Amanuensis Monday: Dawes Commission - Robert Hartley

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe?  I provide my three reasons in the linked post.  You may find others.  If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.

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This week, I continue with the application my maternal grandmother's aunts, uncles, and cousins made in 1900 to the Dawes Commission to be accepted as Mississippi Choctaws. Previously I have transcribed the testimony given by

1. MCR 1050 - Samuel T Hartley – Nov 21, 1900 (Brother of my great great grandmother, Sarah Hartley Denyer Foster)
2. MCR 1053 - Sophronia Hartley Cagle - Nov 21, 1900 (Daughter of Samuel T Hartley) 
3. MCR 1054 - Melvin Elijah Van Every – Nov 21, 1900 (My great grandfather)
4. MCR 1055 - Samuel W Denyer - Nov 21, 1900 (Brother of my great grandmother, Margaret Denyer Van Every)
5. MCR 1069 - Eliza Caroline Foster Reeves – Nov 26, 1900 (Half-sister of my great grandmother)
6. MCR 5842 - Georgia Hartley Phillips – June 17, 1902 (Daughter of Samuel T Hartley)
7. MCR 5842 - Samuel T Hartley – June 17, 1902 

and the ultimate decision - July 11, 1902  (A rejection.)

Below is the testimony given by Robert Hartley, a son of Samuel T Hartley, and a first cousin to my great grandmother, Margaret (Denyer) Van Every

Week in Review

It's been eight months, and I am unsure whether or not I will be returning to doing this regularly.  But below are some noteworthy news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heritage, and Technology.

Genealogy Research

• The Ancestry Insider addresses the reliability of the Social Security Death Index. 

• Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings addresses Classical and Scientific Genealogy and Tamura Jones of Modern Software Experience has a follow-up guest post on the subject.

• James Tanner at Genealogy's Star begins to address the topic of Evidence and Proof from the perspective of a lawyer, and continues by discussing the difference between probative and non-probative facts in Digging into Evidence.  The connections to genealogy research are clear.

•  Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings discusses new information regarding NARA's search for a host for the 1940 census.  The FedBizOpps page has been updated with a list of interested vendors, and a list of Questions and Answers.

Poetry

•  David Margolick writes in Tablet Magazine about the lost poetry of Warsaw Ghetto poet, Wladyslaw Szlengel. 

•  Generations of Poetry: the eZine for Genealogists concluded three months of publishing, with 54 poems from 42 poets.  They are taking a summer hiatus, but remain open to submissions.

Digital Archives 

• The British Library is collaborating with Google to make 250,000 volumes available.

• The Library of Congress's Digital Preservation blog discusses Demand Side Economics and Digital Preservation.  The future of digital preservation from an economic point of view. 

• NARA is hosting an "I Found it in the National Archives" contest

• Meredith D. at NARAtions announced the addition of Tagging for he National Archives "Online Public Access Prototype" 

Recent uploads to the National Archives Flickr set

• Executive Order 9981 in which President Harry S. Truman bans the segregation of the Armed Forces., 07/26/1948, Page 1/2, Page 2/2

• Harpo Marx telegram to JFK on July 14, 1960

Technoloy/Internet

• Bill LeFurgy at Digital Preservation discusses Linked Open Data: A Beckoning Paradise.

•  ICANN announced that they will begin accepting applications for unlimited new Top Level Domains in January of next year. Currently TLDs include .com, .net, .org, etc  If there is interest from more than one source for a TLD it will be auctioned.  (Do you think Ancestry.com or FamilySearch will bid highest for .genealogy ?  Will anyone bid for the misspelled .geneology ?)  One of the interesting features of this announcement I've noticed, is that they will allow different language sets.  So there could be a TLD using Hebrew or Chinese characters.

•  Dick Eastman reviews  the ABBYY TextGrabber app for iPod/iPad2/iPhones. While the application looks useful, and I may test it out myself, the review is also a great illustration of the weaknesses of Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

Amanuensis Monday: Dawes Commission - Sophronia Cagle

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe?  I provide my three reasons in the linked post.  You may find others.  If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.

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This week, I continue with the application my maternal grandmother's aunts, uncles, and cousins made in 1900 to the Dawes Commission to be accepted as Mississippi Choctaws. Previously I have transcribed the testimony given by

1. Samuel T Hartley – Nov 21, 1900 (Brother of my great great grandmother, Sarah Hartley Denyer Foster)
2. Melvin Elijah Van Every – Nov 21, 1900 (My great grandfather)
3. Samuel W Denyer - Nov 21, 1900 (Brother of my great grandmother, Margaret Denyer Van Every)
4. Eliza Caroline Foster Reeves – Nov 26, 1900 (Half-sister of my great grandmother)
5. Georgia Hartley Phillips – June 17, 1902 (Daughter of Samuel T Hartley)
6. Samuel T Hartley – June 17, 1902 

and the ultimate decision - July 11, 1902  (A rejection.)

Below is the testimony given by Sophronia Hartley Cagle, another daughter of Samuel T Hartley.

Amanuensis Monday: Dawes Commission - Samuel W Denyer

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe?  I provide my three reasons in the linked post.  You may find others.  If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.

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This week, I return to the application my maternal grandmother's aunts, uncles, and cousins made in 1900 to the Dawes Commission to be accepted as Mississippi Choctaws. Previously I have transcribed the testimony given by

1. Samuel T Hartley – Nov 21, 1900 (Brother of my great great grandmother, Sarah Hartley Denyer Foster)
2. Melvin Elijah Van Every – Nov 21, 1900 (my great grandfather)
3. Eliza Caroline Foster Reeves – Nov 26, 1900 (Half-sister of my great grandmother, Margaret Denyer Van Every)
4. Georgia Hartley Phillips – June 17, 1902 (Daughter of Samuel Hartley)
5. Samuel T Hartley – June 17, 1902 

and the ultimate decision - July 11, 1902  (A rejection.)

Below is the testimony given by Samuel William Denyer, brother to my great grandmother, Margaret Denyer Van Every.

Amanuensis Monday: Draft Registration for Herman Feinstein

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written Iby another.

I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain genealogical information, the words breathe life into kin - some I never met - others I see a time in their life before I knew them.

I began this project back in February of 2009, and since then, many others have joined in on the meme.  Why do we transcribe?  I provide my three reasons in the linked post.  You may find others.  If you participate, feel free to leave a link to your post in the comments.

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This week, in honor of the anniversary of D-Day, I continue to look through various wartime documents.  While this week's anniversary pertains to a different war, I decided to transcribe another World War I draft registration - this time that of my great grandfather, Herman Feinstein.  

Wordless Wednesday - Van Every Estate - Mimico, Toronto, Ontario

Caption: Photo of the Van Every settlers house on Lake Shore (between Dwight and Royal York) in Mimico (1920) (source)