Workday Wednesday - VOTE on Your Break or Lunchtime

Editor's note:  Todays post was written by Sandra Gardner-Benward  & graphics from the ABA website &  Dick Eastmans Blog


I really wanted to pass this onto all our members and guests ......  this is a timely post ending Friday December 20th but I feel it is important to get the word out there, take some pride and have some fun along the way.

Vote For Your Favorite Genealogy Legal Blog

I have featured articles and items from time to time from the Legal Genealogist blog.........  items that might affect you and I as family researchers. It is important that we all keep up with these items and take action when needed to protect and keep our documents open to us.

So that being said, let us have some fun and go and vote for our favaorite Legal Genealogy Blog             "Legal Genealogist" blog. So you can get to the voting from the link above or go straight to the American Bar
Association  ABA voting site 

You will be asked to register. It is free, painless and it helps it keep everything on the up and up - no voting more than once. But you can vote for up to 13 blogs. I only care about the Legal Genealogist and getting her recognition in the Legal world for family researchers all over the globe. Judy Russell does an excellent job keeping us updated of any news - good or bad.

So register and then you will be faced with many categories to choose from. Click on  NICHE, scroll down till you see the Legal Genealogist. There is a box in the upper left hand corner. The top of the box has a question mark and says "votes" and the lower part says "Vote Now". CLICK on the Vote Now. Thank You.

You may want to browse the other blogs and categories.

Reminder the deadline to vote is Friday, December 20, 2013
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Wisdom Wednesday - DNA DNA DNA DNA DNA fa la la fa la la fa la la la la!

Editor's note: Today's post was written by Sandra Gardner-Benward


    HO! HO! HO! here is to the Happiest Holiday Season

Have you finished your holiday shopping? I have an good suggestion for you. It will also help you in your quest to find your ancestors through live relatives.
         What?
 
Yes it will help you find live relatives who may be able to help you discover those pesky lost ancestors.
 
         Well, what can it be?
 AncestyDNA kit.


Let Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society help you save money, and help you support us  - all at the same time. 

For $99 AncestryDNA will get you:

• Breakdown of your genetic ethnicity
• New relatives matches in real time
• Simple integration with your Ancestry tree
• Automatic updates to your results as new
  scientific discoveries are made
• One test that works for men and women

DIRECTIONS to order your kit (s) and to get additional informaiton: 
Go to our website Scroll down to Ancestry icon. Click on the AncestryDNA kits image to see the special offer from Ancestry.com. Be sure to note the code for free shipping (FREESHIPDNA) for later use if you decide to purchase the kit. This free shipping offer expires Dec. 31, 2013. In order for Root Cellar SGS to receive credit for your purchase you do need to go through the Ancestry.com icon on our website.
[NOTE:If your Internet browser accepts cookies from Ancestry.com, then Root Cellar may receive a commission on any purchases you make.]

NOTE also Root Cellar SGS is eligible to win a cash prize from Ancestry for the top three DNA kits sellers. First prize is $25,000, second $10,000 and third $5,000. Of course, We are happy to win any of the prizes but we have just become illigible to offer this, so we are just thrilled to be able to offer this good deal.

 

REMEMBER: deadline December 31, 2013

 

 

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Motivation Monday - A Call to Arms - Are You Aware ........?

Editor's note: Today's post was written by Sandra Gardner-Benward


It would seem that there is something to get up in arms about again in the genealogy community..........  an alert from the  California State Genealogical Society (CSGA), part watchdog for all of the family researchers, has directed us to the Legal Genealogist Blog who is a true legal watchdog for all of us in the genealogy community. 

For those who attended the Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society Holiday Party this week, we were given this very website to read with urgency.
 

Please read Judy Russell's blog The Legal Genealogist (read December 13 post- scroll down when you get to the main page)

 

"The current budget agreement includes a closure of the SSDI for three years after a person's death. While not as bad as it could be, this poses problems for forensic genealogists, heir searchers, etc. Judy has a good blog entry on this and directs you to other sites with information so you can contact your representative." says Peggy Rossi, CSGA Legislative Watch Chair

 

Keep an open mind.

Go to website and Read. 

Bookmark the website.

Keep up-to-date.

Keep yourself informed.

Voice your opinion.

Get involved and stay involved.

Some things are worth the fight, some are not!

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Society Saturday - Publications, Publications, Publications

Editor's note: Today's post was written by Sandra Gardner Benward


Check us out we have been extracting for almost all of our 35 years..........  with very few exceptions, we meet Friday mornings at 9am till noon at the Center of Sacramento History to extract.
Happy times!!

