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8/29/2021 A One Stop Spot for Learning Almost Everything in Genealogy!: UGA Summit of Excellence 2021Read NowSummit of Excellence 2021 | Finding Descendants in Your Family Tree | Diane Henriks
Are you looking for an event with fantastic presentations on a variety of genealogical subjects all in one spot? UGA’s 50th Summit of Excellence is coming up in just a couple of more weeks, and you don’t want to miss out! The Summit of Excellence is the Utah Genealogical Association’s annual virtual conference that provides premier genealogical education. Register for UGA’s 50th Summit of Excellence and come learn about “Finding Descendants in Your Family Tree” with me, under their methodology track, along with so many other fantastic, useful and interesting topics! Distinguished genealogical speakers will be giving presentations on a wide range of topics given over a four-day event, from September 15-18, 2021. On Wednesday, September 15th, they will have a "Getting Started Day". This day is FREE and will be on beginning genealogy; it will include such topics as introduction to record types, beginning research methods, tools for online research, and more. Thursday, September 16th will include methodology, general records, and regional/ethnic specialties. On Friday, September 17th, there will be presentations on DNA, legal records, regional/ethnic specialties, and professional topics. Saturday, September 18th, topics will include technology, military records, and regional/ethnic specialties. The best thing about a virtual conference is that you can still attend sessions that you’ve missed, and you will have access to the digital recordings of the sessions for several months after! You won’t want to miss out, and still have time to register! View the schedule here to see all the premier genealogical presentations being offered this year!: Summit of Excellence 2021 Conference Schedule View the list of ALL the presentations being offered during the four-day event here!: Summit of Excellence 2021 Presentations View the list of renowned speakers and read their bios here!: Summit of Excellence 2021 Presenters Register here!: Summit of Excellence 2021 Registration Follow more on the UGA Summit of Excellence 2021 here: Learn How to Find Descendants in Your Family Tree at the UGA Summit of Excellence Finding Descendants in Your Family Tree Utah Genealogical Association's blog Learn about more fantastic genealogy events, classes and presentations in Genealogy Events. P.S... My older site theme does not support the "Leave a Reply" field labels; if you'd like to leave a comment on a blog, the fields are: Name, Email, Site (if you'd like), and Comment, the standard fields 😉
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 1) Use lower case letters- Google is not case sensitive 2) Do not use punctuation 3) Your word order matters 4) Use roots words- Google will search all forms of the word automatically Example: genealogy will give you results concerning genealogy, genealogist, genealogists, genealogical and so on 5) Use the approximate symbol (~) to find words with similar meanings Example: genealogy~descendant will give you results for descendancy research concerning genealogy, such as descendants, lineage, etc. 6) Use OR to get results for similar meanings Example: family history OR genealogy will give you results for that topic under either term 7) Use * to fill in the unknown Example: john * smith will give you a plethora of john smiths with different middle names 8) Use … for date ranges Example: 1890…1910 will give you dates anywhere in that range 9) Use quotation marks “ “ to search for the exact words/phrase in the exact order Example: “descendants of john smith” or “ancestry of john smith” will give you results for those exact phrases Example: “john smith” will only bring up John Smiths, not Johns and Smiths 10) Use parentheses ( ) to search for those terms first before anything outside of those terms Example: (genealogy OR family history) 11) Use + or – symbols to only get results of a particular category of a topic Example: dna+triangulation gives you only results concerning dna triangulation, dna +genealogy -testing gives you results concerning topics of DNA in the genealogical/family history world without giving you results about DNA tests, testing or testing sites, and genealogy research -sites will give you results about genealogy research methods, tools, resources etc. without giving you pages and pages of different genealogy/family history sites Now let’s apply what we’ve learned: Example: "john*smith" 1890...1910 +genealogy will bring up all John Smiths with an unknown middle name, with a date range of 1890 to 1910, and concerning genealogy Example: "john*smith" 1890...1910 ~descendant will give you results of all John Smiths with an unknown middle name, with a date range of 1890 to 1910, and concerning only descendancy or family line research, charts, family trees, genealogy, family history, etc. Example: ("john*smith") 1890...1910 (~descendant) will churn out all John Smiths with an unknown middle name, and concerning only descendancy, family lines, etc. of those John Smiths, with a date range of 1890-1910, but will not focus on that date range. This is good to use if you are guessing the date range. Example: ("john m smith") ~descendant will bring up all descendancy, lineage, etc. on John M Smiths I hope you have found this to be helpful in your genealogy/family history research! 😊 Find more tips for your family history and genealogy research under the Genealogy Research Tips category. P.S... My older site theme does not support the "Leave a Reply" field labels; if you'd like to leave a comment on a blog, the fields are: Name, Email, Site (if you'd like), and Comment, the standard fields 😉 This post is a participant in the 6th Annual Genealogy Blog Party! ←Back to Genealogy Research Tips Page  Continued from Part 3…
