10 Types of Apps Every Genealogist Should Have

When I first got my Android tablet, I thought I'd be able to use it like a computer, and I was disappointed when I couldn't. Although my tablet is a lot easier to carry around than my bulky laptop, it spent a few genealogy conferences at home.

I just didn't know what a handy genealogy assistant a tablet (or iPad) could be. In our upcoming Maximize Your iPad (or Tablet) for Genealogy online workshop, you'll learn how to take advantage of your tablet's tools and convenience to—as tech wizard Lisa Louise Cooke would say—turn your device into a "genealogy powerhouse."

Powerful apps optimized for mobile devices are a big part of what can make your tablet or iPad an essential genealogy tool, so they'll be covered thoroughly in the workshop.

Here's a sneak peek: 10 types of apps every genealogist should have on his or her mobile device, along with suggestions for each:

• Note-taking: Evernote is highly popular with genealogists for taking and organizing notes (which can include record images), and it includes a web clipper. Microsoft One-note also is popular.

• File storage and transfer: When you use your device to photograph records or microfilm at a library, you'll want a way to easily transfer those images to your computer at home. Dropbox and File Transfer (iPad/Phone and Android) are two options.

• Tree-viewing (and editing): See if the software or family tree website where you track your research has a mobile app. If you're looking for a place to put your tree, look for an option that includes an app so you can check your tree from a library, family gathering, cemetery, etc. Ancestry.com, MyHeritage (which just announced a major redesign of its app), FamilySearch Family Tree, RootsMagic and Legacy Family Tree (the app is called Families) all have mobile apps.

• Scanning: Apps that turn your tablet camera into a scanner (great for "photocopying" records) include CamScanner, Genius Scan, Scannable by Evernote, and more. Here's an article listing scanning apps to consider.

• Translator: Google Translate (iPad/Phone and Android) is the go-to translation tool for many researchers. Here are some other options.

• Library searching: WorldCat has a mobile app available in beta for iPad/Phone and Android. See if libraries in your ancestral locales have mobile apps, too, which might let you search the catalog and find your way around the library.

• Conference-going: Many genealogy conferences have mobile apps that show you the class schedule, an exhibit hall map and more. Here's one for the National Genealogical Society conference this week. The Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree app will be available soon.

• Recording: Interviewy (iPad/Phone) is a good app for recording oral history interviews.

• Blog reading: Feedly is great for keeping up with genealogy blogs, as is Flipboard.

• Storytelling/keeping: FamilySearch Memories lets you take photos, record memories and interviews, write stories, and add them to your FamilySearch family tree. Storypress (for the iPad/Phone) and Keepy let you take a picture and record audio or video to go with it.

The Maximize Your iPad (or Tablet) for Genealogy online workshop starts Friday, May 22, and runs for a week. It includes six video classes, advice from Lisa Louise Cooke, and an exclusive workshop message board. View the workshop program and get registered at FamilyTreeUniversity.com.

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10 Types of Apps Every Genealogist Should Have

When I first got my Android tablet, I thought I'd be able to use it like a computer, and I was disappointed when I couldn't. Although my tablet is a lot easier to carry around than my bulky laptop, it spent a few genealogy conferences at home.

I just didn't know what a handy genealogy assistant a tablet (or iPad) could be. In our upcoming Maximize Your iPad (or Tablet) for Genealogy online workshop, you'll learn how to take advantage of your tablet's tools and convenience to—as tech wizard Lisa Louise Cooke would say—turn your device into a "genealogy powerhouse."

Powerful apps optimized for mobile devices are a big part of what can make your tablet or iPad an essential genealogy tool, so they'll be covered thoroughly in the workshop.

Here's a sneak peek: 10 types of apps every genealogist should have on his or her mobile device, along with suggestions for each:

• Note-taking: Evernote is highly popular with genealogists for taking and organizing notes (which can include record images), and it includes a web clipper. Microsoft One-note also is popular.

• File storage and transfer: When you use your device to photograph records or microfilm at a library, you'll want a way to easily transfer those images to your computer at home. Dropbox and File Transfer (iPad/Phone and Android) are two options.

• Tree-viewing (and editing): See if the software or family tree website where you track your research has a mobile app. If you're looking for a place to put your tree, look for an option that includes an app so you can check your tree from a library, family gathering, cemetery, etc. Ancestry.com, MyHeritage (which just announced a major redesign of its app), FamilySearch Family Tree, RootsMagic and Legacy Family Tree (the app is called Families) all have mobile apps.

• Scanning: Apps that turn your tablet camera into a scanner (great for "photocopying" records) include CamScanner, Genius Scan, Scannable by Evernote, and more. Here's an article listing scanning apps to consider.

• Translator: Google Translate (iPad/Phone and Android) is the go-to translation tool for many researchers. Here are some other options.

• Library searching: WorldCat has a mobile app available in beta for iPad/Phone and Android. See if libraries in your ancestral locales have mobile apps, too, which might let you search the catalog and find your way around the library.

• Conference-going: Many genealogy conferences have mobile apps that show you the class schedule, an exhibit hall map and more. Here's one for the National Genealogical Society conference this week. The Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree app will be available soon.

• Recording: Interviewy (iPad/Phone) is a good app for recording oral history interviews.

• Blog reading: Feedly is great for keeping up with genealogy blogs, as is Flipboard.

• Storytelling/keeping: FamilySearch Memories lets you take photos, record memories and interviews, write stories, and add them to your FamilySearch family tree. Storypress (for the iPad/Phone) and Keepy let you take a picture and record audio or video to go with it.

The Maximize Your iPad (or Tablet) for Genealogy online workshop starts Friday, May 22, and runs for a week. It includes six video classes, advice from Lisa Louise Cooke, and an exclusive workshop message board. View the workshop program and get registered at FamilyTreeUniversity.com.

