The monthly Newsletter of the South Bay Genealogical Society
MARCH 2021 SBGS News & Information Vol 27 No 3
Guest Speaker – March 16th
Zoom Meeting 11:00am
Peggy Schelin Jude
presents
Using Podcasts to Expand your
Genealogical Knowledge
Podcasts are a terrific way to expand your genealogical education. What are they? How can they help you? How do you use them?
Peggy will also Include suggestions on the best ones to follow.
Next meeting ~ March 16 ~ Virtual Meeting & Program on Zoom begins 11:00am
Genealogy Tech Forum
Via Zoom
Monday ~ March 1st ~ 10:30am-12 noon
Use the same link & procedure as the monthly membership meetings. To join in, use this link https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71941047990?pw d=dGZnYUhBemhiQ3ZqckhvTXp6WkthQT09
Bring your genealogy problems &
questions to the “ OPEN MIC ” Gen Tech session and ask the panel for research
tips, ideas & suggestions!
Link to ZOOM for March 16th Meeting To join, hold your curser on the link and click https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71941047990?pw d=dGZnYUhBemhiQ3ZqckhvTXp6WkthQT09
or copy & paste into your browser to attend the March virtual online meeting and Guest Speaker presentation. Or use the link from the e-mail to join.If you are using a device (tablet, I-pad, cell) this is the ID & pass code: Meeting ID: 719 4104 7990
Pass code: MP1QwL. Please log in a few minutes before the meeting starts to ensure the 11:00am start time. Meeting is limited to 95 attendees.
(first come, first served basis)
Introducing
Peggy Schelin Jude
Peggy Schelin Jude started doing family research at age 15 and has been
conducting genealogy research for her family and clients for over 40 years. She holds a BS in Zoology from Iowa State University and a Masters degree from the University of Michigan.
Peggy’s professional career evolved in the field of HR Technology and Global HR Services. She served as a Global HR Executive for ADP, managing a team of 250 across the globe supporting 52,000 employees.
Peggy is an alumnua of the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh and Institute for Genealogy and HistoryResearch of Georgia, and is currently a board member of the Manatee Genealogy Society.
Cousinhood
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Double Cousins
You may have heard people say they’re
double cousins. That’s a special cousin category for the offspring of brothers- and sisters-in-law—for example, your sister weds your husband’s brother. Instead of sharing one set of grandparents, as first cousins do, double cousins share both sets of grandparents. As you might expect, double cousins have more DNA in
common than typical first cousins—about 25 percent.
“Kissing” Cousins
Despite how it sounds, a kissing cousin isn’t a cousin you marry. Rather, it’s any
distant relative you know well enough to kiss hello at family gatherings. Now we’re begging the question:
How close a cousin is too close to wed? States have different laws governing consanguineous marriages (and we’ve heard all the jokes, so just stop right now).
It’s best to ask a lawyer about statutes for the state in question.
And while we’re on the topic: Due to limited mobility in our ancestors’ day, most of us have instances in our family trees of cousins who married, whether knowingly or unknowingly. That means you can be related to the same person in multiple ways.
Someone you’re related to by marriage, rather than by blood, isn’t your cousin. You might be
in-laws, or your relationship might not have a name other than (we hope) good friends.
Family Tree Magazine
Newsletter Diane Haddad 3 Aug 2020
You might be a genealogist if:
your vacation bucket list includes Fort Wayne, Salt Lake City, and
Washington, D.C. all in the same year!
The 2020 – 2021 Officers South Bay Genealogical Society
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GENEALOGY FUNNIES Research Tip
If you’ve found genealogical sources that provide conflicting information,
start by evaluating their reliability.
Primary sources are more likely than secondary sources to be accurate.
Record Searching
There may be many records pertaining to the death of an ancestor: death certificate, body transport record,
funeral home record, cemetery records (daily log of burials, plot map, individual’s record), gravestone, newspaper records (death announcements, obituaries), and church or synagogue records. Sometimes, when I can’t find a death certificate, I use newspaper
announcements or gravestones to determine the date of death and then search the death certificates
manually around that date (instead of trying to find the name in an index).
By John M. Hoenig, Today and Internet Genealogy Newsletter Research Tips & More! Vol 6 #29, 9 Nov 2019
3 Places to Search For Your Ancestor's Occupation
What your ancestor did for a living says a lot about him or her, too. An ancestor's occupation provides a glimpse inside his/her life. That glimpse into your ancestor's life can lead to important genealogical clues for your research.
1. Census Records
The US census takers recorded an individual's occupation beginning in 1850. From 1850 - 1940 (latest released), read beyond an ancestor's name and see what occupation is listed.
