https://1950census.archives.gov/
Have fun searching for your family!
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
LE
Took a little effort to verify but the the 1950 US Census release start time is 12:01 a.m. April 1, 2022.
Remember the US National Archives website page to go to for the link to the dedicated 1950 census website is here. As soon as we know it we will post it our our website as well.
Are you a late nighter? An early starter? Whenever I wake upper? Or I'll get to it when I get to it? Which ever you are ...
Good luck finding your family!
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
LE
This 1950 US Federal Census enumeration will be released tomorrow, April 1, 2022.
As soon as the group functionality of the project is activated, we will be able to tell you how to join our group (as well as the project if you have not already joined.)
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
LE
Are you excited for tomorrow?
You do recall that TO-MORR-OW is the release day of the 1950 U.S. Federal Census? No, fooling. The 72-year delayed release of this census enumeration is April 1, 2022.
It is the first census to be released with an index.* * Meaning an Artificial Intelligence / Optical Character Recognition of handwriting generated index.
But if you have done your prep work for this census and you know where your people are and the index search is not finding them, then do the search by location or even enumeration district.
Where do I find this census? Keep an eye on the 1950 Census page of the National Archives website. It is there that the link to the new, dedicated 1950 website will be released tomorrow, April 1. Once we see that website URL address is released we will post it here too.
So what do I do tomorrow? After finding the link to the new, dedicated website and going to it, you will decide how to want to search. By name, location or Enumeration District. To get some hints, watch the short presentation the National Archives hosted yesterday, March 30. The recording is already up. However, the chat from the presentation is not available that we can see.
What if ... Yeah, there is a possibility that the new website might crash a bit or a little slow. Be patient. Everyone be patient. Come back later at an odd time of day, or another day, or keep trying.
So get yourself ready for tomorrow. Clear some time from other obligations so you can search for your family in 1950.
Good Luck Everyone!
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
LE
Curious about our talk about the 1950 Census? There are just five ( 5 ) days left until the release of this census enumeration.
You can now watch the recording of the MCGG Combined Virtual Meeting from March 9, 2022. Ready ... Set ... The 1950 Census Release is Next Month! is on our MCGG YouTube channel.
And tonight you should be able to also find our MCGG Combined Virtual Meeting from February too! Look for How to use PowerPoint/Presentations/Slides to Tell a Story in our MCGG 2021-2022 Genealogy Season playlist sometime tonight.
Enjoy the recordings. And we hope to see you at our next virtual meeting in April 2022!
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
LE
The presentation discusses the unique challenges of African American genealogical research, sharing some of the relevant history and resources available to research. It includes a case study of researching freedom seekers (Underground Railroad), free blacks and enslaved persons.
Register for the event on the Roseville Public Library's Events Calendar.
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LE
Our next MCGG and Let's Talk...Genealogy groups combined virtual meeting is, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, at 7 p.m. using Zoom Meeting. The topic of the meeting is ... Managing Family Catastrophe in the Early 1900s presented by Beverly Bishop.
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LE
A few days ago, on the morning of Wednesday, March 16, an event happened equivalent to the likes of "the day hell froze over." An exaggeration? Not much.
That morning, the New York City Department of Records and Information Services launched a new website page ... The NYC Historical Vital Records Project -- with 70% of an estimated 13.3 million records already online. These are searchable WITH digitized images (some in color) for free! (We did say hell froze over.)
What is included? Check the Digital Vital Records menu tab. Under each record type (Births, Deaths, Marriages) there are breakdowns by borough -- Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), Manhattan, Queens, Richmond (Staten Island) -- showing a bar chart of digitized, not digitized and not available covering the time span of years for the full-page certificates in the collection. Note that Registers/Ledger Books for years prior to 1898 are on microfilm viewable in-person. There is less information in the register format than in the certificate format. If your record type/time period is not online yet be patient. (We know how to do that, right?)
Regardless, thank you NYC for finally making these records available. It is a good start. We are still wanting the older records. And thank you to organizations like Reclaim the Records for its efforts with getting government entities around the country to make records available.
So how do you use this new site? Well, try the search.
There are two main ways: by Certificate Number and by Last Name. But remember this is not a fancy site, the surname may not have been read correctly or it may not be spelled on the record the way you know it. You can reach the search either by the right-side of the main blue bar, or by the Search beta tab in the toolbar/menu above the blue bar.
Initially you have to pick a record type and you have to pick a borough to search.
