SI Legends and Lore - gen video #2

Hey, welcome back.

As I legends of more students.

Thank you for coming back to watch the second half

of the lecture video.

I'll continue probably keeping these at 15 minute intervals just

to give you a break, let you refocus and come

back in and finish up things with me.

So for the last half, I'm gonna talk just a

little bit about digital records and what that's gonna look

like for you at home and show you a little

bit of the sites that we use here in school.

Now, it's gonna look a little bit different for you

in some ways, since you're working from home.

Um, not all of the resource is that we have

here will necessarily be available to you there.

So we'll have to talk about some ways to handle

that as we proceed.

So I'm gonna show you my tree some pieces of

it anyway, just so you can kind of get an

idea of what it looks like digitally and what some

of the records looked like that you're going to be

digging through.

So again, the reason we're doing this now is so

that you can make that really informed choice on this

is a class that you want to stay in or

if this is something that you might need to switch

to another elective because it is a big commitment.

And, uh, this project is here along.

So it's not something that you could just kind of

skip this project and take a bad grade for it.

Skipping it would result in not passing the class because

little grades along the way kind of accumulate.

So, um, just gonna kind of show you some things.

We use a couple of different search engines here in

class for this project.

The two primary ones are family search and ancestry.

You will be able to access family search at home

for free.

It is a a free online database that's provided for

people to do genealogy research and build trees So you'll

actually be building your tree on family search, and we'll

do some some tutorials on that later on.

Um, the other thing will be using in person in

class is ancestry.

Ancestry is really cool.

And unfortunately, um, we have a grant for it, but

her grant is I p based.

So what that means is you have to be using

the school y find toe access it for free.

So that's not something you're going to be used able

to use at home unless you were to be in

the vicinity.

So if you've got really desperate, you wanted to use

ancestry did to search a certain relative because you were

stuck. You could always come and do that in a

parking lot if you need to do or from.

But, you know, from the library kind of off socially

distance. Um, but all the other resource is you'll be

able to access just fine.

So you're not necessarily at a disadvantage by not being

able to use ancestry because you can always just email

me and I can look at up 40 hunts in

the information to you.

So this is a one.

Pop it up a little bigger.

This is just a wide view of the first page

of my family tree on ancestry.

You can do the same thing on family search, and

what I mean by that is you can add pictures

later on if you want Teoh.

Um, you can add it as much detail as you

want so that you can see exactly who's who when

you first open it up.

Um, minus is not complete.

It's never complete.

I've been doing genealogy for 10 years, and I haven't

really even beginning to scratch the surface of finishing like

finishing my family tree.

I don't think that's I don't really think there's such

a thing as that.

Um, but some things that you can see you can

see me for here in this in the center ish,

and then you kind of build out from there.

So, um, when we set up your tree will be

putting you in the center and then expanding from there,

So getting you in the middle and then parent, parent

and then grand parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and then it

just keeps getting bigger out from there.

Okay, so, um, this is a little bit of a

closer view where you can see, um, my part of

my mom's side.

So I want to talk, and this is what we

did in class today to I want to talk about

kind of the emotional investment that you make when you

go and do a family tree, and I want to

be super honest with you.

um, you'll have to get parents permission to do this

project because it's not like you're studying some stranger in

a textbook.

You are literally digging through your own family past and

sometimes, um, things happen when you go through that process,

that can be kind of shocking, Um, sometimes in a

good way and sometimes in a bad way.

So that's why I wanted to show you this slide.

Um, this slide right here is my on my mother

site. And, um, it didn't exist a year ago.

In fact, it had someone else's name on it.

See, my my mother did not know her biological dad,

and for years she was told it was someone.

And the more that we got into genealogy And the

more that I looked into the past, the more that

things did.

Not at a So what we found out.

Is that what what I found out through DNA and

the whole process was that the person that I thought

my whole life was my grandfather really wasn't, uh and

you know, of course I never met.

I never met him either.

So it didn't necessarily have the shocking effect that it

might have if I had been close to this person.

But I'm telling you this because things like this pop

up in genealogy sometimes, um, you know, there's there's things

that might be buried in family history that if they

were to be dug back up, it could be a

little surprising and a little shocking.

So, again, I just want you to know that the

possibility of those things are out there.

And that's why I always ask for a parent or

guardian's permission to do this project, because the emotional, um,

investment that you make is something that's kind of rare.

I think in school work because it's got it's really

intimate. You're really getting to know people that perhaps died

before you were even for, um, so it's something to

kind of think about.

And that's why I want to show you that that

whole limb of my family tree didn't exist a year

ago, and, uh, then now here it is with all

of these new people to discover.

So it's it's has it's interesting things about it, um,

but they can also be kind of tricky, so keep

that in mind as you make your decision on if

you want to do this or not, um, I'm gonna

show you some records and kind of where some of

the things you're going to be looking at and doing

as you, uh, make this family tree.

