What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
News From Over There
A new collection on the Library of Congress' American Memory Web site might make it easier to picture your WWI-era ancestors' lives. Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures)
features articles with illustrations created by the then-cutting-edge rotogravure printing process. The technology, which is still in use, let newspapers print detailed, vivid images, and led to sharply increased readership and revenue.
Articles and pictorials of weaponry, maps, soldiers and women on the home front appear alongside society news and advertisements. You can browse the newspapers by date and title—such as the New York Times, New York Tribune and War
of the Nations—and use a viewer to zoom in, navigate across the paper and flip to the next page.
Get New England Know-How
Get help finding New England ancestors at the New England Regional Genealogical Conference March 31 to April 3 in Portland, Maine.
The conference will feature seminars by professional genealogists and authors Tony Burroughs, Cyndi Howells (of Cyndi's List, http://www.cyndislist.com), Elizabeth Shown Mills and Craig Scott. These
and other speakers will address topics in lecture tracks covering New England Research, Ethnic Genealogy, Federal Records, Libraries and Records, Writing and Publishing, Skills and Methodology, DNA Research and Computer Genealogy.
For more information and a registration form, visit http://www.nergc.org. You'll also find the conference E-zine, with information about special activities, sights to see in Portland and local genealogical
resources.
Allen County Invites Your Questions
The library with the country's second-largest genealogy collection is inviting you to ask reference questions via e-mail.
Write to Indiana's Allen County Public Library genealogy staff at genealogy@acpl.info, or use the online form at http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/ask/genealogy.html.
You can use the new "Ask a Librarian" service no matter where you live.
What sort of questions are suitable? "Bibliographic or other short-answer questions, questions which begin 'what is a...' or 'how do
I find....'" suggests librarian Ryan Taylor. You'll receive a reply—perhaps just a "we're working on it," depending on your query—within 48 hours.
Taylor says librarians can't do your research for you, but they may be able to suggest a next step, point you to an elusive resource or recommend another repository.
Surfing for Surnames
Having trouble tracking down those elusive ancestors? In this biweekly, Web-exclusive column, contributing editor Nancy Hendrickson points to new and helpful ways to do your computer-related genealogy research. This week, she writes about locating Web
sites with information on your surname.
Read more at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/current.html.
Hendrickson is a family historian, freelance writer and the author of the book Finding Your Roots Online, on sale now at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/store/display.asp?id=70583.
Browse the archive of her AncestorNews columns at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ancestornews/previous.html.
Delivering Advice
This week's tip comes from Sally Gill:
It can be difficult to locate people or places small towns that may not have maps. Stop by the local post office—small-town postmasters often know everyone in the area and can be of help. Recently, I was searching for an old cemetery
in a small Arkansas town, and I asked the local letter carrier where it was located. She gave me directions in just a
couple of minutes, since she was familiar with the area.
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Patent Pending
Q. My grandmother gave me a newspaper article about an ancestor who received a patent for some kind of saw in 1911 or 1912. I've tried searching the US Patent and Trademark Office Web site (
http://www.uspto.gov/patft), but haven't found any matches. I don't have a patent number. Now what?
A. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database, unfortunately, isn't searchable by a person's name for patents issued prior to 1976. To find your ancestor in that database, you'd need to know
the patent number or the current US patent classification number.
You still can find your ancestor's patent information if you have his full name and a guess of the years when he applied for a patent, according to researcher Nick D'Alto. First, see http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/ptdl
to find a nearby Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL)—part of a network of libraries that hold USPTO materials. At the PTDL, look for your ancestor in the Index of Patents Issued From the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Part I:
Patentee/Assignee Index, available on microfiche. This index is an annual alphabetical list of of inventors and their patents.
Once you find a patent number, you'll be able to search for his patent on the USPTO Web site. But while you're at a PTDL, look up the patent number in the Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to find the official abstract
describing your ancestor's invention.
For more information on researching patents and what they can tell you about your ancestors, see the April 2004 Family Tree Magazine.
—Diane Haddad
Diane Haddad is editor of the Family Tree Magazine E-Mail Update.
Read more Q&A with the experts at
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/nowwhatonline/previous.html.
Same Name, Different Faces
Expert photo historian Maureen A. Taylor helps readers analyze old family pictures in her Web-exclusive column Identifying Family Photographs. This week, she explains steps or distinguishing between two same-named ancestors.
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/current.htm.
If you have a family photo mystery for Taylor to solve, check out our Submission Guidelines at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/photohelp.htm.
Dallas, Texas
Emily Anne Croom
March 5
Dallas Genealogical Society seminar
Topics:
- Their Place in Time: Broadening the Perspective Beyond Dates and Places
- Likely, Logical, Convincing: Resolving Conflicting Evidence
- You're Known by the Company You Keep: Cluster Genealogy, an Essential Tool for Research
- Scaling the Brick Wall
Contact Tresa Tatyrek at president@dallasgenealogy.org.
Fairfax, Va.
Paula Stuart-Warren
March 12
Fairfax Genealogical Society Annual Conference
Topics:
- 20th- and 21st-Century Research
- Organizing Your Genealogical Materials
- A Baker's Dozen: Simple Ways to Write Your Family History
For more information, see http://www.fxgs.org.
Lake Charles, La.
Emily Anne Croom
March 19
Southwest Louisiana Genealogical Society seminar
Topics:
- Proof and the Paper Trail: Documenting Your Genealogy
- Likely, Logical, Convincing: Resolving Conflicting Evidence
Contact Tresa Tatyrek at president@dallasgenealogy.org.
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