For those interested — The progress on 1940 census images as of Friday afternoon of the first week is reported at the following link by Diane Haddad in the Genealogy Insider blog of Family Tree Magazine at this link: http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2012/04/06/1940CensusStatusUpdatePMEdition.aspx.
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Almost all the chatter in online genealogy circles this week has been about the release of images of the 1940 census. If you are interested, Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, and archives.gov have the images for free (and there are other sources for free also). That’s the good news. The not-so-good news is that these sites are being [...]
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Mocavo.com offers halp with your online searches while you are sleeping, reading, or just off having a good time. This picture is part of an email displaying results of a research request entered into mocavo (after the Free signup for a Mocavo account). The results are compiled while you are doing other things (on the [...]
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Wood County Genealogical Society members and the general public who wish to access Ancestry.com at no charge may now do so at the Quitman Public Library at Quitman, Texas. As expected, you can go to one of the library internet-connected computers (in the area of the front desk) and log on and start searching. This [...]
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Wood County references are available online at the Portal to Texas History at http://texashistory.unt.edu/. Billing itself as “a gateway to Texas history,” the portal is a project of the University of North Texas. A search at the portal main page (link above) for Wood County, Mineola, Quitman,and Winnsboro yields many digital pages of documents, publications, [...]
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A number of documents and pictures relevant to family history research for Wood County, Texas can be found in the Texas A&M University-Commerce Libraries’ Northeast Texas Digital Collections at http://dmc.tamu-commerce.edu/cdm/ This includes online information from holdings at libraries and museums in Wood and Rains counties. 1. The Gilbreath Memorial Library digital collection consists of photographs [...]
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What do I do next? Ideas for getting un-stuck in my family history journey [Outline for the February program at the WCGSTX Genealogical Society meeting.] The meeting was to help members examine how to get started again or on another part of the personal research journey by examining (1) their progress in research (2) in [...]
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If you missed the FGS Radio Strategic Planning show today, you can now listen to a saved version online or download it to listen as a podcast at this address: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mysociety/2012/02/18/strategic-planning-for-genealogy-societies#.Tz-_0jMiAjc.facebook Thanks to Daniel Norton for posting this link on Facebook on our Wood County Genealogy Research page.
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Probably as a promotion for the fact that the 1940 Census will be released to the public in April, Ancestry.com is offering free online access to the 1930 census this weekend (Feb. 18-190 at this link: http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6224&o_iid=50353&o_lid=50353&o_sch=Web+Property.
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If you can listen at 1 p.m.(CDT) Saturday (Feb. 18), we could discuss sometime next week. Strategic Planning for Genealogy Societies 02/18 by mysociety | Blog Talk Radio.
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