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SUMMARY:Using Kinship Networks to Solve Genealogical Problems
DESCRIPTION:Using Kinship Networks to Solve Genealogical Problems\nby Dr Bill Lindsey\nHistorians as diverse as Peter Laslett\, Gary Mills\, and Carolyn Earle Billingsley have proposed that historical researchers should breach the artificial barrier between genealogy and “real” history. \nIn her book Communities of Kinship\, Billingsley demonstrates the significance of family history by showing how a Southern plantation family\, the Keesees\, and their kinship network extended the cotton frontier west\, moving step by step in a planned process involving back-forth communication. \nIn their book Plain Folk\, Planters and the Complexities of Southern Society\, Ricky and Annette Pierce Sherrod confirm Billingsley’s thesis and apply it to the movement of a number of families to the Red River valley region of Louisiana in the 19th century and then into Texas. \nIn his talk\, Dr Lindsey will show how the kinship network approach of Billingsley and the Sherrods can be used to solve genealogical problems in our ancestral research. \nWilliam D. (Bill) Lindsey is a Little Rock native who holds a B.A. in English from Loyola University\, an M.A. in English from Tulane University\, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in theology from the University of St. Michael’s College of the Toronto School of Theology. Among other published works\, he’s the author of Fiat Flux: The Writings of Wilson R. Bachelor\, Nineteenth-Century Country Doctor and Philosopher\, which won the Booker-Worthen prize in 2014; and (with William L. Russell and Mary Ryan) A Family Practice: The Russell Doctors and the Evolving Business of Medicine\, 1799-1989. \nBill maintains a genealogical blog in which his goal is to place online his research of nearly fifty years. The blog is called Begats and Bequeathals: A Southern U.S. Family Documented and is found here: https://begatsandbequeathalsasouthernusfamilydocumented.com \nMarch 14meeting_saved_chat \nZoom meeting video:\n0:00:55 Meeting\n0:01:25 Presentation\n0:53:09 Questions and Answers\n1:26:24 End\n[fvplayer id=”26″]\n[/um_member_video]
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SUMMARY:Two Topics: GEDCOM and Calendar Confusion!?
DESCRIPTION:Two Topics: GEDCOM and Calendar Confusion!?\nby Scott Lee of Heritage Seekers\n#1 GEDCOM – Short for GEnealogical Data COMmunication\, GEDCOM is a file format used to transfer family tree data from one system to another. It was developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons). It is the universal method of transferring a family tree database from one program to another or to and from websites. Few people realize that it is a simple text file that is human-readable. This presentation will demystify this file type and teach you how to read it and even how to make simple edits. \n#2 Calendar Confusion!? – Why was Thursday\, October 4\, 1582\, followed by Friday\, October 15\, 1582\, but only in some countries? Pope Gregory XIII did not invent the Gregorian Calendar\, who did? George Washington was born on February 11\, 1731/32. So\, was he born in 1731 or 1732? Why does the date of Easter shift around\, sometimes before Passover\, sometimes after Passover\, but rarely coinciding with it? October is derived from octo\, Latin for eight\, so why is it the 10th month? Did the Russian “October Revolution” really occur in November? Why does the Hebrew calendar sometimes have 13 months? These questions and more will be answered. \nScott is a retired software engineer who has been researching his family history since 1979. He has served as an officer in several genealogical societies and lectures on genealogical topics. Currently\, he is a board member of the Arkansas Genealogical Society and President of Heritage Seekers. In 1995\, he helped design the GEDCOM 5.5 standard for transporting genealogical data\, improving its syntax to be more easily read by software and fixing several issues in date specifications. He created the calendar conversion website rosettacalendar.com and his date manipulation library is used by many software packages including PHP which is used in more than half of all websites. Scott grew up in Little Rock\, Arkansas\, but his work took him to Indiana\, Oregon\, North Carolina\, and New York City. In retirement\, he\, and his wife\, Deirdre\, have returned to their families in Arkansas. \nHis career included the medical field\, engineering computer graphics\, and consulting in the process of building reliable software. In retirement\, he is working in the design of deep learning neural networks and software for genealogy. In his spare time\, he enjoys writing science fiction\, studying ancient calendars\, writing free open source software\, keeping up with the latest advances in physics and astronomy\, and of course\, researching his family history. \n2022-03-28-chat \n2022-03-28-calendars \n2022-03-28-gedcom \nMembers\, please login to see the video:Zoom meeting video:\n0:02:00 Meeting\n0:06:09 Presentation\n1:42:09 Questions and Answers\n2:07:04 End
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