{"id":37978,"date":"2016-06-03T09:12:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=37978"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:12:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:12:25","slug":"serendipity-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=37978","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutch Are Still With Us; They Gave Us Cookies!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Public Libraries: Worth Investigating<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Southerners Who Went To Brazil After the Civil War<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Uploading & Downloading GEDCOM Files on Ancestry<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Do You Believe in Dowsing Rods?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Just finished studying (cannot say \u201creading\u201d for it is a study<\/u> book!) The Island at the Center of the World<\/em>,<\/strong> the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America, by Russell Shorto, 2005.\u00a0 U.S. history classes seem to gloss over the 150 years when the Dutch founded and shaped Manhattan and this history brings that period to life. Just for fun: on page 269 I learned that \u201cthe typical Dutch word for master—baas<\/em><\/strong>—would take on a different connotation in the New World and an Americanism came into being: the Boss.\u201d\u00a0 On page 270:\u00a0 \u201cIn October of 1661 there was a grain shortage in the city and the municipal government issued an order to the bakers of the town to restrict themselves to baking bread and not \u201cto bake any more koeckjes, jumbles or sweet cake.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u201c This Dutch word is pronounced \u201ccook-yehs,\u201d which morphed into our word: cookies. Koolsla<\/em><\/strong>, or cabbage salad, is our modern cole slaw. \u00a0There are more \u201cDutch-isms\u201d in our everyday language:\u00a0 Dutch treat, Dutch courage, Double Dutch, Dutch bargain, Going Dutch, Dutch comfort\u2026\u2026\u2026 which were all considered derogatory at the time (17th<\/sup> century)!\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ancestors living in the New York City area during the Dutch times, this is a great read for you. (You can buy a copy via Amazon.com starting at 76-cents for a used copy!)<\/p>\n

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Are you fully using your public library? Did you know that (among many other things) your library can offer you music, movies and books for free delivered to your own device???\u00a0 Not to mention that most public libraries have a free WiFi area. Here in Spokane, two of our public libraries give our local genealogy society, groups and teachers free use of classrooms. We have an Ancestry Users\u2019 Group, a Re-Focus Group, and we\u2019ve been offering a 3-hour beginners\u2019 workshop, all free to use the classroom and free to the folks who come. Some public libraries offer Heritage Quest online, Ancestry Library Edition and much more. Do check it out!<\/p>\n

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Did your Southern-dwelling ancestor disappear from the records after the Civil War? \u00a0Did you know that many Southerners went to Brazil to start over? There is a free-of-charge online book you may read telling more about this episode in American history.\u00a0 Google Brazil, the home for southerners<\/strong> and the website with the full title (and content) will come up:\u00a0 Brazil, the home for southerners: or, A practical account of what the author, and others, who visited that country, for the same objects, saw and did while in that empire.\u201d By Ballard S. Dunn, 1829-1897. This book has been digitized by Google and is located in the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n

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Current sticky-wicket: Do you put your family tree on Ancestry? How do you upload your tree to Ancestry? What if you want to download it to upload it to another online tree? NO PROBLEM. Ancestry Support is there to help! The good news<\/strong> is that this process involves using GEDCOM which sounds complicated but Ancestry will hold your hand every step of the way. The bad news<\/strong> is that when you do decide to download your tree from Ancestry, any pictures, charts, books, views or similar items found in the original file will not be included in the GEDCOM. Vital information, notes, and sources are usually<\/u> retained after conversion. (<\/strong>Emphasis mine.) There are other websites where you may want to post your tree: FamliySearch and MyHeritage to name two. I could now copy\/paste the very long web link but I advise you to Google these words:\u00a0 uploading downloading GEDCOM files ancestry 2016.<\/em>\u00a0 I printed out the full article for my personal tutorial.<\/p>\n

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Browsed upon a website all about dowsing rods<\/strong>, www.discoverrods.com<\/a> , and learned more about the lost art of dowsing. \u201cAlthough there seems to be no scientific proof for the way that dowsing or divining rods work, they have been used successfully for thousands of years. Generally, they are used to locate underground water sources. It is believed that the rods are simply reacting to magnetic fields or ions. But you can also locate lost graves and headstones\u2026.Discover Rods are an important tool for every genealogist!\u201d\u00a0 The website promises that they are \u201csimple to use and each set includes an instruction guide and tips for locating your ancestors.\u201d Cost is only $25 plus $5 shipping. They even have T-Shirts! Please, if you try this, let me know your story to share with others! <\/strong>I\u2019m neither a believer not a skeptic but would like to learn more.<\/p>\n

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