GenealogyBank Terms of Use January 2016

Hat tip to Sheri Fenley for reminding me that there are restrictions to using images and content of GenealogyBank, and for providing the links to two other bloggers (Judy G. Russell's 2013 "GenealogyBank permissions clarified" and Heather Wilkinson Rojo's 2015 "I'm removing a blog post image...because it was the right thing to do!") who have already discussed this.

Heaven forbid rules apply to me!  (Is this where one starts to think they are above the law?)  So I contacted GenealogyBank via their Terms of Use page, hoping to hear I was the exception and could continue doing what I was doing.

But of course the rules do apply to me as they do everyone else (I obtained permission to share the response):

Dear Christine,

Thank you for your inquiry. You are free to use articles and images found on GenealogyBank for your own personal non-commercial use. When it comes to posting an "image" on the web or other social media sites that [is] prohibited without proper permission. 

Quoting or paraphrasing articles found on GenealogyBank.com is permitted. However, due to contractual agreements with our publishers, posting or publishing digitized images, articles or text found on GenealogyBank is prohibited without proper permission (See instructions for gaining permission below). This includes posting images found on GenealogyBank, to other web or social media sites.

Articles or content found on GenealogyBank published after 1923: 

To gain permission to use articles published after 1923 you must contact the publisher directly. Most newspaper publishers list their contact information and instructions on how to gain such permission on their website. 

Articles or content found on GenealogyBank published prior to 1923:

Articles published prior to 1923 that are found within GenealogyBank are to be used for personal use only and not to be used for public or commercial use. This may include but not limited to re-posting articles on the Internet or in a published book or magazine.

We encourage customers to instead create their own synopsis of the article(s) and add links to the actual images using an URL shorten service such as bit.ly. Please see the suggested format for citing an article found on GenealogyBank. [emphasis mine--I think I'll do both of these things going forward, I hadn't even thought of the tiny URL route, although unfortunately you have to be a GenealogyBank subscriber to see the linked content]

Suggested format: Betty Greer death notice, Rutland Herald [Rutland, VT] 2 February 1985. Newspaper. Online at GenealogyBank.com viewed 2 August 2012

Permission to use articles for commercial purposed included in a published book or magazine:

Digital images and text that you plan to use in a published book or for anything other than personal use can be licensed for a fee. Inquiries of this nature should be forwarded to the following email address: readexpermissions@readex.com 

Please include:

- Newspaper title

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- Reason for use 

Abiding by our publisher agreements helps ensure that individuals and genealogists can continue to enjoy personal access to GenealogyBank content at such a reasonable cost. 

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Soooooo.  I am going to get some practice with using shortened URLs and synopses/summaries, apparently lol.  Both on this blog and on Ancestry.  That's a lot of stuff, actually.

But that is okay.  It will force me to re-examine my material, which is recommended periodically anyway, so it's a win!  Maybe by reviewing my images taken from GenealogyBank I can break down some more brick walls.





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Monday Is for Mothers: Mehitable Leonard (1747 - 1808)

Mehitable was about 13 when her father Captain Samuel Leonard died in 1760 and her name appears in probate records on a list of his named children. Her oldest brother, also named Samuel, had to be appointed as administrator of the estate by the Court of Probate of Norwich, Connecticut, because his father had not made a will.*

[Notes : Probate Packets, Leffingwell, Christopher-Lester, Lucy, 1748-1880. Ancestry.com.

Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.]

In the division of her father's property in Preston,** Mehitable's share included both a 14-acre lot and a selection of goods from her father's personal estate valued at over £49.***

 

[Notes : Probate Packets, Leffingwell, Christopher-Lester, Lucy, 1748-1880. Ancestry.com.

Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Original data: Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts.]

In 1771 Mehitable married Aaron Baldwin from neighboring Canterbury**** where the couple had seven children that we know of, including my fourth great grandmother Olive Baldwin (1778-1843)*****

[Book 4; Ancestry.com. Early Connecticut Marriages [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Bailey, Frederic W. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.]

There are several Aaron Baldwin's in Connecticut at this time and I'm unsure of my ancestor's date of death. Mehitable died on April 6, 1808, and is buried in the Joseph Rood Farm Cemetery in Plainfield.

As you can see from the map below, Mehitable almost certainly never traveled far from her birthplace in eastern Connecticut.

[Detail from Connecticut From the best Authorities. B. Tanner, del. & sculpt. Engraved for the American Edition of Winterbotham's History of America, Published by John Reid, 1796. Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.]

*It appears that her mother Lydia Stanton died at about the same time so perhaps the younger children found a home with Samuel Jr. and his wife Mary Freeman.
**You can visit Preston Historical Society's facebook page here.
***Captain Samuel's estate was was appraised at over £700 in the inventory completed on April 24, 1760.
****Of course Canterbury Historical Society has its own facebook page.
*****Olive's marriage to Joseph Gates (1776-1854) was one of Christine's most exciting finds last year.


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Sunday Drive: Slater-Currey

The toy car I'm pushing around there in our yard in Encanto was Junior's. Now it's my grandson's.

