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  • 22 Feb 2022 9:25 AM | Anonymous

    The following book review was written by Bobbi King:

    Call Me John

    By Michael Schoenholtz. Self-published. 2021. 149 pages.

    Isadore Katz, 14 years young, walked through and out the door of his family’s home and never returned. If he glanced around with residual doubt about his deliberate leave-taking, he saw nothing that would draw him back. The mystery of his forever absence and the shadow of his loss hung over the family for nearly a century.

    Decades later, when Michael Schoenholtz’s father saw his son beginning research on the family, he asked if he could possibly resolve the mystery of his vanished uncle Isadore.

    Early on, the author enjoyed the company of a whole new clan of cousins recruited via their shared DNA matches. Emails full of family information brought excitement and enlightenment to Mr. Schoenholtz, but the conclusions he came to, and shared with this other side of the DNA family, were not so joyfully received by the new cousins. Gradually, his online family relationships fizzled, but Mr. Schoenholtz had his answers, and he was satisfied they were certain ones.

    This must be the most gratifying of family discoveries to find when a researcher begins the search into the unknown. Hoping for the best, apprehensive about the worst, the family genealogist plows ahead and can only present the story that emerges from the proofs.

    Here, Mr. Schoenholtz researched apart the curtains that concealed the extinct life of his father’s uncle. Isadore may have disremembered his origin family, but his origin family always remembered him.

    Call Me John, with answers now to aged questions, narrates the second life of the mourned Isadore. It’s a memoir devoted to an uncle and ancestor whose enigmatic decision to leave, and puzzling determination to be eternally anonymous to his founding family, can never be positively identified, but at least now his explorations, encounters, waypoints, jobs, and destinations can be told.

    The Whys can never be answered, but at least now, the Wheres are known.

    Call Me John by Michael Schoenholtz may be purchased from Amazon at https://amzn.to/3s7A6Pg as well as from the author at https://www.callmejohn.info/.


  • 21 Feb 2022 6:46 PM | Anonymous

    While one University of South Florida anthropologist continues her work further exploring more than 40 unmarked cemeteries and burial grounds in Hillsborough County, another is focusing on lost Black cemeteries.

    Forgotten cemeteries are an issue nationally and here in the greater Tampa Bay region. A disproportionate number of them held Black graves.

    Last week, Hillsborough County commissioners voted to further explore — with ground-penetrating radar and other technologies — three possible forgotten burial grounds in the county.

    You can read the remainder of this story by Daylina Miller in the WUSF News web site at: https://bit.ly/3LQ4CVC.


  • 21 Feb 2022 9:09 AM | Anonymous

    Like any new mother, Kathryn Jones thought the baby she was handed at Duncan Physicians and Surgeons Hospital on May 18, 1964, was the most beautiful child she had ever seen. “I loved her from that second that they laid her in my arms,” she said in a recent interview, pausing before adding: “Never once did I think she was not mine.”

    But according to a lawsuit filed in Stephens County District Court in Oklahoma, the infant Jones cradled and took home was not her biological daughter at all. Citing multiple home DNA tests, Jones alleges that employees at the hospital handed her the wrong baby more than 50 years ago, leading her to raise a child who was not her own.

    Now, she and her daughter are struggling to pick up the pieces.

    You can read the rest of the story in an article by Emily Shugerman published in The Daily Beast web site at: https://bit.ly/3p4QhL5.


  • 21 Feb 2022 8:57 AM | Anonymous

    An archival activist who’s long been a thorn in the side of New York bureaucrats says an attempted cash grab by the city sparked her bid to get millions of its historical records — so she can put them online, for free, “forever,” according to a lawsuit.

    Brooke Schreier Ganz’s nonprofit, Reclaim the Records, has already put online more than 30 million public documents since 2015, including searchable indexes listing old births, deaths and marriages. The group targets records it says are “wrongly restricted” by local governments.

    A New York native who lives in California, Ganz and Reclaim the Records have already beaten the city in court three times as it fights for records. Brooke Schreier Ganz and Reclaim the Records have already beaten New York City in court three times over records issues.

