Posted in News on Feb 27th, 2007
The New England Archivists (NEA) will hold their Spring 2007 meeting on March 30th and 31st, at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford, MA.
One of the workshops held on Friday will be Introduction to Archives: Caring for Historical Records. According to their brochure this workshop is geared for those who:
“…are responsible for the care [...]
Posted in News on Feb 26th, 2007
As many UK listeners of the GTP know, there is a great book and television series called Who Do You Think You Are? available in the UK. Each episode of the show follows a well known UK personality as they research their family tree. There is even a live version of the show [...]
Posted in News on Feb 25th, 2007
For those researchers of British ancestry, there is a Web site that is in the process of providing census data from as far back as 1841, available free on the Internet. The FreeCEN Web site hopes to provide the census images for every county in the UK. It is a volunteer project and they [...]
Posted in News on Feb 23rd, 2007
The Del Mar Historical Society, located in San Diego, is in need of archivists. The society’s collection of historical documents and photographs are currently stored in various locations around town, but they would like to copy and digitize their holdings to make them more accessible.
The society is also in need of a home for [...]
Posted in News on Feb 22nd, 2007
As useful as many of the technologies we use in our research can be, sometimes you have to turn it all off and get back to basics.
Just about every “Introduction to Genealogy” article or book you’ll read advises you to start with what you know (i.e. your personal information) then work backwards; the second step [...]
Posted in News on Feb 21st, 2007
I recently stumbled across Chris Dunham’s The Genealogue Web site while doing research for an article I was writing, and I instantly subscribed to its RSS feed. It’s not that the site had the information I was researching, it’s just enjoyable to read.
The subtitle of The Genealogue is “Genealogy News You Can’t Possibly Use”, but [...]
Posted in Announcements, Tutorials on Feb 19th, 2007
It’s been awhile since I put out a video tutorial, so I spent the morning putting together a new one on adding RSS feeds to your favorite start pages (Netvibes, Google, and Pageflakes).
You can find the Windows Media version of the screencast on the GTP Tutorials page or view/download it from here. I will have [...]
Posted in News on Feb 18th, 2007
Here’s an interesting post on Eva McKinnon’s blog that sheds a little light on Korean ancestry and culture. Eva is Canadian and moved to Korea to teach English for a year. Eva spends Korean New Year’s Day with a local family, she explains:
“Korean society is paternal. Upon entering the home, I was handed [...]
Posted in Announcements, News on Feb 18th, 2007
The biggest issue with the Web site transition was getting the RSS feeds up an working correctly. If you use RSS to automatically keep up-to-date, you can add the GTP’s feed to your favorite reader or start page:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/gtpweb
For some reason Netvibes doesn’t like the new feed but will accept:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/gtpweb?format=xml
Posted in Announcements on Feb 17th, 2007
You probably noticed I’ve (once again) changed the look of the GTP site. The main reason is because I have switched from using RapidWeaver on my Mac, to using the WordPress blogging platform which I can use from any Internet connected computer.
While I love the ease of use of RapidWeaver, using WordPress is [...]
