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share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ancestry com census monday april 02 2012 attempting to view the 1940 census like everyone else i was looking forward to browsing the newly released 1940 us census today because the census is not yet indexed the only way to find your family now is by finding the census enumeration district ed and then browsing all the pages of the ed to find the enumeration district ed you must first know the address the complete address not just the street at least that is the case for my family who resided in a big city i went to steve morse s excellent ed finder and followed the directions by filling in my great grandparent s exact address with the ed finder i was able to zoom in to the exact city block by adding cross streets it was really very simple however when i clicked on the ed i received an error message at the nara site no surprise that the national archives site is overwhelmed hours later it is still telling me that it is preparing image i can see there are 34 pages of this ed for me to browse if i only i could get the images to load no word when this issue will be fixed so i went to ancestry com who is also offering the 1940 census for free ancestry is in the process of uploading all of the census records and indexing them they have a number of states done but not the states where my family lived ancestry does have a sign up and they let you know when the state you are interested in is completed the 1940 census will be free at ancestry and i had no problem loading the available census here while at the ancestry site i noticed that they have their 1940 era records for free through april 10 this includes surprisingly the 1930 census and many city directories that can help find the exact address needed to find the ed to enable browsing of the census so i think i will spend my time collecting exact addresses from the free 1940 era records at ancestry com until i can actually view the census images posted by kathi at 3 51 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ancestry com census nara saturday february 25 2012 blair underwood s african roots on wdytya i am loving this ride that s what blair underwood exclaimed while he was learning the story of his family history during the tv show who do you think you are that same sentiment pretty much sums up why so many people are delving into their own family trees and are actually finding it fun the professional genealogists on the tv show who do you think you are talked about the difficulty of african american genealogy because a wall is reached once the african american family traces its family tree back to the time of slavery since the us census is one of the foundations in building a family tree many times the african american genealogy trail stops in 1860 during the time of slavery while the census of the free population lists every family member by name in the 1860 census the slave population is only listed by their owner s name plus the slave s gender age and race black or mulatto the slaves are not listed by name because of this many african americans hit the wall in 1860 when the paper trail stops dna testing was able to help blair underwood go beyond the paper trail to find his roots in africa through ancestry com dna testing they were able to find blair underwood s 10th cousin or so living in africa today a 10th cousin means they had a common ancestor about 250 years ago assuming 25 years per generation which would mean they had a common ancestor sometime around 1700 1750 during the time of the slave trade his 10th cousin eric sonjowoh is a college student in the african nation of cameroon in last night s episode blair underwood flies to the village of babungo in cameroon with his father they are met by eric and his father and all take part in the celebration and watch the tribal dances i wondered how it came to be that his cousin had submitted his dna to the ancestry dna database but eric explained that a guy told him that many african americans are looking for their african roots so many in africa are contributing their dna to help them because of this there is the possibility that other african americans could find also find a distant cousin in africa dr kenneth chahine general manager of ancestry dna walked blair through his dna analysis dna analysis determines ethnicity and found blair is 26 european and 74 african which dr chahine said is typical of african americans today not only can the dna test tell african americans the country in which their ancestors originated but also the tribe blair s ancestors are associated with tribes found in the western part of africa 27 bamoun 22 brong 13 yoruba and 12 igbo what the tv show didn t mention is that the ancestry com dna test performed on blair underwood has not yet been released the new autosomal dna test was announced at rootstech in early february and will launch in late march or thereabouts you can put your name on the contact list at ancestry com dna and they will notify you when the new dna testing is released at the end of the episode while he is standing in the african town of babungo an obviously moved blair underwood said we have come full circle to reunite our family when we started this odyssey who i thought i was is different than i know i am today want to know more about your family start your free family tree online to enter what you already know about yourself and have ancestry com help you find your family story posted by kathi at 1 14 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels african american genealogy dna testing who do you think you are saturday february 04 2012 martin sheen on wdytya last night s feb 3 2012 episode of who do you think you are followed the family history quest of martin sheen american actor and the child of immigrants from ireland and spain i found it interesting that martin sheen also a political activist has ancestors on both sides of his family who also had a passion for social justice martin sheen has always been interested in his maternal uncle who was involved in the irish civil war so that is where he began searching for his family history i had to chuckle to myself when martin sheen began by searching on ancestry com for his mother s brother michael phelan found his death certificate showing he died in county tipperary and then said looks like i m going to have to go to ireland myself to find out more about michael phelan i m going to go the military archives in dublin cathal brugha barracks well heading off to ireland at the beginning of a family history search makes for interesting television but the tv show makes it seem as traveling to your ancestral homeland is the only way to research your family tree if that were true that would make genealogy a hobby out of reach for most of us you do not have to travel around the world to start your family history search instead if interested in an uncle s involvement in the irish civil war most of us would just do additional search on the internet i poked around a bit and it didn t take long to find the irish military archives which is the repository for the military service pensions collection where martin sheen found his uncle s pension http www military ie info centre military archives i read in the archives faq and found out how to do the same research by mail that martin sheen traveled