Home movies on cine film, videos and even TV and film archive can end up covered in fungal mould if they are not stored correctly. The problem is serious, according to Pamela Rutherford, a reporter for BBC News. She writes, "A record of British life on film could be threatened from an emerging 'disease' which eats away at film." Cinematographic film has a layer of gelatin on its surface. This emulsion layer is where the image is formed but also provides ideal food for fungi like Aspergillus and Penicillium. If the fungus forms a layer of mould on a film...
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Some time ago, I wrote about the U.S. Government’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). It is an excellent resource for locating old cemeteries, even small ones of only a dozen graves or even less. As I wrote previously, "The information includes the exact latitude and longitude of each named feature." You can read that article at: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/10/geographic-name.html Our ancestors had to go to some extreme measures to keep from getting lost. They erected monumental landmarks, laboriously drafted detailed maps, and learned to read the stars in...
Reminder –
The Ogden Regional FHC Family History conference will be this Saturday, September 11, 2010.
Weber State University campus, 3848 Harrison Boulevard, Ogden UT in the Shepherd Union Building.
Registration: 7:00 - 8:45 a.m. - Mezzanine Level
Opening Session with Keynote Speaker: 9:00 a.m. - Main Ballroom
Lunch is available for purchase in the atrium
Keynote Speaker - Ron Tanner
Product Manager for the Family History Department. He assists in the research and design of new FamilySearch and companion products. Ron has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from BYU. Previously, he worked as a product manager and engineer at Novell, Citrix, and Bell Laboratories.
Attendees may select from 73 individual classes offered throughout the day.
Classes begin at 10:00 a.m. (For content and locations please see schedule)
There is no cost to attend the conference.
A drawing for vendor donated gifts will be held at 4:00pm in the Wildcat Theater. You must be present to win.
If you’re in the area it will be well worth your time to attend.
For more details please visit: http://www.orfhc.org/ . A 116 page PDF of Course Materials is available for download.
The following is from Ohana Software
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010 - 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM MDT
Syncing Your File with FamilySearch™ using FamilyInsight
Learn to use FamilyInsight to synchronize your file with the new FamilySearch website. We'll walk you through an actual synchronization so you can quickly start updating your records, merging FamilySearch duplicates, and contributing information. We'll also show you how to separate incorrectly combine records, quickly and accurately.
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 - 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM MDT
Care and Repair of Old Photographs
Guest Presenter: Janet Hovorka- Popular Genealogical Speaker
Come learn about what you can do to preserve your photographic heritage. We discuss how photos are formed, what we can do to take care of them and how to restore and enhance them digitally.
We welcome everyone to our Family History Training Webinars. Feel free to use them to help others or even share them via projection screen. If there is a family history topic you would like to learn more about, send your suggestion to webinars@ohanasoftware.com and we'll see what we can do. We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration is free! Please visit: http://www.ohanasoftware.com/?sec=webinars for more details.
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Anxiety has turned to resignation. Finally. The new computer will not be here this week. Not next week. Maybe the week after but definitely by the week of September 27th. No-one told me that it’s possible for it to take up to 40 days to get a replacement computer. (No, I’m not going to compare [...]
I have written a number of times about running Windows programs on Macintosh or Linux computers or even running Macintosh or Linux programs on Windows computers. One of my favorite tools for such things is VirtualBox, a free program. With it, I can run Windows genealogy programs on both my Macintosh and Linux computers. NOTE: VirtualBox is free but if you wish to run Windows programs on either Macintosh or Linux, you will also need a copy of Windows, which certainly is not free.I've been using VirtualBox for several years and love it. Now PCMag.com has a review of the...
Steve Morse is a Jewish computer scientist who had a problem of sorts with the Hebrew calendar and a big question about Rosh Hashana, the New Year. It seemed to him the first Rosh Hashana had fallen on the wrong day of the week, if the rest of the calendar was to fall into place. The ancient Jewish calendar, which is both a solar and lunar calendar, is dauntingly complex to the unschooled. Yet unlocking it is extremely important to many, including historians and genealogists researching vital records from "the old country." When Morse was a teenager, in the years...
FamilySearch has announced a major upgrade of its FamilySearch
Beta site. Its usefulness has already outpaced FamilySearch's familiar Pilot
Record Search site. New features, including the following, make the beta site
easier to use and nudge it closer to replacing FamilySearch.org:
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A new web address at beta.familysearch.org
(though fsbeta.familysearch.org still
works).
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New records, including all those found at the Pilot
Record Search site and more, for 450-plus collections.
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Alphabetized browsing (click All Collections on the FamilySearch
Beta home page to access it) so you can quickly find the collections you’re looking
for. In most cases, the collection title begins with the name of the state or country
where the records were created.
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If you’re interested in only collections with record images, you can click All Collections,
then check a box at the bottom left to see only titles of collection with images.
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You can type apostrophes into the search fields to find names such as O’Hara.
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You can filter your search results by collection category.
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When viewing a record, you can click to see the previous or next record image in the
collection.
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Census results now list all household members with their genders and ages.
- If you’re searching Trees (a link on the FamilySearch Beta home page), where the information from FamilySearch’s Ancestral File is, you can find people by event year—that is, the year of birth, death or marriage.
- For easier navigation and viewing of the site, you’ll find new labels in the header and footer, enhanced color contrast, and visited links that change colors once you’ve already clicked them.
