Glad to hear that Godfrey Library has grown. I had a membership for several years and finally dropped it , not finding much of value for my research in the south. But it is well worth checking out for New England. Joyce Nunnery -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> Sent 6/12/2008 8:30:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NCDOGS] Database AccessibleThe Godfrey Memorial Library is a genealogical library in Middletown, Connecticut that has grown immensely in its holdings in recent years and it is now offering free access for ten days through WorldVitalRecords.com. The email announcing it was dated June 10. So if some of your Orange County family had New England roots you may be able to find something of use to you there. Carol Boggs ************** Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102) ************************* Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I need to produce the newsletter next week and get it in the mail, as I will be out of town all of the following week. If you have anything that you wish published in the newsletter, please get it to me ASAP (by next Wednesday). -- Richard =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Richard K. Ellington ITS Facilities Manager Information Technology Services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 440 W. Franklin St., CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1150 Control Center - http://control-center.unc.edu 919-698-8591 (voice) 919-843-9153 (fax) [email protected] "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job". -Winston Churchill =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=

The Godfrey Memorial Library is a genealogical library in Middletown, Connecticut that has grown immensely in its holdings in recent years and it is now offering free access for ten days through WorldVitalRecords.com. The email announcing it was dated June 10. So if some of your Orange County family had New England roots you may be able to find something of use to you there. Carol Boggs ************** Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)

Thanks Mary, yes it is, isn't it? I wonder how I did that? The meeting will be held on Saturday as usual, the 14th. ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&amp;NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

June 16 is Monday [email protected] wrote: > The Computer SIG will meet in the small conference room in the Chapel Hill > Public Library on Saturday June 16, from 9 to 12, so pick up your laptop and > come along. We will look at some of the map sites Diane Richard mentioned in her > most interesting presentation tonight at the D-OGS meeting. Bring some of your > family's early locations and let us see if we can locate the old home place > in NC. Everybody's welcome, whether computer lit > > We'll look at the web sites you send me between now and then and visit some > new favorite web sites from genealogy publications and lists. Please send them > well before the meeting if possible so I can put them onto the agenda. > > By the way, I just noticed that "History Detectives" will air again this year > on UNC TV starting Monday, June 30, at 9 PM. If you've watched previous > seasons' programs you'll remember how interesting it is, and how similar to some of > our own searches for information about our ancestors. > > Carol Boggs > > > ************** > Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch > "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. > > (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&amp;NCID=aolfod00030000000002) > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- Mary Ellis County Coordinator Alamance NCGenWeb http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mwellis/ http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncacgs/ http://ncgenweb.us/alamance/

The Computer SIG will meet in the small conference room in the Chapel Hill Public Library on Saturday June 16, from 9 to 12, so pick up your laptop and come along. We will look at some of the map sites Diane Richard mentioned in her most interesting presentation tonight at the D-OGS meeting. Bring some of your family's early locations and let us see if we can locate the old home place in NC. Everybody's welcome, whether computer lit We'll look at the web sites you send me between now and then and visit some new favorite web sites from genealogy publications and lists. Please send them well before the meeting if possible so I can put them onto the agenda. By the way, I just noticed that "History Detectives" will air again this year on UNC TV starting Monday, June 30, at 9 PM. If you've watched previous seasons' programs you'll remember how interesting it is, and how similar to some of our own searches for information about our ancestors. Carol Boggs ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&amp;NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

Wednesday, 4 June 2008 -- D-OGS Meeting TOPIC: "Exploring North Carolina through Maps from your easy chair." Speaker: Diane Richard Diane Richard is a professional genealogist and presently the First Vice President of the Wake County Genealogical Society, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncwcgs/. Diane is the sole proprietor of Mosaic Research and Project Management: http://www.mosaicrpm.com/ ThinkGenealogy has listed Diane L. Richard as the most prolific of the "Top 10 Genealogy and Technology Most Published Authors of 2007! http://www.thinkgenealogy.com/2008/01/01/top-10-genealogy-and-technology-most-published-authors-of-2007/ D-OGS Meeting will be held on: Wednesday evening, 4 June 2008 at 7 p.m. Duke Homestead Visitor's Center 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 Phone: (919) 477-5498 One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm ********************************

