Creating a Family History Book part 2 - planning

Our meeting went well with topics on:

• Members sharing their genealogy work
• Open discussion on FamilySearch questions
• Open discussion on AncestryDNA questions

Main topic: continuing series on "Creating a Family History Book".  We discussed how to plan your book and what to consider.  We discussed various applications to use to format and publish the book.  Our decision for the next meeting was to: (1) explore MixBook, Canva and FTM - wanting both the ability to publish a hardcopy book and to have a print-resolution pdf for sharing electronically, (2) each member will come up with a short story and photo to use at the next meeting.

For video replay: Click here

• For Organize Your Family History Writing Project word template: Click here; for example pdf: Click here
• For Photo-Book tips word template: Click here, for Example pdf: Click here

What's new in Ancestry and Creating Family Book

We had a good attendance today at our DIRT meeting.  The topics we covered were:

• Personal genealogy stories shared from around the room
• Update on Phil Pritzlaff's AncestryDNA spreadsheet approach: Video Click here
• What's New in Ancestry: Video - to be redone
• FamilySearch Record Seek to move web file information: Video Click here
•     Handout for Record Seek: Click  here
• Discussion on Creating Family History Book and next steps: Video Click here

Future sessions will be on AncestryDNA and continuing the project on Creating Family History Book.

 AncestryDNA Matches - Step by Step build of excel spreadsheet

    We welcomed Paula Murphy to our DIRT community.  We also had some fantastic successes by our members as they shared their own genealogy research.

    Our key topic was  AncestryDNA Matches - Step by Step build of excel spreadsheet.  This bridged off of Phil Pritzlaff's presentation on April 27.  For those who want to actually create a similar spreadsheet for solving brick walls with DNA, this session was a step by step approach to creating your spreadsheets with hints on using Microsoft Excel.  Click here for the video replay.  Click here for the handout guide.

    We then covered some of the Surname mapping websites for use in genealogy.  Click here for replay.

 

 DNA Case Study proving relationship and Surname Maps

We had a great meet at the Lakehouse in-person as well as those on zoom.  

Our first and primary topic was by a guest speaker : Phil Pritzlaff: video replay here

• Autosomal DNA - Case Study: Who is my Great Grandfather
• Y-DNA Testing - Case Study: Who is my 10th Great Grandfather
• The Value of Ancestry Connections and sharing with others

Our second topic was Surname Distribution Maps: A Valuable Tool for Genealogical Research (we did not finish this topic and will continue at the next meeting).

There were some really good feedback about the approach Phil used and how they might apply it themselves.  

 Genealogical Research Case Study & Other items

Our DIRT meeting focused on:

• Genealogical Family Research Case Study by Glenn Soden: Click here for video replay
• Find a Grave -new changes: Video Replay
• Recap of Scots-Irish Conference by Ulster Foundation: Irish Websites , Irish books sold, video replay of DIRT session
• Recap of North Carolina Genealogical Society Conference - Lynn Maney-McIntosh - video replay
• Discussion on what do DIRT members want for Digitizing Books and Scrapbooks

Other items

Archival Methods Booklet: Website

Researching Ancestral Women and Digitizing Scrapbooks

Our session today had two main topics:

1. Honoring and acknowledging Women's History Month

• Researching Ancestral Women - recording: Click here
• Handout for online resources with hotlinks: Click here

2. Frequently asked topic

• Digitizing Scrapbooks recording: Click here
• Presentation slides: Click here

 RootsTech 2022 Review and MyHeritage LiveStory

Our two topics for this session were:

RootsTech 2022 Review: Video Recording: Click Here

• We reviewed how to continue to use the site to access the presentations and handouts for the next few years: Click Here
• Took a close look at Relatives Connection, which is available until March 25, 2022 : Click Here

Showed the new technology of MyHeritage LiveStory: Click Here

Lynn Maney McIntosh introduced us to the website: A Census of Ireland circa 1659: Click Here

  and "National Library of Ireland Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI" Click Here