1. Cyber-Age Genealogy Kathy PetlewskiGenealogy & Local History LibrarianPlymouth District Library 2011
2. Starting with the basics ~ Define our terms! Let’s take a look at fee-based commercial databases. Sampling the best of the free sites… Age of digital publishing – books and blogs Role of social networking in genealogy. Genealogy on mobile devices. Topics for Today Include:
3. Cyber-Age Terms Defined Blog: a web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other Web sites. (Random House Dictionary) Database: A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval by a computer. (American Heritage Science Dictionary) Digitize: To convert data or signals, such as images, text, or sound, to digital form. (American Heritage Science Dictionary) Social Network: a website where one connects with those sharing personal or professional interests, place of origin, education at a particular school, etc. (Facebook, MySpace) (dictionary.com)
15. FamilySearch.org (LDS site) FamilySearch (new): https://www.familysearch.org/ Original FamilySearch: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp Both are international in scope and have volunteer-created indexes based on vital records & original source documents. Library Catalog is included on both sites as well as research aids. Sampling Some of the Best…
16. Castle Garden - information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892 http://www.castlegarden.org/ Ellis Island – Search by passenger’s name or by name of ship. http://www.ellisisland.org/ Sampling Some of the Best…
24. Mocavo – world’s largest free genealogy search engine. http://www.mocavo.com/ Searching the Web
25. Online Communities RootsWeb – part of Ancestry.com http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ The world's largest online genealogy community with over 17 Million posts on more than 161,000 boards. GenForum - part of Genealogy.com http://genforum.genealogy.com/index.html Search by locality, by topic or by surname Post queries or answers to other’s queries. Free services, but may lead to fee-based areas.
26. Genealogy Blogs & Wikis FamilySearch Research Wiki - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Main_Page
28. Genealogy Blogs & Wikis Genealogy Blog ~ http://www.genealogyblog.com/
29. Re-connect with distant relatives or those who share common interests. Find Facebook versions of popular databases/publishers Facebook | Ancestry.com Facebook | Cyndi's List Facebook | Family Tree Magazine Facebook | Footnote.com Facebook | GenealogyBank Facebook | Genealogy Group Genealogy on Facebook
31. Keeping Up on Twitter rjseaver Genealogy evangelist, husband, father, grandfather, Christian, Chargers... 1,199 followers marktucker Software Architect. Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 developer. UX. Scouter.... 1,666 followers worldvrecords We help you succeed with your genealogy and family history by providing... 3,080 followers michaelhait Pro genealogist - writer and lecturer 1,422 followers footnote Footnote.com helps you find and share historic documents, photos and rec... geneabloggers A passion for blogging about genealogy and family history 2,799 followers megansmolenyak genealogical adventurer who loves to solve mysteries 3,391 followers footnoteMaven A Photo Whisperer. Solving the mysteries of genealogy, old photos .. 2,375 followers FamilyTreeMag We're a how-to genealogy magazine and online community. 3,441 followers genseek GenSeek.com will soon be launching the FamilySearch Catalog 2.0, 9,631 followers
34. Apps for Mobile Devices Reunion for iPad - $14.99 – must already have Reunion 9.0c on your Mac. Ancestry for iPad – free – connect to your Ancestry.com account Shrubs for iPhone - $7.99 – GEDCOM viewer FamViewer for iPhone - $14.99 – GEDCOM viewer GedView for iPhone - $3.99 – GEDCOM viewer Family Bee for Android - $10 (free trial) MobileGenealogy.com - http://www.mobilegenealogy.com/ Look here for news, reviews & info on genealogy on mobile devices.
35. Digital Collections will continue to be released online. FamilySearch volunteers make more vital records available. Portable devices replace desktops so better genealogy apps will appear on market. Online publishing of family history books makes it easy for everyone to put info out there – some good…some not! Where Do We Go From Here?
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This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). The Family History Archive is a collection of published genealogy and family history books. The archive includes histories of families, county and local histories, how-to books on genealogy, genealogy magazines and periodicals (including some international), medieval books (including histories and pedigrees), and gazetteers. It also includes some specialized collections such as the Filipino card collection and the “Liahona Elders Journal.” The books come from the collections of the FamilySearch Family History Library, the Allen County Public Library, the Houston Public Library – Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, the Mid-Continent Public Library – Midwest Genealogy Center, the BYU Harold B. Lee Library, the BYU Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library.
The world’s largest free genealogy search engine, Mocavo.com, provides genealogists access to the best free genealogy content on the web including billions of names, dates and places worldwide. Mocavo.com seeks to index and make searchable all of the world’s free genealogy information. While Mocavo.com discovers new sites every day, some of the existing sites searchable on Mocavo.com include genealogy message boards, family trees, state and local historical societies, the Library of Congress, National Archives, Ellis Island, Find A Grave, the Internet Archive, various U.S. state archives, and many tens of thousands of genealogy sites built by individuals. Similar to other search engines, Mocavo.com honors site owners by linking directly to their content.