The D-OGS June 2008 Newsletter is now available online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memberspage/ Is your family having a reunion? Do you have news or events you want to include in the monthly Newsletter? If you are a faraway D-OGS member, do you have information of interest about your local genealogical society, library, cemetery, etc.? Email your write-ups and material to Newsletter Editor, Richard Ellington, [email protected] or call: 919.967.4168 *************************

In case you had not heard: Free Military Records 'Til May 31 Mark Ancestry.com-NARA Agreement To celebrate the signing of a five-year digitization agreement with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), The Generations Network (TGN) will make Ancestry.com’s military records collection free May 20 through May 31. (Normally, you'd need an Ancestry.com subscription at $155.50 per year.) Some notable records in that collection include the Civil War pension index, Revolutionary War and War of 1812 bounty land warrants, and WWI and WWII draft registration cards. Now for the new agreement: NARA and TGN already have been collaborating to digitize records, but now TGN staff and equipment will be on-site at NARA to speed up the process. TGN will index the records and make them available to Ancestry.com subscribers; access will be free in all NARA research facilities. TGN also will give NARA copies of the record images and indexes. Digitizing will start with Immigration and Naturalization Service passenger and crew arrival and departure lists (1897 to 1958) and death notices of US citizens abroad (1835 to 1974). Neither record set has been available outside NARA research rooms. -- Richard =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Richard K. Ellington ITS Facilities Manager Information Technology Services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 440 W. Franklin St., CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1150 Control Center - http://control-center.unc.edu 919-698-8591 (voice) 919-843-9153 (fax) [email protected] "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job". -Winston Churchill =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=

While continuing to weed through the emails that accumulated while I was in CT, I noted that the April 18 issue of the NGS newsletter had an item that may apply to the question asked about a book on preserving records and heirlooms. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Member Benefit - Research Aid and Forms  The National Genealogical Society is proud to announce its latest member benefit, Research Aids and Forms to its members. NGS thanks Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL, author of The Organized Family Historian: How to File, Manage, and Protect Your Genealogical Research and Heirlooms, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 2004 for allowing NGS to post the following forms for use by our members. To view the same, please click on   https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/Members/Forms/forms.cfm and log on when prompted. Maybe this will help. Does anyone have any knowledge of this book? Carol ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&amp; ?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

thank you Ginny. I miss attending the meetings since I now live below Charlotte. Any info you can put on-line will help me very much. Doris Saunders> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 21:45:36 -0500> From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: [NCDOGS] Fw: D-OGS Online Query from Durham County Library> > Carol wrote:> >Am I the only one who might have an interest in > >this?> Nope, I was just about to write the same note you just sent and suggest that> notes be taken for people who are not able to attend because of distance.> Ginny> Durham, NC> > > > *************************> Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/> Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_family_safety_052008

R/T our preservation topic, this article addresses a parallel situation in which technology has altered the state of the photos we are currently taking. There's also an interesting role for mothers I had not considered before, but heck, he's right! "Digital age threatens the family photo album" http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23660772-30538,00.html Carol ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&amp; ?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

Paul, perhaps one of the librarians who subscribes to the list might have a suggestion about the book. Yes, I know Lynn is a librarian, but as all MD's do not cover the same specialty, librarians have different backgrounds as well. Maybe one of our "distant D-OGS" has a favorite reference librarian nearby who can lend his/her expertise. Carol ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&amp; ?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

