The following announcement was written by TheGenealogist:

The Crystal Palace, Penge, in the Bromley Valuation Office records

More than 109,000 new IR58 Valuation Office land tax records for owners and occupiers have been added by TheGenealogist to its Lloyd George Domesday Survey records.

Researchers can now discover all types of interesting details about the homes of their ancestors from the Lewisham and Bromley areas. Diamond subscribers of TheGenealogist can find what their forebears' property was like in the years before WWI using the scanned images of the field books. These documents reveal what the surveyor from the years between 1910 and 1915 recorded about the size, state of repair and value of the house.

Detail from a Field Book from Lewisham Valuation Office area

As all the records are linked to the large scale Ordnance Survey maps that were used at the time, each property is shown plotted on detailed mapping on TheGenealogist’s Map Explorer™. This exceptionally useful tool, with its ability to show the same point on a variety of modern and historical maps, allows the house or family historian to see how the area may have changed over time and to explore their ancestors' locality.

In the case of this release we can see how in Bromley the Crystal Palace was still standing in fine parkland with fountains and other features. The Palace, having burnt down in the 1930s, its footprint is today given over to trees and grass on the modern map views. Across the road from its entrance had been a railway station in 1910 which today has subsequently been completely built over with new homes.

Lloyd George Domesday Survey linked map on Map Explorer™

• • TheGenealogist’s Lloyd George Domesday records link individual properties to extremely detailed maps used in 1910-1915 viewed on the powerful Map Explorer™

• • Fully search the records by person’s name, county, parish and street

• • Maps zoom down to show individual properties where they were plotted in the 1910s

• • Georeferenced to a modern street map or satellite map underlay to more clearly understand what the area looks like today

Total number of Owners and Occupiers in the current release: 109,177

Areas covered in Lewisham (63,451 Owners and Occupiers): Blackheath, Brockley, Catford, Deptford North, Deptford South, Forest Hill, Hatcham, Lee, Lewisham, Lower Sydenham and Upper Sydenham.

Areas released for Bromley (45,726 Owners and Occupiers): Beckenham, Bromley, Chelsfield, Chislehurst, Mottingham, Orpington, Penge, St Mary Cray

Read TheGenealogist’s article: From a Crystal Palace to the home of a Lord Mayor embroiled in scandal https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2022/from-a-crystal-palace-to-the-home-of-a-lord-mayor-embroiled-in-scandal-1593/

About TheGenealogist

TheGenealogist is an award-winning online family history website, who put a wealth of information at the fingertips of family historians. Their approach is to bring hard to use physical records to life online with easy to use interfaces such as their Tithe and newly released Lloyd George Domesday collections.

TheGenealogist’s innovative SmartSearch technology links records together to help you find your ancestors more easily. TheGenealogist is one of the leading providers of online family history records. Along with the standard Birth, Marriage, Death and Census records, they also have significant collections of Parish and Nonconformist records, PCC Will Records, Irish Records, Military records, Occupations, Newspaper record collections amongst many others.

TheGenealogist uses the latest technology to help you bring your family history to life. Use TheGenealogist to find your ancestors today!

The following announcement was written by the Augusta (Georgia) Genealogical Society:

Annual Symposium

2022
Virtual Genealogical Program

Presented by the Augusta Genealogical Society

Augusta, Georgia

When:    Saturday, August 27, 2022

Time:      9:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m  EST

Where:    Online - Register at https://www.augustagensociety.org/

                Registration deadline is August 26, 2022

Price:      $35.00 for AGS members and $45.00 for non-members

Session 1: Guide to the 1950 US Federal Census

Speaker:  Lisa Louise Cooke

Guide to the 1950 U. S. Census. How to find your family in the newly released census by using census tract maps, initially available limited indexes, and what the 1950 Census tells us about our families.

Lisa Louise Cooke is the author of several books including The Genealogist's Google Toolbox.  She produces and hosts the popular Genealogy Gems Podcast and weekly videos at the Genealogy Gems YouTube channel.  She offers a Premium Membership service at her website at https://lisalouisecooke.com featuring exclusive on-demand genealogy education. Lisa also writes a regular column for Family Tree Magazine and produces the Family Tree Magazine Podcast.

