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1 Volume XXXVII, Number 3 Contact Us: newsletter@mcigs.org March 2018 Jane Haldeman Jane Haldeman has over 20 years research experience in genealogy after earning a BA in Theater from the University of Iowa. She is the past president of Illinois State Genealogical Society, the Fox Valley Genealogical Society and the past Registrar of the Fort Payne Chapter (Naperville, IL). Want to learn more about Ancestry.com? Join Crista Cowan, The Barefoot Genealogist, for her weekly look at the latest additions to Ancestry.com as well as how to do genealogy research. We hope that you can join us on Thursday, March 8 th, 7pm at The Pointe Outreach Center located at 5650 NW Highway in Crystal Lake. Jane Haldeman will be providing with an overview of the intricacies of the Library Edition of Ancestry.com. What databases are available with Ancestry.com Library Edition vs an individual subscription? Can I create a member tree when using the library edition? Jane will help us answer all of these questions and more.

2 March 2018 Upcoming Events MCIGS Webinars Mar 3, 2018 CGS South Suburban Genealogical & Historical Society (SSGHS) at The SSGHS Library, 10am. For more information, visit Mar 3, 2018 NWSG Learning Your Way Around AncestryDNA at the Arlington Heights Senior Center, 10am. For more information, visit Mar 5, 2018 ITPL Genealogy: Top 10 Tricks & Tips at Indian Trails Public Library, 10am. For more information, visit Mar 6, 2018 EGS Moving Forward by Looking Back at Gail Borden Public Library, 9:30am. For more information, visit Mar 7, 2018 Newberry Irish Genealogy Research Program at Newberry Library, 10am. For more information, visit Mar 10, 2018 NSGS Complete Photo Restoration in 4 Easy Steps at The Northbrook Public Library, 1pm. For more information, visit Mar 13, 2018 LCGS Ghosts in the Graveyard: Intuition or Devine Intervention? at The Mundelein Community Center, 7pm. For more information, visit Mar 15, 2018 EGS Planting Your Family Tree: Beginning Genealogy at Gail Borden Public Library, 7pm. For more information, visit Mar 17, 2018 CAGGNI What s New in Technology at Schaumburg Township District Library, 10:30am. For more information, visit Thanks to all who joined us for our webinar with Diahan Southard of Your DNA Guide who presented the topic The Combined Power of Y-DNA & Autosomal DNA: A Case Study. The recorded session is available in the Members Only section of the MCIGS website, including the handout. If you have any questions about how to access this and other recorded sessions or are having trouble logging in, please contact the webmaster (webmaster@mcigs.org). Welcome to MCIGS Please help us welcome our newest members: Marian Biegel Tinley Park, IL Jeff & Shiela Mohler Crystal Lake, IL Kathryn Bedingfield Arlington Heights, IL Janet Bush Cary, IL Carol DeLuca Huntley, IL Attention Current Members! Now would be the perfect time to renew your membership if you have not done so already. Go to the MCIGS website and sign up online to ensure that you have continuous access to our materials in the members section of the website. You can also find a membership application online which can be mailed in. Maintaining your good standing with MCIGS will ensure you receive a discount to the upcoming MCIGS Conference.

