Wednesday, July 29, 2020

DIRT Meeting on:


1) Discussion
2) New websites: for replay click here

Creating a Genealogy Research Plan Like a Detective – ThoughtCo.

NARA’s Access to Archival Database (Social Security database):
   Genealogy Roots Blog explaining SSD : Click here

Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War Graves Registration Project:

RootsWeb Family History Wiki: Red Book / State / County

On-line historical directories website  Source Book and Red Book (state, county)

The topic of Family Interviews will be covered at another meeting in the future

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

DIRT Meeting: You are all welcome to join our sessions via the virtual link.

We had a good round the room discussion of what people are working on and their new discoveries.

The recorded session was on: 
   Finding Graveyards and Cemeteries: click here for replay
   Click here for handout

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Hi everyone!  I hope you are all safe.

We had a DIRT meeting today and talked about:

1) General discussion about member reseasrch
2) Brend Larsen took us through her results upon using the Mind Mapping exercise
3) Reading and understanding the 1790 t0 1840 US Federal Census: Click here for recorded session
     - getting Census Cheat Sheets from FamilySearch.org Click here

Two other sources recommended:

Correspondence and writings from Founding Fathers: Click here
FamilySearch is offering 20 minute free consultations: Click here

See you next week.

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

DIRT Meeting today.  We covered the following major topics:

1) New Free webinars, Family Tree Maker Places, Using Mind Mapping and group help to break down brickwalls (an example): To see the video recording: Click Here
  - I used FreeMind software (free) : Click Here
  - Examples of Mind Mapping for Genealogy use: Click Here

2) Overview on Reading 1850 to 1900 US Census Records: To see replay: Click Here