 

 

                                           Introducing our fearless leader Marilyn Ulbricht

 

Anyone that has done any extraction knows that the project is not done when you finish the extraction. Now it needs to be proofed, (like Marilyn is doing in the picture above) and depending on what the project is, how complex or lengthy it may need another proofing. After that is completed the finish detail work begins. Questions to ask: Are you putting it up on the website for all to use, if so do you have room on the website or will you need to store it in dropbox or another storage area; are you putting it into a paper form to distribute or/and sell, who is doing the copy work?; are you going to scan it and run it through a program like lulu.com to store and to sell? 

 

So with input from the committee and board members, this is what Marilyn does after these questions are answered. She goes way above and beyond to make each publication the best it can be. Publications for sale now.

 

 

Here is Toni Ryan and Linda Johnson (and Debora Sharpless, Diane Alaskin, Ruth Barton, Linda Wensrich, LuEllen Pentengell-  not pictured) working on their project boxes with    

                       "Sacramento County Coroner Inquest Records"  1850 - 1978.

 

 

Billie Helms also working on her project box with the

               "Sacramento County Coroner Inquest Records"  1850 - 1978.

 

                                              Charlene Eberwine  working on the volume of the

                              Sacramento County Sheriff' Mug Books

Sandra Benward and Lois Shumaker (not pictured) are working on the "City of Sacramento Records of Death and Internments" - 3 volumes1921-1925, 1925-1929, and 1941-1944 

If you have an interest in helping please contact Marilyn     


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Wordless Wednesday OR NOT - Scan, Camera or iPhone?

Editor's note: Today's post was written by Sandra Gardner-Benward with picture from Charlene Eberwine through the Center of Sacramento History


YES, mug books again......... As you may or maynot know, Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society  is very active extracting, and indexing records from the Sacramento California area. We have been extracting for almost all of our 35 years. For at least the past 10years that I have been a member of Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society has partnered with the Center of Sacramento History and have gotten great guidance from its archivist and vounteer coordinator Patricia Johnson. Big Thanks goes out to Pat and the Center.

Charlene sent me this page from the Sacramento County Sheriff Mug Book she is working from. I thought you would like to see what the actual page looked like that she is acually extracting from.

 

 

Down at the Center we always talk about the different types of hats that each man wears. Times were different and many men did wear a hat as part of their overall attire but some of the hats in the pictures look the same. Some of the hats don't even fit, but they were wearing it anyway, probably not alot of choices. We wonder if each man's picture was taken with a hat on whether they owned one or not.

 

Charlene and Marilyn (Ulbricht) are working on this project. The mug shots books are in such poor condition that we need to be extra careful. The binding on the books has deterioated so much that they are kept in special boxes now. Both Charlene and Marilyn are using their own Flip Pal's to make the copies of the mug pictures. They have both said how easy it has been to use the Flip Pal. Originally we were talking about the Magic Wand Scanner or taking the mug shots with our camera or Iphone, but the Flip Pal won out. Don't know how much longer the project will take but when it is done we will certainly have preserved a valuable resource for the Sacramento, California area.

 

ANNOUNCEMENT:  Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society is involved in an affliate program for the Flip Pal.  So if you have been thinking about purchasing a Flip Pal, now is the time &we have a special 10% discount on a purchase of $170 or more good through December 15. So take the time now, take advantage of the pricing, support Family Research, Genealogy and Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society and click on the link to our webpage and purchase it for you now. Thank you for you support in advance.

 

 

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Society Saturday ......... Mug Books

Editor's note: Posted today by Sandra Gardner Benward - written by Charlene Eberwine

Sacramento County Sheriff Mug Books

 

The Root Cellar extraction volunteers are currently working at the Center for Sacramento. One of the projects is scanning the photos and transcribing the four Sacramento County mug books which are of the men with a few women included.  They begin in 1874 and continue through 1924.  The information within the books vary greatly from giving physical detail to “just the facts” of name, date, crime and sentence. Under the guidance of Marilyn Ulbricht - each week we all work on a project for Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society. In the background Mairlyn is doing some proofing of materials already extracted. Charlene Eberwine with her computer is inputting the pictures and information from one of the four Sacramento County mug books. Very interesting stuff!!

 

 

   

 

See some samples from these mug books below. 

 

 

 

Harry LAKE page 174

#29564

1 year Burglary 2nd degree

Los Angeles

19 Feb 1917

Folsom, #7147

 

 

F. VENAZUELLA   page 174

#27912

3 years Embezzlement

San Diego

17 Feb 1917

San Questin #24851

 

Edd alias M. MILLER alias PETERSON  page 175

#29568

1 year Robbery

Kern

20 Feb 1927

Walla Walla 1 term [M. Peterson]

 

 

John DOE  page 176

#28761

3 years Burglary 1st degree

Kings

13 mar 1917

 

These original Sacramento County mug books are available for research at the Center of Sacramento History, 551 Sequoia Pacific Boulevard,  Sacramento, CA,  95811-0229, 916-808-7072,

Research hours are by appointment only.

