tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9275687413637846742024-03-13T08:55:27.464-07:00Search Tip of the Day--Almost Every DaySites and Online Tips from Genealogist Michael John NeillMichael John Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785989524587275817noreply@blogger.comBlogger614125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927568741363784674.post-4332743818668493032015-06-26T08:32:00.000-07:002015-06-26T08:32:11.746-07:00We Have Moved!As a reminder, this blog has moved to:<br />
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Make certain you visit that page and subscribe on that site. The "blogger" emails through Google will stop after today.<br />
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<li><a href="http://rootdig.blogspot.com/">Rootdig.com</a>--my genealogy research blog</li>
<li><a href="http://genealogytipoftheday.blogspot.com/">Genealogy Tip of the Day</a>--one genealogy how-to tip every day</li>
<li><a href="http://genealogytranscriber.blogspot.com/">Daily Genealogy Transcriber</a>--can you read the handwriting--now with answers posted the next day</li>
<li><a href="http://genealogysearchtip.blogspot.com/">Search Tip of the Day</a>--not quite every day--just when I come across something</li>
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<a href="http://www.genealogybank.com/1504GT">Check out GenealogyBank's Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!</A></div>Michael John Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10785989524587275817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927568741363784674.post-50327018318759439692015-05-30T09:55:00.001-07:002015-05-30T09:55:33.090-07:00Webinars: War of 1812 Pensions, VA Land Patents, LOC Newspapers, and More<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">We are</span><a href="http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2015/05/webinars-local-land-records-war-of-1812.html" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px; text-decoration: none;"> still accepting registrations </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">for 4 webinars upcoming in June--registration entitles you to a complimentary recording of the presentation after it has been processed. This way if your schedule changes you still get the presentation. Topics are:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><br />
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">War of 1812 Pensions at <i>Fold3.com</i>-these are free on their site.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Using Colonial Land Patents at the Library of Virginia website-these images are free on the website.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Library of Congress online digital newspapers--free on their site.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Using local land records online at<i> FamilySearch</i>. Not all of these are online, but we will discuss how to use the ones that are.</li>
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<a href="http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2015/05/webinars-local-land-records-war-of-1812.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">There are more details in our original blog post.</a> </div>
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<i>FamilySearch</i> recently released an indexed set of index card transcriptions of the 1945 South Dakota State Census. Included in this enumeration were:<br />
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<li>Military service</li>
<li>place of birth</li>
<li>parents' places of birth</li>
<li>education</li>
<li>where graduated from</li>
<li>maiden name of wife</li>
<li>church affiliation</li>
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You can search the <a href="https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1747589" style="background-color: white; color: #8c0e4c; cursor: pointer; font-family: ProximaNova, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;">South Dakota, State Census, 1945</a> at <i>FamilySearch. </i>A free account is needed to view images of the cards. </div>
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A website would not let me search only for Mimka as a first name--which it is.<br />
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It wanted a last name and warned me that a last name was necessary.</div>
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Problem solved!</div>
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(I wish they were all that easy.)</div>
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<li>Using the ELCA records at <i>Ancestry.com</i></li>
<li><i>FamilySearch</i> search techniques</li>
<li>Court Records</li>
<li>Genealogy Blogging</li>
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<a href="http://rootdig.blogspot.com/2015/05/webinars-familysearch-court-blogging.html">Check out our schedule here</a>. </div>
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Chancery court records for Virginia counties continue to be added to the <i><a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/chancery/?_ga=1.85157594.294733947.1431456168">Virginia Memory</a></i> collection at http://www.virginiamemory.com.<br />
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Now files for some counties can be downloaded as one zip file. Before each document image had to be downloaded separately. This feature is not currently available for all counties, but where it is downloading is much easier than in that past.<br />
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<a href="http://courthousehistory.com/">http://courthousehistory.com/</a><br />
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