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DearREADERS & LISTENERS, This week's show is dedicated to
Russ
Kyger
ol' Myrt's original online genealogy mentor. As usual, each weekly podcast
is available for you
review 24/7. Myrt's guests and topics this week include:
Bruce Buzbee,
developer of RootsMagic , software to help you organize and share your family
history names, dates, notes, sources and multi-media. Myrt had the pleasure of
demonstrating the SHARE CD WIZARD during the St. George Jamboree this past
weekend. We were particularly interested in the "Create a Shareable CD" option
found under tools.
New Version 3
RootsMagic is family tree software available for Windows XP, 95, 98, ME, NT, and
2000. Ol' Myrt found it quite easy to make a custom CDs to share with her family
in less than 2 minutes using RootsMagic and my database of over 10,000
ancestors. RootsMagic also provides direct integration with GenSmarts research
suggestions.
Black's Law Dictionary. The 1891 & 1910 edition are both found on a CD from
Bob's newer website http://www.ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com.
Donn Divine, CG, CGI explains
"Editions of Black's Law Dictionary more recent than the Fourth are much less
useful to genealogists than earlier ones. To make room for new material, more
modern editions have dropped the very words the genealogist may need to
interpret old documents--the archaic and obsolete terms that haven't been used
for a century or more."
See the sample at left from the 1891
Black's Law Dictionary p298 describing:
Maggie Stewart,
editor of the USGenWeb Archives Newsletter. Maggie spotlights the work of Mike
Meinhart of of the county volunteers for USGenWeb. BRAVO Mike!
For a little more about Mike Meinhart, Maggie sites
an item posted by Sarah Lynch The Independent Posted: 01/25/06 - 11:40:31 pm EST
ASHLAND - He hasn't lived in the area since
1965, but Mark Meinhart probably knows more about the history of Boyd County
than a lot of lifetime residents. Meinhart, now residing in Columbus,
Ohio, is a Web page administrator for the RootsWeb Genealogy site for Boyd
County. Since he took charge two years ago, the free information site has
grown from approximately 1,100 documents and items to more than 14,000.
His self-proclaimed obsession with genealogy
began after his father died in a car accident in 1991. "After he was gone, I
realized I didn't know anything about where my family came from," he said.
Determined to trace his family tree, Meinhart said he "just went crazy" with
genealogy research. "In two years, I had researched everything I wanted on my
family and decided to help others with their own genealogy."
MightyMouse Tour
When it comes to online genealogical research, your computer's mouse IS
mightier than the sword.
STOP #2 - Please
let Myrt
know if you'd like to have more of her columns in .mp3 format.
STOP #3 - International
Society of Family History Writers and Editors (originally the Council of
Genealogy Columnists) to find out about their 2006 Writing Contest:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cgc/
STEP #4 - Genealogical.com a
website for several book publishing companies.
www.Genealogical.com
From the BookShelf features Genealogical
Publishing Company's newsletter this week explains the difference between
Naturalization
Denizations
something that concerned your ancestors living in
English colonies such as America.
COLONIAL NATURALIZATION RECORDS
from Genealogy Pointers 2/14/2006
During the
colonial period, according to law, an Englishman was a person of English
descent born on English soil. The English colonies qualified as "English
soil," so an Englishman who emigrated to the colonies could transfer his
citizenship to his offspring. (On the other hand, the son of an Englishman
born in Holland, for example, was not a citizen and had to be naturalized in
order to acquire realty and to transfer it to his heirs.)
After the Crown opened up its colonies to foreign-born immigrants in order
to increase the colonial labor supply, the issue of naturalization became
increasingly important. Why? Because, although naturalization did not confer
political rights upon naturalized persons, it was critical for property
ownership and the conferring of property rights to one's offspring. For this
reason thousands of Palatine Germans, French Huguenots, Scots, and Irish as
well as Dutch, Spanish, Danes, Norwegians, and other immigrants availed
themselves of the opportunity to be naturalized.
There were two avenues available to foreigners who desired to become
English subjects: (1) naturalization
per se was conferred by act of Parliament or colonial legislature; (2)
denization was conferred by
the king or his agent, the colonial governor.
As a body of records, naturalization and denization records
are of considerable value, but, until recently, they were very difficult to
access. At a minimum these records provide the person's name and the date
and colony of naturalization. In many cases they also state the person's
county of residence, date of birth, country of birth, occupation, religion
(mostly for Jews), or the name of a family member. Despite their value,
colonial naturalization records have been under-utilized because they are
widely dispersed. Thanks to a new book by genealogist Lloyd Bockstruck, this
problem is rectified.
In his book, DENIZATIONS AND NATURALIZATIONS in the British Colonies in
America, 1607-1775, Mr. Bockstruck has assembled every reference to a
colonial naturalization or denization known to exist. The result is an
alphabetically arranged list of about 13,000 naturalizations compiled from
published sources and expanded and improved by the examination of source
material not previously available to scholars. Researchers should also
consult the index to the volume, which lists all persons mentioned in the
records other than the new citizens themselves. Following is a list of
colonial jurisdictions that yielded the naturalization or denization records
included in the volume: England, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida (East and
West), Georgia, Jamaica, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations, South Carolina, Virginia, and Quebec.
We would be remiss, finally, if we did not mention the book's excellent
Introduction. In it, the author describes the twists and turns in
naturalization law and policy during the colonial period. Also found in the
Introduction is a comprehensive bibliography of the naturalization
literature itself. These features round out a book that is destined to
become synonymous with research in colonial naturalization records.
(Released in 2005, DENIZATIONS AND NATURALIZATIONS is available in short
supply.)
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=489
Of Related Interest:
GUIDE TO NATURALIZATION RECORDS in the United States State by state,
county by county, city by city, this GUIDE identifies all repositories of
naturalization records, systematically indicating the types of records held,
their dates of coverage, and the location of original and microfilm records.
The GUIDE also pinpoints the whereabouts of federal court records in all
National Archives facilities, and it identifies every single piece of
information on naturalizations that is available on microfilm through the
National Archives or the Family History Library System, including the call
numbers used by each institution.
http://www.genealogical.com/item_detail.asp?afid=&ID=5177
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