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soulbrotherv2: There is no hiding from history: Slavery haunts...

soulbrotherv2:

There is no hiding from history: Slavery haunts us still

By Cheryl Hall-Russell

In January of this year, I lost my grandmother. Born in Mississippi, she was the last of her generation in our family. She served as our griot, or storyteller, linking the old to the new. As a child, she lived with her grandparents. They were former slaves.  [Continue reading article at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.]

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The African-Native American Genealogy Blog: Mississippi Choctaws in Indian Territory

The African-Native American Genealogy Blog: Mississippi Choctaws in Indian Territory:

What DNA Testing Reveals About India's Caste System | TIME.com

What DNA Testing Reveals About India's Caste System | TIME.com:

Freedom Archives Search Engine

Freedom Archives Search Engine:
Good resource for 1st hand documentation.

Haley's Ancestral Environment, Virginia & Modern Chaos Design

CAPTURE

"In 1976, the African-American writer Alex Haley traced the story of his black family in the popular book Roots.  He discovered that his "furthest-back-person" in america was Kunta Kinte, a Gambian who had been brought in chains from West Africa to Annapolis, Maryland, in the 1760s aboard the English slave ship Lord Ligonier.  Haley (who also wrote the powerful Autobiography of Malcolm X) was fortunate in knowing the name of his first American forebear and in being able to locate the exact ship on which he arrived.  But the facts themselves are remarkably typical.  On average, the furthest- back New World ancestor for any African American today would have reached these shores shortly before the American Revolution, just as Kunta Kinte did.  (By comparison, the largest migrations of Europeans and asians to the United states began in the late 19th century and grew larger in the twentieth century.  So the average white resident of the United States has a far shorter American ancestry, as does the average Asian-American citizen)."

~To Make Our World Anew, by Robin D.G. Kelley, Earl Lewis

Ise MASSA'S FIDDLA

At minute 3:55 Fiddler tells sets about convincing an Afrikan that he is a nigger.  “Yo name is Toby!”  But Kunta (intact yut) stands up and prioritizes his real name.  

Terrorism in Jamaica (slavery records unearthed)

Slavery & Rebellion records unearthed. An important eye witness account of the conditions on the slave ships that plied between Africa and North America and an account of the Morant Bay Rising in Jamaica has been unearthed in Scotland by a Canadian-born historian. The account in the Scottish Catholic Archives is contained in a journal that has lain in Fort Augustus Abbey since the 19th century....



Excerpts from Mcclement' journal (an Irish surgeon with the Royal Navy in the 1860s):
Transcription[p 293][October 23 1865]
.....2.30. P.M. HM Troop Ship “Urgent” camein. Brings news that the negroes of Jamaica have risen against the whites and a pressing demand for all the troops that can be spared as well as all available ships of war. All the 2nd West India Regt present and twoCompanies of the 3rd Buffs are ordered to embark immediately. The Urgentis coaling with all despatch.Accounts from Jamaica show a longlist of “whites” cruelly butchered.We are to proceed to Dominico In the morningto meet Sir Leopold McClintockWent on shore to the Ice house in the Evg......[p 294][October 29 1865]

.....6.AM. entered and lay to under steam inMorant Bay – Jamaica – Found herethe Gun Boat “Onyx” Lieut. Brand incommand. This officer came on boardand reports the Insurrection crushed.....[p 295]He states that up to this time 1200 rebelshave been shot or hanged. He himself has hanged 83, being President of the local Drum head Court Martial, and, amongstthe number Mr Gordon, a member of Parliament Lieut. Brand is pretty well known as a person of a most curel disposition inall cases, but, has a particular aversionto the Black Race, therefore, those unfortunaterebels are still more unfortunate inthe judge appd to try them. He willhowever do good by striking a terror thata more humane man would fail to do. His usual programme is to flog theculprits first and hang them afterwardsThe very first case executed was atPort Morant and by Lt Brand personally. The Govr went down to this place in the Onyx with a few troops and soonafter landing discovered one of the ringleaders in the late massacre and made a prisoner of him. He then sent a message to Lt Brand to say that he had not rope on shore nor hadhe any means of disposing of theprisoners, but, if he would oblige him it would be well. The Lt no sooner gotthe message than he landed in a dingywith two boys and the gun boats signal halliards. He then forced the nigger to wheel a cart under the branch of a tree – made him stand on it – fastened“the noose” – threw the rope over the branch – made it fast – and – lastly dragged awaythe cart from beneath the wretch. Being a tall man and the branch yieldingto his weight his toes touched the ground His noble executioner seeing this walked up to him – put his Revolver to one eyeand shot a ball through his head;- a soldier present, then, unnecessarily,[p 296]put another bullet through his chest.Since this Execution from 8 to 14 or 20 areusually strung up together after gettingtheir flogging. I think all are treatedwith disgraceful and barbarous cruelty Surely hanging ought to be enough! Lt Brand has hanged two women (who no doubt deserve death from their acts: one of them disemboweled Baron Kepenfelt;) and holds the wedding ring of one (which has‘the names’ engraved inside) as a kind oftrophy....."

The McClement Project centers on the journal of McClement, an Irishman and assistant surgeon who served with the Royal Navy between 1857 and 1869. McClement’s 400 page journal is a tremendous historical resource for students, scholars and the general public. This project is interactive - it is about making history accessible and allowing people to participate in the development of an historical project.
You can read the diary of Richard Carr McClement at http://www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/mcclement.

You can read more background information about the diary at http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/real-lives/unearthed-journal-gives-eye-witness-account-of-slavery-1.995613.

(fistbump2 Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter by Dick Eastman)