UVTAGG - 2020-11-06 - Press Release and Blog - online meeting, Sat 14 Nov 2020, 10 am-Noon MST, STEPHEN KENT EHAT
Journalists and newsletter editors, please include this where you can. There are short and long versions of this note. For more information see the blog at http://blog.uvtagg.org/ or the UVTAGG home page at https://www.uvtagg.org or conact me. Thanks.
Don Snow -- snowd@math.byu.edu '
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UVTAGG MEETING, Saturday 14 Nov 2020 - free online on Facebook and Zoom
10:05-11:00 am MST -- YES! YOUR ANCESTORS WERE IN THE NEWSPAPERS!
11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- WHAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED ABOUT THE U.S. FEDERAL AND STATE CENSUS RECORDS: LOOK AGAIN!
Details and link for watching on https://www.uvtagg.org and on the UVTAGG Facebook page
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UVTAGG Meeting (Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group)
Saturday, 14 Nov 2020, 10:00am-Noon MST - f ree online on Facebook and Zoom
10:05-11:00 am MST -- YES! YOUR ANCESTORS WERE IN THE NEWSPAPERS!
11:10-12:00 Noon MST -- WHAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED ABOUT THE U.S. FEDERAL AND STATE CENSUS RECORDS: LOOK AGAIN!
Members of UVTAGG can watch on ZOOM (more interactive) by logging in at https://zoom.us/j/909-878-8837 and you'll be put in a "Waiting Room" until your UVTAGG membership is verified. Others can watch on Facebook. The broadcaset will be from the "Red Chapel" of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4012 North Timpview Dr. (650 East), Provo, Utah 84604. (A few people can attend in-person there with masks and social distancing due to the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.)
MAIN PRESENTATION by STEPHEN KENT EHAT (10:05-11:00am MST)
YES! YOUR ANCESTORS WERE IN THE NEWSPAPERS!
Do not limit yourself to a search for obituaries, birth notices, marriage announcements, and items of news or gossip. Use newspapers for land-transaction research, probate research, and lawsuit research. Do not limit your research in newspapers to searches on the names of persons. Search also on addresses, on business names, on neighbors' names, on relatives' names, on organizations' names. What is optical character recognition (OCR)? What are its shortcomings? How do you get around the shortcomings? What are some of the resources available for discovering how to access newspapers that are not yet on the major websites or even on any websites? How does one access foreign newspapers? Research in digitized newspapers can revolutionize your access to valuable, even crucial, information. You will be shocked! Did you know that thousands of newspapers, urban and rural, foreign and domestic, from the late 1700s to the present day, are available—a great many of them digitized, searchable, and online? Learns secrets to research success in newspapers.
CLASS by STEPHEN KEN EHAT (11:10-12:00 Noon MST)
WHAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED ABOUT THE U.S. FEDERAL AND STATE CENSUS RECORDS: LOOK AGAIN!
And get Ready for the Release of the 1950 U.S. Federal Census 17 Months from Now in April 2022! Ancestry and other sources that provide early census images lead to images of census pages that do not specify the date of the enumeration. How can you sometimes figure out the date? What can be the range of dates for undated census returns? The early census images may not specify the exact location of the enumeration, stating no place or stating only generally a county or parish. How can you figure out the precise location of the enumeration? Must a person be alive to be enumerated in a census? Does the person need to be present in the village, town, city, county, parish, or state to appear in the census enumeration for that place? If the names in a census enumeration are listed alphabetically, what does that mean? How can you tell if you are looking at a copy of a census rather than the original? What are all of those stray marks on a census page? Have you used Stephen P. Morse's tools for census research? Can you figure out what the occupation codes mean? the language and nativity codes? the miscellaneous codes? Why can it possibly be that two households who live in dwellings adjacent to one another on the face of the earth end up enumerated on pages that are five, ten, twenty, or forty pages apart from one another? How can members of a household also appear on pages distant from one another? In large-city census research, how do you use city directories to find people in a census enumeration when neither page-by-page research nor modern-day indexing efforts lead you to your goal? Why is information sometimes wildly inaccurate in a census return? Did census canvassers obtain information from neighbors? A census return is a goldmine of information. It can be used in ways you sometimes cannot now imagine. To use the census productively and to not make mistakes in interpretation, learn some of the hidden clues and historical facts about census taking. You'll be a better researcher for it and perhaps learn more about your family than you knew previously.
STEPHEN KENT EHAT:
Stephen Kent Ehat, age 68, has performed family history research since 1967 and has extensive experience in American, German, Italian, Irish, South American and Eastern European genealogical research. He and his wife, Jeanine, live in Lindon, Utah. He has served as director of the Lindon Shared-Stakes Family History Center. They have five sons and 21 grandchildren.
All meetings of the Group are open to the public with the goal of helping people use technology to further their family and personal history. Details and the link to watch online are on the UVTAGG webpage https://www.uvtagg.org/ and on the UVTAGG Facebook page. Members of the UVTAGG can watch on ZOOM which is more interactive. The blog and press releases are at http://blog.uvtagg.org/ and you can subscribe there to receive them by email. Besides being able to watch on ZOOM, members of the Group ($15/year) receive the monthly email newsletter TAGGology and access to the more than 400 videos of past presentations and classes. TAGGology contains a wealth of information about genealogy, including information for Temple and Family History Consultants. Free sample copies of the Newsletter can be requested on the UVTAGG website. Officers are Gerhard Ruf, President; Laurie Castillo, 1st VP; Don Snow, 2nd VP; Don Engstrom, Secretary and Membership Officer; Marilyn Thomsen, TAGGology Newsletter Editor; Rayanne Melick, Finance Officer; Bruce Merrill and Jackson Andersen, Video and Librarians; Eileen Phelps, Special Projects Coordinator; Carol Hill, FamilySearch Facebook Coordinator; and Rick Wightman, Chris Stevenson, Brent Nelson, Jerry Castillo, and Rick Klemetson, Broadcast Specialists and Webmasters. The Group is in its 30th year. For further information contact President Gerhard Ruf at pres@uvtagg.org (801-225-6106), or 1st VP Laurie Castillo at gengal@comcast.net , or 2nd VP Don Snow at snowd@math.byu.edu .
Don Snow, 2nd VP, snowd@math.byu.edu .
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