Selection from 1995-2006 DearMYRTLE columns
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• ACROSS MY DESK: NGS DATABASES OPEN FOR THANKSGIVING
• What's a Google Alert?
• ACROSS MY DESK: Brown University cataloguing rare maps
• Sources -- Individual (in PAF or otherwise)
• WHY Myrt finally bought an iPod
• Moving GENSMARTS data from one computer to another, etc.
• Demonstrating GenSmarts
• Genealogy classes at the Bellevue WA FHC
• Upcoming podcast with FamilyTreeDNA
• Family History Minute podcast
• Citing family bibles
• Problem with a name
• Welsh circa 300-1500AD ancestry going online
• Oklahoma Centennial Projects
• ACROSS MY DESK: RootsMagic, Inc. Releases Family Atlas Genealogy Mapping and
  Publishing Software
• Naturalization, women & New York
• ACROSS MY DESK: Newspapers added in October 2006
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 30 October 2006
• Coordinating genealogy research tasks
• Swedish websites and when will the DearMYRTLE's FAMILY HISTORY HOUR return?
• New DearMYRTLE podcast released today
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 27 October 2006 Includes: Disk life; Japanners; Disk compatibility; British parish site; Making copies of documents; Re: Family traditions.
• Where have the PA Archives gone?
• Parent Search in IGI
• Why PAF isn't being updated
• ACROSS MY DESK: LDS Church launches African American Resource Site
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 26 Oct 2006 Includes: IGI, PAFInsight & Legacy; Rare genetic deletion; Misfiling at the Library of Congress; Noisy library; Adopted children in obituaries; Preserving digital files; Ships passing in the night.
• DNA and finding the parents
• Starting your own computer users group
• Regional genealogy seminars
• Connecting with others
• What I learned about Chinese Genealogies
• Calculating birth or death dates
• Jamboree to be held in Cheyenne, Wyoming 20-21 Oct 2006 Myrt gave the keynote address!
• Ogden conference also features Chinese specialist
• Questions about my grandmother search
• READER'S FEEDBACK: Extraction Program
• Locating all by a surname in a certain parish
• GEDCOM & Book Printing
• COPY & PASTE: Getting the info in notes
• ACROSS MY DESK: Family Atlas
• Origins Network Labor Day Access
• ACROSS MY DESK: Top notch guest speakers featured at GenealogyForum.org
• RE: NARA Budget Cuts & Closing Schedule
• ACROSS MY DESK: Free Access to The Origins Network - 4 September
• New Mailing List software causes mix-up
• This & That 31 Aug 2006
• ACROSS MY DESK: SMGF Updates online DNA database
• Ancestry's Loss is our PDF gain
• ACROSS MY DESK: Essential Pope books MA, ME & NH on CD
• Access points for US Federal Census records online
• Keepers
• Cavalier manners
• Cemetery follow-up: The MYSTERY Shopper
• 9 years of research: Birth record dilemma
• Readers' Feedback: Occupation: Japaner/Japanner
• Occupation: Japaner/Japanner
• Everton subscription & e-newsletter
• PERIOD COSTUMES - Pennsylvania Germans
• OGDEN, UT 6-7 Oct 2006 - SEMINAR
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 20 June 2006 Myrt's guests include Kathy Meade from Genline.com the premier website for scanned images of Swedish church records 1600-1900; and Denise Olsen from MoultrieCreek.net for advice about creating folders in MS Outlook (email program) and battery back-up uninterrupted power supplies.
• Question about Heritage Quest & Chickasaw & Howard Counties, Iowa CDs
• Thanks for the memories, Dad
• ACROSS MY DESK: Heirs should sift slowly through attic
• Portable genealogical file
• READERS' FEEDBACK: MORE Library Manners & Filed Wrong
• Civil War Notes & Diaries
• APG Honors Gary Mokotoff
• ACROSS MY DESK: 13 June 2006
• PRESS RELEASE: Myra Vanderpool Gormley Award of Merit
• READERS FEEDBACK: Leave a legacy -- tell your story
• ACROSS MY DESK: My Ancestors Found buys Rootstamps Collection
• INS now USCIS
• Beidler article on early PA land records accessibility
• Leave a legacy -- tell your story
• Provo Labs & Everton Partnership Press Release
• 1841 Scotland Census Now Online
• ACROSS MY DESK: May Classes, etc.
• Library Manners & Filed Wrong
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Bad library manners
• Announcing FHL Research Retreat with My Ancestors Found -- June 26-July 1
• New Adoption Mailing Lists
• ACROSS MY DESK: LibraryThing.com
• READERS' RESPONSE: Step-children in obituary
• Step-children in obituary
• Finding LIVE People
• Meitzler new Managing Editor at Everton
• Great-grandmother's female siblings
• Palatines to America
• 1880 Census Image Availability
• Subsequent remarriage with no children
• Online Jewish Classes
• Reality & Life in general
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 10 April 2006
• ACROSS MY DESK: Italian Conference
• Myrt speaking at Utah Valley PAF 8 March 2006
• ACROSS MY DESK: Revised DNA website includes additions to database
• ACROSS MY DESK: RootsMagic 3.2.1 Released
• ACROSS MY DESK: ISBGFH British Institute
• The younger generation
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Copies, PE and podcast woes
• ACROSS MY DESK: Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino Community
• RootsMagic, Personal Historian & FHCs
• Legacy database on flash drive
   
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 21 March 2006 Myrt's topics and guests include Jay Speyerer who with Myrt about writing techniques discussed in his new book The Stories of our Days: Writing Your True Story Using Techniques of Fiction. Pick up a few ideas about preserving old letters and identifying old photos; and what to do with those very long URLS that sometimes get split in email. Myrt also touches on Cuban family history research, and reports on a new book from Genealogical.com by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis titled Jamestowne Ancestors. The show page also mentions the specific links for other genealogy and family history podcasts.