This might be two D-OGS programs, one on preservation and another on documentation, including source citation, of documents, photos, objects, etc. We had a program on preservation a few years ago provided by a speaker from the State Archives - time to do it again. Suggestions please for a speaker on the documentation program. While I do not want to stop this discussion, please continue, I would like to remind every one of the original query. While the gentleman that sparked the original query may be very interested in this discussion, his query asked for a recommendation on a book on this subject. Anyone? Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:40 PM Many of us have documents, photos, and objects that were passed down to us and have questions about their preservation and documentation. I would enjoy a program on the topic for a D-OGS meeting addressing not only preservation, but documentation including source citation, and relevance to the family and so on. I think that learning about ways to photograph and digitize a variety of material so it could be shared with other descendants on CDs, DVDs or in print would be interesting and useful. Am I the only one who might have an interest in this? Carol ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&amp; ?NCID=aolfod00030000000002) ************************* Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Many of us have documents, photos, and objects that were passed down to us and have questions about their preservation and documentation. I would enjoy a program on the topic for a D-OGS meeting addressing not only preservation, but documentation including source citation, and relevance to the family and so on. I think that learning about ways to photograph and digitize a variety of material so it could be shared with other descendants on CDs, DVDs or in print would be interesting and useful. Am I the only one who might have an interest in this? Carol ************** Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4&amp; ?NCID=aolfod00030000000002)

Carol wrote: >Am I the only one who might have an interest in >this? Nope, I was just about to write the same note you just sent and suggest that notes be taken for people who are not able to attend because of distance. Ginny Durham, NC

After shifting thru numerous books over years, it became apparent that digitizing was essential to at least preserve and protect the originals. A daunting task to say the least. Of course some form of index is needed. I have about 150 yrs of original family correspondence and diaries and photos. I have been doing for several years. I next transcribed the correspondence. I continue to keep this information in binders. Bit by bit I have transfered to DVDs. Sometimes I am able to find someone to help thru this process. This has been an ongoing issue to me, particularly involving the general nature of correspondence and diaries. I shied away from a family website which would include correspondence because for privacy issues. Am gradually also scanning all the photographs. I continue to maintain originals and the digitized and transcriptions and upon request of family members will generate copies. I would love to discuss this and share ideas with another person facing the same situation. Mary Whittier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hollinghurst net" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:44 PM Subject: [NCDOGS] Fw: D-OGS Online Query from Durham County Library > Here is a general genealogy query from Lynn Richardson of the Durham > County > Library. Please answer back to the list so that we may all benefit. > Thanks! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lynn Richardson" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:34 PM. > > Name: Lynn Richardson > Addr: NC Collection > City: Durham > State: NC > Zip: 27701 > Phone: 919 560-0171 > Email: [email protected] > > Status: member > > Surnames: none > > Query: A man came into the NC Collection the other day looking for > guidance > on organizing and preserving his family correspondence, as well as > organizing other genealogy materials, especially photos. (He has > digitized > the materials, but this question regards the actual, physical items.) I > had > materials for archivists, which were too detailed. The genealogy > reference > books the collection holds didn't really address his question fully > enough. > Does anyone know of a good book to recommend? I found lots of online > information, but he seemed to want a book. > . > > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Here is a general genealogy query from Lynn Richardson of the Durham County Library. Please answer back to the list so that we may all benefit. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Richardson" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:34 PM. Name: Lynn Richardson Addr: NC Collection City: Durham State: NC Zip: 27701 Phone: 919 560-0171 Email: [email protected] Status: member Surnames: none Query: A man came into the NC Collection the other day looking for guidance on organizing and preserving his family correspondence, as well as organizing other genealogy materials, especially photos. (He has digitized the materials, but this question regards the actual, physical items.) I had materials for archivists, which were too detailed. The genealogy reference books the collection holds didn't really address his question fully enough. Does anyone know of a good book to recommend? I found lots of online information, but he seemed to want a book. .

I just heard David Rencher speak at the NGS conference in Kansas City and he was a very good speaker. The subject was the Familysearch labs website, so I would assume he would be good speaking on his specialty. Ginny On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Paul Hollinghurst wrote: >> From Ulster to the Carolinas: Finding Your Scots -Irish Ancestors > North Carolina Genealogical Society & Olde Mecklenburg Genealogical > Society > Summer Workshop > Saturday, July 26, 2008 > The Methodist Home, 3420 Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina > > Presenting > David E. Rencher, AG, CG, FUGA > > For more information: > http://www.ncgenealogy.org/Events/2008/NCGS_2008_Summer_Program.pdf > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Mabel, I'm delighted you can make it - thanks for the link! Carol ************** Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)