ARCHIVED: Mondays with Myrt 8 Aug 2016

DearREADERS,
DearMYRTLE and Cousin Russ recognize the United Nations' International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024. We reach out to all regardless of race, color, creed or national origin with support for researching family and documenting cultural inheritance. 
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IMAGE: Collage by DearMYRTLE, UN International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024.

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ATTENDEE FEEDBACK

• Barbara Zabitz writes "Thank you for the welcome...I have been watching archived sessions!!"
• Maria Halmfors writes "I want to inform you that August 20-21 Genealogy Days 2016 in Umeå, Sweden Exhibitors and speakers from Sweden, Finland, Norway and USA." See: http://www.sfd2016.se/in-english
• LIV Christensen mentions "I am attending from the suburbs of Oslo, Norway. On the 20th of August I am going to Umeå and "genealogy days" there which Maria had a post about. I am looking much forward to it."
• We spotlighted a blog post by Erica Voolich about an ancestor widowed in her mid-50s who lived to be 92. City directories play a part in the story. A Family Story, a Bit of Investigation and "The Rest of the Story"
• Debi McGee Hoag writes "Reverse address listings are priceless for finding descendants with different names living in same household." 
   
• Linda Stufflebean says "My grandparents owned a meat market at least from 1930-1951. I was able to prove that they had opened it by 1922 using city directories." 
  
  
   

A FEW OF THE TOPICS AND LINKS WE MENTION

• Genealogical Publishing Company  - http://genealogical.com
• Elizabeth Shown Mills' Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. We recommend studying the first two chapters as an annual four-session course within your genealogy societies. See Ol' Myrt's review here.
• City Directories - Cousin Russ mentions taking the address of a business and place it on a contemporary map.
  
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Events: http://newyorkfamilyhistory.org/nygbs-events
• British Institute 10-14 Oct 2016: http://isbgfh.org/cpage.php?pt=56

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Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt     :)
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