• Saving old letters & identifying old photos
• ACROSS MY DESK: Holocaust records, 2006 Census & NYC Brides/Grooms
• Cuban Research
• The road less traveled
• LIVE radio stream tomorrow
• FamilySearch Scanning article
• ACROSS MY DESK: Free Non-Member Access to the Register Online March 20-22
• Immigration Frustration: Malcolm Macleod 1854
• ACROSS MY DESK: PLA Boston – March 22nd – 25th
• Family History Library installs new computers
• DAR Library completes shelving improvement
• Filing supporting documents
• READER'S FEEDBACK: Coping with Destruction of Bremen Passenger Lists
• Family Traditions
• Library manners
• Numbering systems: FTM and LFT
• READER'S FEEDBACK: Numbering system
• Single Numbering System
• Desertion and divorce in Arkansas
• READER'S FEEDBACK: Stillborn births?
• Stillborn Births?
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 21 Feb 2006 Myrt's guests include DeadFred.com's founder Joe Bott and the site's archivist, Jeannette Balleza discussing the lost photos archives and the new e-book The Desperate Genealogist's Idea Book: Creative Ways to Outsmart Your Elusive Ancestors. LegacyFamilyTree.com's Geoff Rasmussen discusses what to do when someone's email address has changed and how to create a hopefully permanent email address for your genealogy postings. There are numerous links to genealogy news that has come across Myrt's desk including articles about Cape Cod gravestones and a new Swiss genealogy website.
• 1864 medical remedy book
• 2nd Great-grandmother's obit search
• Report on Irish teleconference tonight
• Genealogical.com's newsletter
• Family History Library closes at 6pm due to snow
• Old book provides insight on legal terms
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 14 Feb 2006 This week's show is dedicated to Myrt's first online genealogy mentor Russ Kyger. RootsMagic's Bruce Buzbee joins Myrt to discuss the "Share CD" and other unique options of his program. Myrt interviews Bob Velke about the importance of legal terms in the historical context of our ancestors' lives using Black's Law Dictionary. The 1891 & 1910 edition are available on CD from his website ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com. Maggie Stewart from the USGenWeb Archives Newsletter spotlights the work of one Kentucky GenWeb volunteer - Mike Meinhart of Boyd County. The MightyMouse Tour takes in several stops including an 1882 Austrian map site, the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors writing contest, and purchasing books from Genealogical.com (the case in point explains the difference between naturalizations and denizations.) Also Myrt asks listeners if they would like to hear more of her regular columns as short podcasts.
• ACROSS MY DESK: Colorful Charting Companions from Progeny Software
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Preservation, Attributes & Valentines
• Russ Kyger - RIP
• Report of 2006 Jamboree in St. George
• ACROSS MY DESK: Coping with Destruction of Bremen Passenger Lists
• Myrt's Calendar and "TOP 25" announcement
  
  WOW! Myrt's newly revised "Little Book" Internet Genealogy has been expanded in 2006 to include not 20 but 25 +1 great ideas to help you get in the hunt.
  
  
  
  
   
• Join Myrt Feb 10-11, 2006 in St. George
• Heritage Creations & our dear friend Leland
• Genealogy & History Podcasts: A Growing List
• FindUSA database dropped from libraries
• Document preservation
• Hawaiian Adoption
• Happy Camper: I just got my new HANDYBOOK
• PBS' African American Lives debuts tonight
• African Slaves in Campeche, Mexico circa 1550
• Here's the scoop on Legacy Family Tree's announcement
• ACROSS MY DESK: Most Comprehensive Collection of Canadian Family Research Records Online Launches at www.ancestry.ca
• ACROSS MY DESK: Ancestry.com Celebrates Black History Month by Providing Free Access
• Coretta Scott King
• MOVING THE DEAD - San Francisco Cemeteries podcast
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 31 Jan 2006 This jam-packed hour features Darrin Lythgoe, creator of The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding; "Family Tree" from the Ancestral Songs CD by Steve Lanza; and Courtney Newton, BA (Family History) who explains to Myrt the strategies for determining the town of origin for your Italian ancestors. The MightyMouse tour visits Dick Eastman's website and explores the Encyclopedia of Genealogy. From the BookShelf features Genealogical Publishing Company's The Early Germans of New Jersey.  Listen in as Myrt spills the beans (with permission of course) about tomorrow's press release from LegacyFamilyTree.com concerning the possibility of wining a free genealogy cruise to Alaska or trip Salt Lake's Family History Library.
• Letters home tell CW Soldiers' stories
• ACROSS MY DESK: Ancestor Tracks Introduces Major Source for Early PA Settlers
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 24 Jan 2006Myrt and guest Geoff Rasmussen have a lively discussion about synchronizing your genealogy database with other family members, Legacy Family Tree's "InteliMerge" and using a BLOG to coordinate a "to-do" list. Elizabeth Powell Crowe returns to speak this time about a rather mysterious ethnic group in the eastern US known as the Melungeons. Myrt also visits with Sharon MacInnes of Ancestor Tracks, the producer of the series of books and CDs in the Early Landowners of Pennsylvania series.