    The fed-up group filed its largest Freedom of Information request yet in October 2020, after the Municipal Archives proposed new restrictions and new fees on how the public could use the city’s historical records, none of which are restricted by copyright and “some of which predate the founding of the United States,” Ganz said.

    “No one else is trying to make a buck off historical records like New York has,” Ganz told The Post.

    Since then, Ganz and Reclaim the Records have sought copies of all historical records the city has already digitized, which could amount to about 8 million documents, genealogist Alec Ferretti said.

    “And we are going to put them all online for free public use, without any restrictions, costs, paywalls, subscriptions, or copyrights,” the group says on its web site.

    You can read more in an article by James Thompson at: https://www.reportdoor.com/nyc-sued-by-archivist-over-release-of-historical-records/.

  • 21 Feb 2022 8:10 AM | Anonymous

    The following announcement was written by FamilySearch:

    This week FamilySearch added 4 million church and civil registrations from Brazil, plus new records for South Africa (Western Cape Deceased Estate Files 1951–1958), and more from EnglandFinlandSamoaVenezuela and elsewhere. For the United States collections, check out additions to RecordAGrave IndexNew Jersey Death IndexVirginia County Marriages, and new records for AlabamaIllinois, and Indiana. Search them now for free by clicking on the links below.

    Don’t see what you’re looking for? Millions of new genealogy records are added each week to help increase your discovery success. Check back each week and in the meantime, search existing records on FamilySearch.

    For other exciting genealogy content, peruse over 1,000 free, on-demand sessions from RootsTech Connect 2021.

    Country

    Collection

    Indexed Records

    Digital Images

    Comments

    Argentina Argentina, Catamarca, Civil Registration, 1888-2000

    10,241

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Austria Austria, Carinthia, Gurk Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1527-1986

    4,841

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Austria Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911

    5,112

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Bahía, Catholic Church Records, 1598-2007

    315,325

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Bahia, Civil Registration, 1877-1976

    15,672

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Ceará, Catholic Church Records, 1725-1971

    762,072

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Maranhão, Catholic Church Records, 1673-1962

    4,464

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Minas Gerais, Catholic Church Records, 1706-1999

    37,786

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Minas Gerais, Civil Registration, 1879-1949

    2,072

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Pará, Catholic Church Records, 1930-1976

    127,530

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Paraíba, Catholic Church Records, 1731-2013

    699,875

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Paraná, Catholic Church Records, 1704-2008

    107,314

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Pernambuco, Catholic Church Records, 1762-2002

    989,912

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Rio Grande do Norte, Catholic Church Records, 1788-1967

    638,073

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Catholic Church Records, 1738-1952

    83,165

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Santa Catarina, Catholic Church Records, 1714-1977

    41,501

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Brazil Brazil, Santa Catarina, Civil Registration, 1850-1999

    2,178

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Costa Rica Costa Rica, Civil Registration, 1823-1975

    6,752

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Denmark Denmark, Århus Municipal Census, 1896

    4,288

    0

    New collection 
    Denmark Denmark, Military Conscription Rolls, 1789-1792

    2,331

    0

    Expanded collection 
    El Salvador El Salvador Catholic Church Records, 1655-1977

    18,380

    0

    Expanded collection 
    England England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988

    89,745

    0

    Expanded collection 
    England England, Northumberland Non-Conformist Church Records, 1613-1920

    12,415

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Finland Finland, Tax Lists, 1809-1915

    22,994

    0

    Expanded collection 
    France France, Calvados, Census, 1856

    3,084

    0

    Expanded collection 
    France France, Saône-et-Loire, Parish and Civil Registration, 1530-1892

    738

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Germany Germany, Saxony, Church Book Indexes, 1500-1900

    7,530

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Grenada Grenada Births and Baptisms, 1866-1891

    9,128

    0

    Expanded collection 
    India India, Madras Diocese Protestant Church Records, 1743-1990

    6,100

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Jamaica Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880

    8,244

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Malta Malta, Passport Applications, 1865-1943

    11,971

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Mexico Mexico, Puebla, Catholic Church Records, 1545-1977

    1,858

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Norway Norway, Probate Index Cards, 1640-1903

    3,035

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Paraguay Paraguay, Asunción, Cemetery Records, 1842-2011

