Christmas and Family History Ideas

This morning I watched a webinar from Life Story Productions

It was presented by Marlo Schuldt and Kathleen Bitter and featured Quick Pages that are now available for making an Heirloom Cookbook and 2012 Calendars. I learned more about the options in Heritage Collector Suite. A new feature in the latest 7.3 version is the capablility to tag your photos with GPS co-ordinates using Google Earth and addresses or place names or the Google Earth Map.

I am interested in following Kathleen's Storybook Blog. There are some great ideas for projects and free downloads for calendars.

And I know I need to take the time to watch the Heritage Collector Tutorials

African American Research at Family History Center in Kensington, Maryland

I love this video. I like the enthusiasm and the joy of the women who are finding information about their families. I especially like the way they LAUGHED about the "colored section" of the records.

Joining together to uncover history

The Genealogy of LDS Temple Record Keeping

The Saturday Seminars at the Riverton FamilySearch Library are always interesting and informative. On November 17, 2012 I attended the keynote speech by Ruth Maness, AG. She has worked for the Family History Libarary for many years and is a specialist in Scandinavian research. Her topic was The Genealogy of LDS Temple Record Keeping. She outlined the history of LDS temple work for the dead starting with work done at Nauvoo in the Mississippi River and in the Nauvoo Temple and going until the present time. Her presentation answered several questions for me. I know I will be checking a lot of temple work that has been done for my ancestors and their families. So the information that she shared will be very helpful. While I was at the Library I printed cards for temple work and I am giving them to grandchildren to get started performing the baptisms for the dead.

KSL Story about Family Search and German Records

Here is a great TV news story about FamilySearch and how records are made available online for free.

KSL News Story

Unfortunately they misspelled "Genealogy."

Five Million Record Goal at Family Search Indexing

I helped by arbitrating 400 names.

Steve Morse Helps for Census Research

Here is a great link on how to find ED (enumeration district) for your people in the 1940 U.S. Census.

http://stevemorse.org/census/quiz.php

1940 U.S. Census

Everyone in the genealogy community is getting excited about the release of the 1940 U.S. Census. Many of us are making plans to look up family members as soon as it is released. Here is a blog posting by the Genealogy Insider with essential information.

1940 U.S. Census Simplified: What You Really Need To Know, In 7 Key Points