• RootsWeb Mailing List Problems
• Great expectations: Not a worthwhile genealogy attribute
• ACROSS MY DESK: Boston births registered 1800-1849
• More on the Poznan Marriage Indexing Project
• Is Southern US research impossible?
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 17 Jan 2006 Myrt answers a listener's question about why we still need Family History Centers. Then catch her interview with Karen Sladek, award-winning author of LUCKY STARS & GOLD BARS: A World War II Odyssey. This lucky daughter discovered 400 of her father's letters sent home during the war days. Myrt also extends an invitation to the 2006 Genealogy and Family Heritage Jamboree 10-11 February 2006 in St. George Utah. Pre-registration deadline is 31 Jan.
• Surgeon's Report: Early Campaigns in the North, 1812 to 1813
• ACROSS MY DESK: Transferring files from old to new computer
• Lost & Found: Old photo cards
• Readers' Feedback 13 Jan 2006
  • Don't use WordPerfect or Word exclusively
  • Naranzetta - Is it a carnival name?
  • Birth record created for war duty
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Unreliable records
• RE: Problems with incomplete obit forms
• NEVER GIVE UP: Discoveries of old records are happening every day
• ACROSS MY DESK: 2006 WhollyGenes Genealogy Cruise
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 10 Jan 2006 Listen in as Myrt discusses Reunions Magazine with editor Edith Wagner; PAF Companion 2 with developer Pierre Cloutier; and Godfrey Memorial Library (including the HeritageQuestOnline access) with the Godfrey's director Richard E. Black. Other topics include: Tennessee's apprenticed children, the free SSDI & World Place Finder offer, GeneLines, the 2006 WhollyGenes.com genealogy cruise, and the AGBI American Genealogical Biographical Index. The MightyMouse tour visits RootsWeb mailing lists and explains the difference between L (list mode) and D (digest mode.)
• ACROSS MY DESK: New Braintree Museum & Research Center
• Nova Scotian Runaway to Massachusetts
• Naranzetta - is it a carnival name?
• ACROSS MY DESK: A Crack in the Romanian Archival Dike?
• READERS' FEEDBACK: What I learned from Great-Grampa's Death Certificate
• Problems with incomplete obit forms
• Where to insert source citations
• READERS' FEEDBACK: First things first
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Playing Catch Up
• Publishing that Book
• ACROSS MY DESK: Progeny Offers SSDI & World Place Finder for Free!
• Don't use WordPerfect or Word exclusively
• Internet Genealogy Magazine
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 3 Jan 2006 Myrt's guests this week include Geoff Rasmussen who discusses his newest project, the AniMap Training Video; and Libbi Crowe who provides specific steps for solving genealogical questions and making real progress in your research in 2006. During the MightyMouse segment, Myrt discusses 1837Online's WWI Overseas Army Deaths Database, the Missouri Land Patents Database provided by the Secretary of State, and Godfrey.org's decision to discontinue HeritageQuestOnline. Links we mention include Myrt's column about a birth record created for war duty, and 2006 the Chinese year of the Dog.
• Birth record created for war duty
• 2006 the Chinese year of the Dog
• The Internet, Genealogists and the Future
• 20 Dec 2005 DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour with special guest Mr. S. Claus, direct via satellite cellphone from the North Pole.
• ACROSS MY DESK: Scottish pride turns to dance ban
• POE Podcast (Port of Arrival)
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 13 Dec 2005 Myrt's guests include author Elizabeth Powell Crowe on the importance of oral histories, and editor Holly Hanson on the brand new 11th edition of Everton's Handybook for Genealogists. Myrt thanks Elizabeth Kasper for sharing her before and after views her ancestors 1815 marriage record, as she describes the process she went through with Adobe Photoshop to enhance the readability of the document. Thanks to Jill who reminds us that Corel now owns PaintShop Pro. The MightyMouse tour spotlights the wonderful volunteers at Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness. Hats off to Kimberley Powell for her article on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec 7, 2005.
• The Lost Generation - Tracing UK World War I casualties
• Working immediate collateral lines, SSDI & NGS
• Enhancing scanned images
• More on scanners, OCR & digital cameras
• Incomplete copies of official records
• READERS' FEEDBACK: SB, Christenings & Such
• Everton's Handybook 11th Edition Now Available
• Pearl Harbor Day
• Genealogy Podcasts
• Missouri Land Patents 1831-1910
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 6 Dec 2005  Guest Bob Velke, producer of The Master Genealogist software program, joins Myrt to discuss his with a brand new venture -- ArchiveCDBooksUSA.com. Other topics include the 1901 & 1911 Irish Census records soon to be released online, blogging, finding probate records, the FamilySearch research outlines, determining the spelling of a town using the FHLCatalog, and interviewing relatives using the MyAncestorsFound.com's "Capture the  a Memories" CD with 14 different books for you to create over the holidays as you visit with your families.
• ACROSS MY DESK: Ireland deal will put 1901 & 1911 census online
• Letter to Dad: Found siblings and names of BOTH parents for our oldest known PLAYER in England
• Probate in Pierce County
• Handheld Scanners
• Genealogy & The British West Indies
• Colorado sues genealogy company
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Recollections Assignment
• Family tree form
• Vocabulary words
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 29 Nov 2005 DearMYRTLE interviews Michael Booth, creator of Personal Historian, where we learn, step-by-step to set up a new project, and have fun learning to use this wonderful software program. Myrt reprises an interview with Katherine Scott Sturdevant, co-author of Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History and author of Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents. Topics include preserving old documents, creating an interview "tote bag," how to make secure purchases online, and a brief tour of the GENUKI website for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Island, Wales, and the Isle of Man.
