WELCOME TO ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY !

As the new year begins, I want to welcome new readers and say hello to old readers. When I began this blog I had no idea I would continue with it for so many years! Since I never loose my interest in genealogy - and subjects that go hand in hand with it such as history - I always find researching and writing for this blog to be ever interesting and enjoyable.

ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY BLOGSPOT

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Christine

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TO YOUR FUTURE

OLD GENEALOGY PAPERS - IS THERE REALLY ANY WAY TO SAVE AND STORE THEM TO PRESERVE THEM?

OLD GENEALOGY PAPERS - IS THERE REALLY ANY WAY TO SAVE AND STORE THEM TO PRESERVE THEM?

Recently I started going through boxes of research that had been in a storage unit, had been brought to my residence, had made it through a flooding so so, and that I had not entirely forgotten about.  Things had gotten scattered so I also didn't know what I still had, where it was, and if it was still valuable to my research.

Most of the research was handwritten and old photocopies.  Because of the time spent and the detail, I know I have to read each and every piece of paper and evaluate it for the value it has to my present personal genealogy.

The condition of the paper varies, making me wish that I had never ever used any sort of typical lined, punch holed, paper.  But not everything can go on archival paper.

A friend suggested THE CLOUD for storage.

No not even if said friend PAYS for me to have a CLOUD!

Having had computer disks thrown away and memory sticks stolen, having purchased a couple lap tops only to see them become defunct rather quickly, any suggestion of THE CLOUD as optimal storage, any suggestion that I SCAN all these papers, and I react negatively.

I do not want to give up my paper copies, no matter what electronics could be applied.  I don't want to worry about equipment, monthly fees, or being hacked.

As I looked through these papers, besides seeing that various brands of the lined, punch holed paper had discolored and had folded in different ways, the cheaper papers no deal, I also noticed that no doubt PHOTOCOPIES showed less aging and held up better, and ANY PAPER KEPT IN PLASTIC did very well.

THE PLASTIC HOLDERS are heavier.  So your binders can be difficult to carry, but I think that binders and plastic holders with paper inside is the way to go, so long as you also remember to cover them on the shelf to prevent dust from settling in.

Because sure enough old plastic binders do show dust and dirt and age.

Through all of this I have a cardboard mailing tube that contains some of my oldest, handwritten, and hand drawn charts.  Much of what I wrote on these charts was there proven, some of it was speculation or calculation (birth and marriage and death dates.) 

But when I think of the person(s) who will inherit my research, I think:

1) The hand written and hand drawn charts will probably feel more personal and valuable.

2) It's going to cost a whole lot to ship all this research to them.

3) But do they only want the end results, the book, or do they want to follow along with my research, realize just the high price of those end results, and will they be inspired to continue, documenting my life when I'm probably dead perhaps, or to travel to the places that their gggparents left?  Will they even take care of all my research, such as taking care to pass it along to the person in the family who they deem the most interested and worthy?

4) I've concluded that I will provide some simple electronic resources, such as family pictures and some scans on CD.

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NOTE 2025 : ARE CD'S STILL VALID?  

LITHUANIAN JEWISH ARCHIVES ONLINE ARCHIVE PROJECT -YIVO SAYS IT WILL TAKE 7 YEARS

YAHOO - LITHUANIA LOST JEWISH ARCHIVES TO GO ONLINE By Vaidotas Beniusis     - go to link for full article and picture gallery                   

EXCERPTS

Vilnius (AFP) - After seven decades holed up in a Catholic church basement in the Lithuanian capital, thousands of Yiddish manuscripts that survived the Holocaust and Stalin's anti-Jewish onslaught are finally seeing the light of day.      ...

With brushes, erasers and glue, archivists are now hard at work to prepare them for digitizing, in both Vilnius and at the New York-base YIVO Institute for Jewish Research that has spearheaded the bid to reunite the "lost" collection.                              

                                    

The aim is to put the more than one million manuscripts online in a digital archive highlighting pre-war Jewish life in Eastern Europe. It is expected to take seven years.

"During the 1920s and 1930s, all these materials were together here in Vilnius. They constituted a single whole that was torn apart first by the Nazis and then by the Soviets," Jonathan Brent, the institute's executive director, told AFP in a telephone interview from New York.  

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A Note from  Ancestry Worship Genealogy

Throughout central and eastern Europe where the Catholic church dominated, records were kept by priests, who were sometimes the only people who could read and write in the area, and physically kept in the churches, which were often the sturdiest structures made of stone when most houses were made of wood.  In the larger cities where there were large Jewish or other religious congregations the Rabbis sometimes kept records, but I've seen Catholic church records that include people of other faiths - not just mixed marriages.

Records kept by Jewish people will include some interesting information that are not kept by other religions such as WHO THE MIDWIFE WAS and WHO PERFORMED A CIRCUMCISM and the mother's maiden name is always recorded, where as in many Catholic - Latin records I have found many baptisms that only gave the father's name.                  

LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY : HAS 10,000 TITLES FROM RESOURCES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

Did you know that the Central Library genealogy collection has over 10,000 titles and "this exhaustive database is not duplicated in any other California library, and contains documents not even available through the Library of Congress!"