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TECH Tuesday - Upgrading to Legacy 8.0 Family Tree NOW

Editor's note:  posted by Sandra Gardner Benward, taken from email created by the Millennia Corporation 


I am excited and anxious about revisiting the Legacy Software SIG at the Family History Center, 2745 Eastern Ave., Sacramento, California - 1pm first Thursday of the month beginning off the new year on 2 January 2014. This is being led by Marion Kile. With the released of Legacy 8 I am very anxious to get together with like minded family researchers and learn all about the "new stuff" which I have included below.

I attended Southern California Jamboree in Burbank, California this past summer and won Legacy 8 Family Tree. I was thrilled since I was already a Legacy Family Tree user and really love it. I also received the Legacy Family Tree - Unlocked! a new book by Legacy's Geoff Rasmussen, is based on the brand new Legacy 8.0. Yes I have been reading it, just waiting for it to be released. So now it will be shipped to me any time.

Below is the news release that came out a couple of days ago, including all the changes and upgrades in this new version.

SURPRISE, Arizona, November 26, 2013. Millennia Corporation, a leader in family history software, today announced the release of Legacy Family Tree 8.0. The new release contains dozens of significant new features and enhancements, including migration mapping, instant duplicate checking, origins and migration reports, potential problem alerts, and shared events.

In one software package, Legacy Family Tree 8.0 provides tools to help users record their family's history, organize their pictures, perform their research, and share their findings.

"Legacy Family Tree 8.0 continues to raise the bar of family history software," said David Berdan, president of Millennia Corporation. "Its new source quality tool, source labels, citations on Pedigree Charts and shared events give serious researchers the tools they need, while the new reports, charts, and family statistics get the entire family excited about their history."

The following new and updated features add to Legacy's list of robust capabilities:

• Origins Report - See where you came from and the percentage of "blood" you have from your countries of origin with the new Origins Report.
• Migration Report - See how far and wide a person's descendants spread out in the world with the new Migration Report.
• Migration Mapping - Legacy animates the ancestor's movement through time. Watch how they migrated from place to place. View their migration in street, aerial, or 3D modes. Hover over the balloon to see what happened in each location.
• Instant Duplicate Checking - As you are adding new individuals to your tree, Legacy instantly checks to see if perhaps they are already in your family file, helping you avoid inadvertently adding duplicates.
• Potential Problem Alerts and Gaps - Typos and accidental misinterpretation of data are now a thing of the past. The warning symbol is displayed immediately next to info that contains a potential problem. Unusual gaps of time are detected that you may have not previously noticed (like too many years between the births of the children).
• Shared Events - Save time and avoid errors by sharing an event amongst all the individuals who participated in the event. You can specify each person's role in the event.
• Family Bow Tie Chart - Displays the ancestors of both the husband and wife, as well as their children.
• Descendant Chart - Now available in left-to-right formatting.
• Source Quality - Now record the quality (original vs derivative, primary vs secondary, etc., direct vs indirect) of each source as you attempt to prove your conclusions.
• Source Labels - Now print Source Labels to attach to the top of your documents. You will never again lose the citation when making a photocopy for someone else.
• Source Clipboard - The Source Clipboard has been expanded to load up to five different citations that can be assigned at the click of a button.
• Pedigree Citations - Add source citations to your Pedigree Charts, and attach the complete bibliography.
• FamilySearch Integration - Share, discuss, download and interact with FamilySearch's Family Tree (optional).
• Wall Charts - Duplicate lines can now be suppressed, saving room for more photographs and captions.
• Chronology View - Now view the parent's, grandparent's, children's, and grandchildren's vital events in your ancestor's timeline.
• User Interface - Enjoy Legacy's modernized look-and-feel, new color schemes, and new ribbon menu bar. Add two additional custom buttons on the new My Toolbar.
• Tagging - View up to 9 tags at once. Advanced Tagging now shows the counts of each tag.
• Automatic Sorting - Children, marriages, and events are now automatically chronologically sorted as they are added. New global sorting tools are also now available.
• Statistics - Understand your family in new ways with dozens of new statistics: births by era, longest living individuals, average lifespan, longest marriages, families with the most children, most popular given names, most popular surnames, most popular locations and more.
• Media Relinker - It is easier than ever to locate missing or unlinked pictures. Moving from one computer to another is simpler to do.
• Media Gatherer - Got pictures all over your computer? The new Media Gatherer will help you copy or move your genealogy pictures to one common folder, making it easier to share your family file with another computer or family member.
• Web Links - Found evidence of your ancestor online? Easily add a web link to their media gallery to organize a list of their online presence.
• Color Coding - You can now color code from two starting points (one for you and one for your spouse, for example) and track the eight great-grandparents' lines.

Good Luck and have Fun!!

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