TIP OF THE WEEK –
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ONLINE
  133 YEARS OF THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE are now keyword searchable and available to the the public online thanks to a partnership between the University of Utah –  J. Willard Marriott Library, Newspapers.com, a division of Ancestry, and The Salt Lake Tribune. The site now covers the  years 1871-2004 of the Salt Lake Tribune. There are over 6.7 million pages on this site and another 2 million pages  will come online in the next two to three years.

The Tribune issues can be accessed through Utah Digital Newspapers, a collaborative project based at the J. Willard Marriott Library since 2001.  Powerful searching options allow users to find terms in combinations or terms that appear in proximity to one another. Check out “How to Use Advanced Search” help here: 
https://digitalnewspapers.org/help/search_results

TIP OF THE WEEK -IN NEED OF TRANSLATION  

This issue’s tip came out of this month’s Second Saturday Speaker Series presentation by Carolyn Schott. There is a Facebook Group called Genealogical Translations and their purpose is just that, the translation of genealogy documents only. It is a private group so you must ask to join. This group might be the answer to your prayers.  Here’s how they describe themselves: 
  “Genealogical Translations was established to provide amateur family researchers a place to have their genealogical documents translated. We are a global volunteer group whose members help other members by offering free translation of their genealogical documents such as vital records, postcards, obituaries, and more, in languages including – Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and many others!

▶ Before posting, new members are expected to familiarize themselves with the Posting Format and Group Rules, and all other Featured posts.” 

TIP OF THE WEEK –
MARYLAND LAND RECORDS

Here’s a tip came from a fellow SGS member for everyone interested in land records of Maryland.  

All land records for Maryland are available online from the Maryland State Archives at this URL: http://www.mdlandrec.net

Use of this site is free, but you will need to create an account. Here’s the blurb from their main home page expressing their intent:

“The Maryland Judiciary, the 24 elected Court Clerks of Maryland and the Maryland State Archives have joined in partnership to provide up to date access to all verified land record instruments in Maryland. This service is currently being provided free to all those interested in testing the system. Users are encouraged to provide feedback and inform the Maryland State Archives of any problems encountered.”

Once you have arrived at the home page, use the drop-down menu in the upper left part of the page to select your county of interested, and you’re off and running.

While these same land records are available via FamilySearch, most of them fall under that “restricted access” requiring you to be at a FHC or affiliated library to access the image. From the MDLANDREC website, you can view and download Maryland land records from the comfort of your home.

TIP OF THE WEEK –
WEBINAR ON USING PERSI
BY ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBARY
Context is what changes genealogy from a collection of names and dates to our ancestors’ stories, and stories will get the attention of our otherwise disinterested family members. This webinar conducted by Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana addresses how to use the newly reconstituted PERSI database, searching by location to discover context for your genealogy research.

Watch the video here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS7i1_omczw&t=3s
The Allen County Public Library is an invaluable resource for genealogical research. PERSI (the Periodical Source Index) is the largest subject index to genealogy and local history periodical articles in the world. This one hour webinar comes highly recommended by your fellow SGS members. 

WANT TO SIGN THE PETITION TO REOPEN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES RESEARCH ROOMS?
  Some feel 2 years is long enough and NARA can safely reopen the research rooms with some safety precautions in place. If you’d like to sign the petition or learn more about the campaign, visit:
https://www.change.org/p/incoming-archivist-of-the-united-states-reopen-national-archives-research-rooms 

TIP OF THE WEEK –
BRITISH COLUMBIA HISTORICAL
  NEWSPAPERS AND A WEBINAR
  Jill Morelli passed along this tip; it originally came from Valerie Beaudrault. The University of British Columbia has made the BC Historical Newspapers database, a digital collection of 168 newspaper titles published between 1859 and 1995, available on their website. Toward the bottom left hand side of the web page is an alphabetical selection list of the newspaper titles. And to the right of that list is a map that pinpoints the home of each publication. To explore a specific title, click on it in the alphabetical selection list toward the bottom of the page. But if you want to search the entire collection, that search box is located toward the top of the web page. Newspaper page images can be downloaded and saved. Here’s the link to the website:  https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers

If BC is an area of interest for you, check out the webinar “Genealogical Gold in British Columbia” with Dave Obee, Canadian genealogist, journalist, and author. It is scheduled for Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST. This is one of many free webinars hosted by Legacy Family Tree.  Register at:
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/genealogical-gold-in-british-columbia/

TIP OF THE WEEK –
FREE LATIN HANDWRITING WEBINAR
  The objective of this 5 day series is to teach beginners the basics of Latin handwriting and documents as it pertains to genealogy research. At the end of these 5 classes one should be able to:

• Use online resources to help you read Latin documents
• Understand basic Latin grammar in order to determine relationships
• Translate simple Latin documents

Fritz Juengling, PhD, AG, is the instructor. Remember Fritz from our Spring 2020 Seminar turned webinar? He is the German, Dutch, Scandinavian research specialist at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He reads documents in German, Dutch, French, Latin, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.

This webinar series runs:

•    Monday through Friday
•    March 21, 2022 – March 25, 20220
•    12:00 pm – 1:00 Pacific time

The sessions are free. Registration is required. 

If you are interested, register at:

https://churchofjesuschrist.zoom.us/webinar/register/7216400244813/WN_vL_qaPU0QyOCJndAldszgQ

TIP OF THE WEEK – SELECT, COPY, AND PASTE 
PAGES OF CENSUS DATA 
  Here’s a nifty process to extract full page(s) of US Census Data from Ancestry (or FamilySearch) and paste it into Google Sheets to make a table of the data.

To copy the Census Data into Google Sheets you will be using the commands Select, Copy, and Paste Special – Values Only. Below I’ll describe the basic process using Ancestry and Google Sheets. If you prefer to use Excel instead of Google Sheets, you will use the commands Select, Copy, and Paste Special as text; nearly an identical process.

Step one is to search and find the US Census record you want to collect data from and use View Image to open the actual image. In Ancestry, located at the center bottom of your screen next to the image number, you will see an icon resembling a person. It’s called the “Index Button”. Click on it. Notice a transcription of the Census page is now displayed in the lower portion of the screen. Place your cursor anywhere in that area of the lower portion of your screen and click. Now you’ll use the shortcuts:    Ctrl + A               to select all data; data will now be highlighted    Ctrl + C              to copy all data you selected above    Ctrl + Shift + V  to paste special that copied data into Google Sheets
Move forward or backward to the next Census record image, repeating the 3 command steps shown above , until you have copied all the data from the Census you want, and you have pasted that data into your Google Sheets table. Now you can filter and analysis the data you have collected.

For more detail on filtering, table formatting, practical applications, and suggestions, take the time to watch one or two of these videos by Connie Knox of GenealogyTV :

• Find More Ancestors By Extracting Census Data Into Google Sheets  
• #1 Way to Breakdown Brick Walls – Updated 2020 

Connie uses this process for FAN Club or Cluster research. Here are the links for those videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgSSYl5oJdU

https://genealogytv.org/2020/10/16/1-way-to-break-down-brick-walls-updated-2020/

TIP OF THE WEEK –  RootsTech Video Archive  

Videos from many of the past RootsTech conferences are available for your viewing online. You can search the videos by conference year or by speaker. Right now the years you’ll find in the archive are 2015-2020. If you missed the entire conference or simply want to review a single session, visit : 
https://www.rootstech.org/video-archive?lang=eng

TIP OF THE WEEK – 1950 U.S. CENSUS 
It’s almost here! The long awaited 1950 U.S. census will be released to the public in April 2022. FamilySearch expects it will happen on April 1st. This census will not be indexed when it is first released. The time it will take to index depends on how many volunteer for the job and how dedicated they are. The 1940 census consisted of roughly 132 million people and took 4 months to index. The 1950 census consists of approximately 150 million people.