So this is my great grandfather.

His name was Michelle Goalie OSCE.

And he is from Starsky Grief Gay.

And that is in Slovakia.

So, Mike Michael, which would be, you know, Americanized version.

He was the original immigrant.

He was came over from Slovakia in 1902 And Michael

is the reason I got into genealogy because I never

met him.

Obviously, he died in 1939.

Um, he was my grandfather's father.

But I was very close to my grandpa, and I

was fascinated with my great ball, and I always would

question him when I was little.

It's like, Why don't you have aunts and uncles and

cousins and why is our family so small on your

side of the family?

And he always would just say I don't know.

He would say, I I don't have any inside.

Don't have uncles.

I don't have, You know, I don't have cousins.

I don't have all of the all of these things,

You know, um and he would say that his dad,

it was very quiet and that he came over on

a boat for a better life in America.

But he didn't know where from.

And he knew that he never really spoke English.

So that was something that kind of always stuck with

me is a kid, and I really, really wanted to

know more.

So about 10 years ago, I started getting into genealogy

and on this quest to find my great grandparent's, um,

origination feel like, where Where did they come from?

Where did they immigrate from?

So it took me about three years, multiple DNA tests

and a lot of patients waiting and looking to find

them in the other records in Slovakia.

And that was really an exciting find for me because

it was something I wanted to do for years.

So I'm sharing that with you because I have a

great grand, great grand parents that our original immigrants that

wasn't really that long ago.

So some records that I have to look through to

get there are like marriage certificates.

Um, you know, that something that will have to read

and find and dig through those.

And then, um, sometimes records that are in other languages

is sorry, that was the intercom.

This is my great grandpas birth record.

So, um, it was in Slovakia on, and obviously it's

not in English.

It's in Latin because he was baptized in the Catholic

Church and all of his birth records were written by

a Catholic priest, and at the time, they were still

writing all records in Latin.

So, um, it's a fun thing to do from an

educational side.

We're not only reading all kinds of different materials, were

reading materials in different languages and trying to, you know,

get those sort of translated over into English.

So it's a process, and I really think that if

you find it intriguing that you will, I really enjoy

doing that.

So just to kind of make a long story short,

here's Here's what I want you to do.

I want you to think about this project and make

sure this is something that you're willing to take on.

Um, but I want you to keep in mind that

if it makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable at

first, there are things that we can do to alter

it to make it fit your family situation, because families

are always cookie cutter and families air not like a

one size fits all.

So, for example, my husband is adopted.

So when we talked about doing his family tree, we

decided to do truth to trees.

He has, ah, full tree for his biological parents than

a full gery of his adoptive parents.

So that way he can just kind of see the

history of both sides, and that's totally fine.

And that's totally doable.

Um, you may have a situation where you don't want

to do both sides of the tree.

Maybe you aren't close to one of your parents, or

maybe you don't talk to them at all.

Or maybe you're not even really sure who that person

is, and that's totally fine.

We can focus on one side or the other.

Um, if you have a step parent that you would

rather research instead of a biological parent, we can totally

do that as well.

Uh, you know, if you live at home with with

Grandma grip on, you want to skip that parent generation,

just go to the grand parents and beyond.

We will totally customize this two bit any kind of

situation that you might have at home that makes you

feel more comfortable.

I just want you to think about where you'd like

to start your tree and who you like to kind

of include in that and where you want to branch

out from If the whole thing makes you super uncomfortable

and you just don't want to know, there are some

other options.

Eso you would just need to reach out to me

and let me know, and we can try to work

around that.

So I'm super excited to do this project with you.

Genealogy is so much fun.

And I have all kinds of cool things in my

tree that I can't wait to show.

You have, um, and ancestor that came over on the

Mayflower. I haven't Nate have Native American side to my

tree. That's really cool and has to meet people in

it. Um, I have It's kind of like history, mystery,

all kinds of things.

So huge group of relatives that were involved in the

Salem witch trials and they were kind of on both

sides of that whole thing.

So, um, we'll be doing that all all year, Just

kind of sharing the neat things that we find along

the way.

I've even had students in class find out they were

cousins, and they didn't even sitting there right across from

from each other.

So, um, there's never a dull moment in genealogy for

sure. So thanks for turning in today.

And when you finish watching this video because it's the

last one today, please comment done underneath your just use

a little comment Martin Maher s so that I can

see that you've watched this.

And then, um, probably tomorrow I'll be giving you.

Maybe Monday, Uh, we'll see the permission slip for you

to have signed at home by a parent or guardian

that lets you do this project because I want them

to know that you're gonna be digging around the past

is well, that's important for for your parents and guardians

to know along with us.

So I hope you guys have a great day.

I will be back tomorrow with one more video.

Um, as we finish out the week on Friday, so

have a good rest of the day by

SI Legends and Lore - gen video #2

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