancestry Card Catalog
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx
Family Search Historical Books
http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php
Google Books http://books.google.com
Hathi Trust http://www.hathitrust.org
Internet Archive Texts http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org
Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org
Open Library http://openlibrary.org
PERSI http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/persi.html
The Online Books Page http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html
WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org
Calculators and Tools
Document Hyperlink Checker
http://www.ablebits.com/word-hyperlink-manager-addins/index.php
Atlas Hist County Boundaries
http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/
Birth Date Calculators http://www.cyndislist.com/births.htm#Birthdate
Calendar Converters http://www.cyndislist.com/calendar.htm#Converters
Cousins and Relationships http://www.cyndislist.com/cousins.htm#Charts
Geographical Names http://geonames.usgs.gov/
Inflation Calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
TypeIt (accents and other characters) http://typeit.org/
US Dollar Historical Value http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/
Weather History http://www.weatherbase.com
Cemeteries and Death Records
Ancestors at Rest http://ancestorsatrest.com/
Find A Grave http://www.findagrave.com
Internment http://www.interment.net
Midwest Obits
http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com/2008/09/current-obituaries-by-state.html
Obit Daily Times http://obits.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi
Obits Links http://www.obitlinkspage.com
Online Searchable Death Ind http://www.deathindexes.com
SSDI
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693
Tributes http://www.tributes.com
US Military Grave Locator http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
Census
Census Finder http://www.censusfinder.com/index.htm
City Directories
City Directories of the US http://www.uscitydirectories.com/
Eve and Don's City Directories http://www.evendon.net/PGHLookups/DirM.htm
Online Historical Directories
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedirectorysite/Home
Courts
CA Superior Court http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/find.htm
SF Superior Court http://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/index.aspx?page=467
Education
Legacy Family Tree Webinars http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Webinars.asp
Genealogical Societies
Austin Family Assoc http://www.afaoa.org
CGSL http://californiaancestors.org
Crandall Family Assoc http://www.cfa.net/cfa/contents.html
FGS http://www.fgs.org
Freer Low Family Assoc http://www.freerfamily.org
German Genealogy Group http://www.germangenealogygroup.com
GSG http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org
Huguenot Hist Society http://www.huguenotstreet.org
ISFHWE http://www.isfhwe.org
ISGS http://www.ilgensoc.org
NEHGS http://www.newenglandancestors.org
NGS http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
SCGS http://www.scgsgenealogy.com
Schenectady Hist Society http://www.schist.org
Society Hill http://www.daddezio.com/society/
State Historical Societies http://www.stenseth.org/us/statehs.html
Illinois
ALPL http://www.alplm.org/library/library.html
Diigo Illinois Genealogy http://groups.diigo.com/group/illinois-genealogy
Illinois State Archives
http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/archives.html
Illinois State Gen Soc http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilsgs/
Illinois State Hist Soc http://www.historyillinois.org
Illinois State Library http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/library/
IRAD
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/iradhome.html
Newberry Library http://www.newberry.org
Land Records
Bureau of Land Management http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/
Living People
123people http://www.123people.com
Alumni.net http://www.alumni.net
AnyWho http://www.anywho.com
Facebook http://www.facebook.com
peoplefinders http://www.peoplefinders.com
pipl http://www.pipl.com
US Search http://www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp
Veromi http://www.veromi.net/processor.asp
White Pages http://www.whitepages.com
yasni.com http://www.yasni.com
Zaba Search http://www.zabasearch.com
Maps
David Rumsey Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com
Historic Map Works http://www.historicmapworks.com/
New York
Albany County Records http://www.albanycounty.com/achor/
Albany RDC Records http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/albany/
Early New Netherlands
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/
Huguenot Hist Society www.huguenotstreet.org
NY GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygenweb/county.htm
NYGBS http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org
NY Hist Soc https://www.nyhistory.org/web/
NY Hist Timeline http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/NYNY.html
NYS Archives http://www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml
NYS Library http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
NYS Offline Resources http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nysource/
Northern NY Hist Newspapers http://news.nnyln.net
Northern NY Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html
Old Fulton Postcards http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Olive Tree Genealogy NY http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/
People of Colonial Albany
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/
PCA Bio Index
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/bioindex.html#v
Schenectady DHA http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/index.html
Schenectady Hist Society http://www.schist.org
Ulster County Families
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~luke/
Newspapers
Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Civil War Newspapers http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm
Genealogy Bank http://www.genealogybank.com ($)
NEH Historic Newspapers http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html
NY Times Article Archive
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
Newspaper Archive http://www.newspaperarchive.com ($)
Northern Cal Newspapers http://www.rainydayresearch.com/index.html
Northern NY Hist Newspapers http://news.nnyln.net
Old Fulton Postcards http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
Online Historical News
http://sites.google.com/site/onlinenewspapersite/Home
US News Archives on the Web
http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/internet/archives.html
Photos
Dead Fred http://www.deadfred.com
LOC Flickr Photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
NARA Photos
http://www.archives.gov/research/formats/photos.html
tineye http://www.tineye.com
Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Search Engines
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com
Highbeam http://www.highbeam.com
iSeek http://education.iseek.com/iseek/home.page
Online Journal Search Engine http://www.ojose.com
Scirus http://www.scirus.com
Soople http://www.soople.com
Vadlo http://vadlo.com
Virtual Learning Resource Center http://www.virtuallrc.com
Vital Records
Avail of Vital Records by State
http://www.byub.org/ancestors/records/vital/extra2.html
CDC Vital Records Directory http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w.htm
Volunteer Projects
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness http://www.raogk.org
Restore the Ancestors Project http://www.restoretheancestors.com
Unclaimed Persons http://www.unclaimedpersons.org
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