US based researchers will want to explore the special non- population census schedules created to provide more specific information on different aspects
of the population. Examples of the special Census schedules to check include:
Agricultural Schedule (1850 - 1880)
Industry or Manufacturer Schedule (1850 - 1880) Mortality Schedule (1850-1880)
For non-US based genealogy researchers, explore the census records for the country where your ancestor resided. What years were occupations recorded (if at all) for that area?
2. Passenger Lists
Ship passenger lists are another resource for finding your ancestor's occupation or profession. Not every passenger list will indicate a passenger's occupation. What
information found recorded on passenger lists will vary.
3. Directories
Many genealogy researchers only
think of searching the city directory when tracking down an ancestor. City directories are also excellent potential resources for finding an ancestor's occupation listed. A business address may potentially be listed as well.
Occupational-based or trade directories are often
overlooked in our search for finding out what our ancestor did for a living. An occupational-based directory is simply a directory of individuals working or participating in a specific occupation. These may be local
regional, national or international in scope.
Legacy Newsletter – Lisa Lisson – 3 Dec 2018
Commissioned by Raffaele Bisteghi for the sum of some 12,000 lire, this prestigious monument, located in the Galleria degli Angeli, was designed and sculpted by Enrico Barberi in marble. Work started around 1885 and was completed in 1891. The monument features Bisteghi on his deathbed, with an angel floating upon the latter, inviting him towards a new life, and his wife kneeling beside the bed.
Raffaele Bisteghi
Birth: unknown - Death: May 1881 Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Unusual Tombstone
Limber Up
Are your genealogical muscles toned? Or do you spend too much
time taking it easy and researching in the ways you're most comfortable with? Keep limber by staying abreast of new research techniques and trying them out. Listen to a webinar that explains how to use a type of source you've always avoided and then seek it out.
By stretching beyond the limits you've imposed upon yourself so far, your
research and results and outlook will benefit.
By Sue Lisk, Internet Genealogy/Your Genealogy Today Research Tips & More! Vol 6 #21 - Jun 13, 2019
When you change your address or e-mail, please notify SBGS at:
[email protected]
ON THE BOOKSHELF
The Men Who United the States: America’s
Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester
As genealogists and family historians, we tend to be as much interested in the how and why as in the who and where of history. Although most of our ancestors were too obscure to make it into the history books, this does not mean that we cannot learn more about them and the world in which they lived. Beyond local and family histories and research resources, there is a wealth of books that give us an interesting glimpse of life at various times. This column will look at some
recent non-fiction books that tell a story or series of stories about people and events that open a window into our shared past.
The first book featured is The Men Who United the States: America’s Explorers,
Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester. Winchester, author of many bestselling non-fiction books, takes an epic look at how America became one nation physically and culturally rather than politically. He uses the
unusual framework of the five classic elements, wood, earth, water, fire, and metal, to tell the stories of people and events that helped shaped the country we know today.
Winchester, a British-born former geologist and journalist, provides a unique perspective on the history of his newly adopted country. Starting with Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery Expedition, he takes us along with the geologists and surveyors who mapped and explored the West; the
increase in settlers and towns aided by rivers and man-made canals; the spread of people to most of the corners of the country with the rise of railroads, highways, and airplanes; and, finally, to the unifying effects of the telegraph, telephone, electricity, radio, and television. Winchester brings the reader all the way up to the present day and speculates on the potential of the Internet to
continue the story.
From the creation of our country onward, our ancestors’ lives have been significantly affected by its physical, cultural, and technological growth. Winchester’s book
illustrates some of the elements that influenced the progress of this growth and shows how the nation was stitched ever tighter together into the
“one nation, indivisible” that we experience today.
Article courtesy of Karen Fortin
C O N T A C T S
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Membership Questions call Cathy Rebhun: 643-4649 Society Liaison Sheila C. O’Halloran: [email protected]
Programs/Newsletter Dru Thomas: [email protected]
DNA LINGO
STR (Short Tandem Repeat):
a repeat of a short nucleotide
sequence on the Y-chromosome. The DYS390 marker, for example, is an STR with between 19 and 28 repeats of the short nucleotide sequence.
Closely related males will have a similar number of repeats.
Common Kinship Terms Found in Records
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N
now wife: Can fool a researcher into assuming that the testator of a will using this term had a former wife. While this may be true, it is more likely the testator is indicating that the bequest is intended only for his present wife and not
necessarily for any subsequent wife he may have. Donald Lines Jacobus wrote, “It is to be doubted whether any other legal phrase has fooled so many of our most
experienced genealogists.”
nuclear family: A family group consisting of mother, father, and dependent children.
S
step-sibling: Is one related by virtue of a parent’s marriage to an individual with children by a former marriage or
relationship. While there is no relation by blood, there can be strong ties of emotion and tradition between step-siblings.
U
uncle: In American society may refer to a man in four different relative positions: father’s brother, mother’s brother, father’s sister’s husband, or mother’s sister’s husband.
