"Tracing Our Roots" Newsletter Archive (A monthly genealogy newsletter written by the late Brenda Kellow, dec'd, for the Plano Star Courier newspaper. We've included all the ones we could recover.)
Professional researchers can sometimes help in finding difficult ancestors. Just listening to something said, or attending a workshop can give just the enlightenment needed. Do you need help with a line or pioneer? There is help for you this coming October, and the workshop will be held in Plano.
Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries proudly announces that Pat Hatcher will be the speaker for their October 19, 2002, all-day workshop at the Plano Municipal Center, 1520 Avenue L in Plano, Texas. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. The workshop will be from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. To register early, visit Geenealogy Friends website at www.geocities.com/genfriendsghl. You can also send an e-mail to genfriends@aol.com.
Patricia Law Hatcher, CG, FASG is a genealogical lecturer, teacher, writer, and volunteer; a professional genealogist; and a trustee of the Association of Professional Genealogists. She has done genealogical research since 1982. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, currently residing in Dallas, Texas, her constantly migrating ancestors lived in Denmark, England, Scotland, Ireland, all of the original colonies prior to 1800, and 17 other states presenting her with highly varied research problems.
Her special research interests include problem lineages, colonial New England, colonial Virginia, early Kentucky, Salem witchcraft, cemeteries and tombstones, naming patterns, and land platting. She enjoys her contacts with other genealogists, is heartened by their willingness and eagerness to learn, and believes When you search for ancestors, you find friends.
The topic of the seminar will be Ancestors Hiding in Plain Sight. The four subjects she will cover are:
Evaluating Evidence - A Methodology of Every Day
Look Again! What did you Miss?
My Ancestor Isn't in the Census". Are you Sure?
Computer Techniques to Help Good Genealogist Become Even Better.
Hatcher is an excellent researcher and lecturer who may just have that clue to finding that hidden ancestor who is hiding, maybe in plain sight.
WORLD WAR I: Want to see World War I photo sites? This war was thought to be the war to end all wars. It is at www.ku.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/location.htm
GEDCOM YOUR MATERIAL TO YOUR WEBSITE: Now that you have collected your material, it is time to upload this to your own personal website. This can be done by your genealogy software or by using a commercial site for this. Some of these are free; others may charge a small fee. Two sites that offer a free website are GeoCities and Rootsweb s Free Pages.
First, select a good, modern genealogy program and enter your findings. Remove any reference to living people beginning the GEDCOM. Second, get a website. When doing this, you might want to arrange to have an e-mail address that pertains to the name of your website. For example, for my www.GeoCities.com/BurnsProject site, I obtained BurnsProject@aol.com as a second e-mail address. This address is only for communication between visitors to the site. Most of your servers allow a second address, sometimes as many as 5-8.
For more on this subject, read Getting Started at www.searchforancestors.com/webpage/gedcom.html.
HERITAGE QUEST/PROQUEST ONLINE: Great News! We have been waiting for Heritage Quest and ProQuest to put their genealogy library online, and now it is! Just visit your local Plano Library, sign up for a library card if you don t have one, ask for the login information for the genealogy site online and you can research their vast library of genealogical information on the Internet through the TexShare Databases through the Texas Library System. The best part I have saved for last: It is FREE. Not everything in their collection nor all the census information is online at this time, put more will be added each week. I ll have more on this next week. Watch this column for more news.
QUERY: Melanie Spear, 1534 Shadow Run, Weatherford, TX 76086, larspe56@aol.com is researching the life of Dr. Rufus Burleson and needs a history of his family. She suspects that he was in her family tree. Her family was from the Independence, MO and Alabama area. She says her grandmother often told her stories of Dr. Burleson. If you have any information concerning Dr. Rufus Burleson, Melanie Spear would be grateful if you would contact her at the above address.
Brenda Kellow, dec'd, Certified Genealogist and Certified Genealogical Instructor, had a Bachelor s Degree in history and taught genealogy courses at the local Community College and computer genealogy at the University.
