[Genealib] Super Sleuthing in the Genealogy Centre program

Tue Mar 11 17:02:01 EDT 2008

At the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia we have been
conducting a program called Super Sleuthing in the Genealogy Centre for the
past few years for school groups. The Genealogy Team conducts this with
trained teachers from the Library's School Services Team. During the
session, the students research in the Genealogy Centre well-known
Victorians, such as Ned Kelly. We also provide the younger students with a
box of clues, such as a helmet for Ned Kelly. At the end of their session ,
the students receive a certificate making them 'Genealogy detectives for
the day'!
In conjunction with this we have published an information guide Genealogy
Resources for Young People (see
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/using/guides/information/genealogy/index.html)

Anne

Anne Burrows
Genealogy Librarian
Information Services Division
State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne  Vic 3000
Telephone : (03) 8664 7190
Fax : (03) 9639 2301

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Today's Topics:

   1. Genealogy for Children (janet tomkins)
   2. RE: Genealogy for Children (Susan Scouras)
   3. Periodicals free / postage: German Genealogical Digest
      (dlunow at aol.com)
   4. RE: Genealogy for Children (AnnEllen Barr)
   5. Leave Friday 7 March to Tuesday 11 March 2008
      (ABurrows at slv.vic.gov.au)
   6. US Hispanic Newspapers 1855 to 1956 go live on         GenealogyBank
      (Tom Kemp)
   7. Free for postage:  (dlunow at aol.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:22:25 -0800
From: "janet tomkins" <janettom at vpl.ca>
Subject: [Genealib] Genealogy for Children
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Message-ID: <47d04488.7c6.1340737649 at vpl.ca>

The Canadian Genealogy Centre's "Youth Corner" at
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-400-e.html has recommended
activities for primary and intermediate students as well as information
about a badge program for Cub Scouts.

There is, however, the question of how to make genealogy activities for
children inclusive, considering the fact that many children are from broken
or non-traditional families where constructing a pedigree, interviewing
family members etc. in the conventional way could be difficult.

Janet Tomkins
Genealogy librarian
Vancouver Public Library
British Columbia, Canada

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:06:46 -0500
From: "Susan Scouras" <Susan.Scouras at wvculture.org>
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Genealogy for Children
To: <janettom at vpl.ca>,         "Librarians Serving Genealogists"
             <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
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There are several ways to make genealogy inclusive of all children.  You
can briefly discuss the fact that in addition to genetics we are all
influenced by the family culture in which we are raised, so
adopted/foster children can trace the ancestry of their adoptive/foster
families as people who influenced their adoptive/foster parents and
their siblings, and therefore the life of the adopted/foster child.

Another alternative for children for whom researching their own families
would be problematic is to identify some well known people in your area
or state whose ancestry can be easily researched with available records
and biographies.  In West Virginia kids have chosen to research Mary Lou
Retton, the Olympic gymnast, and Don Knotts, the actor, or a current
governor or senator, for example.  Children whose families are not
natives and come from states or countries for which your library has no
or few resources can pursue this line of research instead of their own
families, so that the kids from "non-traditional" families wouldn't be
the only ones researching a non-family member.

Check the GenLib Archives for July 2004 for some suggested genealogy
books for children.  There are a number of Web sites for juvenile
genealogists as well, as this sampling shows:
http://www.genwriters.com/children.html
http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articles/oct01/kids.html (this also
has a list of links to other kid genealogy sites and a list of books)
http://genealogy.about.com/od/children/a/detective.htm

Susan Scouras
Librarian
WV Archives and History Library
The Cultural Center
1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
Charleston, WV  25305-0300
(304) 558-0230, Ext. 742

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The Canadian Genealogy Centre's "Youth Corner" at
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-400-e.html has
recommended activities for primary and intermediate students as well as
information about a badge program for Cub Scouts.

There is, however, the question of how to make genealogy activities for
children inclusive, considering the fact that many children are from
broken or non-traditional families where constructing a pedigree,
interviewing family members etc. in the conventional way could be
difficult.

Janet Tomkins
Genealogy librarian
Vancouver Public Library
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:14:09 -0500
From: dlunow at aol.com
Subject: [Genealib] Periodicals free / postage: German Genealogical
             Digest
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Free for postage:? Take any or all!