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Implements, Harry Potter & ASSIGNMENT
• Check the courthouse again: Great Falls Montana, case in point
• What I learned from great-grampa's death certificate
• STARS & STRIPES: Native American Indian Heritage Month
• Ancestry.com Class Action Lawsuit
• Little known implements
• ACROSS MY DESK: ArchiveCDBooksUSA expansion
• Installing PAF on your flash drive
• READERS' RESPONSE: SB Association
• What is the SB Association?
• CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
• ACROSS MY DESK: DNA Swab & DNA Analysis
• Connecticut WPA Efforts - Headstone Inscriptions
• Township Maps
• And speaking of West Virginia
• WPA & West Virginia
• South Caroliniana Library catalog
• ACROSS MY DESK: "Family Search Scam" - Oh, Really Now?
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 15 Nov 2005 Myrt's guests include Barb Schulz, a DAR Regent and a Colonial Dames of the XVII Century registrar. LegacyFamilyTree.com's Geoff Rasmussen talks about "Three Proven Methods for Getting Responses from your Living Relatives." During the MightyMouse tour, Myrt explores USGenWeb with USGenWeb Archives Newsletter editor, Maggie Stewart. Myrt explains "blogs" again, and recommends that you subscribe to her column if you are having trouble receiving email on a regular basis.
• The Boy Scout & the flag
• ACROSS MY DESK: AniMap Training CD
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 8 Nov 2005 with Frank Koerner, B.S. Physics, Juris Doctorate, author  of The Missing Peace of a Heritage Puzzle - A Memoir Uniquely Set in a Vanished Sudetenland; and  Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph. D., author of Forensic Genealogy available through her website. The MightyMouse tour discusses BLOGS, and how to subscribe to both Dick Eastman and Myrt's blogs using SharpReader. Myrt's asks listeners and readers to consider alternate uses for a digital camera's memory stick. "Links We Mention" include Walmart's online Photo Center; Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner by Daniel L. Schafer and the use of Google's Gmail.
• Podcasts and online Pennsylvania Archives
• ACROSS MY DESK: Sperm sleuth tracks down father
• ACROSS MY DESK: Partnership for the American Historical Record
• Civil War Databases
• Getting into the swing of things
• Grabbing the brass ring
• Getting from here to there
• Scary Things
• Myrt to speak 5 Nov - 10am Ogden, Utah
• Podcast & getting into the SLC groups
• READERS INPUT: Memory Sticks
• New Certified Genealogist Term
• Posting to genealogy software
• When it RAINS & Shirtsleeves
• How to convert VHS tapes to DVD
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 11 Oct 2005 with Frank Koerner, B.S. Physics, Juris Doctorate, author  of The Missing Peace of a Heritage Puzzle - A Memoir Uniquely Set in a Vanished Sudetenland; and  Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph. D., author of Forensic Genealogy available through her website. The MightyMouse tour discusses BLOGS, and how to subscribe to both Dick Eastman and Myrt's blogs using SharpReader. Myrt's asks listeners and readers to consider alternate uses for a digital camera's memory stick. "Links We Mention" include Walmart's online Photo Center; Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner by Daniel L. Schafer and the use of Google's Gmail.
• NEED READERS' INPUT: Memory Stick Question
• The NEW Library in downtown SLC
• SEE DICK about French-Canadian Research
• Reading & Listening to DearMYRTLE
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Foster child, 1880 & Mental Institutions
• Jacksonville State Hospital in Illinois
• Accessing 1880 & other census views
• Foster child yearns for family history
• Putting Scanned Images of Original Documents Online
• Cemetery Preservation Workshop in Oklahoma
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 4 Oct 2005 with Geoff Rasmussen from LegacyFamilyTree.com; James W. Petty, AG®, CGRSSM, B.A. (History), B.S. (Genealogy) an expert on the headright system in 17th Century Virginia and Relative Genetics; Grace DuMelle author of Finding Your Chicago Ancestors. Maggie Stewart, editor of the USGenWeb Archives Newsletter provides links to Hancock County, Ohio tidbits. The MightyMouse tour explores Legacy Family Tree Version 6.  Download the latest free version to follow along. Myrt discusses how to reference another researcher's work, and the definition of "grass widow" provided by bartleby.com.
• 2 anti-virus programs
• Rosh Hashanah
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Hearth & Home
• Sept 2005 New Ancestry.com databases
• READERS' FEEDBACK: First things first
• Hearth & Home (& It takes A Heap o' Livin')
• ACROSS MY DESK: NC Apprenticeship & Free Blacks
• ACROSS MY DESK: TMG Version 6.04 is out
• Question about referencing another's references
• New York Marriage Record Request
• Ogden, Utah passenger lists
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 27 Sept 2005 with Barbara Benge, Native American research expert and Ugo A. Perego, MS, Director of Operations, Sorensen Molecular Genealogy Foundation. Myrt mentions an obscure cemetery project in Travis County, Texas. The MightyMouse tour explores the "ScotlandsPeople" website and Myrt handles the delicate question of how to document a relationship involving children where the parents were apparently not married.
