The presenter discusses the FamilySearch Wiki, which allows community contributors to share genealogical research tips and information. He highlights two specific wiki projects - one on U.S. Census records and another on American Indian tribes. These projects consolidate fragmented research guidance and record locations into centralized wiki pages. Contributors found that compiling this information in the wiki makes it much easier for others to conduct research without having to search multiple sources. The presenter encourages participants to volunteer their expertise by contributing to relevant wiki pages.
Washington State American Indian Educator's Conference March 2012. Project to share culturally relevant youth resources for Northwest Coastal and Inland Plateau tribes as well as Pan-Indian and Urban experiences.
Washington State American Indian Educator's Conference March 2012. Project to share culturally relevant youth resources for Northwest Coastal and Inland Plateau tribes as well as Pan-Indian and Urban experiences.
bConnect is a wonderful product from Accelon, which helps you automate all your documents and reports delivery from SAP Business One, thus saving time and money.
Wikis, Content Management Systems, and Community: Enhancing Publishing in Lib...Michael Ritchey
This presentation was given at the American Library Association's Library and Information Technology (LITA) forum in 2009. It shows what the Family History Library did to exponentially quicken our reference information publishing cycle, multiply content output, boost teamwork, morale, and community relations, and improve content design, quality and relevance by crowdsourcing our reference information publication process through a public wiki.
The Little Rann of Kutch is a salt marsh located in the northern region of Gujarat, close to the Great Rann of Kutch. It produces near 25% of India’s salt production and employs nearly 50,000 workers in the process. The saltpan workers working in the Little Rann of Kutch belong to the Agrariya community, are illiterate, and their professional skills are limited to salt making. It is the life of their children, however, which suffers the most. Due to being in the Rann for 8 months, they miss out on any formal education. While the young ones need care and hence, accompany their parents, some of the older children (14-16 years) aid their parents in salt making.
Various NGOs have been working in and around Rann to resolve the plight of children and ensure their primary education. Education and awareness alone can facilitate their switching to some other occupation and hence the breaking of the vicious circle of illiteracy and poverty. One of the most prominent of these is Ganatar. Ganatar has come up with unique initiatives like schools in Rann, vocational training programme, bridge course to help students keep pace with mainstream education, with involvement of the community as its cornerstone principle.
Inspite of such innovative solutions and impeccable spirit shown by the students who have continued in the education system after being impacted by Ganatar, the situation is still bleak. The change is coming but more vigorous efforts need to be made, both by the community and the government, to ensure that the right to education and hence, equal opportunity is made available to these children.
A Portfolio of high quality Jewelry and Gemstones. Photographed on white is our Premiere line of rings, followed by loose Emeralds all weighing over 20 cts. The styled shots were created for our newsletter. The newsletters included were created by myself. All of the photographs have had minimal retouching in Photoshop except the loose stones. Because the flash tends to illuminate inclusions that you cannot see, so they were retouched slightly more so I could make them look how they would appear to the naked eye.
Everything librarians need to know to help genealogists but were afraid to askNicole Wedemeyer Miller
Nicole Wedemeyer Miller, the co-author of Fostering Family History Services, presents information from her book about how even librarians without genealogy/local history collections can serve genealogists.
bConnect is a wonderful product from Accelon, which helps you automate all your documents and reports delivery from SAP Business One, thus saving time and money.
Wikis, Content Management Systems, and Community: Enhancing Publishing in Lib...Michael Ritchey
This presentation was given at the American Library Association's Library and Information Technology (LITA) forum in 2009. It shows what the Family History Library did to exponentially quicken our reference information publishing cycle, multiply content output, boost teamwork, morale, and community relations, and improve content design, quality and relevance by crowdsourcing our reference information publication process through a public wiki.
The Little Rann of Kutch is a salt marsh located in the northern region of Gujarat, close to the Great Rann of Kutch. It produces near 25% of India’s salt production and employs nearly 50,000 workers in the process. The saltpan workers working in the Little Rann of Kutch belong to the Agrariya community, are illiterate, and their professional skills are limited to salt making. It is the life of their children, however, which suffers the most. Due to being in the Rann for 8 months, they miss out on any formal education. While the young ones need care and hence, accompany their parents, some of the older children (14-16 years) aid their parents in salt making.
Various NGOs have been working in and around Rann to resolve the plight of children and ensure their primary education. Education and awareness alone can facilitate their switching to some other occupation and hence the breaking of the vicious circle of illiteracy and poverty. One of the most prominent of these is Ganatar. Ganatar has come up with unique initiatives like schools in Rann, vocational training programme, bridge course to help students keep pace with mainstream education, with involvement of the community as its cornerstone principle.
Inspite of such innovative solutions and impeccable spirit shown by the students who have continued in the education system after being impacted by Ganatar, the situation is still bleak. The change is coming but more vigorous efforts need to be made, both by the community and the government, to ensure that the right to education and hence, equal opportunity is made available to these children.
