NOVEMBER 1 - 2018 NASW FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTER

Happy Thanksgiving

from 

Ted an Karen Meyer,

NASW Area Temple and Family History Consultants

As you gather with your families this year, don't hesitate to take your laptop, pull up FS and add pictures and memories to your file - right there at the Feast.  Ask them to find their favorite pictures on FB and send them to you so you can upload them.  Use your Networking talents to Discover more about your Family,

Gather the Information

and Connect like never before

Remember, right now, only you can hear your Grandmother or Great Grandfather say your name in your mind.  Can you hear them calling you?  They don't want to be forgotten.  You have the power to keep that from happening.  We have faith in your abilities and we are here to help you with our tips for success.

use this email to send us your stories this month of what you found out.  Please send a picture with it - maybe we will feature you in our next newsletter.

naswfamilyhistory@gmail.com

NASW NEWSLETTER FOR NOV 1, 2018 by TedKarenMeyer if hyperlinks aren't working - check here for the hyperlinks:

http://mayflowerhistory.com/mayflower-genealogy/
EVERYTHING YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MAYFLOWER AND THE GENEALOGY BEHIND THE VOYAGE

https://www.boston.com/news/history/2017/07/13/new-partnership-makes-it-easier-to-prove-pilgrim-ancestry

FIND OUT IF YOU ARE A DESCENDANT OF THE MAYFLOWER

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/13/mayflower-ancestors-pilgrim-database/699277002/


https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Online_Genealogy_Records_by_Location

MENTAL ILLNESS SECTION

http://historycooperative.org/a-beautiful-mind-the-history-of-the-treatment-of-mental-illness/

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Census_Defective_Schedules

HTTPS://WWW.ARCHIVES.GOV/FILES/RESEARCH/GENEALOGY/CHARTS-FORMS/1880-CENSUS-PAUPER.PDF

https://inmatesofwillard.com/names-census-info/https://inmatesofwillard.com/names-census-info/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3241891/collaboration/15-screen-sharing-apps-for-easy-and-free-collaboration.html

GENEALOGYMAMA1.BLOGSPOT.COM FOR ESCAPE ROOM ACTIVITY


HTTPS://WWW.FAMILYSEARCH.ORG/BLOG/EN/SIMPLE-START-FAMILY-HISTORY/

tRAINING MODULES ON OUR ONE DRIVE:  HTTPS://1DRV.MS/F/S!AJS2RGB0P-4PHVRZ3--JP-1PF1OK

What causes Dead Ends in Trees?

5TH SUNDAY WARD PRESENTATION UPDATED 10-11-2018

Avoiding Rookie Mistakes

Avoiding common Rookie mistakes.

Perhaps if I tell you a few of mine, it will save you from repeating the blunder of the past...

By Karen S Meyer

Live information relies on accurate memories.  It still has be to substantiated by data.

I was frustrated.  I was 27 when I first started doing Family History.  I interviewed my Grandmothers and took notes.  My grandmothers had both given me some sketchy information, but it wasn't backed up by any data at all.  I was young and didn't think I needed any of that because I had their word.  They were alive and actually giving me information.  Wasn't that better than all that paper work?  Um....nope.  They were also in their 60s and had already started forgetting more than they could remember.  Some of the data I later found matched their stories, other data did NOT match their stories.  Women did not used to share recipes, tell jokes or reveal their true age.  So that was a problem.  Especially when she told her third husband she was five years younger.  Like no one would ever find out....;)

Brick wall because of mis-spelling

I had reached a brick wall in 1981 on my mother's line.  Right at her Grandfather, my Great Grandfather, everything stopped.  I couldn't find them in any census.  I was tired of driving for an hour (some people drove a lot further!), getting to the L A Temple Library only to find out that they didn't have my roll of microfiche from Salt Lake yet.  It would be another 3 weeks.  When I did finally get it, it was the wrong William Collins.  Finally, I found them in 2012.  (A computer at your finger tips is so much more gratifying that long drives and empty hands).  Here is  what happened.
Look how many times it was misspelled.  I was never taught about Sound ex.  When you click that button, it looks for misspellings and alternate spellings.

BROAD VERSUS EXACT - Slide the button below in Ancestry.

So to cure a dead end - broaden your horizon and see if you can find them by addressing some incorrect indexing or spelling errors.  Census takers didn't start reading back the names they wrote down until 1890, so anytime before that, they just wrote what they heard.  The way I found it was by saying it with a Texas drawl.  Seriously,  it comes  out Callins......not Collins.

Bingo - I was right!  

EXACT?  NO - GIVE IT PLUS OR MINUS 2-5 YEARS

Also do not click the box above that says exact.  Sometimes either because they were not of age when they married, or were drafted, they did not tell the truth about their ages, so clicking exact will limit your results and you may miss something.