After you get results, you can discard the borough and/or record type and update your results.
When you find your desired records, click and it will be presented as a PDF which you can download ... for FREE!
One tip we have is if you are having trouble finding your people and you have Ancestry.com or access to Ancestry Library Edition, use the various data collections for the indexes for New York, New York and Ancestry's soundex and other similar filter capabilities for the names. For example:
New York, New York, U.S., Index to Death Certificates, 1862-1948
New York, New York, U.S., Index to Birth Certificates, 1866-1909
New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Marriage Index, 1866-1937
New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018
New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948
New York, New York, U.S., Extracted Birth Index, 1878-1909
There are a few other additional data collections for New York City vital records indexes under the New York collections too. And the webpage for the project has a few additional tips as well.
Have fun and good luck searching!
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
LE
Tonight, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, at 7 p.m., is our MCGG and Let's Talk...Genealogy groups combined virtual meeting. Using Zoom Meeting the topic of the meeting is ... Ready ... Set ... The 1950 Census Release in Next Month!
MCGG members on the mailing list will receive the Zoom Meeting invite in the reminder email to be sent prior to the meeting. New attendees can obtain the invite link using the Library Events calendar on the website of the Mount Clemens Public Library.
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
The AncestryDNA (autosomal) test regularly $99 is on sale for $59, a savings of 40 dollars.
For just one dollar more, you can get the AncestryDNA test and a 3-month World Explorer subscription for $60
instead of the regular price of $100. But take note that this offer is
for new and returning subscribers not for renewal of current
subscriptions And, the subscription will automatically renew for $79.95
every three months unless you cancel at least two days before the
renewal day using My Account or by contacting customer service.
The AncestryDNA + Traits is on sale for $69, regular price is $119. Shipping and taxes are extra.
Or you can get the AncestryDNA + Traits test and a 6-month All Access subscription for $308 instead of the regular price of $358. But take note that this offer is
for new and returning subscribers not for renewal of current
subscriptions And, the subscription will automatically renew for $239
every six months unless you cancel at least two days before the
renewal day using My Account or by contacting customer service.
AncestryDNA test results
provide an ethnicity/admixture report, a AncestryDNA match
list, shared matches, an internal member messaging system, and
automatic updates to results. As well as some basic information from
ThruLines which is Ancestry's replacement or next generation of New
Ancestor Discoveries and DNA Circles. See the chart below.
Be aware that with an active paid subscription to Ancestry, there is fuller access to some DNA features such as all
available information about people is shown in ThruLines; Matches'
public family trees are viewable instead of just a preview of five
generations; and up to seven generations of surnames instead of up to
five surnames are shown for direct ancestor surnames from your matches'
trees.
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| From Ancestry.com, a look at AncestryDNA with and without a data membership/subscription. |
Access to these extra features end if you discontinue your data subscription. Some of these extra features require a public family tree linked to the AncestryDNA kit.
AncestryDNA
Traits now gives a look
at 26 personal traits. These traits are: Birth Weight, Facial Hair Thickness, Omega-3, Photic
Sneeze Reflex, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitaman E, Wisdom Teeth,
Asparagus
Metabolite Detection, Bitter Sensitivity, Cilantro Aversion, Cleft Chin, Earlobe Shape, Earwax Type,
Eye Color, Finger Length, Freckles, Hair Color,
Hair Strand Thickness, Hair Type, Iris Patterns, Male Hair Loss, Savory
(Umami) Sensitivity, Skin Pigmentation, Sweet
Sensitivity, and Unibrow. More traits may be available in the future at
an additional cost. There may still be a Compare Feature and Around the
World Feature. This add-on is regularly $20 and is on sale for $10.
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| From Ancestry.com |
AncestryDNA
is the one DNA/genealogy testing site that does not provide a
chromosome browser tool which allows you to see the chromosome segments
you share in common with a match which is one of the scientific ways to
confirm a match is a true match and not a match by chance. To access a
chromosome browser you would need to download your kit's DNA data and
upload that data to one of the three companies that do provide a
chromosome browser: MyHeritageDNA, Family Tree DNA, and the third-party
GedMatch.com website.
We are not sure if the FREESHIPDNA code will work on the Ancestry website with this sale but it does not hurt to try it.
Do you want just the DNA test and do you want to save on shipping costs?