    3,214

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Paraguay Paraguay, Military Records, 1870-1965

    14,562

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Poland Poland, Lublin Roman Catholic Church Books, 1784-1964

    70

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Samoa Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996

    33,735

    0

    Expanded collection 
    Scotland Scotland, Lanarkshire Church Records, 1823-1967

    10,811

    0

    New collection 
    South Africa South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004

    14,648

    0

    Expanded collection
    South Africa South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970

    5,464

    0

    Expanded collection
    South Africa South Africa, KwaZulu Natal, Vital Records, 1868-1976

    7,483

    0

    Expanded collection
    South Africa South Africa, Reformed Church Records, 1856-1988

    7,156

    0

    Expanded collection
    South Africa South Africa, Western Cape, Deceased Estate Files, 1951-1958

    99,003

    0

    Expanded collection
    Switzerland Switzerland, Fribourg, Census, 1850

    2,652

    0

    Expanded collection
    United Kingdom England, Lincolnshire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1574-1885

    1,354

    0

    Expanded collection
    United States Alabama Marriages, 1816-1957

    1

    0

    Expanded collection
    United States Illinois, Monroe County, Deed Records, 1816-1900

    5,085

    0

    Expanded collection
    United States Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019

    3,161

    0

    Expanded collection
    United States New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903; 1916-1929

    34,830

    0

    Expanded collection
    United States RecordAGrave Index

    140,280

    0

    New collection 
    United States Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989

    24,403

    0

    Expanded collection
    Uruguay Uruguay Civil Registration, 1879-1930

    2,556

    0

    Expanded collection
    Venezuela Venezuela Civil Registration, 1873-2003

    32,579

    0

    Expanded collection
    Venezuela Venezuela, Catholic Church Records, 1577-1995

    4,362

    0

    Expanded collection
    Zimbabwe Zimbabwe, Voter Registration, 1938-1973

    6,641

    0

    Expanded collection


  • 21 Feb 2022 7:42 AM | Anonymous

    From an article by Annalise Knudson published in the Staten Island Live web site:

    The Staten Island Museum partnered with the Staten Island Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and Frederick Douglass Memorial Park to transcribe newly digitized family history records to make them more easily searchable and accessible for families and historical research.

    “We are honored to partner with such important organizations dedicated to Black history on Staten Island,” said Janice Monger, Staten Island Museum president and CEO. “The variety of programming this month enables participants to look forward at the future and back in reflection and tribute. Through programs across art, science, and history, participants are able to connect with rich local history and the cultural legacies of past and present.”

    It is part of a larger collaboration between the museum and its partners called the Access, Collaboration, and Equity in Genealogy Initiative (ACEGen).

    You can read the full story at: https://bit.ly/36uAiQc

  • 18 Feb 2022 6:48 PM | Anonymous

    The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. 

    Congratulations if you have scanned your old family photos and documents or invested in a digital camera to preserve today’s pictures for future family historians. Before resting on your laurels, take a moment to recall all the old photos you’ve come across that you wish had labels describing the people, places, or events pictured. Your digital images have a built-in capability to create such labels – descriptions that won’t get separated from their subjects – with ease that would amaze our forebears. With today’s image files, what you see is only part of what you get! Let’s take a look “behind the scenes” of your digital photos.

    All sorts of information can be stored inside the digital file itself, such as:

    • Date and time information. Many digital cameras will print this on the picture, but they also can save it with the image file.
    • Camera settings. This includes static information such as the camera model and make, and information that varies with each image such as orientation, aperture, shutter speed, focal length, metering mode, and ISO speed information.
    • A thumbnail for previewing the picture on the camera's LCD screen, in file managers, and in photo manipulation software.
    • Descriptions and copyright information.
    • Longitude and latitude where the picture was taken
    • Any information about the picture or its subject that you choose to add, ing one of the free or cheap photo editing packages I’ll describe in a bit.

    This extra information is called metadata.