3 March 2018 RootsTech Innovators Revisited By Bill Wheeler By the time that you read this, RootsTech 2018 should be underway. Each year, one of the core events of RootsTech is the Innovation Showdown where entrepreneurs compete for over $100,000 in prizes. We wanted to take just a moment to review the 2017 winners and where they are twelve months later. OldNewsUSA: OldNewsUSA won top honors at RootsTech The Android mobile app allows genealogists and historians to quickly access stories in historical newspapers. While RevGenea software anticipated having a release for Apple devices in 2017, the beta release on ios is only now becoming available. The software is free in the Google Play store. QromaTag: Second place of the Innovation Showdown went to QromaTag. Ever look at a photograph and wonder what the story was behind the picture? That was the inspiration for the ios software that allows the user to record audio into a photo. While there were plans to release an Android version in 2017, to date the software is only available in ios. The software costs $9.99. Double Match Triagulator: Third place winner was Double Match Triangulator which is a Windows-based software that reads two or more DNA segment match files and identifies the segments that overlap. While the software only runs on Windows, the resulting Excel file can be viewed on any device that runs Excel. A lifetime license is $40 at MCIGS Newest Book Purchase By Claudia Conroy On the request of a member, we have purchased the book Planning a Future for Your Family s Past. The subtitle for this 97 page paperback explains exactly what the book covers: How to organize your genealogy materials, make decisions about your collection, and pass on what you know to future generations. The author, Marian Burk Wood, has included information on how to take an inventory of your collection, methods to sort your documents and artifacts so they will be distributed to your choice of heirs, and writing a genealogical will. The last sections of the book include links to online sources and copies of forms to aid in this process. The paperback will be placed in the Crystal Lake Public Library and be allowed to circulate. As always, please allow sufficient time for the library to process the book. Upcoming Events Apr 12, 2018 MCIGS Gen202: Beyond The Basics at The Pointe, Crystal Lake, IL, 7pm. For more information, visit Apr 18, 2018 DCGS Oh Where, Oh Where are My Ancestors From? at Wheaton Public Library, Wheaton, IL, 6:30pm. For more information, visit May 10, 2018 MCIGS Cook County Social Worker for the Unclaimed Dead at The Pointe, Crystal Lake, IL, 7pm. For more information, visit June 14, 2018 MCIGS GOOGLE for Genealogy at The Pointe, Crystal Lake, IL, 7pm. For more information, visit July 7, 2018 MCIGS MCIGS Summer Confrence at McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL, 7pm. For more information, visit August 9, 2018 MCIGS Probate Records at The Pointe, Crystal Lake, IL, 7pm. For more information, visit September 13, 2018 MCIGS What s New At FamilySearch at The Pointe, Crystal Lake, IL, 7pm. For more information, visit October 11, 2018 MCIGS What s New On the Internet at The Pointe, Crystal Lake, IL, 7pm. For more information, visit October 26-27, 2018 ISGS Celebrating Our Ancestors at President Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, IL. For more information, visit

4 March 2018 MCIGS Announces Scholarship to McHenry County High Schools The McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society (MCIGS) is offering a $1, scholarship to a McHenry County High School Senior. The award is named after Elaine Obenchain, a member of MCIGS who passed away on January 2, She wrote and illustrated a fivevolume set of books on McHenry County cemeteries, which were published by the McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society. She devoted countless hours of service not only to this society but to others as well. This scholarship was created to encourage and inspire the coming generation to learn and preserve local history as well as personal family history. The scholarship will be awarded to a high school senior with ambitions to study history, preservation of history and/or genetics. Applicants must also be involved in community service. The recipient must be a McHenry County, Illinois resident attending a McHenry County high school. The following criteria will be used to determine the winner of the scholarship: High school senior residing in McHenry County High school transcript with grade point average listed Volunteer work/service in the community An essay describing the student s interest in learning about and preserving history and/ or genetics. Two letters of recommendation, with one being from a high school teacher/counselor and the other from a community member. Completed application, transcript, essay and letters must be received in one packet, postmarked by March 31, 2018 to: McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society PO Box 184 Crystal Lake, IL Finalists will be contacted by to make arrangements for an interview at their high school. This is a $1, one-time scholarship that will be presented at the high school awards ceremony. Please share this information with interested seniors. Elaine Obenchain Janet Elaine Obenchain was a long-time member and supporter of MCIGS. Elaine spent countless hours visiting cemeteries for what would eventually become McHenry County Illinois Cemeteries, Volumes I V which was published in 1990 by McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society. Elaine was recognized in 1989 by the Illinois Genealogical Society (ISGS) for her work. Elaine was an accomplished author. Prior to authoring the McHenry County Illinois Cemeteries, Elaine authored and published The Complete Catalog of Ampico Reproducing Piano Rolls. Both of these book sets are available for purchase from Amazon.com. MCIGS is grateful to Elaine and her family for their generosity so that MCIGS can support future generations of genealogists in McHenry County. If you have any questions regarding the scholarship, please contact: Tami Allred at (847) Tami.Allred@mcigs.org or Laurie Stage at (847) Laurie.Stage@mcigs.org

