Texas death certificates updated at familysearch.org

Texas Deaths, 1977-1986

Description

Images of Texas statewide death certificates, including delayed certificates, from the Texas Department of State Health Services in Austin. Additional certificates will be added to the collection as they become available.https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1930157

Sue

Children from Great Britain to Canada - Home Children Database

Between 1869 and the early 1930s, over 100,000 children were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement. Library and Archives Canada holds multiple records in different series regarding the Home Children. In the latest update, more than 20,000 names of children, who came to Canada between 1925 and 1932, were added to the extended version. The names were extracted from passengers lists held at Library and Archives Canada.

You can find the Home Children Database (1869-1930) at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/index-e.html

From: Eastman's Online Genealogical Newsletter 12 OCT 2011
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/10/library-and-archives-canada-announces-a-new-version-of-the-home-children-database-1869-1930.html

Sue

Missouri History Museum Genealogy and Local History Index

The Genealogy and Local History Index provides access to the extensive genealogy and local history holdings at the Library and Research Center. The index contains references to personal and corporate names (primarily St. Louisans and St. Louis businesses) that appear in selected library, archives, and photograph collections. If you find a reference in the index, you may request a photocopy of the item.Please note: This index does not direct you to a digital image of the indexed item.

Indexes include a personal name index; a business and corporation index; a street search; and a search by source.

Sue

Inter-library loan follow-up

Everyone,
Inter-library loans are now treated like books that get checked out to the customer.  When ILL's come in, Julia will check them in, removing them from "in transit" status.  This generates an email to the customer letting them know that the requested item is at the location.  The inter-library loans will be stored for our customers in the same location they are now.                                                                        

When the customer comes in, we will check it out to them, just like we checked out books at Central.  If you are not familiar with this process of check out and check in, please ask Julia and she will show you at ID.  We have the ability to check out and in at ID.                                                


When the books are returned please continue placing them in the basket for Julia on her desk. If there are any questions, please see Julia.


Thanks -
Sue

ILL FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

With new ILL procedures, this may help in answering customer questions.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Frequently Asked Questions

1. What do we do about articles with charges to the customer?
a. If an article comes with a charge, follow the set procedure already previously established. The article will come with an envelope marked “C.O.D.” attached with the patron’s name, the ILL transaction number, the cost of the article, and the name of the lending library. The patron will need to provide a check or money order made out to the lending library for the specified amount before receiving the article.

2. How do we handle ILL items that a patron claims he/she returned?
a. Find out where the patron returned the item. Check with that location and request a shelf check.
b. If the item is not found, notify the ILL office and they will request a shelf check from the lending library.
c. Put a note in the patron’s library card record about the shelf check request.

3. What do we do about lost and/or damaged ILL items?
a. Contact the ILL office to report the item lost or damaged.
b. ILL will contact the lending library to get the cost of the item and get back with the patron within 48 hours.

4. How do we handle an Overdue/Billed item that is returned?
a. First, check the condition of the item. If the item is in good condition, check it in and return it to ILL. (If the lending library sends damaged items, ILL does NOT send them to the patrons. They return them to owning libraries.)
b. The patron will still be responsible for fines, the processing fee and the collection fee, if applicable.

5. The new ILL form asks for an email address. What happens if the patron does not have email?
a. The form asks the patron to use the ill.info@houstontx.gov email address if they do not have one.
b. Once the item arrives, the notification is automated and the customer will be notified with an automated phone message if the library card account does not have an email address.

6. What if a patron calls for a renewal because they are out of town and not able to return the book by its due date?
a. Politely remind the patron that ILL items are not eligible for renewal and let him/her know that fines will accrue until the item is returned.

7. What do we do if a patron wants to request an item that’s not in the Texasgroup catalog or Worldcat?
a. Have the patron call ILL. Occasionally there are items, such as deed records on microfilm, that ILL staff need to request directly from the owning institution.

8. How do we handle ILL items that are currently on the hold shelves?
a. Those items will still be handled the old way.
b. As new items arrive, they will either have a purple label with a pre-printed barcode or a label with a barcode attached to the top of the label. These items will be circulated through Millennium following the new ILL circulation procedures.

JMR

Houston Area Digital Archives Issues

When there are issues with the technical operation, the searching, or the display in the Houston Area Digital Archives, questions and/or comments should be directed to Roland Lemonius (31477).

There have been some problems with the move of the Archive over to a new ContentDM platform, and this is causing some frustrating technical issues.  

When a customer calls and mentions that there are technical issues with the sources on the Houston Area Digital Archive, as an example with city directories, Roland is the technical issue person to transfer that call to.  

HMRC is the supplier of materials for the digital archive, as are other locations, but the keeper of resolving issues with searching, display or any technically related issue is Roland.  Many calls have been transferred to HMRC, and since that is the wrong place send these types of queries to, the customer is often not happy when a second transfer is the answer. 

This might mean we need to ask the customer if they are having problems when they search, or do they want to talk about a specific collection in the Archive?  This might help to determine who to forward the call to.  Display / technical issues: Roland.  Collection information and queries; HMRC.

Thanks for your help!

Sue

AFRO-LOUISIANA HISTORY & GENEALOGY, 1718-1820

Database of Africans in Louisiana from 1719 to 1820

http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/

Becky

Canadian Censuses etc. @ automatedgenealogy.com

I came across a site hosting several projects to index Canadian censuses. What I found interesting were  the other linking projects they are doing, below are names of some of these projects. The site address is listed below. Click in and look at some of these records, they give substantial genealogical information.

Soldiers of the First World War
Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Dictionary of Canadian Biography British Home Children
Halifax Explosion
The Illustrated Index to the 1901 Census
Uploaded Images
Off-site Marriage Record
Extracts from Publications

 http://automatedgenealogy.com/index.html



JMR

Presidents of the United States

I was able to help someone with this site today and thought I would share it on the blog...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashington

Hope it's useful to someone else,
Cary

Acadians in Gray

Using the Acadian Memorial's list of immigrants on its Wall of Names, area church records, local censuses, and other primary sources, I have documented the nearly 2,900 Acadians who came to Louisiana between 1764 and the early 1800s.  To get to the individual family pages where these Louisiana Acadians and their male descendants can be found, follow the TOC, or Table of Contents, link in the Contents frame to the left.  The best place to start, however, is the Introduction to these family pages, the link for which is just above TOC.  Having documented the male lines of 105 Louisiana Acadian families to 1840, I am pushing these lines--I call them the "begats"--to 1870.  At the same time, I am pushing to completion the Acadian/Cajun marriage study, which now includes over 14,500 marriages from 1765 through 1861--the unions that helped create the Cajun culture in the decades before the War Between the States---Steven A. Cormier

Also on this sight if you click on the Photo Gallery you can see pictures of tombstones of Civil War soldiers.  These are listed alphabetically, and if you click on the name it will give you info. on that person, sometimes the parents name and where born.

 www.acadiansingray.com

Becky

Gendisasters

This website has articles from newspapers about different disasters that have occured in the U. S. and Canada. You can filter by location and type of disaster or year. There is also a search box in which you can search for a surname but since there is no advanced options to the search feature this can return a lot of results. You can use the site without an acount but to add and article or post to the message board you will need one. Accounts are free.

Ashley