NGS Virtual Genealogy Fair - Oct. 26 -27 Live On Line!

The National Genealogical Society will present a virtual Genealogy Fair on Oct. 26-27, 2016. Get comfortable,  grab a cuppa and enjoy 2 days of outstanding lessons and lectures from the nations top genealogy experts. 

More information on the fair on their blog and website:

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/home 

http://upfront.ngsgenealogy.org/ 

Another Informational About Copyright

Again, Dick Eastman has posted a fact informational on copyright. Please read his post on his daily newsletter. If you are not signed up for dicks free daily newsletter, please do. It contains great and useful information pertaining to genealogy and gen technology. 

https://blog.eogn.com/2016/09/23/the-majority-of-books-published-before-1964-are-free-of-copyrights/ 

New Family History Site - Family History Guide

 

Once again Dick Eastman links us to a new learning site for all researchers, beginners to advanced and even the kids get a lesson on how to start their family history quest. 

The Family History Guide is a new educational site directed at the beginner with lessons on computer basics, family research basics, webinars, explanation of types of records and is a very complete 

"guide" to learn researching. You will find his post  and link to the site below.

http://www.thefhguide.com/index.html

https://blog.eogn.com/2016/04/01/the-family-history-guide-is-now-available-online/

Is it Copyrighted???

This week Thomas MacEntee posted a great site that more or less fully explains what and what not can be copyrighted. Some of them will surprise you. Copyright laws are very complex and this article is excellent in explaining copyright laws.

http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2016/07/18/cant-be-copyrighted/



Our first program of the year featured a lecture by Sandy Bisset on Non-Population Census Schedules. 

Sandy gave a slide show and showed the members the value of these importance of these  records. The information gleaned from them are used to establish tax bases, fund government programs and give a overall demographic overview of areas of the country related to agriculture, industry,  manufacturing, social statistics and mortality. 

Members had a online learning session at Ancestry.Com .

To learn more about these important schedules plese follow the link:

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Non-Population_Schedules

Family History Center Workshop - Sept. 24, 2016

Hood River Family History Center 

Workshop

LDS Family History Center

18th and May St. 

Hood River, Oregon

Lunch can be ordered at the door, $5.00 for Subway sandwich, or you can bring sack lunch.