 

Sessions 2, 3 and 4:  Genealogy and DNA

Speaker:  Diane Southard

Session 2: DNA Questions Answered. Understanding the basics of DNA and the terminology that is used.

Session 3: Using YDNA and mtDNA in Your Family History. Learn how both YDNA (thedirect male line), and Mitochondrial DNA (the direct female line) can enliven your familyhistory research.
Session 4: Connecting DNA Matches. How to identify and organize the cousin connections among those in your Autosomal DNA matches. Work together to determine how you are related to your matches and how to use that information to find ancestors.

Diahan Southard is a leading voice for consumer DNA testing, one of the world’s most fascinating, dynamic and socially-transformative new hobbies. As Founder of Your DNA Guide, Diahan teaches internationally, writes for popular magazines, and consults with leading testing companies. She authored Your DNA Guide–The Book and produced Your DNA Guide–the Academy, an online learning experience.

JOIN AGS NOW and enjoy the benefits of several programs, which will be free to members in 2022.

The Augusta Genealogical Society is a non profit organization founded in Augusta, Georgia in September 1979.

NOTE: This article has nothing to do with genealogy. If you are looking for genealogy-related information, I suggest you skip this article.

If you have been reading this newsletter for a while, you probably already know that I am a fanatic for going paperless. Life without paper is good! Also, life without paper can save a lot of time and frustration when later trying to locate and retrieve items.

For instance, a few months ago, I traveled and stayed in a hotel room in Anchorage, Alaska. If I wanted a document or some other bit of information I saved in an earlier week or even in an earlier year, I could quickly retrieve it from my paperless filing system, even from Alaska. Try doing that with paper! To retrieve anything from paper files when needed, I would need to carry a 4-drawer or larger filing cabinet as my carry-on luggage on the plane!

Aaron Couch published an article on the MakeUseOf web site several years ago that describes the easier ways to convert to a paperless existence. Admittedly, I only found the article recently and am impressed with it.

Aaron writes:

"Paperless – a term that is used quite often now days. But what does it mean? And to what extent does it apply? Certainly we all still use paper to some degree despite the advancements in technology, so how can we go completely paperless?

"Well, the truth is, there will likely always be some form of paper, but the problem doesn’t lie in using paper itself, but instead having awareness for the amount used and methods of which it is being used for."

He then describes:

• Alternatives To Printing & Paper Notes
• Print To PDF
• Save As WWF, Save A Tree
• Electronically Sign Documents
• Use Your Smartphone For Notes
• Clip Webpages Instead Of Printing Them
• Cutting Down On [Snail] Mail
• Get Your Bank Statements Via Email
• Fill Out Forms Online
• Email Invoices (For Businesses)
• Get Your News & Information Online
• Unsubscribe From Mailing Lists
• Pay Your Bills Online
• Scan Existing & New Documents
• Use A File Organizer, Preferably With OCR
• Sync Your Documents Across All Devices
• Conclusion: Helpful Methods To Adopt

If you would like to simplify your life, start by reading The Future Is Here – Your Guide to Having a Paperless Life Today by Aaron Couch at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/future-guide-paperless-life-today/. A related video, How to go Paperless with a Digital Filing System, can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VJopCHem0.

Also see my earlier article, Possibly the Best (?) Document Scanner for Home and Office Use, at: https://www.eogn.com/page-18080/12284742.

One of the more famous unsolved murder mysteries is that of JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old American child beauty queen who was killed in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. You can read more about the case in Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_JonBen%C3%A9t_Ramsey.

Now Cece Moore, chief genetic genealogist at Parabon and a well-known person within the genealogy community, has volunteered to become involved.

Moore said Tuesday that it’s possible that Boulder police are working behind the scenes on similar research that doesn’t involve her.

"I’m not involved in it, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t trying," she said. Police often do not discuss genetic genealogy until a case has been solved, in order to avoid tipping off potential suspects, she said.

