Allen County Public Library Research

Our session today had two main topics:

1. What is new at Ancestry.com: Click here for recording
2. Allen County Public Library Research: Click here for recording

We also introduced the book "Revolutionary Mothers, Women in the Struggle for America's Independence", by Carol Berkin.  I will loan this to anyone who wants to read it, just send me an email to get on the waiting list.

Some of the 24 hr Marathon Legacy Family Tree Webinars are still 

posted as FREE.  To reach them: Click Here

RootsTech 26 Apr 2021 DNA Day Series: Click here

 Genealogy Ancestry.com Research Tips

We had a good session today and welcomed Carol Jeffery who is just joining DIRT.

Our major focus was on Genealogy Ancestry.com Research Tips: Click Here for replay

Other topics included:

• New York Public Library as a Research center: Click Here
• Linking to the Ancestry.com blog: Click Here
• Recent Ancestry Collections: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/recent-collections
• Family Tree Webinar 24 hour marathon and getting access to syllabus
• Family History Center Evening Program: April 13: Ancestors Hide and Seek Click here for replay

 Goldie May Automatic Research Log

The main topics for today's DIRT Meeting were:

1) Fifty Overlooked Genealogy Research sites: Click here for presentation

2) FamilySearch 10 Links to Try - Click here for replay

    Click here for presentation

3) Goldie May Automatic Research Log Part 2: Click here for replay

4) Also highlighted ColonialVirginiaPortraits.org site

 Automatic Research Log

Today we discussed and demonstrated Goldie May, an automatic Genealogy Research Log. Click here for video replay.  

  3 Time Saving Tips and RootsTech

We covered many topics, however the focus was on two specific topics and you can see the replay by clinking the links:

1. 3 time saving tips for gmail: Click Here
2. Research Tips summary from RootsTech 2021 Sessions: Click Here
3. Reviewed the GenealogyGems website and all the wonderful information
4. Demonstrated downloading Ancestry files to your computer
5. Other discussions

 Browser and Search Engine Hints

Michelle Weiner shared a Research site for Scotland: Scotland's People

Our main topic for the 17 March DIRT meeting was on Browser organizing bookmarks and using different search engines.

We showed how to organize the browser bookmarks into folders and putting folders on the tool bar for easy access.

Next we discussed using different Search Engines.  Even though Google has 91% of the market, it is useful to develop your search in Google (using wildcards - click here for handout on wildcards), then going to other search engines which use different search algorithms to discover new sources of information.  

Market share

• Google (91.54%)
• Bing     (2.44%)
• Yahoo  (1.64%)
• DuckDuckGo (0.45%)

 Our working session today covered:

We are revamping the BLOG, note our new tabs which are described below.

1) RootsTech 2021 - how to use and explore the hundreds of offerings for free: 

• Click here to register,
• Click here for video replay of our session.

2) Offer to help our members use the College of Charleston student facilities to do Research, Click here for replay.

3) Index of our DIRT Blog.  We have completed (thank you to our club members) the excel spreadsheet that provides Category, Titles and hotlinks to the resources we have covered from 2017 to present on our Blog.  Click here for access.  This will be updated as more materials are available or presented.

4) a new tab on our DIRT blog of Genealogy Websites has been created.  This is a growing list of resources and hotlink websites for genealogy research.  Again, we are collecting any additional onews from all of you.  Please send your useful websites to Lynn Baker at bakerlynnd@gmail.com.  Click here