[From my personal collection]

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California Birth Record Registrations Start

Some background info from Ancestry's California Birth Index, 1905-1995.

I've used the California birth index regularly since I started doing genealogy on Ancestry, the first search naturally being my own birth (it's there!).  It is a great source for finding birthdate and the child's mother's maiden name.

But these records didn't just magically happen, of course.  In the years leading up the July 1, 1905, there was a push to make vital records like births mandatory, as evidenced by this plea by "T.C. Stockton, Health Officer" in San Diego in 1901*** ("Attention to the Law: Health Officer Desires It. Notices Being Mailed to Physicians," San Diego Union (San Diego, California), Saturday, 27 April 1901, p 5, col 3; digital images, GenealogyBank (http://bit.ly/1QjMWkp : accessed 16 Jan 2016).
Notice he mentions the San Diego city charter laws (Article IX of Chapter 3, sections 3 and 4) as well as the Ordinance No. 193 (in the city charter?), which required vital and interment records kept.  He also made a personal plea to "the physicians of the city" to keep good records.

In the beginning of July 1905 newspapers across California began publishing notices about the new law, which included a mailing out of "blanks" (forms), according to this mention*** in the Evening Tribune ("Business for Supervisors: New Blanks," Evening Tribune (San Diego, California), Monday, 3 Jul 1905, p 5, col 4; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://bit.ly/1RQbvXY : accessed 16 Jan 2016).

Here is a more thorough explanation*** from San Francisco/Oakland ("Family History Must Be Given," San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California), Wednesday, 12 Jul 1905, p13, col 3; digital image, GenealogyBank (http://bit.ly/1OteQbh : accessed 16 Jan 2016).


I am a bit dismayed that I was unable to ascertain an online source for either the city charter or the specific state legislation mentioned in the San Francisco article.  I have a lot more to learn about researching California state and San Diego law history, obviously.  I am guessing that the law for the state-wide collection of vital records was probably passed in 1904.

***You must be a GenealogyBank subscriber to view these links.



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Family Friday: Pierpoint/Joslin

Ida May Pierpoint was the wife of Lewis "Lu" Grant Joslin, my first cousin, three times removed.* The couple married in about 1897, most likely in Fairview, Jones County, Iowa.

[Courtesy of Ila Joslin Bunting (1931 - 2013)]

[Courtesy of Ila Joslin Bunting (1931 - 2013)]

[Courtesy of Olive Slater-Kennedy]

The top two photos are from the family album of Ila Joslin Bunting who shared them with me after discovering several photos of her Joslins and Worden ancestors on our Ancestry.com tree, including the one of Lu** above that was preserved in an album belonging to his cousin Elnora May Worden Webb, my great grandmother.

Cousin Ila said that she had never before seen a picture of her grandfather when he was that young.


*He was the oldest child of Thurston and Polly Ann (Worden) Joslin and the grandson of my maternal third great grandparents, Porter and Hannah (Leonard) Worden.
**That's how his name is written on the back.


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Throwback Thursday: We Take Marc to See a Harry Potter Movie

Marc doing his best Harry Potter waiting in line at the movies, most likely for Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix (2007).  My personal collection.

Today I woke up to the sad news of Alan Rickman's passing.  He's been around for as long as I remember but I'll always remember him best for his Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies.

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Old Genealogies: Research Sources, Book Shelf and a Hat Tip

Just last week I consulted (via the Internet Archive) an 1868 book whose lengthy title begins "Some records of persons by the name of Worden" where I found a physical description of a sixth great grandfather, so I was excited to read a recent post in Vita Brevis by Emily Baldoni, New England Historical Genealogical Society's Technical Services/Metadata Librarian, about their project to make many of their late 19th and early 20th century genealogical writings available online. This is a big deal because, as Emily explains:

"NEHGS is sometimes the only library that holds a copy of the resource. In these cases, we are particularly happy to be able to preserve a digital copy and put it online so that it can reach a wider audience, now and for years to come."

I will certainly be checking out their collection.

The Internet Archive is also a great resource for books of interest to genealogists* This is how they describe their online holdings:

"The Archive's ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources includes items from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Robarts Library at the University of Toronto; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library; Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah;, the National Library of Scotland, the Indianapolis City Library's Indianapolis City Directory and Yearbooks Collection, The Leo Baeck Institute Archives of German-speaking Jewry Leo Baeck Institute Archives, and the Boston Public Library.  

Resources include among many things books on surname origins, vital statistics, parish records, census records, passenger lists of vessels, and other historical and biographical documents."

Here's a tiny sample of the titles they have available.

[Source: Internet Archive]

And I found another Worden Book to peruse. (I've heard of it but have never seen a copy before.)

[Worden "a weir in the valley" by Waite W.Worden, 1992.

Source: Internet Archive; original source: Allen County Public Library.]

I've also found old genealogy publications via Google Books but, unlike Internet Archive, not every listing there is available digitally.




*They're claiming 53,534 results from a search for "genealogy."And it's free.

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