Boulder police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

You can read a lot more about the latest proposals at: https://fxn.ws/3PE5y0B.

If you own a Google tablet (which primarily means Android devices), you will be interested in the new announcement from the company:

Google announced that it’s updating some of its apps to work better on tablets.

Google introduced Android 12L earlier this year to make tablets easier to use, and at I/O, the company announced plans to update more than 20 Google apps on tablets to optimize them for larger screens. Google said it’s adding several new features for Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and Keep to get started on this promise.

The most notable feature announced today is the ability to drag text or images between two Workspace apps when you have them open side-by-side. Google notes that you can now drag text or images from apps, such as Chrome or Sheets, and drop that content right into an existing document or spreadsheet cell. In Google Drive, you’ll be able to quickly upload files by dragging and dropping them into the app. You can also add links to Drive files by dragging the file into an open app like Keep.

Google also announced that you can now open two Drive windows side-by-side to get better insight into your files. To do this, you need to select the three-dot menu on any Drive file and tap on the “Open in new window” option. Google notes that this helps you get the information you need without having to hit the back button multiple times.

You can read more at: https://tcrn.ch/3PZNkGU.

The following is a press release issued by the Tennessee Secretary of State:

James Ritter (Image via TN Sec. of State)

Secretary of State Tre Hargett announces James Ritter has been selected as the next Tennessee State Librarian and Archivist. Ritter, who served as the State Librarian of Maine for the last eight years, started his new position on July 25, 2022.

The State Librarian and Archivist directs operations at the Tennessee State Library & Archives, a division of the Department of State. To preserve Tennessee’s history for current and future generations, the Library & Archives collects and preserves books, records and other documents of historical and reference value, focusing on items about Tennessee and Tennesseans.

The Library & Archives also operates the Tennessee Regional Library System, which provides training and support for public libraries across Tennessee and oversees the Library for Accessible Books & Media, which offers free library services for Tennesseans with disabilities.

“I am proud to welcome Mr. Ritter as our new State Librarian and Archivist,” said Secretary Hargett. “We are fortunate to have someone with his extensive skill set and admirable background to fill this position. I am confident that Mr. Ritter will provide a clear vision and leadership for the State Library & Archives, and he will build on the solid foundation laid by his predecessors.”

Ritter joined the Maine State Library in 2012 and was selected to be the State Librarian of Maine in 2014. Prior to that, he served as the Deputy Director of the Camden Public Library in Camden, Maine. Ritter currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) and has worked extensively with the Maine Library Commission to develop and advocate for legislation to improve Maine’s public libraries. Ritter earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Delaware and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science and a Master of Science in Organizational Creativity and Innovation from Drexel University.

“I am excited to join the incredible team at the Tennessee State Library & Archives, and it’s an honor to be part of a wonderful organization that serves all Tennesseans,” said Ritter. “The investment and the trust that has been placed in the Library & Archives is evident, and I look forward to contributing to the tradition of providing great library and archival services to the people of Tennessee.”

Ritter will replace Charles Sherrill, who retired from the post after 12 years as State Librarian and Archivist.

Kathleen Miller has written an article about an issue that many of us will someday face: when moving into assisted living and if you have years and years of genealogy research, projects and documents, what is the best method of preserving the information and keeping it available to both yourself and to anyone else who may be interested?

Kathleen writes:

"Genealogy is by nature a paper-heavy endeavor. Making good use of storage options will enable your sister-in-law to take her most treasured items with her into her new living space and efficiently store the rest in an accessible way for future generations who may become interested in her research."

You can read Kathleen Miller's suggestions at: https://bit.ly/3cHtamp.

From an article by Kylie Mar, Host & Producer of Yahoo Entertainment:

On a new episode of Who Do You Think You Are? airing Sunday, Oscar-winning actress Allison Janney found out her connection to the Mayflower in 1620.