• NEED READERS' INPUT: First things first
• SCOTTISH RESEARCH: Cooperation is the name of the game
• ACROSS MY DESK: Census forms offer from Everton
• Old New York Times issues online
• ACROSS MY DESK: Jewish Sites down due to hurricane preparedness
• Listen to DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour, etc.

• Changes at Ancestry
• ACROSS MY DESK: Dynamic Redesign Invigorates Ancestry.com
• ACROSS MY DESK: Poznan Project Newsletter #7
• ACROSS MY DESK: History Detective
• Handwritten notes in a digital world
• LA Records and Salt Lake City Visit
• Getting around that brick wall
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Is Inu a surname?
• Is Inu actually a surname?
• Paul Hatch Daines, Jr., M. D.  - Rest in Peace
• Paul Daines Part 1
• Spelling mistakes & life in general
• FamilySearch website has changed it's look
• Another Genealogy Podcast
• ACROSS MY DESK: Passage Express Newsletter
• Race & Slave Petition Project 1776-1867
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 8 Sept 2005
• RootsMagic 3 Now Available
• Legacy Family Tree 6 - Radius Searching
• Genealogy Workshops and Courses in National Archives
• ACROSS MY DESK: 1901 British Census Index Access through 9/30
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 6 Sept 2005
  • Kory Meyerink, AG from ProGenealogists.com
  • MightyMouse Tour: step-by-step downloading a genealogy software program
  • Jon Shupe, from PassageExpress.com
• Class Ideas - Family Tree Scavenger Hunt
• Vidstone - multi-media tombstone memorial
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 3 Sept 2005 Tennessee; Hurricane Relief; Landform Maps; Sprucing things up with familiar quotations & Internet radio show
• Roots Magic 3 to be released next week
• ACROSS MY DESK: Legacy 6 class in Provo, Utah on Sep. 10
• Tennessee Resources
• ACROSS MY DESK: Dollarhide's NY Census book at printer
• American Red Cross
• Verifying Myrt's Identity
• ACROSS MY DESK: BYU Credit for MyAncestors/Everton FHL Retreats
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 29 Aug 2005
• Landform Maps of the US, etc.
• Determining Book Lists for Family History Centers
• Legacy 6 to be officially released at FGS in Salt Lake City, UT on Thursday, September 8, 2005
• Professional genealogists form chapters in Alabama, Georgia
• Readers' Feedback: How & When to Listen
• JEFF CHAPMAN  1973-2005 RIP
• ACROSS MY DESK: WV vital records online
• ACROSS MY DESK: 1805 Georgia Land Lottery 200th Anniversary Event
• My own daughter didn't understand
• ACROSS MY DESK: Google Earth
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 23 Aug 2005
• ACROSS MY DESK: Source Citations & Citation Detail
• Fishing for ancestors
• LISTENERS' FEEDBACK: DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 16 Aug 2005
• DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 16 Aug 2005
• Tuesday's the first day of the NEWEST DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour
• Getting ready for THIS WEEK's broadcast
• Another way to hear DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Listening to DearMYRTLE's test promo spot
• 1911 Canadian Census Now Online - Census! Census! Who has the Census? A Brief History of the Canadian National Census
• Sprucing things up with Familiar Quotations
• Confusing Castle Garden Dates
• ACROSS MY DESK: Genealogy Burnout; Kansas WWII Veterans Database Online; New Castle Garden Database; Genealogy Today launches new online catalog
• Returning family bibles
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Selfish "researchers"
• Selfish "researchers"
• Revolutionary War Resources - selected & complete records
• Quakers from PA to VA
• All Saints Court C. O. F.
• We're stumped
• Revolutionary War Resources
• HeritageQuestOnline has some Revolutionary War Files (not OCLC)
• Quaker Meeting Records
• Childhood Memories II
• Double, blind data entry indices
• RESEARCH: We can do it faster, but is it better?
• My new GRANDSON is born!
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Railroads, letters, OCLC & more
• Railroad death
• Old letters, postcards & telegrams
• Where my web visitors live
• UPDATE 2005: The Internet, Genealogists & the Future complete!
• Parish Locator Program
• Childhood Memories
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Decorative pins for Antimacassars & Chesterfields
• Clogging the System -- NOT!!
• Decorative pins for Antimacassars & Chesterfields
• Tracing Black History through Genealogy and DNA Science
• Majoring in Family History
• ACROSS MY DESK: BYU Genealogy Conference 26-29 July 2005
• ACROSS MY DESK: Genealogy Today Database of Biographical Sketches
• Attitudes & Courtesies
• Getting to those obscure surname books
• Common Law, Siblings & Audit Trails
• Myrt is taking an Online Course for English Researchers 
  • Registration: 24 hours and no response
• Polish Town
• Reader's Reply: OCLC for Genealogists 
• OCLC What is it and how can it help genealogists?
• Not Married "..try not be be judgmental." See also: Readers' Feedback: Not Married
• Question about Red Book "Now, I've not truly answered your question -- only opened up discussion of additional possibilities. Some help I am, eh?"
• Numbering Pages in Genealogy Notebooks
• READER'S FEEDBACK: Mortality Schedules (NY)
• Official US Census Abbreviations Website
• Problems with Mortality Schedule Microfilms
• Mortality Schedules
• Reasonably priced wall charts
• Establishment of Trade Unions  
• French Research "visiting Paris from London in October, and would like to take the opportunity of checking up on my great grandmother's roots."