If you are stuck, find the common denominator of Genealogy.  What is the one fact that you are sure of.  The town might be wrong, the county might be wrong.  If you are 100% certain of the state, just put that.  If you are not certain of the state, put United States.  Thank Heavens, the WR Callins (Collins) 1900 Census even though it was indexed incorrectly happened to put them exactly where a family story was.  The worst storm in the history of the United States where we lost over 10,000 people in Galveston, Texas in 1900.  They were living on that island.  To get to know their plight better, I studied what they endured.  My heart goes out to them and someday, when I meet my Grandfather and Great Grandfather, I'll be able to show empathy for their suffering.

LYMAN HAWLEY FITCH - Thanksgiving

I hit a dead end in my first husband's line.  Going through his mother's pictures, I saw the words, died 1923 on Thanksgiving.  However, the date she had for Thanksgiving was November 22, 1923 and there were no records which correlated with that anywhere.  I said a prayer and was immediately was impressed to locate a calendar and find out if that was the actual date for Thanksgiving.

 try timeanddate.com to get your dates accurate.  When I did this, suddenly the field opened up and I was back to the Salem Witch Trials within 30 minutes.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1923&country=1

I found a wonderful article on a fellow genealogist's site - I hope you read it.  The Olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com has great ideas and articles.  You should follow them!  They have refreshing outlooks which help to ease the burden of learning a new craft.

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/04/

I hope these hints have helped you.  We would love it if you try some of our research tools that have made life easier for us!

RESEARCH FILE

YOU MAY DOWNLOAD AND TAILOR FOR YOUR OWN WARD OR STAKE.  

  IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THESE, PLEASE WAIT  UNTIL THEY ARE ON YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE YOU AMEND THEM.

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Pgm5p2cUP754pyAa-

Which DNA test is right for you?

As Area TFHCs we thought we should try several and see which ones most closely followed our research so that we could recommend the most accurate. 

 Ancestry has been flawless, and a contact actually helped me break through a 40 year wall to find both our DNA on a small island off the coast of Galway called Innishboffin, Galway, Ireland...not Galway, Ireland.  Who knew?  That leg of my family tree had been blank for many years as all we had was a scrap of paper with the siblings names of my Great grandfather and the word Galway. 

My heritage was interesting as at first our records said that I was Japanese and my husband, whose grandparents spoke fluent German, was not German. When we wrote to the CEO, suddenly the results paralleled our research. 

 23andMe was interestsing as it pegged my Mother and Grandmother's Macular degeneration and a few other surprises which might take me out. Also it showed that I have a gene, which if I had two of them, would have taken me out when my kidneys failed at 10 months when I had the flu, but I recovered probably because I only have one of that gene. 

 The most recent one was from Australia  called Living DNA- we were so touched by the marketing that we thought we would try it. It showed the % from the Iberian Coast - the tip of North Africa which has been touted to be the Cherokee tribe or traceable evolutionary path of the lost tribe of Israel to the tip of Africa - sailing to the East Coast and landing in Georgia/Carolinas.  This is just a theory and as of 2014-2017 it was touted as incomplete - but with a nod to the future and more test results it may surprise all of us.

https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/03/04/ask-ancestry-anne-tracing-native-american-ancestry-through-dna-and-good-old-fashion-research/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/north-carolina-cherokee-indians-separdic-jews-jeannette-austin



 All were very interesting and to quote Br. Tanner from our ward, "The definition of the Millenium, is that moment when we realize that our sister was not the greatest Genealogist". Well, DNA helps us find out if we are on track with our research, so if you haven't tried it, you are missing an important element of research ~ Ted and Karen Meyer, naswfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.

Avoiding the bad data magnet in Family History

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT FAMILY HISTORY – OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2018 

      How many times have you been gathering documents for your tree and attached them to your tree, thinking you could then later make an educated discernment about which ones to keep. Sometimes this is tempting to do, especially when you do a query twice and somehow you get different results and are concerned you might never find that particular document again.  The next time you feel an impulse to keep it, think twice.

     PROBLEM: The query system adds hints, or leaves (depending on your software) to let you know it found something that matches data already attached to your tree. So if you show a James Thomas with wife Elizabeth arriving in New York in 1916 and then you also show a James Thomas with wife Elizabeth arriving in New York in 1908, the hint system will send you information for both. The problem becomes a compound fracture the more arrivals you decided you couldn’t part with. 

     STRATEGY: Here’s a strategy you might want to employ.

1.  FIRST, start with the first family to come from another country. 
2. Click on timeline. 
3.  Look at your Immigration/Emigration records and see if
4.  you have duplicate arrivals? 
5. Now, Find that family on the first four census and
6. check when they told the census taker they arrived. (Sometimes they remembered the exact date.)
7.   Going back and deleting the incorrect year will put you back on the correct path.
8.  Make sure to document your sources. 

