Crume, Rick. Say What? Family Tree Magazine, June 2003.
Genealogists wear many hats, detective, historian, archivist, sociologist, interviewer - even translator. Solving some family history mysteries may hinge on your ability to decipher old documents or modern web pages written in a foreign language, or to communicate with someone who doesn't speak English.
Google Ease - use the Translate this Page option for foreign language sites. To access all the Google foreign-language resources, go to the home page and click on Language tools. Here you can search websites written in a specific language or located in another country and you can translate text or a web page.
To translate foreign languages - just type the text in Google's Translate text box. Other options:
Greene, David. Needful Things: Genealogy - & the Future, Part I, New England Ancestors, Holiday 2001.
Fitch, John. Photographing Gravestones, Nexus, Vol. XVI, No. 1.
Consider the matter of the sun being on the wrong side of the subject about half the time. Most tombstones face the west. Take pictures in the afternoon. Noon is standard time, in summer the sun will reach it's zenith at 1:00. Have a picnic and wait for the sun.
Take a tripod and a mirror. The first to steady the camera and the second to use to reflect sunlight onto the tombstone when the sun is not in the right place. The mirror should be about 2' x 4' to work well with all sizes of stones.
Gleason, Michael. Switch to Gregorian Calendar was Unpopular with Colonists, The Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. XVII, No. 3, May/June 1991.
The last thing Virginians needed in 1752, amid rumors of French & Indian raids along the Ohio River frontier, was a new calendar system that included a new New Year's Day. Still, that's what they got from the British Parliament.
Great Britain that year adopted the Gregorian calendar, eliminating 11 days and switching New Year's Day from March to January.
Anderson, Robert. Reflections on the Great Migration Study Project, New England Ancestors, Holiday 2008.
On November 15, 2008, we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the Great Migration Study Project.
During my early years in genealogy, while handling typical client commissions, I was constantly faced with the problem of learning what research had already been undertaken and published for a family of interest. This search frequently consumed much of the time allocated for research and became very frustrating.
Thus arose the concept of a reference work for New England genealogy which would update and supplant Savage and some of the other single-colony-based compendia.
Work began on November 15, 1988 with the pilot project which became the Great Migration Begins series of volumes which covered immigration to New England from 1620 to 1633.
Sketch format:
Section one - migration
Airpower in World War II
Leadership of Army Air Force
Commanding General Army Air Force - Gen. Henry "Hap" Arnold
Army General Staff - Gen. Joseph McNarney
Air Force Commands:
Flying Training Command
Technical Transport Command
Air Transport Command
Material Command - development of aircraft
Air Service Command - distribute aircraft and equipment, operate depots
Proving Ground Command - testing aircraft
Anti-Submarine Command
Flight Control Command
U.S. Air Forces: divided into fourteen air forces with four in the U.S. and ten overseas. Each air force included:
Bomber command
Fighter command
Base Service command
Air Support command