• Revolutionary roots "why not commit to documenting the lineage, and joining a lineage society?"
• Getting pictures in that Book "... not sure why the programmers believe that when we insert a picture we want it to have text to show up ONLY above and below, and not NEXT to the picture."
• ACROSS MY DESK: 11th Edition HANDYBOOK due in Fall 2005
• Different Dates "This is a common problem."
• ACROSS MY DESK: 1861 British Census - New County Alert 
• The Bug Man Cometh "Home remedies?"
• Beginning Lesson #10 - County Boundary Changes - "The hard and fast rule for genealogy researchers is record the place or locality as it was at the time of the event."
• Readers' Feedback: 24 June 2005 "Help with use of "Mrs."; Auntie Macassar; Relationship Terms; Regarding Oversize Notebook Dividers; Saving Census Enumerations in the Future; Three Things Not to do at a Family History Center; Definition of Archival Storage Materials."
• Hamburg Passenger Lists "You may need to do more "place of origin" research, unless you can find your ancestor in an index."
• Beginning Lesson #3 - Relationship Terms - "MY SON'S NOW WIFE didn't imply a previous marriage. It was used to protect the estate from being diluted from claims by subsequent wives should this one die and the son remarry. "
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Antimacassars
• Watermelon Pickles & Tell Myrt the Story
• Age for WWI Draft Registration
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 11 June 2005: Experience with Medical Family Histories; Did Amish, Mennonites or Quakers Avoid Census Takers?; No More Certo Bottles; Watermelon Pickles & Pickled Peaches.
• NEAT THINGS I'VE READ LATELY: The Spinster & the Cemetery
• Cause of Death
• 3 Things NOT to do at our Family History Center
• Amish, Mennonite, Quakers Avoiding the Census Enumerator
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Former Photographic Studios
• Former Photographic Studios
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 5 June 2005
• READERS' FEEDBACK: No More Certo Bottles
• No more CERTO bottles
• ACROSS MY DESK: PAF INSIGHT FREE UPDATE Version 2005.5.31
• ACROSS MY DESK: Research Academy in Salt Lake City
• C-Line 11x17 Sheet Protectors Listed as Archival 
• Upcoming: DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour internet radio shows

Click graphic to read Myrt's 2005 Memorial Day Message:

Graphic from the American Memories project at the Library of Congress website: Soldier's Memorial Day," 
words by Mary B.C. Slade and music by W.O. Perkins, 1870. Historic American Sheet Music,1850-1920

• NEILSON/NET RATINGS for internet use - MORE than Stats
• Palatines to America National Seminar 9-11 June 2005 Ft. Wayne
• RR & Congress not paying into Social Security?
• Google Scan of Books derided 51 & 31 minutes ago
• EASTMAN: How not to read Tombstone Data
• ACROSS MY DESK: PAF Companion Charts now in Color
• Everton's Access to Godey's Lady's Book
• MYRT'S ARCHIVES: GERMANY: One Researcher's Recent Trip
• MYRT'S ARCHIVES: Our Beautiful Quilts
• Wholesale Pedigree Charts
• Meaning of gravestone graphics
• NEAT THINGS I'VE READ LATELY: 24 May 2005
• Eye of the Beholder
• ACROSS MY DESK: What's happening at the Godfrey
• Bradenton is a bit of a travel from Chicago
• 11 by 17 Help from Friends
• 11 by 17 photocopy protection
• Oversized 3-ring dividers "a page divider and sheet protector all in one!"
• READERS' FEEDBACK 22 May 2005: RE: 1895 Exam; RE: Social Security Death Index; RE: What's in a Name?; Myrt's warning to BACKUP
• ACROSS MY DESK: 2006 Australian Census to be Saved
• 27th Aero Squadron, USA, at Royal Flying Corps
• ACROSS MY DESK: ProGenealogists Gains Well-known Genealogist for Key Managerial Role
• ACROSS MY DESK: Everton Publishers expanding offerings
• READERS' FEEDBACK "Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness"
• Viewing photos embedded in AOL Email
• Social Security Death Index Listings
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK)
• Star Wars Family Tree
• What's in a Name? How's a grandmother to keep up?
• ASHBAUGH(ASHBOUGH)'S Clifton, Pierce Co., WI 1850-1900+
• Copies of Vital Records
• ACROSS MY DESK: 8th Grade Education in 1895
• Death by Railroad "Family history states that he was crushed between two train cars and his
  body fell into the Mississippi River."
• NGS Conference 1-4 June 2005 Nashville
• READER'S FEEDBACK RE: Loyalist Units "A wonderful little book that would assist locating any family within any of the above Loyalist Units..."
• RE: Accessing the Published Pennsylvania Archives Online "Little Book'  "...might be just what you need in one hand, while mouse-clicking with the other."
• Loyalist Units: Westchester Refugees; Butler's, Roger's, Hayden's King's Rangers "They did not favor the cause of freedom espoused by the colonists in America"
• Finding Cousins "If you want to receive detailed (read that "RELEVANT") responses..."
• May Day circa 1950s "...and watch as she opened the door, to smile as she discovered your lovely surprise."
• ACROSS MY DESK: 1 May 2005 "GenealogyToday.com announces 200,000 Name Milestone; USHMM Filming in Ukraine; Subscribing to "Genealogy Gems" from Ft. Wayne; Mother’s Day Special! FREE Consultation for Female Ancestor; National Geographic Society launches DNA study of deep ancestry."
