21 March 2006 DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour
Genealogy Podcast

DearREADERS & LISTENERS,
The edition of DearMYRTLE's FAMILY HISTORY HOUR genealogy podcast is available for you review 24/7. Myrt's guests and topics this week include:

Saving old letters & identifying old photos "In your heart of hearts, you know you have been entrusted with this ancestral treasure, and must do what you can to preserve this wonderful collection for posterity. Carefully unfold these letters, and place them in sheet protectors, since continued fold/unfolding will speed up the aging process. What if an ancestor's wife's maiden name is written right across one of those fold lines? Perhaps it is the final sentence in a paragraph simply describing day-to-day life experiences." Myrt offers some concrete ideas for preserving letters, and refers listeners to www.DeadFred.com for uploading unidentified photos.

Jay Speyerer, from Legacy Road Communications www.LegacyRoad.net will talk with Myrt about writing techniques discussed in his new book The Stories of our Days: Writing Your True Story Using Techniques of Fiction.  Copyright 2005, 120 pages. ISBN: 0-9764729-2-9. This is also available in CD and e-Book format. Ol' Myrt thinks you will appreciate Jay's relaxed style and sense of humor that come shining through during this interview. This carries over into his book, making the writing process very doable.

LegacyRoad.net explains "Jay Speyerer has been a speaker and an educator for more than 25 years, successfully helping people achieve their goals in English, writing, editing, media communication, and presentation skills. Having written short stories, screenplays, essays, and articles, he has conducted many fiction-writing workshops, has had screenplays optioned, and has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Jay's book on memoir writing, The Stories of Our Days, is now available in hard-cover, trade paperback, spoken word CD, and e-book editions."

MightyMouse Tour  Whatever do we do with those very long URLs -- the ones that break into a second or third line in your email? Copying and pasting is sometimes difficult, or the page may have moved. In the article Saving old letters & identifying old photos , Myrt found 2 resources on the web, but the web addresses were very long. Several readers had difficulty clicking through on the link in email, because of the line splits. Yes, there services that provide a TINY URL, but then if someone reads Myrt's column, things aren't decipherable either.

 You can go to the root of the address and then search.

• This link to a particular box of sheet protectors at Office Depot is very long http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=498811&N=4294966793&An=browse
  but one could merely go to the home page indicated in bold (www.officedepot.com) and use that site's search option to find sheet protectors.
   
• This link to a polypropylene archival box is even longer. Note the home page is emphasized in bold.
  http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/servlet/OnlineShopping?DSP=50000&PCR=30000:100000:103000:103200&IID=POLYBOXRINGS
   
• www.DearMYRTLE.com/06/0322.htm

Confused by Boolean search terms or the use of wild-cards and 'single quote' marks when using Google? In response to pleas of help from John T. and Susan this week, Myrt revisits Google's "advanced search" options.

OTHER LINKS WE MENTION

• Cuban Research including links to the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies and another group, the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami. Several members have written to express their concerns about the political roadblocks to genealogical research for non-residents.
• ACROSS MY DESK: Holocaust records, 2006 Census & NYC Brides/Grooms

• Genealogy & History Podcasts: A Growing List If you want to learn more about our favorite topics, GENEALOGY & HISTORY, you simply MUST download the free iTunes from http://www.itunes.com and subscribe to some of the podcasts available at this time. You don't need an iPod to listen, just your computer, with the speakers turned on.

  Once you have iTunes on your computer (for MAC or Windows) you merely need to subscribe to the podcast's feed by opening iTunes and: clicking ADVANCED selecting SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST then copy/paste the following mRSS code for the desired podcast (from the listing below) clicking the OK button Codes for subscribing to these free podcasts to insert in your podcast software such as iTunes. The mRSS codes for some informative podcast feeds are as follows: DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour (new podcast every Tuesday night) http://www.ourmedia.org/mediarss/user/33644 Genealogy Guys Podcast (new podcast every Sunday night) http://www.genealogyguys.com/rss History According to Bob http://www.summahistorica.com/podcast/rss.xml HistoryPodcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/HistoryPodcast1 Nuestra Familia Unida (new podcast periodically) http://nuestrafamiliaunida.com/rss.xml Port of Entry http://rss.mac.com/ms5/iWeb/POE/PortofEntryHome/rss.xml Sparkletack http://www.sparkletack.com/rss Talking History http://talkinghistory.oah.org/podcast-2006.xml You only have to enter the code once. From then on, when you open iTunes, click the update button to automatically see what new podcasts have been added recently by any of these three podcast groups! Its easy, and you may listen to the podcasts as many times as you wish 24/7. I sure hope more folks get into producing these genealogy and history .mp3 audio files. What a wonderful learning tool! If you'd like to learn more about the producers of these podcasts see their websites: DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour Podcast http://www.DearMYRTLE.com Genealogy Guys Podcast http://www.genealogyguys.com History According to Bob http://www.summahistorica.com HistoryPodcast http://historypodcast.blogspot.com Military History Podcast http://www.militaryhistorypodcast.blogspot.com Nuestra Familia Unida http://nuestrafamiliaunida.com Port of Entry http://web.mac.com/ms5/iWeb/POE/PortofEntryHome/PortofEntryHome.html Sparkletack (History of San Francisco) http://sparkletack.com Talking History http://talkinghistory.oah.org

From the BookShelf

• JAMESTOWNE ANCESTORS, by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis. From the publisher we read "The year 2007 marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English colony in America. This year we are releasing a number of books in commemoration of the founding of Jamestown. JAMESTOWNE ANCESTORS, a list of approximately 1,200 persons who are known to have landed or resided there between 1607 and 1699, is now available." 108 pp. 2006 ISBN: 0806317671. http://www.genealogical.com/products/Jamestowne%20Ancestors%201607–1699/1381.html
   

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Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt      :)

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