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Well I took the plunge and started a DNA Family Group at Family Tree DNA, and I welcome all of you HILLENBRANDs out there to join us.

Last weekend I read on DNAkits.org that FTDNA is having a summer SALE and it is on until the end of the week, so I clicked on an order button on the DNA Testing Kits website and placed my order for a 67 marker Y-DNA test.

Then as no one had yet started a group with my surname I volunteered to become the administrator of the new group.

Happy Valentine’s Day !

The Monroe County Library System is a leading digital content producer.

A description in part from their new website is as follows:

Digital Collections consist of photographs, books, manuscripts, maps, directories, postcards, and other items that have been digitized for easy access and for the preservation of original print material held within selected local collections in Monroe County.

The thousands of items found here represent the rich history of the Rochester region. They are of interest to anyone researching local history and genealogy. Digitizing materials allows researchers to have access to items that are rare and fragile. Also, collections throughout the county can now be searched at one online location, thanks to the cooperation of many partner institutions.

The New York State Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, at the state capital in the City of Albany, NY, is the official repository for the original certificates that were issued for Births, Deaths and Marriages for almost all of Upstate New York locations, (other than the cities of Albany, Yonkers and Buffalo prior to 1914.) The filing of certificates was required by law commencing in 1881.

Albany is one of those locations in the state that can mean a City, a Town or a County. For purposes here, when mentioned, it shall mean the City of Albany unless described differently.

Here are just a few of the items that have been added to Ancestry recently.

Historical Newspapers:
Lots of new additions. Check out the photo of the two newsboys sitting with a bag of newspapers of the “Oswego Palladium Times,” on the main banner header for “Historical Newspapers” under “What’s New on Ancestry.com.”

Historical Records:
U.S. Passport Applications, 1787-1925.
A very exciting addition, many with photographs of the person.
New Jersey State Census of 1895.
Historic Land Ownership and References Atlases, 1507-2000. Readers of this Blog will note that these are some of our favorite reference tools.
Historic American Building Survey Photos from the Library of Congress. There are thousands of courthouses, churches, apartment buildings and even family homes in this collection.
British Army Service Records.
Oklahoma Territorial Census, 1890 and 1907.
Ontario Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1869-1932.
Mecklenburg-Schwerin Census, 1890 and 1900.
Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1953.

We have been experimenting with inserting some advertising into our website and Blog, as our regular readers might have noticed.

It is not easy. From time to time you may see some unusual occurrences until we get the bugs out, but when completed will provide some of our recommendations to enhance your library, and we will suggest some tools and gadgets to increase your research ability.

You will actually be able to click from this site and order anything at all from Amazon, and it won’t cost you a penny more!

Shop at Amazon.com!

Extracts from: “Second Annual Meeting of the Pioneer Association of Onondaga County,” published in “The Historical Magazine,” Vol. III, OCT 1870.
(Transcribed by Dick Hillenbrand, Upstate New York Genealogy, www.unyg.com.)
(It is unknown by the transcriber if other editions or annual reports are available, this copy was downloaded from www.books.google.com.)

…Pages 234 through 245,

Report of the meeting, letters from pioneers…

Pages 246, 247,

Necrology [from previous year, since last meeting.]

Camillus.
In Detroit, Mich., Col. Alexander H. REDFIELD, formerly of this County, died Nov. 20, 1869, aged 64 years.
Asa BINGHAM, died January 1870, aged 91 years.

Did your ancestors come through Ellis Island?

If so, then a description of the medical process and hospital system that they likely had to endure, is presented in a new book and film by Lorie Conway titled “Forgotten Ellis Island.”

Thousands of families were separated and an enormous amount of them were sent back or deported because of various medical problems.

A website regarding her book, with maps and photos is located at http://www.forgottenellisisland.com/FEI.swf

Read an excellent article about Ms. Conway and her Ellis Island project in the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/pages/nyregion/index.html

We all have heard various instructors and lecturers tell us that we should keep a log of our genealogical research pursuits. When I started to get serious about genealogy I knew that this monster was going to be hard to reign in unless I started a “system.”

Tuesday October 23, 2007, The Onondaga County Public Library (OCPL) has just upgraded their on-line and in-library catalog, up to the latest technology. OCPL has their complete catalog on the newest version of Polaris Library System’s “Find Tool.”

This is just about the easiest to use and one of the fastest digital library catalogs that I have ever seen or used yet. You have the choices of using traditional keyword searches with title, author, subject, and you can also search using other categories that you might know of, such as general notes, publisher, genre, series, ISSN, LCCN, publisher number, SuDoc, CODEN or STRN.

The latest news coming through the ether is that the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston has joined in a partnership with the ever growing and newsworthy Ancestry.com !

There are special discounts for memberships and purchases, for instance, to start, all current NEHGS members can purchase Ancestry.com’s U.S. Deluxe membership, normally priced at $155.40, for only $99.95!

Additionally, if your NEHGS membership has lapsed, or if you’ve been putting off joining the NEHGS family, this is a terrific time to rejoin. You can purchase both an NEHGS annual Research membership and a U.S. Deluxe Ancestry.com membership together for one low price of $155.40.

Readers may remember that I have blogged before about the marvelous maps, all in original color, that have been available at historicmapworks.com. See my previous blogs at: http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/2007/01/maps-maps-maps-historicmapworkscom.html, and here: http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/2007/08/update-on-historicmapworkscom.html.