Due to her strong bond with her grandmother, Janney was interested in learning more about the maternal side of her family. On her ancestral journey, the actress traced her family tree all the way back to her 11-times great-grandfather Stephen Hopkins, who was born in 1582. Janney learned that Hopkins first arrived in Bermuda, which ultimately became the first English plantation, in the year 1609 — more than a decade before the Mayflower's trip across the Atlantic. The actress then traveled to Bermuda to learn more about Hopkins's journey and experience, and it was there that she learned her ancestors ended up and died in Massachusetts.

At the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Janney was told Hopkins was "a familiar name in these parts" due to the fact that he, his second wife and four children traveled to Massachusetts on the historic Mayflower in 1620.

It is historically known that, after a grueling 10 weeks at sea, the Mayflower reached America and dropped anchor in Cape Cod, Mass. However, before they set foot ashore, the "Mayflower Compact" was written and signed. As Janney kept reading, she was then shocked by the sight of her 11-times great-grandfather's name signed as a witness on Nov. 11, 1620, on what was essentially one of the earliest expressions of representative government in America.

"Stephen Hopkins is absolutely unique for having a foothold in the establishment of three English plantations. Being at Jamestown, being there at the beginnings of what became the English plantation in Bermuda as well, and then being here, arriving on the Mayflower in 1620 for the founding of Plymouth Colony," explained Donna Curtin, executive director of the Pilgrim Hall Museum.

Janney was amazed by the fact that her ancestor was the only person to have been a part of all three established colonies, and the fact that she has a connection to the Mayflower "in a huge way." And after learning how admired he was, Janney wasn't at all surprised to find out that he later became an elected official and the governor's assistant. However, she was astonished to learn that the Pilgrim Hall Museum still owned an artifact that once belonged to him.

You can read more at: https://yhoo.it/3z6jKbY

The following was written by the U.S. Library of Congress:

Interested in learning more about what’s new in the Library of Congress’ digital collections? The Signal now shares out semi-regularly about new additions to publicly-available digital collections and we can’t wait to show off all the hard work from our colleagues from across the Library. Read on for a sample of what’s been added recently and some of our favorite highlights. Visit here for previous updates.

What’s new on loc.gov?

Shippen Family Papers

The Manuscript Division has recently released the Shippen Family Papers, a collection of 6,500 items (15,666 images) digitized from 15 reels of previously produced microfilm, which document this wealthy and powerful group of Philadelphians connected by blood and marriage who reached the height of their influence in the mid-eighteenth century. The Shippens were merchants, doctors, lawyers, and landowners, who held offices in Pennsylvania’s colonial government and were connected by marriage to other influential colonial families, including the Livingstons of New York and the Lees of Virginia. The papers chiefly concern the family of William Shippen Jr. and consist of correspondence, diaries, account books, estate papers, and business, financial, and real estate papers, including maps and deeds. They reflect the family’s experiences during the Revolutionary War, their participation in the Philadelphia social circle that surrounded George Washington during his presidency, and the family’s engagement with national politics. The collection is notable for its documentation of the lives of women family members through diaries, letters, and such ephemera as embroidery patterns.

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Collection

The Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve collection consists of interviews and photographs by Mary Hufford and Tom Tankersley in December 1985 for the American Folklife Center, comprising part of the preliminary fieldwork for a proposed cooperative project with the National Park Service’s Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in southern Louisiana. The collection includes audio recordings of a tour of Plaquemines Parish; interviews regarding fur trapping; and tours of the Barataria Marsh with park staff. Photographs document a local cemetery, boats, waterways, traditional foods and housing, the preparation of nutria hides, Park Service staff, and aerial photographs of the Mississippi Delta. Manuscripts include descriptive logs and a final travel report written by Mary Hufford.

Collection updates and migrations

Foreign Legal Gazettes: Legal Gazettes have been added for Morocco, Venezuela, and Paraguay, ranging in publication date from the 1970s to 2019.

National Screening Room: To celebrate Juneteenth, NAVCC/MBRS digitized and made available two classic films: Caldonia (1945; starring Louis Jordan) and Of One Blood. Additionally, 11 films from the George Stevens Collection (World War II color footage) are now available.