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Immigrant Children's Clothing "The cap on the "12 year old boy" is perfect."
• Immigrant Children's Clothing "I think you are looking for dark brown or black knickers or pants with suspenders."
• FHL Research Outlines "the most underutilized yet most valuable source of "how to" research help on the web."
• ACROSS MY DESK: Toronto Emigrant Office Records
• Polish Roots - First hand research "A Passion for Poland, Polish Tradition and Culture"
• RE: Family Tree's Bad Apples Can Be a Shock "That way you are not making sweeping statements, which tend to deter people from believing your work."
• ACROSS MY DESK: Family Tree's Bad Apples Can Be a Shock
• Readers' Feedback: Cost Effective Solution for Distributing Society Newsletters
• Picking green beans yesterday "Are the bean stalks getting shorter or am I just getting taller?" &
  Reader's Response: Picking green beans yesterday
• Lots of learning opportunities "The National Institute for Genealogical Studies"
• Definition of OBSCURE "Got any definitions to add to the list?"
• Check out the Lincoln Museum dedicated today & CORRECTED URL "the museum folks did an excellent job of attempting to translate the museum experience into an informational website."
• Cost Effective Solution for Distributing Society Newsletters "Rising costs of paper, printing & even bulk-mail postage werekilling our budget."
• ACROSS MY DESK: Noble & Pious Thing "To hand them on to new generations, all too ready to forget."
• ACROSS MY DESK: Free 72-hour Access to a Premium Database at NewEnglandAncestors.Org
• Off to Ormond Beach, Bradenton & SRQ "Ol' Myrt will be away from her desk."
• Across My Desk - 1841 English Census -- now Online "Partnerships with leading archives and genealogical societies in the UK and Ireland, including the Society of Genealogists, Eneclann Ltd, The National Library of Ireland, and the Borthwick Institute for Archives..."
• Readers' Feedback: 12 April 2005 "Re: Creating webpages and need good site; Re: Number of those in genealogy; Re: Revolutionary War Troop Movements; Problems with the NA microfilm lending program"
• Notes with source citations are necessary "We judge a scholarly publication in any other genre (history, science, medicine, etc.) by it's source citations and subsequent critical reviews by peers."
• ACROSS MY DESK: Society for Women & Civil War Conference 3-5 June 2005 "in partnership with the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies"
• Creating Webpages and Need a Good Site "If you wish to create a family website, consider the following:"
• Number of those in genealogy "It is believed that more than 80 million Americans are currently actively searching..."
• Looking for family in Belize "NOTE: 25 microfilm reels titled: Civil registration, 1881-1951 from the Belize General Registry Department."
• Hispanic Mexican help within hours "...who was "given the key to the city" because of her research there."
• Hispanic Mexican Genealogy Research Assistance "I highly recommend getting in touch with Mimi Lozano of Somos Primos."
• 21st Century Research Tools "We simply MUST combine top-quality tried-and-true research techniques with a growing understanding of the use of modern digital resources to effectively climb our family trees."
• Everton's Genealogical Helper BACK in Print "My heart warmed at the "Rock On" story of Peter & Connie Brandish and how a small group can preserve a local cemetery."
• READERS' FEEDBACK: Files, photos & help from friends
• RSS & Atom - New way to receive genealogy info "There will be no more worries lost email, changing email addresses when you change internet service providers or anything!"
• Another Way to Read DearMYRTLE - RSS/Atom "THE ADVANTAGE OF DOING THIS is that you can go one place and read MANY feeds, saving you from having to click all over the internet to read..."
• ACROSS MY DESK: Georgia Archives Virtual Vault "online images of historical documents, such as letters, estate papers, Georgia’s Constitutions and legislative acts; maps, including historic, county, and district plat maps; photographs; building plans; visual images, and more."
• FOIA & Criminal Files "Perhaps I should have stated "criminal COURT case FILE against the perpetrator."
• Fishing for Ancestors "Teaching people the PROCESS is much more what we're looking for here..."
• When NOT to find a cousin "Curiosity killed the cat."
• Revolutionary War Troop Movements "Obtain a copy of the military unit's history & compare it to those dates of service."
• A Major Brick Wall "You've overlooked a few good places for clues on your elusive ancestor."
• INDEXITUS: Can't find my ancestor anywhere "The state of being frustrated by the use of indexes or compiled databases. Usually associated with headaches, pain in the backside, heavy sighs, and groans."
• ACROSS MY DESK: "Godfrey Library Guide on African Am Gen Research"
• Looks like we've got newer computers "Unknown" certainly isn't a country. I DO however think that is where some of my ancestors are from!"
• How do I locate records of a murder victim? "By the time the story got to me, we no longer knew who, when, or where this alleged murder occurred. Was it just a story or did it really happen?"
• Finding my lost step-brother "What if he has an unlisted number or has cancelled his phone service in favor of a cell-phone?"   
• READERS' FEEDBACK:  Tombstone Photographs are not an Invasion of Privacy 
• 6 Genealogists Accept Challenges from DearMYRTLE "So I guess you could say its fortunate that neither rain nor high winds -- shall stop DearMYRTLE from her appointed rounds."
• Godfrey Library's Mailing List "In ol' Myrt's estimation this is going to be a busy mailing list. I've already switched to digest mode."
• Tombstone Photographs are not an Invasion of Privacy "Whose privacy are you invading? This decedent will not be complaining. His descendants are the ones who asked you to photograph the tombstone."