Time to tie up the name change theory, and how it went from a possibility as the reason for not finding much on my great grandfather, to becoming fact. About a year later I was able to find his petition for naturalization with the name “Frank Smith”, before he had ever married my great grandmother, which was like finding a needle in a haystack with that name! That record had been denied for Want of Prosecution; he obviously could not provide proof to any of the info he had given. Another surprise on that record was a daughter that was listed as living with him in Washington and a wife in the Philippines, more family secrets! I have never found anymore records or information on another daughter or wife. I did find out later through letters to General Pershing, that he had been trying to get his old position back in the Philippines, even though he wasn’t in the military anymore. I still do not know if he really had a wife there or just said he had a wife there that he needed to get back to, so it would seem more urgent that he needed to get passage and his old job back, with help from government. Searching with the new “official search criteria”, aka the newly found last name, I was able to find what I had believed was his passenger list. My great aunt’s daughter did not believe that it was his passenger list, just because the year of his birth was off by a couple of years. I had explained to her that accurate information isn’t always displayed on documents; there are various reason for this. That was the only passenger list I could find for someone with the last name that I had suspected was his, had his approximate year of birth, was from the exact area in Germany that he had been born, had come when he did (based off his 1900 Census and family), and had an occupation which was that of a carpenter, which I had put in the keyword box of the immigration resource section. Later that year I was able to find his second petition for naturalization under the “new search criteria” name; at the bottom of the document, it had said that the petitioner had wished to change his name from the name that I had suspected was his to the name that he went by here in the United States. That second petition also included his spouse and three of his four children, and where they had lived before he had passed away. The spouse was my great grandmother, and 3 of the 4 children were my grandmother; great uncle; and great aunt. My oldest great aunt was not listed; this was more evidence to confirm that I had found her correct birth record, which was found under a different last name and with a different father. This petition was proof of his name change, and how a strong hunch became reality! Years later, I had finally gotten some DNA matches from his line, which just verified my hunch of him changing his identity, the possible family line I had found him, and the newly found info even more. I still do not know why he changed his name! I wonder if he was hiding from something. I may never know! Another ancestor who changed their name. Another ancestor with family secrets. If you've hit a brick wall don't rule out name changes! 😉 Follow my other posts on Genealogy Brick Wall: The Case of an Ancestor's Hidden Identity below, and read about more brick wall cases in Genealogy Brick Wall Cases: Genealogy Brick Wall the Case of an Ancestors Hidden Identity- Part 1: Here Genealogy Brick Wall the Case of an Ancestors Hidden Identity- Part 2: Here Genealogy Brick Wall the Case of an Ancestors Hidden Identity- Part 3: Here P.S... My older site theme does not support the "Leave a Reply" field labels; if you'd like to leave a comment on a blog, the fields are: Name, Email, Site (if you'd like), and Comment, the standard fields 😉 This post is a participant in the Genealogy Blog Party!  Well, I just had my first genealogy brick wall ever for a place name; usually if I have any brick walls, they are for people!
I was working on a report for a client this past week, and her grandmother and three of her grandmother’s siblings birth records I had found, showed they were born in a townland called Sylane, Parish of Church Friar, Galway, Ireland; and one of her other siblings was born in Lakeview, Tuam, Galway, Ireland. The places of these births were in the Superintendent Registrar’s District of Tuam, the Dispensary Registration District/ Registrar’s District of Tuam #2, and in the Poor Law Union of Tuam. I have heard of the newer Sylane, in Tuam, but never a Sylane in Church friar, let alone the place Church Friar. I have also never heard of Lakeview in Tuam. I was so confused! There were no such places on the District or Poor Law Union Maps or Lists on SWilson’s site or John Grenham’s site. After much researching, I had arrived at the conclusion that the Parish of Churchfriar was in what now is the Parish of Belclare, after discovering some sites that had references to Sacred Heart Church of Belclare, replacing an old chuch in a place called Churchfriar, about 200 yards away. As far as Lakeview goes, I am still stuck on exactly where it is. There is a Lakeview in Galway, but not in Tuam District. Because the entry specifically said he was born in Lakeview, Tuam, I had to chalk it up to it being a place that is no longer there or was referred to a house or road, for now; still suck on that one. 😉 Follow more brick wall cases under the Genealogy Brick Wall Cases category. Learn more about about Irish research below and in Genealogy Resources: Irish Genealogy Resource: IrishGenealogy.ie Irish Genealogy Research Resources P.S... My older site theme does not support the "Leave a Reply" field labels; if you'd like to leave a comment on a blog, the fields are: Name, Email, Site (if you'd like), and Comment, the standard fields 😉 ←Back to Genealogy Research Tips Page   Oh my gosh, so Rootstech Connect 2021 was such a huge success with being fully virtual and FREE earlier this year, due to Covid, and with over one million attendees from over 240 countries around the world, that they had churned out their largest Rootstech event ever! So they announced, a few weeks ago, that it will be coming back next year as a totally virtual and FREE family history event again! How awesome is that?!
It will be a little sad for some who love going to the event in Salt Lake City every year, along with their event in London, but this will allow tons more from all over the world to join, and connection is what it’s all about! They have also decided, which I was very much hoping for, on a hybrid model for 2023! This will allow for the best of both worlds, in person and virtual! Rootstech Connect 2022 will be March 3-5, 2022. Be on the look out for registration starting in September at RootsTech.org! Follow more on the RootsTech Genealogy Conference below, and in Genealogy Events, along with Genealogy Resources. One More Week Till the "Free" RootsTech Connect 2021 Family History Conference! RootsTech Connect 2021- Free Genealogy Event RootsTech Connect 2021 Sessions- More Than 800 FREE Genealogy Sessions!!! My RootsTech Connect 2021 Strategy! Rootstech Connect 2021 Has Come to and End, or Has It? P.S... My older site theme does not support the "Leave a Reply" field labels; if you'd like to leave a comment on a blog, the fields are : Name, Email, Site (if you'd like), and Comment, the standard fields 😉 |
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