 Examples from timelines and data in the tree More hints and training help will be helpful.

 VOYAGES TO THE NEW WORLD 1800-1850,

THERE WERE NO REAL WEATHER STATISTICS YET. NOT MANY PEOPLE KNEW THE RISKS OF GOING FROM EUROPE TO NEW YORK DURING THE SUMMER…HURRICANE WEATHER. WE LOST SO MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DURING THOSE VOYAGES.

 BY NOW YOU HAVE FOUND SOME NAMES OF SHIPS SAILED FROM EUROPE TO THE EAST COAST, LOUISIANA, OR AROUND THE CAPE AND UP TO LOS ANGELES OR SAN FRANCISCO. AHOY! LAND HO! TO SEE LISTS OF SHIPS WHICH LEFT EUROPE YOU CAN FIND THEM HERE IN THESE LINKS IN ANCESTRY

1. (FIRST LOG INTO ANCESTRY, 
2. THEN COME BACK HERE): 
3.  SHIP PICTURES AND DESCRIPTIONS IMMIGRATION AND EMIGRATION BOOKS CREW LISTS BORDER CROSSINGS AND PASSPORTS 

 DO YOU HAVE A RELATIVE WHOM YOU CAN SEE EMBARKED ON A VOYAGE FROM EUROPE AND YOU HAVE YET TO SEE HIM ARRIVE ON THE DISTANT SHORES OF AMERICA? MAYBE HE NEVER MADE IT TO IMMIGRATION?

 CHECK THIS LIST FOR LIVES LOST DURING PASSENGER SHIP WRECKS

 http://www.cyndislist.com/ships/shipwrecks/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters_in_the_19th_century 

http://www.theshipslist.com/

 PASSENGER LISTS AND MANIFESTS

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 Memo from Heavenly Father: 

 FAMILY HISTORY WILL NOT CEASE BECAUSE THE MESA TEMPLE IS CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS

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 MILITARY SHIPS?

MILITARY SHIP WRECKS/RECORDS

 9 Free locations to find excellent Military types of Records

 http://familyhistorydaily.com/free-genealogy-resources/where-to-find-free-access-to-military-records/

 How do I use Google Translate for family history? 

 Click on the image below to try it. Type something from a document you don't understand. Click the language you wish to have it translate to - English - There you go!

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How to Activate Google Translate on a Page

Two Methods:Activating Google Translate on a Page in Google ChromeActivating Google Translate on a Page in Internet ExplorerCommunity Q&A

Google Translate is an online browsing tool that allows for instant translation of web pages to different languages. If you come across a website you cannot understand, you can activate Google Translate on the page to translate the words to your native tongue. Google Translate is currently available only on Google Chrome and Internet Explorer version 6 and later. All other browsers are not currently supported.

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO LEARN HOW TO ACTIVATE GOOGLE TRANSLATE ON ANY WORK YOU ARE DOING IN CHROME.

 Visit our Blog - this week we listed our presentations and we would like to come show your Stake or Ward!

Check out naswfamilyhistory.blogspot.com - October 3, 2018

 Look for a Miracle each week and it will find you! 

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Teaching Family History Consultants the Basics....

 What am I supposed to do with my time as a Temple and Family History Consultant?

Here is a link to our training program

It is very straight forward and really gives them some framework to do a personalized one-on-one

BEGINNING FAMILY HISTORY

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PhC0hhaFmqsWUEDX2

video located here https://youtu.be/3BG4en3hVl4

YSA - MAKING IT FUN!

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PhGmxO2gv4bh5eOGj

TRAINING FOR ELDER'S QUORUM PRESIDENCY, WARD MISSION LEADER, TEMPLE AND FAMILY HISTORY LEADS

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PhFmAopbvLQ-LDwO1

PRIMARY LEADERS FAMILY HISTORY TRAINING - WORKING WITH 11-12 YEAR OLDS - IDEAS FOR SHARING TIME.

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PhCmgnijHZWS4kXGn

5th Sunday Ideas using Technology for Family History - Making it fun and interesting!

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjS2RGb0p-4PhRBOFy6xzcGtPAqF

RESEARCH TOOLS WE HAVE CREATED

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AjS2RGb0p-4Pgm5p2cUP754pyAa-

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We also create Family History Escape Room Game Plans on our other blog - genealogymama1.blogspot.com - only $20.00

Find Sally's Great Great Grandfather, a Civil War hero so she can apply for

a college scholarship with the DAR!

A new one is coming out - Escape from the Blue Ridge Mountains, 10/15/2018

Real events in history - they have to find out all the clues by doing research and figuring out the codes and puzzles locked in lock boxes and secret places

UPDATED MESSAGES FOR CONSULTANTS FROM FAMILY SEARCH