to ireland to do and note the pension records are only available to next of kin and only available by mail definitely the type of thing to double check in advance before booking a trip to the homeland your ancestors who served during the 1916 rising or during the war of independence may have made application for a medal or pension in respect of their service during that time pensions were awarded under the 1924 and subsequent pension acts due to data protection requirements these pension records are currently available to direct next of kin only direct next of kin should write to the following address for information in respect of their relatives service during 1916 and the war of independence veterans administration section department of defence renmore galway ireland please provide veterans administration section with as many personal details as possible to include full name and any variations in spelling date of birth the address s resided at during the period in which they may have made the application 1924 to 1949 most likely and the name of any next of kin at that time here are some additional websites that can help you find out more about irish ancestors ireland genweb genuki uk and ireland genealogy ancestry com ireland databases irish genealogy ireland genealogy project i think people are fascinated by family history because it helps them understand themselves we see our own selves reflected in those who came before us in martin sheen s case the same passion for political activism was present in both his maternal and paternal ancestors martin sheen described his involvement in political activism you do it because you cannot not do it he discovered his ancestors felt the same way it s in his dna as the tv show says to know who you are you have to know where your story began you can see the entire martin sheen wdytya episode online want to get started in your own family history you don t have to travel the globe get started in genealogy posted by kathi at 2 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels who do you think you are saturday november 19 2011 google introduces verbatim search google has just introduced verbatim search which can be used when you want an exact search to your query doesn t google already give exact search results well actually google may make the following changes to a search query make spelling corrections personalize your search by using information such as sites you ve visited before include synonyms of your search terms matching genealogy when you search for family history find results that match similar terms to those in your query finding results related to burial when you search cemetery search for words with the same stem like obituary when you ve typed obit make some of your terms optional like circa in died circa 1843 google call these changes to a search query normal improvements and most of the time these improvements really help broaden your search and give better search results but for the times you want an exact search you may want to try verbatim search how does a verbatim search affect your google search results with verbatim search every search term must be included in results spelling must match exactly even if your search term is mis spelled no word stemming obit and obituary will not match cemetery and cemeteries will not match research and researching will not match verbatim search is not the same as putting a phrase in quotes a phrase in quotes must appear on the page exactly in the same order as the search query the words in a verbatim search must appear on the page but do not have to appear consecutively a few weeks ago google announced they would replace the google operator used to search for exact terms with double quotes around the word i think verbatim search may be google s answer to the many requests to bring back the operator but verbatim search and the operator are not the same with the operator you could choose only one of the words in your search query to be exact with verbatim search all the words in your query must be exact you can access the verbatim search tool under more search tools on the left hand side of google search results when verbatim search is enabled the word verbatim in the left column of your search results will be red try the same search query with and without verbatim search and you will see the huge differences in search results posted by kathi at 8 24 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels google search tips wednesday october 26 2011 cached pages in google search results google has removed the cached page link from the search results page until last week it used to appear with every link in the search results in its place if you hover your cursor over a search result you will notice two arrows in a light gray box appear click on the arrows in the box and you will see a preview thumbnail of the website along the new location for the link for the cached site i use a website cache for many reasons on cached pates each search term is highlighted instantly and in a different color making keywords easy to find especially on long pages cached pages load faster cached pages are available for pages that are altered deleted hard to load or firewalled cached pages are available for pages that are updated frequently such as forums blogs and news many times taking me to the page that has moved on that contains the search items once you try using cached pages for the above reasons you may find them useful also to me google s instant preview of a website is pretty much useless it s too slow to load and too small to read except perhaps the title i m always accidently clicking on it it gets in my way while viewing the search results page and with a pop up blocker turned on or javascript disabled you may not even be able to see the arrows but that is now where you have to get the link to see cached results i find the new method to click on the link for cached pages user unfriendly now there are two extra steps to use the cached links first you must hover over the result to make the arrows appear and then click on the instant preview arrows and wait for the instant preview to appear which on my computer isn t always instant then click on the cached link much more time consuming to get a link for something i consider very useful and necessary i m sorry to see google making such user unfriendly decisions recently see google removes the search operator the great search results and interface simplicity are what drew me to google years ago cached pages are one thing that makes google unique bing and yahoo don t have links for cached pages google is always on a quest for greater search speed hence google instant which shows results as you type and google says takes 2 to 5 seconds off each search it surprises me that they would then make two changes in one week that makes things slower on the user end posted by kathi at 11 25 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels google search tips tuesday october 25 2011 google removes the search operator google has just recently removed the search operator and replaced it with quotation marks functionality instead of placing the google operator before a single word that you want to appear in your search results as is you now must add quotation marks around the word quotation marks have always worked to give exact results for a phrase but they now also give...