Family Tree Magazine Newsletter Marsha Hoffman Rising – 18 Apr 2019
SouthShore Regional Library continues to be open with a limited capacity of 25%.
Visits are limited to 1 hour and you must have a temperature check, wear your mask and social distance. Latest update,
Ancestry.com library edition will be accessible from home thru March 31st
using your library card.
Don’t forget! South Bay Genealogical Society has a Facebook page. Check it out at
:www.facebook.com/groups/567612300073587/
Or just go to Facebook.com and do a search for South Bay Genealogical Society
So be sure to surf over to the SBGS Facebook page in your daily computer routine.
Who knows! You may learn some good stuff!
SHADES OF HISTORY
1 3 0 7
According to legend, William Tell sparks
Swiss independence by shooting an apple off his son’s head. Tell refused to doff his hat for the occupying Hapsburgs, and was ordered by an Austrian bailiff to shoot an apple from his son’s head as punishment. Tell famously had a second arrow pulled as well-to kill the bailiff if his son had been harmed.
David Fryxell, Family Tree Magazine Mar/Apr 2020
Dissect Documents for Clues
Some documents may not contain direct evidence but may, instead, provide clues to other original materials. We must use our critical thinking skills to analyze what is included and what may be implied. Carefully read and re-read the entire document
and then dissect the content.
List each piece of information that gives or implies a clue, determine what that clue might be, and list possible source materials that might provide that information. For example, the address of an individual might be
determined by using a federal or state census, city directory, telephone directory,
tax list, jury list, voter registration roll, and other documents.
Determine for each of these sources where they might be found, such as at a library or archive, in a government office or courthouse, an online database provider, or some other facility. Then determine how to access each source and prepare a research plan. You will be astonished at how much more information can be gleaned from taking time to
dissect documents.
By George Morgan, Internet Genealog and Your Genealogy Today Newsletter Research Tips & More! Vol 7 #12, 23 Apr 2020
Murphy’s Law of Genealogy
The spelling of your European ancestor’s name bears no relationship to its current spelling or pronunciation.
Unusual Occupations
Oliver Butts worked as a “pettifogger” on the 1860 census, and his presumed son Eli Butts, age 23. was “running around.”
Merriam-Webster defines a pettifogger as a lawyer whose methods are petty,
underhanded or disreputable.
1860 census entry for Oliver and Eli Butts, Franklin Delaware County, New York.
Ancestry.com
Source: Legacy Tree Genealogists Newsletter 11 May 2020
What is Google Books?
Google Books is a free online catalog of over 25 million books, 10 million of which are digitized and searchable. The collection is international in scope.
You can search at the stand-alone website <books.google.com>. You can also start your search at Google.com and then select Books results on the search results page.
While you would expect to find books at Google Books, you may be surprised to discover there that it also includes many other types of published materials. Here are 10 surprising things you can find at Google Books. Watch the video and follow along in the article below.
10 Things you can find at Google Books
Magazines City Directories
Almanacs County Histories Governmental Publications
Compiled Family Histories Newspapers
Genealogy Journals Maps
Photographs
for using Google Books
When reviewing a digitized book, look for the Contents menu at the top of the screen. Here you’ll find additional options to jump to different parts of the book such as topics or chapters.
In the new Google Books user interface, you will find the digitized book is overlayed over the catalog entry for the book. The search box at the top of the screen is for searching only within that book. To close the book and view the catalog entry, click the X in the upper right corner of the screen.
To remove the yellow highlighted items you searched for from a book and start a new search, click the Clear Search button.
Translate foreign language text by using the clipping tool. While viewing a digitized page, click the three stacked dots and select Share a Clip.
Using your mouse, draw a box around the text you want to translate. In the Share this Clip pop-up window click the Translate button.
How to filter your search results down to only free digitized books: On the search results page you should see that the Tools button is greyed out (if it is not, click it) and in the drop down menu click Any Books and select Free Google eBooks.
How to cite books in Google Books: Close the digitized book to reveal the book’s catalog entry page. In the About this Edition click the Create Citation button. Copy the desired source citation.
Lisa Louisa Cooke’s Genealogy Gems Newsletter 28 Oct 2020
The ampersand (&), which dates to the first century, was taught to 19th century school children as the 27th
letter of the alphabet.
David Fryxell, Family Tree Magazine Mar/Apr 2020
V O I C E S
We hear the voices of our relatives so often that we barely notice them. We’ve memorized the words, the cadences, the rise and fall of the sounds. But when a loved one has passed, that is one of the things we long to have back. Why not take the time now to record the voices of family members?
It doesn’t have to be a formal
arrangement. You might simply ask for permission to record a chat. It’s a wonderful way to carry some of the present into the future.
By Sue Lisk, Your Genealogy Today and Internet Genealogy Newsletter Research Tips
& More! Vol 7 #9, 12 Mar 2020
