Category Archives: Tip of the Week

Seattle Genealogical Society Tip of the Week

by Charles Hansen
TIP OF THE WEEK – FIFTEEN FREE WEBINARS FOR BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE GENEALOGISTS
The Family History Library and the Research Specialists of the United States and Canada Reference team are offering a free, never before offered, week-long seminar in October of 2015 in Salt Lake City. The focus will be exclusively U.S. research. The sessions will be ideal for beginning and intermediate genealogists interested in learning about U.S. records, FamilySearch resources, and Family History Library collections.  The seminar is now full for anyone wishing to attend in person. However, fifteen of the thirty classes will be broadcast via webinar. For more information please see the following: https://familysearch.org/blog/en/united-states-research-seminarTo attend one or more of these webinars, just click on their links below to attend.
ALL TIMES LISTED BELOW ARE MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME; SUBTRACT ONE HOUR FOR PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME.  You can join the webinar up to 30 minutes prior to each start time; just go to the link below, and click on JOIN.

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Printing A Booklet

by Charles Hansen

Printing the Membership Booklet

A while back Eastern Washington Genealogical Society decided due to cost of postage and printing to stop printing and mailing the membership list to our members. The membership list is on the society website and our webmaster set it up so you could download a PDF file of the membership list if you wanted a copy on your own computer, so I downloaded a copy for me. It was 22 pages long and included a nice cover page and the society by-laws just like the old copies we used to receive by mail.

Since it was a PDF file I went to Adobe Reader to look at the file, and since I wanted a hard copy for a project I was doing I wanted to print a copy. When I went to the print box up came a list of ways to print the file, and one said print a booklet, so I hit that one and the printer started printing. What surprised me was it printed half size, so two pages on each sheet, and then it turned over the paper and printed on the back of the same sheet of paper. Out came 6 pages all in order and when folded in half I had the whole 22 pages printed.

Now I had bought a new printer a Brother all in in one, and it had duplex printing. I did not have a clue what that meant until I found out it will print on both sides of a sheet of paper which is a big paper saver. I also have an older Kodak printer and I did not know it had duplex printing also, but it does and will print booklets also. So do you have a duplex printer? Have you printed a booklet?

Seattle Genealogical Society Tip of the Week

by Charles Hansen

TIP OF THE WEEK – 30% DISCOUNT ON ANCESTRY.COMSUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE TO AARP MEMBERS

According to the Ancestry.com web site (http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/aarp), AARP members can get a 30% discount on Ancestry’s World Explorer for one year.  Moreover, if you’re already an AARP member and also are currently an Ancestry subscriber, you can receive a discount on that subscription.
For details, go to the above web page, then click on See Offer Details, just above the red AARP logo on the left side of the page; SOME RESTRICTIONS APPLY, so check the small print.

BONUS TIP OF THE WEEK – MOCAVO NOW PROVIDES ALL U.S. CENSUS INDEXES AND IMAGES FOR FREE
Mocavo recently announced that the indexes and images for all United States Federal Censuses are now available for free to everyone on their web site.  See their full announcement at http://blog.mocavo.com/2015/05/u-s-federal-census-images-viewer-now-free-for-everyone for details.

Seattle Genealogical Society Tip of the Week

by Charles Hansen
TIP OF THE WEEK – A WONDERFUL SPOOF OF THE “WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?” TELEVISION SERIES

Who Do They Think They Are? is a hilarious Aussie spoof of Who Do You Think You Are?, the television program sponsored by and prominently featuring Ancestry.com.  Created by The Checkout, an Australian television program, it’s less than 6 minutes long, and will be appreciated by anyone familiar with the American version, whether fan or foe of this series.
It satirizes the Who Do You Think You Are? series, Ancestry.com, DNA testing, and trying to find genealogy information only on the Internet.
It also delivers a serious message about the proper methods of searching one’s family tree.
Check it out at https://youtu.be/C61tKCkR8Nk.

Tip of the Week

by Charles Hansen
TIP OF THE WEEK – ONLINE INDIANA DATABASES
The Indiana Genealogical Society has announced that it now has more than 1,500 databases on its website at www.IndGenSoc.org.  These databases are from all 92 counties, plus numerous statewide collections. Some are available to the public and others are accessible to IGS members only.
If you have Indiana ancestry, you want to check out the announcement athttp://indgensoc.blogspot.com/2015/04/igs-now-has-more-than-1500-databases.html.

Tip of the Week

by Charles Hansen
TIP OF THE WEEK:
Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994

By now, everyone should be familiar with the ever-increasing databases available online at Familysearch.org.  However, many people limit their searching to INDEXED records, and thus never discover the many “image only” unindexed historical records that are available on this site.
One such database is Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, found at:https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1999196
This database has over 3.2 MILLION images of wills and other probate records in it.
It takes some gumption to click on the BROWSE button with that many records, but don’t despair!  The images are arranged first by county, and then by the will books, in chronological order.  Nearly all of them have indexes at either the start or the end, making it possible to search for and locate a specific document without too much effort, just as one used to do in the “old days” with microfilms.
Using this site recently, I was able to find and download three pre-1850 wills in one sitting, without leaving home.
If you have Pennsylvania ancestors and want to check for probate records, check out this database.

 

This tip from the Seattle Genealogical Society