Military Legal Resources: The site migration has been completed, including the addition of Civil War Military Trials, and contextual guides to the presentation have been added to Articles and Essays.

Occupational Folklife Project: The following collections have been added to the Occupational Folklife Project online presentation in recent months: The Ransomville Speedway: Dirt Track Workers in Western New York and Cement workers in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley

New datasets

The World Digital Library Dataset has been added to the Selected Datasets Collection! This LC-published dataset collects the metadata for all items from the World Digital Library (WDL) project in seven languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish). All item records include narrative descriptions submitted by the contributing partners and enhanced by WDL researchers to contextualize the item and its cultural and historical importance. For additional context on the WDL collections, please click here.

New OA eBooks

Over 500 new open access titles added to the collection! Some highlights include books about films and cinema including The greatest films never seen: the film archive and the copyright smokescreen, The cinema of Mika Kaurismäki: transvergent cinescapes, emergent identities, and Filmische Poetiken der Schuld: die audiovisuelle Anklage der Sinne als Modalität des Gemeinschaftsempfindens.

And check out titles about different languages recently added to the collection, such as The Flamingo Bay dialect of the Asmat language, English and translation in the European Union: unity and multiplicity in the wake of Brexit, and Language, nation, race: linguistic reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912).

New digitized books

So far this year, over 70,000 new digitized general collections books have been added to the Selected Digitized Books collection through the new digital content management platform, totaling over 18 million pages of content all with full searchable OCR text. Some highlights include Instructions for crochet work, Heller’s guide for ice-cream makers, Great cats I have met; adventures in two hemispheres, The Faery queen, first book, Card-sharpers, their tricks, exposed; or, The art of always winning, The busy beavers of Round-Top, Confessions of a palmist, and A library of wonders and curiosities found in nature and art, science and literature.

And some seasonal additions to the collection include Diary of a summer in Europe, 1865, Whoopee! the story of a Catholic summer camp, Brief summer rambles near Philadelphia, After icebergs with a painter: a summer voyage to Labrador and around Newfoundland, and How the “Fourth” was celebrated in 1911; facts gathered from special reports.

New crowdsourced transcriptions

The By the People crowdsourced transcription program recently added over 9,000 volunteer transcriptions into loc.gov, bringing the program’s lifetime total to over 132,000. These transcriptions now enable enhanced discoverability and accessibility of digital collections here at the Library. New transcriptions are now available for the following collections:

• • William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection
  • Legal Reports (Publications of the Law Library of Congress)

Additions to the Library’s Web Archives

The Web Archiving Team has added newly released content for 92 items on loc.gov. The archives coming out of embargo include additions to 28 collections and content spanning 22 countries and 18 languages. The new releases include content in government, political science, European studies, Latin American studies, law, journalism, public health, education, and more. A highlight this month is:

• • The East European Government Ministries Web Archive added 19 new items. The archives includes websites of East European government ministries and agencies, which are primary sources for the study of all aspects of political, economic, and social life in the region. The collection includes content from eighteen countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

And a few more interesting finds include…

• • East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, addition to the Comics Literature and Criticism Web Archive
  • Alice in the Pandemic: A Virtual Opera, addition to the Coronavirus Web Archive
  • Migrant Zine Collective, addition to the Zine Web Archive
  • Women in Music (WIM), addition to the Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive

I just checked this web site and found a number of Genealogy, History, and Heritage events listed, including: Sedalia Center (in Virginia), Scottish Tartan Festival (in Louisiana),and other heritage events (although some of them are listings of past events).

The database may be found at: https://yhoo.it/3b7BZFV.

Here is the press release:

RALEIGH, NC / ACCESSWIRE / July 20, 2022 / Each year thousands of fairs and festivals take place across North America. From arts and crafts, to music and carnivals, festivals and fairs are part of North American culture.

From spring to winter, FestivalNet® covers 18,000 events around North America, each of which attracts hundreds or thousands of patrons, vendors, and visitors, creating opportunities in each host city, and a chance to experience new and exciting exhibits, games, food, and entertainment.

