Family Stories: Using Newspapers to Reconnect with Your Family's Past

Today's blog post is mainly a way for me to introduce you to Legacy Family Tree webinars.  They're referred to as "Webinar Wednesdays" and this week's subject is using newspapers to enhance your family research.  The broadcasts are free and are archived to access for free for one week.  There are membership options that allow you to access the complete archive of the hundreds of broadcasts done over the past few of years. Attendees who stay til the end are treated to the opportnity to win "door prizes".

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Legacy Family Tree offers many services including their family tree building software.  The product is really quite good and is updated with reasonable frequency.  There's "standard" edition that you can download for free from a link on the website's homepage. There are also links to purchase other products that you may find useful.

But to get back to the webinars for a minute, the moderator is Geoff Rasmussen who introduces the guest of the week.  The subject matter is always in the field of genealogy and attracts some very well known genealogy personalities, such as Judy G Russell.  Judy is an attorney, a genealogist and a speaker with a national audience.  You should take a look at her blog, The Legal Genealogist.  She writes in "English" rather than "Lawyer Speak" so you'll get her message rather than a headache trying to figure out what she's writing about.  Follow her blog and you'll get a daily notice of that day's blog.  How she finds the time is beyond me!

Register for this week's broadcast, "Family Stories: Using Newspapers to Reconnect with Stories of Your Family's Past" at www.familytreewebinars.com.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

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NARA "Virtual" Conference

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ONLINE ACCESS - FREE[/caption]

Rather than spending a small fortune, taking two to three days away from home, spending on hotels, meals, rental cars....

The NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) is holding its first EVER on-line seminar or webinar. It's a 2-day conference where we can learn the fine points of using the vast on-line resources of the NARA. This is an area where I have difficulty because of the depth and breadth of the data that is available.

This FREE conference will run all day on September 3rd and September 4th. As a live conference would work, it looks as though you only have to be on-line with the conference for the sessions where you have interest. Here's a link to the details:

WASHINGTON DC, GENEALOGY FAIR

My calendar is pretty full for those 2 days, but I'm going to try to participate in as many sessions as I can.

Let me know if you attend and your thoughts about this type of conference.

Tuesday, Februart 25, 1913 "Lest We Forget"

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Weather much the same I did a little work Carried water and filled the barrells

In the afternoon I went to the drafting room stay about 3 hr while Steve and Cullerne were working in the car. Stene went to the big Caldy [?] in the morning

Not much "construction" going on today...maybe too cold? If you can enlarge the photo, can you figure out what the "big Caldy" might be?

I'm getting caught up this morning on the past couple of days of diary entries in order to get ready for the next BU module. So far, everything seems to be going well with the course. But I'm also scheduled to be in Brimfield this afternoon to teach session 3 at the Hitchcock Free Academy. That'll be 3 down, 1 to go!