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Genealogy: Uncovering the Secrets Buried in Facebook (NIC)
Saturday, July 14, 9:30 am
Community Room
Facebook is a powerhouse tool. Laurie Filipiak from Fox Valley Genealogical Society will explain how to use Facebook to make worldwide connections, style the best searches and grow your family tree. She will also explain networking, and joining and creating groups.
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Heritage QuestGenealogy warehouse with U.S. Census data from 1790-1930, family and local histories, Revolutionary War Era Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, and Freedman's Bank records.
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How to write your personal or family history : (if you don't do it, who will?) by Katie Funk Wiebe
This is a practical—and encouraging—how-to book from a long-time teacher of personal and family history writing. Katie Funk Wiebe helps beginning memoir writers get started collecting the stories of their lives. She gives hints for recalling distant memories and tracking down family heirlooms. This is a serious but accessible resource for undertaking your personal or family history writing. |
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Discover the secrets to Ancestry.com success! This book will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.comsubscription by showing you how to take advantage of what the world's biggest genealogy website has to offer--and how to find answers to your family tree questions within its billions of records and massive network of family trees. This newly updated guide reflects the site's many changes, with screenshots that demonstrate how to create family trees, navigate the site, and use Ancestry.com's search engines. A new section on Ancestry DNA will also help you dive deeper into your research, with detailed guides to interpreting test results and applying them to research. What you'll learn: Step-by-step strategies for structuring your searches to find what you're looking for faster; Details on each of Ancestry.com's historical record categories, including what you can expect to find in them; Tips for creating and managing your family tree on Ancestry.com, as well as connecting your tree to others on the site; Timesaving tricks tomaximize your Ancestry.com experience, including Hints (the "shaky leaf"), Ancestry DNA, and the Ancestry.commobile app. Whether you've just begun dabbling in family history or you're a longtime Ancestry.com subscriber, this book will turn you into an Ancestry.com power user!
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Scrapbooking Your Family History by Laura BestThe author of Genealogy for the First Time offers a colorful guide to preserving a family's heritage. Scrapbooking can be more than just a craft: it can become a window into important family history. Use those vintage photos, uncovered documents, and newly-found family stories to create scrapbooked family trees and pedigree charts, eight generation treatments, depictions of holidays and family reunions through the years, and histories of family homesteads. Inscribe notes on ancestors' occupations and hobbies, anecdotes, celebrations, and sad moments: every memory worth passing on to children, grandchildren, and generations to come. The page designs all draw on color schemes and images common to various time periods, and there are also techniques for displaying the scrapbooked material in shadow boxes and frames
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Stop struggling to manage all your genealogy facts, files, and data--make a plan of attack to maximize your progress. Organize Your Genealogy will show you how to use tried-and-true methods and the latest tech tools and genealogysoftware to organize your research plan, workspace, and family-history finds. In this book, you'll learn how to organize your time and resources, including how to set goals and objectives, determine workable research questions, sort paper and digital documents, keep track of physical and online correspondence, prepare for a research trip, and follow a skill-building plan. With this comprehensive guide, you'll make the most of your research time and energy and put yourself on a road to genealogy success.
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Readers will learn to care for photos, how to identify different types of damage and learn basic conservation techniques, how to buy the proper storage materials, how to organize the family photo archive, and how to safely display photographs.
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In every family someone ends up with Mom's and Dad's "stuff"—a lifetime's worth of old family photos, papers, and memorabilia packed into boxes, trunks, and suitcases. This inheritance can be as much a burden as it is a blessing. How do you organize your loved one's estate in a way that honors your loved one, keeps the peace in your family and doesn't take over your home or life? How to Archive Family Keepsakes gives you step-by-step advice for how to organize, distribute and preserve family heirlooms. You'll learn how to: - Organize the boxes of your parents' stuff that you inherited
- Decide which family heirlooms to keep
- Donate items to museums, societies, and charities
- Protect and pass on keepsakes
- Create a catalog of family heirlooms
- Organize genealogy files and paperwork
- Digitize family history records
- Organize computer files to improve your research
Whether you have boxes filled with treasures or are helping a parent or relative downsize to a smaller home, this book will help you organize your family archive and preserve your family history for future generations.
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Mastering online genealogy
by W. Daniel Quillen
Explains how to use online and software resources to perform genealogical research, and provides coverage of genealogy databases, free and subscription websites, and important pitfalls to avoid
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assessment, evaluation, and arrangement -- A word about scanners -- Ways to organize the real stuff -- Time management and developing a workflow -- General help for boxing the real stuff -- Step-by-step storage for different materials -- Photo album guidelines -- Dealing with special twentieth-century materials -- Indexing systems and digital organizers -- Alternate filing methods -- Digital solutions -- Online collaborative solutions: a new type of family album -- Professional help -- Donating your collection.
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