German Genealogical Digest:

Volume 2 Number 1

Volume 2 Number 2

Volume 2 Number 3

Volume 2 Number 4

Volume 6 Number 1

Volume 6 Number 2

Volume 6 Number 3

Volume 6 Number 4

Volume 7 Number 1

Volume 11 Number 1

Volume 11 Number 2

Volume 11 Number 3

Diane Lunow
Stagecoach Library for Genealogical Research
585 County Road 1492
Wimberley, Texas 78676-5674
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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:33:55 -0600
From: "AnnEllen Barr" <ellen at barrfinancial.com>
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Genealogy for Children
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I am not a librarian but work in the Reading Room for our Lake County
Illinois Genealogical Society.
I've done a Girl Scout Badge work with two troops---Our Heritage
Badge---and urged the girls to write
About their life today because it will change so by the time their
grandchildren read it.  I told them
Of being in our classrooms (with liquid ink which the boys dipped the
girls braids into)...etc. and that
We had to stay seated till recess or lunch time.  They couldn't believe
it.

So if they write about their school day, someday their grandchildren
will think it quaint.

ellen at BarrFinancial.com

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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:01:19 +1100
From: ABurrows at slv.vic.gov.au
Subject: [Genealib] Leave Friday 7 March to Tuesday 11 March 2008
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I will be out of the office starting  07/03/2008 and will not return until
12/03/2008.

If the matter is urgent please contact Patrick Gregory, Information
Services Manager on 03 8664 7175.
Thank you.
Anne

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:17:00 -0500
From: "Tom Kemp" <thomas.j.kemp at gmail.com>
Subject: [Genealib] US Hispanic Newspapers 1855 to 1956 go live on
             GenealogyBank
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I wanted you know that US Hispanic Newspapers have been added to
GenealogyBank.com

This is the next big thing in genealogy - solid content for Hispanic
genealogical research.

For additional details see my blog: http://blog.genealogybank.com/

The first 20 titles from 4 States - (IN, MO, NM, TX) -1855 to 1956 are
now live on the site.

This is the single largest compilation of Hispanic newspapers in the
country - unique data not available online anywhere else.

When fully uploaded the entire collection of Hispanic newspapers will
span 1808-1980.

Search on every word - find birth, marriage and obituary
announcements- historical events even the advertisements.

Digital copies of every page - everyword searchable.

We announced Tuesday that we had added over 4 Million records and
newspaper content from 24 States. Today we are announcing this
important new collection. This will be a record month for
GenealogyBank!

This week we added these Hispanic Newspapers:

Indiana.
Amigo del Hogar. Indiana Harbour, IN. 11/22/1925 to 4/13/1930

Missouri
Cosmopolita. Kansas City, MO. 8/22/1914 t0 11/8/1919

New Mexico
Democrata. Las Cruces, NM. 6/14/1894 to 11/24/1894
Eco del Rio Grande. Las Cruces, NM. 2/12/1876 to 3/2/1882
Eco del Valle. Las Cruces, NM. 11/18/1905 to 5/6/1916
Empresa. Las Cruces, NM. 9/26/1896 to 6/12/1897
Estrella. Las Cruces, NM. 2/1/1911 to 5/18/1935
Fronterizo. Las Cruces, NM. 4/29/1875 to 4/29/1875
Gaceta Popular. Las Cruces, NM. 10/24/1919 to 10/24/1919
Labrador. Las Cruces, NM. 9/8/1896 to 6/14/1912
Las Cruces Democrat. Las Cruces, NM. 6/21/1899 to 10/11/1899
Observador Fronterizo. Las Cruces, NM. 9/11/1888 to 10/30/1888
Promotor Escolar. Las Cruces, NM. 9/12/1891 to 2/16/1892
Defensor del Pueblo. Socorro, NM. 12/26/1913 to 4/9/1943

Texas
Cronista del Valle. Brownsville, TX. 10/8/1924 to 2/28/1930
Defensor. Edinburg, TX. 2/7/1930 to 12/25/1931
Azote. El Paso, TX. 9/17/1922 to 4/15/1923
Ciudanano. El Paso, TX. 3/12/1892 to 4/23/1892
Continental. El Paso, TX. 9/20/1936 to 8/28/1938
Bejareno. San Antonio, TX. 2/7/1855 to 7/28/1956

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:54:09 -0500
From: dlunow at aol.com
Subject: [Genealib] Free for postage:
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
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Can you use any of the following also?

Newspaper research by C. Lloyd Hosman

Where to write for Vital Records

Kentucky Ancestors, Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical
Society Volume 31, # 3,
Volume 31, # 2,
Volume 31,?# 1

Please contact me OFF list dlunow at aol.com

Thanks, Diane

Diane Lunow
Stagecoach Library for Genealogical Research
585 County Road 1492
Wimberley, Texas 78676-5674
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