The Mondays with
Myrt DearMYRTLE Workshop Webinars are a wacky and fun way to start out
your GeneaWeek. Live and on-the-fly, you just never know what's going to happen
during the next episode. Two recorded episodes are in the archive, always free, always informative. See you next Monday at noon Eastern US.
A tribute to Marcia Rice
with thoughts and prayers for Beverly Rice and the rest of the family.
TOPICS: Elizabeth O'Neal's Little Bytes of Life Blog. The
"ProGen" book from www.Genealogical.com. The scandalous court file storage
situation in Greenville, Tennessee. Skype reaches 45 million simultaneous online
calls. Russ described Skype with video option for his society's meeting room
where Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak presented from her distant location. Some
attendees use Google+ Hangout for family gathering with connections in
Massachusetts, California and Croatia. Zite App for iPhone to aggregate news in
magazine format. Greater Pittsburgh newspapers feature info on genealogy research and the 1940 census
records. University of South Alabama preserves history. Winnie the
Pooh Guide to Social Media. The National Archives (US) celebrates digitizing volunteers.
Ancestry.com has errors in filing of a map clearly labeled per Michael John
Neill at RootDig.com with
Russ explaining how to report online database errors to Ancestry.com under
"Get Help". Grammarly.com on
Facebook. Elizabeth Shown Mills' Evidence
Explained on Facebook has additional content not cross-posted to her website www.EvidenceExplained.com,
check out her daily posts briefly describing a section on her book. Guest Peggy
Clemens Lauritze, AG on becoming an Accredited Genealogist through www.iCAPGen.org.
Peggy also demos JSTOR.org,
[JSTOR = journal storage] available to libraries, libraries, researchers, teachers, and students around the world with
vital scholarly content in more than 50 disciplines. We discuss FTM
2012 as Russ Worthington shows how to add sites to search to the list in the
2012 Family Tree Maker genealogy software program,The
Lightening Round topic: "Have you looked at newspapers and what
did you find?"
EPISODE 1 - 8 Oct 2012 Mondays with Myrt
TOPICS: We discuss the winners of the 2012 Share a Memory Contest; studied how reading blog posts is facilitated by Google Reader organized into folders for genealogy, quilting, techie, etc.; and checked in at GeneaPress (one of the places Ol' Myrt looks for genealogy news). Russ explained how he uses Facebook to find and keep up with the children of a cousin who passed away a few years ago. Chris Wright from Australia mentions how folks at her local Family History Society are reluctant to use Facebook. We visited with Denise Levenick, author of The Family Curator blog and a brand new book titled How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records. Other sites discussed include:www.thehistorytrekker.com and www.heirloomregistry.com .
TOPICS: We discuss the winners of the 2012 Share a Memory Contest; studied how reading blog posts is facilitated by Google Reader organized into folders for genealogy, quilting, techie, etc.; and checked in at GeneaPress (one of the places Ol' Myrt looks for genealogy news). Russ explained how he uses Facebook to find and keep up with the children of a cousin who passed away a few years ago. Chris Wright from Australia mentions how folks at her local Family History Society are reluctant to use Facebook. We visited with Denise Levenick, author of The Family Curator blog and a brand new book titled How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records. Other sites discussed include:www.thehistorytrekker.com and www.heirloomregistry.com .
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Myrt :)
DearMYRTLE,
Your friend in genealogy.
Blog: http://blog.DearMYRTLE.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DearMYRTLE
Twitter: @DearMYRTLE
G+: +Pat Richley-Erickson
Second Life: Clarise Beaumont
http://www.youtube.com/user/DearMYRTLE
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