    The remainder of this article is reserved for Plus Edition subscribers only. If you have a Plus Edition subscription, you may read the full article at: https://eogn.com/(*)-Plus-Edition-News-Articles/12611159

    If you are not yet a Plus Edition subscriber, you can learn more about such subscriptions and even upgrade to a Plus Edition subscription immediately at https://eogn.com/page-18077


  • 18 Feb 2022 6:25 PM | Anonymous

    Ah, the good old days: Super-8 movies, playing music on an audio tape, TV channels with a single digit, rotary dial televisions with no remote control ("Hey Junior, will you change it to channel 5?"), 8-track cartridges, or vinyl records. How about Betamax tapes?

    I was a bit surprised when I recently talked with my daughter and mentioned I would call her. I made a rotary motion with my forefinger, as if I was dialing an old-fashioned rotary dial phone. You know: the kind of phones we all had before touchtone phones became available. My daughter had no idea what I was doing.

    Boy, did I feel old!

    Wired Magazine has a list of 100 such things that your children or grandchildren will never know about your life. I found this to be an interesting article. Strangely, it was nostalgic. You can find it at http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/.

    Remember the "good old days" of booting your computer from a floppy disk? Or when Spam was just a meat product?


  • 18 Feb 2022 6:17 PM | Anonymous

    For years, handwritten records and large books of onionskin paper detailing Indiana University Bloomington's earliest graduates were kept locked inside a vault on campus. A recently launched, first-of-its-kind online database makes it easier for people to access information about when alumni graduated and what they studied.

    All records prior to 1966 were paper, so the Office of the Registrar hired a third-party vendor to digitize them and put the data into a spreadsheet.

    Degrees awarded from 1830 through 1890 are presently available and the data will soon be expanded for later years.

    You can read more at: https://bit.ly/3LJHPuB.


  • 18 Feb 2022 5:01 PM | Anonymous

    The following announcement was written by FamilySearch:

    Thaís Pacholek has a degree in performing arts and journalism. Born in Curitiba, Brazil, she first went on stage when she was 9 years old. When she turned 18, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's film capital. Thaís's acting talent was widely recognized a few years later, when she accepted her first of many telenovela (soap opera) roles at age 23. In a country generally recognized as a pioneer in the genre, participating in telenovelas in Brazil was a rare achievement. Now the Brazilian public can see her in Record TV's new super production, Reis.

    We are pleased to welcome Thaís Pacholek as a guest speaker from Brazil among the keynote speakers at RootsTech 2022! Join us on 3–5 March where Thaís will share her story of family connection.

    The Role of Family in Thaís Pacholek's Success

    Thaís Pacholek and her son

    Thaís Pacholek is not a one-dimensional talent. She was elected Miss Curitiba in 2005 and has starred in 15 live theater productions, 3 films, and 5 television shows in addition to the 8 telenovelas in which she played a prominent role. She recognizes that much of the reason for her professional success is due to her family. "My family made me feel secure that this was the path I should take," she said. "Without them, I wouldn't have had the confidence to venture to Rio de Janeiro. My family—my family is my foundation; they were there for me. They guided me emotionally, as they still do to this day."

    In contrast to her acting roles, Thaís says her family is a "very true family" and that all her relationships are "always very true." Although her family did not have many resources, she describes her childhood as a beautiful journey where the things she most appreciated were the moments they had together. "These are very good memories that I carry in my heart—the struggle of a family to succeed in life and never give up. And when the whole family is together, the result is always prosperity," she said.

    She found similar traits in her husband, country music star Bruno Belucci Pereira, who performs as part of the famous duo under the stage name Belutti. Together, Bruno and Thaís have a son, Luis Miguel, who Thaís describes as her "soulmate." Her son is also the inspiration for her passion as an advocate for respectful childhood education. She said, "I think change in the world comes through children because they are what all of us adults should be."

    Thaís also values her family history, saying: "I really believe that we are what we are today because of all those stories that exist in our family tree, which we all belong to. So, I believe that the strong woman that I am, the positive woman that I am, the optimistic woman that I am, the hardworking woman that I am—it's all because of all these [family] stories."

    Thaís Pacholek at RootsTech 2022

    Learn more about Thaís Pacholek's story of family connection at RootsTech 2022 on 3–5 March. RootsTech is the world's largest genealogy and family history conference, which will be held online this year for free. You can participate by registering today at www.rootstech.org.

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