This quarter, FestivalNet® highlights its innovative and comprehensive database of festivals and fairs throughout North America, offering a valuable resource for visitors, vendors, and promoters to take advantage of.

The 2022 Festival and Fair Database

Committed to maintaining the largest database of fairs and festivals throughout North America, FestivalNet® is excited to present its updated database for 2022.

Meticulously curated, this extensive database is updated daily, featuring over 18,000 events including:

• • Craft shows and craft fairs

  • Home and garden shows

  • Fine art shows

  • Street festivals

  • Music festivals

  • And more…

An Incredible Resource for Vendors, Visitors, and Promoters

FestivalNet® was created out of a love and passion for all things festival and fair. For more than two decades, FestivalNet® has worked hard to create the largest, most accurate, and comprehensive database of festivals and fairs throughout North America.

Covering Canada and the United States, FestivalNet's website is a valuable resource for professional artists, craftspeople, musicians, performers, agents, researchers, vendors, production and service providers, and more.

Intuitive Platform with Advanced Search Filters

FestivalNet's website was designed with the end user in mind, featuring an easy to navigate interface that connects its members with the information they need.

Members can search for festivals, events, and fairs using a wide range of useful filters including:

• • State / Province

  • City or Zip code Radius

  • Month or Date Range

  • Events with entertainment

  • Type of Event

  • Attendance

  • Deadlines

  • Whether or not food is needed

  • Juried Art Shows

  • Virtual shows

With a few clicks, visitors will be presented with customized search results. Each event listing includes critical information such as event dates, event contact information, event description, and the official website for the event.

A Convenient and Time-Saving Tool

Millions of individuals enjoy festivals and fairs each year. Similarly, the industry directly or indirectly employs tens of thousands of vendors, musicians, artists, promoters, and more.

For these individuals, FestivalNet® offers a convenient, accessible, time-saving tool. Those who make their living from such events can quickly locate opportunities for their business, while patrons can find interesting and entertaining events to attend.

Vendor Marketplace and Tools

In addition to its robust database of fairs and festivals, FestivalNet® offers several tools and resources for vendors. Its integrated online marketplace can be used to buy or sell a wide range of products ranging from handmade crafts, to commercially produced items.

Registered organizers and promoters can list their event on FestivalNet® for free. With over 1.3 million visitors a month, the website is an ideal place to help festivals, fairs and events gain more exposure.

FestivalNet® Pro Membership

Starting at just $15/month, with heavy discounts for 3-month and 12-month subscriptions, FestivalNet® offers a full suite of value-driven benefits for its members.

Features of Pro Level Membership Include:

*All basic features, plus

• • Complete event details

  • Full event rating details

  • Web link in festival biz directory ($35 value)

  • 10 item online store in our Marketplace

  • Add music, video, images to optional community profile

  • Promoters: Upload show applications

  • Build custom events list

  • Add notes on shows

  • Set reminders & appointments when booking shows

  • Map your search results and MyList

Call for Artist and Featured Events Products

Impactful Event Promotion and Marketing Packages

Gain additional exposure for an upcoming event with FestivalNet's ‘Call for Artist' or ‘Featured Events' products and reach more attendees, vendor types, artists, crafters, and performers.

Benefits Include:

• • Appearing on special featured events or artists webpage, homepage map, and more

  • Appear in monthly artists newsletter reaching over 74,000 artists

  • Top position on all public member's search results and high ranking webpages for up to 11 months

  • Appear in the Call for Artists weekly e-blast, reaching 69,000 members

About FestivalNet®

For 26 years, FestivalNet® has been a pillar of the fair and festival community throughout North America. Its database of events is one of the largest in existence, offering a wealth of helpful information for patrons and vendors alike.

With an integrated marketplace and promotional tools, vendors can tap into FestivalNet's 30+ million monthly viewership to find their audience and promote their products, services, and events.

Those interested in learning more about FestivalNet® or its services are encouraged to reach out via its official website for more information.

Website: https://festivalnet.com
Phone Number: +18002003737
Email: info@festivalnet.com