• Desperate for a Cruise & Searching DearMYRTLE.com "Did I receive such a news article or was I dreaming or wishful thinking?"
• READERS' FEEDBACK: 15 March 2005 "Town's 150th Anniversary, MORE Questions for Personal & Family History Interviews, Bellyman (WOW! A reply in less than 1 hour!), Occupations Website Suggestion, Search Engine Alternatives: Odd/Old Names for Occupations"
• MAC-REUNION Mailing List "This just in from John Fuller, the genealogy mailing list guru..."
  Town's 150th Anniversary "If you were to dress in a period costume (say the 1890s) and meet at the gates of the cemetery, the mood would be set."
• OCCUPATIONS: Bellyman in a Plant or Crane Works "Any suggestions from readers would be greatly appreciated."
• MORE: Questions for Personal & Family History Interviews "What automobiles has your family owned? Describe them, what do you remember about each one?"
• READERS' FEEDBACK 9 March 2005: Re: DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour; Re: Locating Books;  Letters from Iraq; Grandmother's Quilts; Civil War Letters; Copyright & Fair Use; Clothing of the Civil War Era.
• Locating Books: Morton Allan's Steamship Directory "Any time you wish to locate a book, look in the online catalogs of libraries you are likely to visit."
• Pennsylvania German Society, etc. "In 1690 William Rittenhouse built the first paper mill in America, on a branch of the Wissahickon Creek, near Philadelphia."
• Town Locating Services "Many genealogists do research in what was East-Germany before 1945, which is now Poland, Czech Republic or Russia."
• Erie Canal "Want to learn more about this method of shipping wheat to market on a 30 ton barge (1817) and the evolution of the size to recommended 1,000 tons?"
• Early Massachusetts "Perhaps ol' Myrt's favorite book on the subject is..."
• 25th Conference on Jewish Genealogy "International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies, 10-15 July 2005, Flamingo Hilton, Las Vegas."
• Finding a Way to Store the Old Quilt "Here's how you can keep dirt, mildew and other quilt enemies at bay."
• Questions for Personal & Family History Interviews "Can you think of 5 OTHER good questions? I'd like to see this list really grow!"
• Copyright and Fair Use "The concept here is that we cannot reproduce someone else's work and rob him of the opportunity to earn a profit."
• Illustrating the Point "I have gathered some circa 1950s postcards of Puyallup Washington's daffodils, and some others depicting the sites in the Seattle area."
• New Zealand including "Pre 1856 New Zealand Marriage Records Collection Service."
• Oh where, oh where is my ancestor from? "Make notations of the towns/counties where the Hoffman/Huffman name shows up, and where those Hoffman/Huffman folks said they were born in response to the enumerator's query."
• US Civil War Pots & Pans "The blue or gray speckled enamelware that is often seen among reenactors is inappropriate for our era of portrayal."
• List of Resources for Genealogists "Compiled and continuously updated by Chris Gaunt and John Fuller."
• Old Handwriting - the BANE of our existence "How DO you get in the mindset of the scribe to decipher the text in that old court or land record?"
• Finish Family Research "[...] the material on this site is based on his "experience using the records from the Kannus, Kaustinen, Isokyrö, and Veteli parishes in Vaasan Lääni, Finland."
• Native American Research "Using the (Michigan) Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi tribes as examples."
• Clothing of the Civil War Era "I am currently immersed in the discovery of the typical casual day wear for the wives of my Union Civil War ancestors. It IS very hard to get out of the current fashion mind set."
• ACROSS MY DESK & Readers' Feedback "Natchez conference explores Free Blacks in the Antebellum South; Ancestors' deaths stump researcher; One woman left to tell story of town; Dick Eastman: Security of your mother's maiden name; AOL Help; RE: Much Ado about Mailing Lists & Newsgroups"
• Genealogy Cruise "I'm not doing one, but Wholly Genes Software is sponsoring a wonderful one including 11 hours of lectures from top-notch genealogy instructors!"
• Much Ado About Mailing Lists & Newsgroups "I enjoy feedback from readers because it indicates we're at least talking things through."
• Mailing List Manners "Just as with the local newspaper delivery, electric and telephone and cable company service, we must take the appropriate action to cancel the service provided through these wonderful RootsWeb genealogy mailing lists."
• Illustrating the Point "To that end, I have gathered some circa 1950s postcards of Puyallup Washington's daffodils, and some others depicting the sites in the Seattle area."
• ACROSS MY DESK "Genealogy Library Names "Hot Spot"; Internet Helps Researchers Fill the Gaps, Connect with the Past; Every family's old photo album tells a story, but Duane Cramer lets his tell African American history; Recognition (Waccamaw Indians)"
• Animated Menus Bug Readers "Must be our week to finally learn to use Microsoft Office Suite's Word 2003?"
• Union Civil War Pensions "As you scroll down, you will see the clickable link that describes Military pension claim files, 1775-1916. In the past it was necessary to submit NAFT Form 86."
• Valentines & Letters Home "Where once the stub of a pencil and scarce bits of thin paper were used, the internet now expedites communication..."
• Reader's Feedback: Ancestor Photo Submission Checklist "Change the wording of your original question, so that if the picture has people in it, important objects are still identified."
• Readers' Feedback: Cemeteries & Obits "Probably most of these records now are far more organized & available than in the past."
• Ancestor Photo Submission Checklist "Our goal is to place copies of member's ancestor pictures, with short biographical sketches, on the society's website."  

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