A Portfolio of high quality Jewelry and Gemstones. Photographed on white is our Premiere line of rings, followed by loose Emeralds all weighing over 20 cts. The styled shots were created for our newsletter. The newsletters included were created by myself. All of the photographs have had minimal retouching in Photoshop except the loose stones. Because the flash tends to illuminate inclusions that you cannot see, so they were retouched slightly more so I could make them look how they would appear to the naked eye.
Everything librarians need to know to help genealogists but were afraid to askNicole Wedemeyer Miller
Nicole Wedemeyer Miller, the co-author of Fostering Family History Services, presents information from her book about how even librarians without genealogy/local history collections can serve genealogists.
This is the slideshow from a presentation on reference communication by Carol Leibiger and Alan Aldrich at the Mountain Plains Library Association Conference in Wichita, KS, on April 1, 2009.
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Has Google made reference librarians obsolete? Is a golden age of librarianship being ushered in? Technology has had a democratizing effect on the availability of information, but what does this mean for reference services? The future of reference services has yet to be written, and there are both challenges as well as opportunities ahead. A panel of experts will confront these questions from a variety of perspectives including public and academic, front-line and administrative, and adult and young adult. Come and join this timely and thought-provoking discussion. - Presented at the Ohio Library Council Convention & Expo 2014
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Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
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2. The presenter: Mike Ritchey FamilySearch employee since 2000 Community Content manager within the Community Services team Professional genealogist Former family history center director
3. Rules of the classroom During class, ringing devices may evoke a psychotic episode Camera flashes will be rewarded with a drink from a miscellaneous vial Questions will be welcomed after class
4. The road we’ll travel today What is a wiki Introduce FamilySearch Wiki U.S. Census project & American Indian project Community contributors Questions they answer Old way of research Project samples Results & Learnings Help wanted What contributors like about wiki Questions @ end
5. What’s a wiki? Wiki: Hawaiian for “quick” Anyone can contribute -- no programming or html required Writing: Easy as MS Word Write an idea now; add more later A gathering place to collect group knowledge
6. FamilySearch Wiki overview Scope: Research advice (how to find, use, & analyze records) Does not contain records of individual ancestors Began Jan 2008 Originally seeded with 800 paper publications Now 32,000 pages (don’t blink) Covers 100+ countries
7. Map and people Put here an image of a world map. Add an icon of a person. Color the map red for areas he has questions about. These are places his ancestors lived.Then add an icon of another person. She knows about that country, so it turns green. She has questions about other countries, so they turn red. Then add people and colors till the map is all green.
9. Questions the U.S. census project answers How do I begin a census search? Where are census records for my ancestor’s state? Which colonial and state censuses are available? Where do I go if I can’t find my ancestor on the couple major online indexes I know of?
11. Old solution for census research Learn where the records are… Five places in the library catalog Five registers Many Websites The Dollarhide/Thorndale missing census table “We’re talking a dozen to forty census references” Better talk to an expert
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21. Census team’s results & learnings “Even though I had been working in census records for thirty years… I found that wow, there’s a lot more than I realized.”
22. Census team’s results & learnings “I had not realized that there were so many state and colonial censuses…. For instance, one great book on state censuses wouldn’t touch colonial censuses.”
23. Census team’s results & learnings “When I started the project… I didn’t know that you can find a competing index most of the time.”
24. Census team’s results & learnings “When most people do census research, they pick and choose from only a few sources. But we put the whole buffet in their face to show what records are there.”
25. Help Wanted: U.S. census project Add information about printed indexes Add pictures and document examples
26. What contributors like about the Wiki “I particularly enjoy the directness. Seconds after I put it on there, I could have a reader.” - David Dilts
29. Questions the Indian project answers Which Indian tribes lived in the areas where my ancestors lived? What records exist for those tribes and what do they contain? Where can I access those records?
30. Old solution for American Indian research Find tribes in ancestor’s area Local histories & reference books Study tribal histories to find… When the tribe was there Tribal history and cultural background Likelihood of tribal member marrying a non-Indian Whether part-blood could be tribal member Search several reference books for… Reservation Bureau of Indian Affairs agency Location of agency records
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42. American Indian team’s results/learnings None of the reference works are complete We are unearthing facts that are not easily found We are compiling it all in the wiki Now we can find information easier without going to a library or building a personal collection
43. Help Wanted: American Indian project Pages for additional tribes Brief tribal histories & timelines Records at: Agencies Tribal offices Archives Historical societies Universities Special need for volunteers who are… Tribal members BIA employees Tribal office employees
44. What contributors like about the Wiki “I have collected lots of material over 40 years of research on American Indians. It does no one any good sitting in my filing cabinets. By entering this information into the Wiki, it is accessible to anyone who wants to access it, worldwide.” -- Jimmy Parker
45. The road we traveledtoday What is a wiki Introduce FamilySearch Wiki U.S. Census project & American Indian project Community contributors Questions they answer Old way of research Project samples Results & Learnings Help wanted What contributors like about wiki