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February 27, 2007

Tuesday’s Treasure

In honor of the IMLS WebWise conference out in Washington DC this week, I thought I’d pull this nice card of the Capitol Building from the Lake County Discovery Museum.

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February 26, 2007

Digitization Project: English Medieval Stained Glass

I heard about this new project, the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi which is dedicated to publishing medieval stained glass. This site is dedicated to that found in Great Britain. Being a nosy little medievalist, I had to pop right on over to check it out. It’s a nicely put together and easy-to-navigate site with lots of photos! You can search by county, location or keyword. So, I had to go check out Cornwall and there it is! Poundstock! Had to see what they had for there since that’s where the Trebarfootes (the family I have back the furthest, which is late 1400s, early 1500s) were. Two photos of stained glass in St Neot’s! Yeay! Not sure if this was the church they attended or not, but it is the Parish church. If you click on the “full record” you also get the floor plan of the church, as well as the stained glass. Very cool – maybe you can find something your ancestors may have seen too! But note, digitization folks, this is a project you could start in your community too – photos of existing buildings and landmarks.

From there I stumbled upon the English Heritage site which has a bunch of photos. I decided to explore the “Viewfinder” and searched for Trebarfoote, nothing, but Trebarfoot in Cornwall brought up an older photo of the manor and the gates. This is the best image I’ve seen of the manor so far…I’ve seen the gates before (and reported here, if you’ll remember) but a glimpse of the buildings! I, of course, had to go check out animal photos too and there are some amazing photos of hunts, stables, farms, etc. You can search by keyword, category, county, place name and area. I also found a lot of photos of Poundstock beyond the Trebarfootes and Penzance and Tintagel and Redruth and…

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February 23, 2007

WI State Census for 1895 and 1905 on Ancestry

All sorts of genealogy news on the feeds this week! Ancestry has just made the 1895 and 1905 Wisconsin State Censuses available on their site. They appear to be free, as I just pulled up old A. Motley, which I’ll have to research, but probably is good ole’ Abraham, my “I forget how many greats” grandfather. The images aren’t very clear on the 1895 page I pulled up, but it’s legible! I shall have to explore more thoroughly this weekend – gives me something to do since I’m thinking riding my horse is going to be rather out of the question on Sunday…

But go! Explore! Find people!!

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Free (ends Feb 28th) Access to Ancestry’s African American Records

Just in time for the weekend, Ancestry has announced free access to their African American collections until Feb. 28th. You’ll need to register with your name and e-mail address though. Anyway, now is the time to do that research and with this storm blowing in, what better time to work on that genealogy project???

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February 20, 2007

Tuesday’s Treasure

Today we have the very dignified Elphistone Kent who was a Civil War veteran serving in the 8th Illinois Cavalry, Company B as a musician. What an interesting name, I have to say, I LOVE studying names but I have never seen this one! This is from the collection of Midway Village and Museum in Rockford.

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February 16, 2007

Digital Images – Protecting and Saving!

Wow, this is a fantastic site about digital images – both photos and scans. It’s called “Save My Memories” and is from the International Imaging Industry Association. Knowing that most of us are now taking more and more digital photographs and scanning in more items, they developed this website to help you protect and preserve your digital items. It has a great chart about various backup methods plus suggestions on how to name and label, backup, restore, etc. This is useful for all of us out there snapping away or for those involved in a digitization program, like Digital Past. I HIGHLY recommend you take some time to go through all this site – it’s good solid knowledge that will help you preserve your digital stuff for the longest possible time!

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Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries

Copyright, it’s always on our mind with digitization efforts. I get questions about it and there’s very little I feel comfortable recommending/suggesting beyond “Check with your lawyer” so I was very happy to see that UNESCO Information for All Programme has released this online “Handbook on Copyright and Related Issues for Libraries.” It speaks of copyright, orphaned works, creative commons, etc. It is free for downloading in pdf on the whole or in html or pdf in parts. Bookmark this one, if you don’t print it out…

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February 13, 2007

English Photo Site

Well, I have some good finds today in the feeds! I ran across this English Heritage “Images of England” site. As it says on the site:

“Images of England, funded by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund, is a groundbreaking initiative which aims to create a ‘point in time’ photographic record of England’s listed buildings. Click here to find out more about the project.

Images of England is a snapshot of the buildings listed at the turn of the millennium; it is not an up-to-date record of all currently listed buildings. For information on the current listed status of individual buildings please contact NMR Enquiry & Research Services.”

So, being the optimist I am, I plunked in “Trebarfoote” and something came up! The Church of St Neot in Poundstock and a photo of the garden gates, piers, and walls of Trebarfoote Manor! Woo hoo! Maybe eventually there will be a good shot of Trebarfoote Manor itself! Woo hoo! The church actually has plaques dedicated to William and John Trebarfoote who died in the early 1600s…these could very well be my relations as I have a William and a John from that time, but no death dates so I can’t verify for sure. The descriptions will take some deciphering as I’m not that up on my historic building terminology (although I DID take a class in college called Historic Building Preservation). There’s enought in “plain English” that you can figure out quite a bit about it though.

So, looking for your family’s ancestral manor or local church? Give it a try…

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Tuesday’s Treasure

Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow with your loved ones. To celebrate, I found this old postcard from the Lake County Discovery Museum. It says “To My Valentine” but you know, it looks a lot more like Christmas to me than Valentine’s Day! Oh how things have changed!?

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Massachusetts Research

In my blog reading today, I ran across this excellent post from Steve’s Genealogy Blog about his favorite Massachusett Resources and I thought I’d pass it along. I hope you find his post useful!

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