Some yearend ramblings and thoughts:
We have been
working in the Olmsted Historical Society archives. The object is to prepare
the archives for scanning. We now have scanning capabilities up to 11 X 17. We have hundreds of old pictures, the main
problem with a high percentage of them is no names for the people in them or
the are marked with “Uncle Charley” or “Aunt Millie”. Please if you have family
pictures mark the backs with the full names and dates if known. Pictures of houses show the
location and date of the house street address, city and state. Talk with your grandparents
about their memories, where possible record them so that your children or
grandchildren can see them and hear them.
It might not seem important now but when you reach your “golden” years
you probably feel different about it.
You
know you are a history geek when you down load the digital book Plymouth Plantation. By William Bradford
second Governor. And it gives you a fuzzy feeling because the translation is
done in the original old English. Never saw so many ye’s. He was
very much the leader in the puritan beliefs. At my age it is hard to wrap my
brain around converting the book to modern English. In the book it talks about
the 1599 Geneva version of the bible. During the reign and aftermath of Mary Queen
of Scots, it was written by the Scholars that went in to exile in Switzerland rather than be killed. Recognizing
that the Geneva Bible and its notes were undermining the authority of the
monarchy, King James I of England commissioned the "Authorized
Version," commonly known as the King James Bible, as its replacement. The
King James Version did not include any of the inflammatory footnotes, of
course, but it also altered key translations to make them seem more favorable
to episcopal and monarchial forms of government. But the people were not
fooled. The Pilgrims and Puritans preferred the Geneva Bible over the King
James Bible, not trusting the king's purported good faith. The pilgrims left England and fled to Holland they were not accepted very well and had to learn a new language. The Geneva Bible was
brought over on the Mayflower, and it is not an exaggeration to say
that the Geneva translation and footnotes were the biblical foundation for the
American Republic. The Geneva bible was still the largest selling bible for
more than forty years after the King James Version. The Massachusetts
Historical Society found the original manuscript in in Fulham England. This is
the note of proof was found with the document.
“This book was rit by goefner William Bradford, and gifen
to his son mager William Bradford and by him to his son mager John Bradford,
rit by me”
Samuel Bradford
Mach 20, 1705
My primary genealogy program is Ancestry.com. The made a new face for it this spring. It is
much easier to work with. Ancestry has a
couple of pitfalls, I shut off recommendations from others family trees. Also don’t use Family Data Collections, they
are computer compilations of public family trees do not meet Genealogical
Proof Standards. GPS
recognizes government documents and family bible entries. I also use familysearch.org it
is a good one to work with and the best thing it is free. They do ask you to
set up an account that is the only thing they need they leave you alone after
that. There are many early family history books available for free on line
Google books and Archive.org has most books published before 1915 available in
PDF form. We have over 50 Genealogy digital books in the OHS archives.
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