The saga of being a family researcher. Or as other family members say: a full time non-paying job.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
New in my world, I got an article written up and sent off to the president of GCGS [Granville County Genealogical Society] relating a ca 1900 letter in a vertical file on the Dorsey family to a article in the Baltimore Sun with the letter writer in the Sun giving information of the descendents of the same family. Unfortunately the author of the article in the Sun was listed with one of those names that they give you the first name and in the last name is just an initial.
Monday, May 23, 2016
I wrote the following in 2004:
In this day and age, information from research can come from many different sources.
As a paralegal student, I found that my previous experience doing research enhanced my ability to obtain my paralegal certificate.
Books I have helped compile were bought by the State Law Library in Maryland where formerly resided.
This previous research experience deals with family research, and to use a word that makes law librarians shudder-genealogy.
I hope to change this perception. Those who do family research, for the most part are on the same page as most paralegal research requests.
Explanations of Bard v Poe, beyond a reasonable doubt vs Preponderance of evidence and the genealogy standard of evidence can be found explained in several places on the internet.
This is the standard required by many authorities for publication. Few discussions of research results can match those published with poor documentation...
Which professions work as certified genealogists? Private investigators, lawyers, teachers, college professors. What kind of records to they access and what sites do they use on the internet? Think big.
So next time you need a record checked, but don’t know how to access it, ask a family researcher.
My research does not require that I know the answer, but that I know how to research and find the answer[s].
In this day and age, information from research can come from many different sources.
As a paralegal student, I found that my previous experience doing research enhanced my ability to obtain my paralegal certificate.
Books I have helped compile were bought by the State Law Library in Maryland where formerly resided.
This previous research experience deals with family research, and to use a word that makes law librarians shudder-genealogy.
I hope to change this perception. Those who do family research, for the most part are on the same page as most paralegal research requests.
Explanations of Bard v Poe, beyond a reasonable doubt vs Preponderance of evidence and the genealogy standard of evidence can be found explained in several places on the internet.
This is the standard required by many authorities for publication. Few discussions of research results can match those published with poor documentation...
Which professions work as certified genealogists? Private investigators, lawyers, teachers, college professors. What kind of records to they access and what sites do they use on the internet? Think big.
So next time you need a record checked, but don’t know how to access it, ask a family researcher.
My research does not require that I know the answer, but that I know how to research and find the answer[s].
Sunday, May 22, 2016
As found on ResearchBuzz:
Gregory O’Malley has gotten a grant to expand his slave trade database. http://news.ucsc.edu/2016/05/greg-omalley-slavetrade.html“Now with the help of a $220,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project titled Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database, O’Malley plans to add his research to the Voyages database. The project will create an interactive, free Web-based database about the slave trade within the Americas and integrate it into the Voyages site.”
Gregory O’Malley has gotten a grant to expand his slave trade database. http://news.ucsc.edu/2016/05/greg-omalley-slavetrade.html“Now with the help of a $220,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project titled Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database, O’Malley plans to add his research to the Voyages database. The project will create an interactive, free Web-based database about the slave trade within the Americas and integrate it into the Voyages site.”
Thursday, May 19, 2016
I just realized I can put my past newsletters that I published 1993+ online.
Here they are. My only intent is to share the information.
If they are available elsewhere let me know.
From http://www.comet-lines.com website.
Here they are. My only intent is to share the information.
If they are available elsewhere let me know.
From http://www.comet-lines.com website.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
I edited the post from 15 April; mistakes fixed!
I've added a new project; damn. I'm writing an index to the book Voices From the Field by Eddie L Smith and Ben Patrick and should have it done within the week. The book is about families moved from Camp Butner.
How long it will take will depend on my secretary staying off the keyboard.
I've added a new project; damn. I'm writing an index to the book Voices From the Field by Eddie L Smith and Ben Patrick and should have it done within the week. The book is about families moved from Camp Butner.
How long it will take will depend on my secretary staying off the keyboard.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Here we are, April 2016 and I haven't written in a long time.
I have now linked a webpage http://www.comet-lines.com to my blog; the webpage includes a list of the books I had published with Edie Eader on Frederick County, Maryland records. Next will be to figure out how to get payments, I'm thinking PayPal, and get the sales here and not through Amazon.
I now also have a subscription to TNG and hope to soon attach family research groups to the page.
And now for more education about using the website though WordPress.
The Estate records project for Granville County, thank you, Heritage Books, was completed and I am now working on Land and Property records project for Granville County from the same transcriber.
I have now linked a webpage http://www.comet-lines.com to my blog; the webpage includes a list of the books I had published with Edie Eader on Frederick County, Maryland records. Next will be to figure out how to get payments, I'm thinking PayPal, and get the sales here and not through Amazon.
I now also have a subscription to TNG and hope to soon attach family research groups to the page.
And now for more education about using the website though WordPress.
The Estate records project for Granville County, thank you, Heritage Books, was completed and I am now working on Land and Property records project for Granville County from the same transcriber.
Friday, June 19, 2015
Published 2013 found at Carroll Co, MD public library for the cost of a hardback book. "A disease in the public mind; a new understanding of why we fought the civil war" by Thomas Fleming. Published for $27, I thought it odd that it would be shunted out of the collection [thank you for my collection] so soon after publication.
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