Remember AncestryDNA
also sells its test kits on Amazon.com and often at sale prices when it
is
having a sale. For this sale, as of now when this post was written
the AncestryDNA test is listed at $59 and AncestryDNA+Traits is
also listed at $69. So, this time the
sale price on the Amazon website is as good as the Ancestry website deal
or a bit better because shipping is free.
Also on sale at Amazon is an AncestryDNA plus 3-month World Explorer Subscription on sale for $99 regularly $149. The deal for this package is better at the Ancestry.com website.
Non-Amazon Prime members get free shipping due to the total cost and because it is fulfilled by Amazon while Amazon Prime members just get quicker 2-day shipping for free. But be cautious and make sure the test kit you are buying is "sold by AncestryDNA Official and fulfilled by Amazon" to insure you are buying a genuine test kit. You will find this information just below the price. See the image below.
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In prior to the pandemic times, you had to be at the conference physically to take advantage of most of these sales and deals. But in these virtual times, everyone gets to take advantage of these sales and deals. Simply visit the Expo Hall page of the RootsTech website and then visit the virtual booth of those vendors that interest you.
At the bottom of each vendor booth/page, is a promotions section where you will see what sales and saving deals that company is offering. Some deals run through March 8, 2022, but offers will likely vary in their promotion period.
Examples of the sales found are:
Remember you have one year to view the sessions on a vast array of genealogy topics. There is something for just about everyone. But remember the RootsTech 2022 sales and offers are for a limited time only.
See you someday soon at our favorite library!
LE
Our next MCGG and Let's Talk...Genealogy groups combined virtual meeting is, Wednesday, March 9, 2022, at 7 p.m. using Zoom Meeting. The topic of the meeting is ... Ready ... Set ... The 1950 Census Release in Next Month!
MCGG members on the mailing list will receive the Zoom Meeting invite in the reminder email to be sent prior to the meeting. New attendees can obtain the invite link using the Library Events calendar on the website of the Mount Clemens Public Library.
See you soon someday at our favorite library!Team #DigMountClemens did it!
This morning Clarke Historical Library announced the winner of the 2022 DigMichNews Grant Contest -- that contest where you tweet as much as you can for your favorite institution/location to help it win the contest to digitize its local newspaper.
This morning Mount Clemens and East Lansing were announced the winners. The contest ran from Feb. 21 to Feb. 28.
Congratulations Mount Clemens Public Library and its supporters who tweet voted #DigMountClemens.
See you soon someday at our favorite library!
LE
MyHeritageDNA is having its once in a great while Limited Time Only: Upload Your DNA Data to MyHeritage and Get Free Access to ALL DNA Features. AKA what we call the "Grandfathered In Sale."
While uploading DNA data to MyHeritageDNA is free, it only lets you see your matches and use the internal messaging system. To unlock the DNA tools it normally requires either a $29 one-time unlock fee or having an active data subscription. With this opportunity running from today, March 1 through March 8, 2022, you simply upload your DNA data from another autosomal DNA testing company and the unlock fee is waived. Your uploaded test gets grandfathered in to have all the DNA tools for free forever.
Here is the link to the MyHeritage Blog Article. There are also instructions for how to download your DNA data from different autosomal DNA testing companies if you have not done so already.
If you have been waiting for Ancestry.com to change its mind about a chromosome browser, this is a way to get access to one. Tell your relatives about the "sale" opportunity and see if they will transfer their DNA data to MyHeritageDNA too. It is free.
This is the time to get your DNA into another "pool to fish in" if you are seeking unknown biological connections. This is the time to get your DNA results from another company without any advanced DNA tools like a chromosome browser to a site with advanced DNA tools to help you make and understand connections. Don't miss out on this opportunity!
See you soon (someday) at our favorite library!
LE
While most of the 900 sessions were pre-recorded, each day does have some Live Streamed events both featured speakers and in the Expo Hall. All the sessions will remain up and available until just before RootsTech 2023. The website is similar to last year's event but with some improvements.
Registration is still open. If you register for RootsTech 2022 with your free FamilySearch account you can choose to register for All-Access which gets you the ability to create your own PlayList of Sessions; the ability to FamilySearch Chat with industry experts and friends; and Relatives at RootsTech which shows you which attendees are related to you using the info in your FamilySearch Family Tree.
Session Syllabus Handouts are available. On each class session page, underneath the video player and the class description, you will see a link to the speaker bio and download links for any handouts that speakers have created for the class.
So much to learn!
See you soon (someday) at our favorite library!
LE
