My apologies. On my first post, I typed the wrong date for the workshop. It's
Saturday, November 17, not November 13. A corrected post follows.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society in New York City is
sponsoring a workshop on November 17: Genealogy and the Internet: An All-Day
Workshop for Genealogists and Family Historians.
The day's schedule follows. For more information, please visit the NYG&B's
website at http://www.nygbs.org/ed/internet_workshop2001.html or call
212-755-8532.
Best wishes,
Leslie Corn
NYG&BS Education & Publication Committee, Library Committee, and Subcommittee
on Collection Development
City Directories: A Forest of Family Trees:
http://www.citydirectories.psmedia.com/city/essay_main1.html
City Clerk's Marriage Licenses, 1908-37: One of 20th-Century Genealogy's Best
Primary Sources:
http://www.nygbs.org/info/articles/NYC_marriages.html
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From www.nygbs.org:
Genealogy and the Internet: An All-Day Workshop For Genealogists and Family
Historians
Saturday, November 17, 2001 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
at The NYG&B Society, 122 East 58 St., New York, NY
212-755-8532
Many of the millions of websites on the rapidly-growing Internet are rich in
genealogical data and offer the information you’re looking for: vital
records, full-text local histories and genealogies, city directories, court
records, land records, military records, cemetery records, newspapers,
censuses, passenger lists, naturalizations, photographs, and so much more.
The possibilities are thrilling.
What are those websites and how do you find them? On Saturday, November 17,
2001, join us for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society’s
all-day workshop Genealogy and the Internet, where you’ll learn methodology,
tips, and insights for locating what you want on the Internet. You’ll learn
about websites, many off the beaten path, to enrich your family history. Even
if you’re an experienced researcher, you probably find navigating the
Internet a challenge. During this workshop, you’ll learn how to successfully
search for the data you want.
There will be lectures and hands-on, live, guided tours of the Internet,
including Library of Congress’ American Memory and other websites you
request. The Ask the Experts panel will address your specific Internet
research problems.
Whatever your Internet skill level and knowledge, this workshop will offer
exciting new insights into the vast and wonderful online world for
genealogists. We hope you’ll join us!
Schedule
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Registration
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Welcome: Harry Macy, Jr.
Internet Overview: Leslie Corn
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Credible Clues from the Incredible Internet: Combining World Wide Web and
Repository Research to Solve Genealogical Mysteries.
Presenter: Leslie Corn
19th- and 20th-century case studies demonstrate ways to creatively combine
Internet, archive, and library research to advance successful and
well-documented family histories. Among the highlights are tips for using
online catalogs and preparing for repository visits; reliable Internet
resources for in-depth genealogical and social history research; advanced
methods for manipulating data in digitized indexes and text, including how to
transform any digitized city directory into a “reverse” directory; global
searches for ancestors and living relatives when localities aren't known;
using websites’ search boxes to go beyond simple name searches to plot
neighborhoods and create grantor/grantee indexes.
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Avoiding Tangles in the Worldwide Web.
Presenter: John Konvalinka
Finding useful genealogical information on the Internet has become
increasingly difficult and frustrating because of the vast amount of clutter
on the World Wide Web. This session will focus on how to use search tools to
eliminate results that are not useful to your research. How search engines
work and why different search engines produce different results will be
explored. Several search engines will be explained in detail – including:
* “Genealogically specific” ones (e.g. GenSource, GenSearcher, GenDoor)
* “Old favorites” (e.g. AltaVista, HotBot, WebCrawler, Excite, GoTo)
* “Newer favorites” (e.g. Google, Dogpile, Northern Light, Mamma, All The
Web)
* State-of-the-art meta search engines (e.g. MetaFind, Copernic 2001 Pro,
Karnak.)
Several case situations will be constructed using basic and advanced
(Boolean, etc.) search techniques and the results obtained from various
search engines. How to access the "Deep” or “Invisible Web,” which ordinary
search engines cannot reach, will also be demonstrated.
12:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Lunch/ Guided Internet Access/ NYG&B Library Tours
Guided Internet Access
Live, hands-on tours of the Internet, led by our presenters and NYG&B staff
and volunteer experts in the Technology Center and Ballroom. Please sign up
for the small-group sessions that include personal guidance or join us in the
Ballroom for the larger group tour. Note: If our broadband internet service
experiences an outage and is unavailable for guided internet access, we will
reschedule this part of the program.
NYG&B Library Tours
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library staff will show
you the Library’s collection and its finding aids. Ask about your specific
areas of interest.
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Can I Read It on the Web? Full-text Sources for Genealogical Research on the
Internet.
Presenter: Anne Kipp Tenenbaum Toohey
This presentation will focus on reliable Internet sources that contain
full-text genealogical resources such as primary sources (vital records, land
records, etc.), compiled family histories, and local histories of states,
counties, and towns. Web sites with large digital collections of primary and
secondary sources for genealogical and historical research, such as American
Memory (Library of Congress) and Making of America (Cornell University and
University of Michigan), will be considered. Some consideration will also be
given to criteria for judging the completeness and reliability of web sites.
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Library of Congress Online: A Live Guided Tour.
Presenter: Anne Kipp Tenenbaum Toohey
Library of Congress Reference Librarian Anne Kipp Tenenbaum Toohey will
demonstrate, using a live Internet connection, ways to use our national
library’s online catalog and American Memory website.
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Ask-the-Experts Panel.
All of our presenters will address your questions about genealogical and
social history research on the Internet.
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