Well now they have just notified me that you can now access all of their gorgeous maps by having an account with ancestry.com. The difference is that with ancestry you will be able to view the maps in full size scans, and you will be able to copy and paste them into your genealogies or printout various sizes of these maps. If you already have an account at Ancestry and are logged on, then you can go right to the new map section here: http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1205&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0

Read any good newspapers lately?

Here are some ideas and places to search for information on early newspapers in any area of New York State.

First I go to the New York State Library Newspaper Project website and catalog at:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/nygcty.htm . You can see what the library has on microfilm in their collection, all of which may be ordered for your own use through inter-library loan (IIL.) There is also a way that you can purchase any of these microfilms, at a fairly reasonable rate.

Dear readers please keep an eye out for the summer issue of “The Researcher,” the newsletter of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, (G&B.)

The chairman will describe in terms barely more understandable than those of the illustrious Professor Irwin Corey, that the G&B has a bright future. To tell you the truth, I do not know exactly what this report says. When I first heard some rumors about this current announcement, it had been interpreted by some that the G&B was going to dissolve and the collections were going to be sold. That is not what it says, or not yet, anyway.

This is an update on HistoricMapWorks.com. Read previous Blog here:
http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/2007/01/maps-maps-maps-historicmapworkscom.html

This is a subscription site, however some of the features may be checked before subscribing. Their company seems to primarily be in the business of selling map reprints, however their county atlases and wall maps can be viewed and zoomed in on to locate your ancestor’s place of residence.

The Central New York Genealogical Society (CNYGS) has been publishing their journal “Tree Talks” since their inception. This is a journal of mostly transcribed records of original documents from normally obscure or hard to locate records.

“Tree Talks” has been publishing these records arranged by county in each of their issues. CNYGS now is offering “County Packets” which will include all of the previously published materials arranged by the county of your choice. This is an excellent resource and will help to break down several brick walls for sure.

Is the NYG&BS going to change their familiar name?

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society was formed in 1869, and has for a long time been lovingly referred to by the membership and others as the “G&B.”

It is now likely that the “entire 15 members” of the newly revised society, in order to match their abbreviated membership rolls, will likely shorten their familiar name to “BS.” It is suspected that by not having to print the ampersand in all of their future publications that the society might be able to gain back the 100,000 dollars that they lost when the “former” members exercised their legal rights and held the Board of Trustees feet to the flames, so to speak.

071907

Report on NYG&B special meeting Thursday, July 19th 2007 at High Noon.

I came by train Wednesday night, only took 8 hours, instead of the normal five. Yeaah AMTRAK! Got to the door of the G&B exactly at 9:30 am, might as well do some research until the meeting starts, right? Wrong, the research library would be closed until 12:30. “I am a member; may I please wait inside in the meeting room?” “Well…” “I am supposed to meet Roger Joslyn here.” “I’m sorry; you will have to wait outside.” (Thinking, maybe this is not going to go well.)

19 July 1846 – The first Women’s Rights Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
(Voting is such a wonderful right and privilege.)

19 July 1941 – Winston Churchill was the first to use the two fingers “V is for Victory” sign.
(Be confident and win through strength.)

19 July 2007 – The members of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society vote “NO” to defeat the bylaws modification that would take all of their membership rights away.
(Thanks to all concerned members.)

(If you are a recent reader of this blog, please click on other listings on the left side to read further on this subject.)

The following message was sent to me and I am encouraging all unyg.com readers to read carefully. Dick Hillenbrand – www.unyg.com.

Dear Concerned Members of the NYGBS:

We’ve been asked by many members if it’s too late to change their proxy
votes to “no” or submit a proxy for the first time and have that vote
counted at the G&B’s special meeting this Thursday, July 19.

It’s not too late, and we can help. But you need to act right away by faxing
your proxy.

If:

This Blog is prompted by a couple of crisis state situations that are occurring right now!

The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B) will be having a vote to amend the By-Laws on July 19th, 2007 that if approved would “ELIMINATE MEMBERSHIPS!”

Oh, you would still be able to have a membership and pay a fee to use the facility or online services, however no one other than a fifteen person Board of Directors would ever have any say or input into the business operations of the society. My, My, what a shame that would be.

ANNOUNCING NEW DATABASE:
MARRIAGE INDEX FOR
RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK

In addition to the Troy Irish Genealogy Society mailing list, this message is also being sent to the following genealogy mailing lists:

Readers will recall that I previously touted the marvelous newspaper database site of Tom Tryniski and listed some of the excellent newspapers that are on-line and fully searchable.
See: newspapers.

Well there has been a tragic attack on Tom’s website as some person or persons attempted to steal massive amounts of automated data extraction and they not only crashed the system but destroyed it!

We all know that New York State’s Vital Records are sealed for several years, such as 75 years for births, 50 years for deaths, and 50 years for marriages, right?

Well did you know that there was a small group of years that sort of slipped through the cracks of the NYS Department of Health, Vital Records Department and have been readily available since their creation? Generally speaking the years from about 1908 to about 1935 the marriage records were kept by the various county clerks and because of that you should have total access to them. There are some exceptions of course on the range of years and also as to some counties might still restrict access. However there is a work around.

Well we dit it! See our new url!

Please take notice and bookmark our NEW url: www.UNYG.com.

Any of the following will still work and will take you to the same place; www.ny-genes.com. www.unyg.org, www.unyg.net, but the main one from now on will be www.UNYG.com.

We think that it should be easier to remember. “U”pstate “N”ew “Y”ork “G”enealogy= UNYG.com.