CHECKING BACK IN ON YOUR GENEALOGY and FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT? Please Do!

Just a reminder to those of you who put your project aside...  DO check to see what, if anything is added to databases you've been using at least a couple times a year.  Also check the internet for new sites or additions to archives and libraries that help you understand (and write about!) your family history.  I know it's a tough call to quit, knowing that you could publish and then find more information, but maybe it could be said that a genealogy project is always in process.  So if you must leave that project, leave it in the hands of someone you know will use your work with respect and continue it.

Just did that for a client who I hadn't done any work for in about two years or more! Wow!

OKLAHOMA is rich in resources and a very interesting state, lots of German Immigrants, Native Americans.  We were surprised and elated to find that there WAS more information relating to his German immigrant family posted sometime in those two years. This included photographs of those who would be great grandparents and a grandfather.

EGGS

Symbols of rebirth in so very many cultures, ancient and modern.

BENJAMIN FERENCZ - LAST LIVING NUREMBERG PROSECUTOR on UKRAINE : WAR CRIMES : BEGS FOR PEACE

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN UKRAINE - ARCHIVES and ARCHIVAL RECORDS

I've been trying to find out what has been happening with the archives in Ukraine, the projects that were digitalizing to preserve records before the war broke out, and so on.  There is not much in the news.  So what I'm relaying here is mostly what is making the rounds.

First of all, there have been numerous digitalizing projects throughout Ukraine, which is actually the size of Texas.  These projects came up within provinces.  As horrid as the war is, there are cities that have not been touched, since the focus seems to be around the Black Sea and the eastern border. FamilySearch is involved and some permissions had been given.  My understanding is that:

Some archivists have had to flee.

Some archivists are still working to digitalize.

The State Archives of Ukraine may still be operational: ARCHIVES GOV UKRAINE - Anatolii Khromov

However, the site does not seem to have posted updated events since last fall, before the war began.  Also, there are some fund raising drives.

One archive was destroyed QIRIM : ARCHIVE DESTROYED   In Chernihiv Region

Russian soldiers went in and set it on fire.  "In the Chernihiv Region, the occupiers destroyed the SBU archive.  There were documents about the repression of the Soviet regime against Ukriainians.  This was announced by the head of the State of of Archival Service of Ukraine Anatolii Khromov.   

I DO BELIEVE THAT WAR CRIMES ad GENOCIDE ARE BEING COMMITTED.

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1950 CENSUS : SECOND TRY : ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INDEX : THE GREATEST GENERATION LEAVING URBAN AREAS FOR THE SUBURBS

I've just gone into my previous posts about the SPECIAL BABY CENSUS and the SPECIAL NATIVE AMERICAN CENSUS and added some updates... You can easily find those in the posts below.

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Between the 1940 and the 1950 great numbers of people left urban environments and ghettoized ethnic living and so it is more likely that on this 1950 you will have to look for changes in address and possibly a different Enumeration District than on the 1940. So, though you may find the ED district for the 1950 is simply numbered differently from the 1940, and that ancestors are living in the same house or neighborhood, you may not, and be dependent on finding them via indexing.

To sample, I looked into the census for MICHIGAN, Wayne County, in the Detroit and Dearborn eras.  I didn't like it when I found so very many of hits were first names. This was frustrating because I was searching for a surname which is sometimes a given name. Dozens of pages came up. I was not able to find the people I was seeking. The question is, will I wait until INDEXING PROJECTS do a better job of  indexing than the artificial intelligence? What if this family were not counted? I suppose it is a matter of having time.

The Motor City, as Detroit was called, had been the scene of industrial age employment for recent immigrants in earlier years, many of whom were able to purchase houses. This was considered good employment and did not require academic education.; for many workers the goal was to send their children to college. (Employment in the auto manufacturing industry was viable for decades, until Americans started buying Japanese.) It was also a place where with this type of employment, one could buy a home. There was a vast expansion of housing - single family homes - after World War II  also because veterans could acquire low interest home loans on the GI bill. 

The eye is drawn to the BOLDED HITS.  If you look a little closer you will see that there ARE surnames listed, and what follows are the first/given names of the people living in the house who are under that surname.  So SMITH, John is the head of household, and Catherine, Marie, and John Jr. are the wife and children.  If you happen to be looking for someone with the surname John or the like, you may have quite a bit to look through. Still, taking this into consideration, I was not able to find the people I was looking for.

I want to find these people, although they are not my direct genetic bloodline, because they are still related to me. They are relations because they are descended from my parent's siblings. Though I would not include them on charts of direct descent to me, the are directly descended from the same immigrants and properly belong on charts from that point.

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1950 CENSUS : FIRST TRY OF THE NARA SITE! NOT BAD! : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY REPORT

 At around 2 AM this morning, I tried the NARA 1950 site, which was operational at 1 AM.  The artificial intelligence that read the names and provides an INDEX without having to know or impute an ED is impressive.  It could put a lot of humans out of work, sad to say.  However, there will be a need for humans to make corrections.

The first two surnames I put in, I had correct hits on right away.  The next two names also came up easily though there were incorrect letters.  I clicked on a few that were almost right, and it brought up what I was looking for.  In each case the name brought up the ED and also went right to the census page.

The next few searches, however, DID NOT lead me right to the census pages and the REASON is that the FIRST/GIVEN NAMES are listed in the place of SURNAMES!  This reflects the error of the census taker. I will have dozens of Catherines to go through - or maybe Katherines. 

All of this was done knowing the state and county.

I will go back in and put in a few ED districts and read page by page next.

Here were the surprises:

My own mother's age was considerably incorrectly reported so I doubt a census taker actually talked to her. Probably the report was via a landlord.

A cousin's father, who had in 1940 been the sole support of his parents, was now over 30, married to a much younger woman, and they were living with her mother, who was also had other children and their children living with her.  And his wife might have been a twin!

My relative who would be married in two years is the only child of ten who is still living with her elderly immigrant parents.  Which means that they will live alone for the next decade, before he dies.

Another relative is living with his parents, as are his brothers, his sister and her husband. He is the only man in the household who is not working.  Previously on the 1940 he was shown as a high school drop out.  I knew that he was soon going into the CCCs. In the 1950 he has completed high school and is also enrolled in school. He is listed as a World War II veteran. This makes perfect sense. He used the GI Bill to become more educated. (He attended one of the many high schools who had programs for veterans to complete high school and then went further.)

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A goal would be to find the location of a person who was in foster care, lived with relatives, and then went into an orphanage and to also locate his parents.

I will also be looking to see if age reportage is consistent from the 1940 in an instance where I suspected a particular woman might really not know how old she was; no birth certificate or record of baptism was ever found, though in the 1960's these were requested from the Old Country.  Now that I'm using the Old Country archives on line, I'm hoping to perhaps get closer to the year of birth.

All for now Friends!

I guess I'll get some sleep

 

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