Join us for our CHRISTMAS SOCIAL
DATE: 9 December 2024
TIME: 5:30-6:30 Museum Open House
6:30-8:00 Catered Dinner, Games
PLACE: Charles Bender Performing Arts Center
611 Higgins Street, Humble TX 77338
COST: $30 per person
Pay by mailing check to
PO Box 2723, Humble TX 77347-2727
or at https://www.humblegen.org/ join
Go to Join page, click paypal donate button
Due by December 1st
Mentor Monday - this Monday, 18 November 2024
7:00 PM, ZOOM ONLY. Meeting ID 857 4016 4965
This is your chance to discuss, share, and ask questions about anything related to genealogy that you want.
If conversation lags, we will pursue . . . some of these
--Follow Up from “All the News” Monthly Meeting Presentation.
In his handouts, Kelvin Meyers mentioned these sites . . . do you know how to use them? Would you like us to show lookups from these sites? We can access any of them for you that night.
Chronicling America https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ (library of congress)
US Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present
Or American Newspapers 1821-1936: a Union List of Files Available in the United
States and Canada (available online at HathiTrust, also at Clayton)
Google News Archive
New information: https://news.google.com/news/
Old newspapers: http://news.google.com/newspapers
SmallTownPapers: http://www.smalltownpapers.com
($) Newspaper Archives: http://newspaperarchive.com
($) GenealogyBank: http://genealogybank.com (newsbank)
($) Ancestry.com Newspaper.com Indexes, etc.
--FamilySearch Labs, Full-Text Search: https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text
Have you tried it? What has worked? What has not worked? What have you found to be the
most effective way to search?
--FamilySearch old/new image viewers. Have you seen the difference? Can you navigate both?
Example of old viewer: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-W4C1-X
Example of new viewer: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-W4C1-X?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AVBMB-63G&action=view
--abbreviated URL in citations…film numbers vs Image Group Numbers . . .
….upcoming catalog
--record details page, EDIT
Reminder sent out on Monday with link
THAGS BUS TRIP -- This Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Contact Pam Walton to sign up. 281-358-6449. Trip to Clayton Library, 9 AM-4 PM. Research and help each other!
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