5 Monthly Programs Location: 7 p.m. at The Pointe Outreach Center, 5650 NW Hwy, Crystal Lake, IL Newspapers.com Alice Hayes February 8, 2018 Newspapers.com is the online home of 200+ million pages of historical newspapers from 5,500+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time. Come learn how to search the collection to find news, notices of births, marriages and deaths, sports, comics and more especially because the collection now contains 149 historical newspapers in Illinois including the (Crystal Lake) Herald from Alice is a former MCIGS Board Member and the Genealogy Specialist LTA at the Crystal Lake Public Library. Resources Available through Ancestry.com Library Edition Jane Haldeman March 8, 2018 Ancestry.com, one of the largest genealogy sites, offers a wide variety of resources for the genealogist. This continually evolving website can be personalized to suit the needs of the researcher. Jane will discuss tips and tricks for using the library version of Ancestry.com, including ideas for easy navigation and successful searches. Jane graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in Theater. Combining her passions for genealogy and theater she now lectures on technology as it applies to genealogical research. Ms. Haldeman developed and owns "It's Relative, a genealogical service business that provides lectures, workshops, research, and consultations. Gen 202: Beyond the Basics After Ancestry, after Ellis Island, after the easy stuff Liz Ross April 12, 2018 Tips, techniques and suggestions for keeping the tree growing and finding the rocks that you want to look under. Reading closely. Thinking out-of-the-box. Mind-stretching and creative thinking and keeping all the information straight as you look at a million (or maybe only several hundred sources). Liz is a genealogy professional Researcher, Writer, Lecturer, & Consultant. She lectures in the Chicago area and writes "2nd Saturday Genealogy." Her lectures are designed for beginning and intermediate researchers but will be helpful to the person who has "done some researching" and now wants to be more thorough. She writes a column for CAGGNI and is a member of NGS, APG and numerous state and local societies. Cook County s Social Worker for the Unclaimed Dead Rebeca Perrone May 10, 2018 Rebeca Perrone, the Cook County Medical Examiner s first indigent coordinator, handles 700+ cases a year in her role as a Social Worker for the dead. Using a list of names of unclaimed remains, Rebeca searches for potential next of kin, hoping to reunite them with their loved ones. Her stories reflect how basic genealogy techniques can be used to find living relatives. Originally from Algonquin, after studying sociology and criminal justice at Loyola University, Rebeca worked for the Indiana Department of Child Services, investigating abuse and neglect claims. She longed to be a detective but not a police officer, so she decided to change jobs and search for living relatives of the unclaimed indigent, so that they might help arrange for a dignified burial. McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society P.O. Box 184, Crystal Lake, Illinois /

6 GOOGLE for Genealogy Tina Beaird June 14, 2018 Google can be a useful tool for genealogical research. Utilizing services like Google news, Google maps, and Google books can make you feel like Indiana Jones. But be wary, Google has some traps and pitfalls as well. Tina will discuss ways to get the most out of Google so you can find your holy grail. Tina Beaird is owner of Tamarack Genealogy and the Genealogy/Local History Librarian at a midsized Chicagoland public library. She provides lectures extensively on military research, genealogical methodology, Scottish records, and archival preservation 2018 MCIGS Summer Genealogy Conference McHenry County College - July 7, 2018 McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society (MCIGS) is sponsoring an all-day conference for genealogists and family historians on Saturday, July 7, The event will take place at McHenry County College Conference Center, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake, Illinois. The conference is ideal for all genealogists and family historians, no matter whether you are a beginning researcher or have been searching for years. There will be fabulous door prizes and a number of vendors attending with their society information, book sellers and others. For more information contact the society at mcigs@mcigs.org or telephone Probate Ann Wells August 9, 2018 While probate is actually the court process of determining if a will is valid or invalid, today it generally means the process by which the will is carried out, or in the case of no will, how the estate is handled. These records can be one of the most important group of records for genealogists. Ann has served on the board of a number of genealogy societies. She is a past president of MCIGS and has also served on the boards of the Illinois State Genealogy Society, British Interest Group of Illinois/Wisconsin, International Society for British Genealogy and Family History and is currently on the Nunda Township Cemetery Board. What s New at FamilySearch? Maureen Brady September 13, 2018 FamilySearch gathers, preserves, and shares genealogical records worldwide. It offers free access to its resources and service online at FamilySearch.org. The website is constantly changing, so Maureen will share the latest developments concerning FamilySearch s features, historic records, classes/webinars, and more. Maureen Brady is a former school librarian and computer educator. She has over 25 years experience with family history research, is a professional genealogist and owner of Bare Roots Genealogical Services What s New on the Internet for Genealogists? Caron Primas Brennan October 11, 2018 There are new genealogy sites on the Internet every day. This fast-paced presentation is a review of popular, new, little known, and perhaps unusual genealogy resources on the internet to help you in your research. Recording Secretary for the Chicago Genealogical Society for and the Recording Secretary for the Illinois State Genealogical Society for When not working at her day job, researching her own family tree or making genealogy presentations, Caron may be researching for others or writing for her blogs! McHenry County Illinois Genealogical Society P.O. Box 184, Crystal Lake, Illinois /