# DearMYRTLE Archives > Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.2.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. Retired, but I'm still your friend in genealogy! ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://dearmyrtle.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [52 THINGS: We Must Get ORGANIZED!](https://dearmyrtle.com/52-things-we-must-get-organized/): Although we were each responsible for packing our own suitcases, Blanche believed in being prepared with extra jackets, scarves, hats and gloves. - [Blanche Myrtle Player RIP](https://dearmyrtle.com/blanche-myrtle-player-rip/): Let this be a lesson to us all... write our obits now. Even as a genealogist who is supposed to remember these things, I confused Blanche's maiden name with that of her mother, and had to edit this post. - [Remembering Blanche](https://dearmyrtle.com/remembering-blanche/): With Blanchey Babe (as Dad called her) life wasn't just about dollars and sense, pun intended. It was about grace under fire. - [Grandma Myrtle's home in Puyallup, Washington](https://dearmyrtle.com/grandma-myrtles-home-in-puyallup-washington/): DearREADERS, Ol' Myrt here did a little "Google Mapping" over the holiday break, and found this delightful picture of my real grandma Myrtle's home in Puyallup, Washington. (You can recognize a real Washingtonian if he or she can pronounce Puyallup correctly without thinking twice about it!) Here's the picture and a link back to Google - [Myrt's 2025 Genealogy Webinars](https://dearmyrtle.com/myrts-2025-genealogy-webinars/): DearMYRTLE offers two types of free genealogy meetings - Mondays with Myrt and a brand new book club! - [Myrt has moved!](https://dearmyrtle.com/myrt-has-moved/): DearMYRTLE’s Village Square is found here:https://dearmyrtle.substack.com. Myrt’s Substack training videos: SUBSTACKexplained: Setting Up a New Accounthttps://www.youtube.com/live/c6aUOVw0FEk SUBSTACKexplained: For Followershttps://youtube.com/live/lkeXyg2VUgU SUBSTACKexplained: For Producershttps://youtube.com/live/S31HCcYzrEk - [Meet the Panelists](https://dearmyrtle.com/meet-the-mwm-panelists/): Mondays with Myrt meets every other week during 2025. - [Attending the NEW Mondays with Myrt](https://dearmyrtle.com/attending-the-new-mondays-with-myrt/): UPDATED Here's how to join Mondays with Myrt on YouTube, watch recordings of previous shows, and find out about our marvelous cadre of panelists. - [DearMYRTLE's 2024 Continuing Education Summary](https://dearmyrtle.com/2024-continuing-education/): This is most certainly the site of ol' Myrt's professional genealogical studies, except where is my laptop? - [Multi-Faceted Learning Alternatives](https://dearmyrtle.com/multi-fasceted-learning-alternatives/): Rethinking print journals. - [Building Community (Presentation)](https://dearmyrtle.com/building-community-presentation/): Reaching out to your "target audience" is more about personality than you'd think. - [Got Mormon Pioneers?](https://dearmyrtle.com/got-mormon-pioneers/): Looks like more research is in my future — a tough job made easier by this new "Saints by Sea" collaboration. - [Is it LIVE or is it Memorex?](https://dearmyrtle.com/is-it-live-or-is-it-memorex/): Remember Ella Fitzgerald’s glass-shattering performance in the 1976 TV commercial “Is it LIVE or is it MEMOREX?” where a cassette tape recording of her voice also shatters the crystal goblet? (1) That got this Ol’ Myrt’s mind racing. Recently, our friend and Mondays with Myrt panelist Randy Seaver suggested those new to the DearMYRTLE - [Mondays with Myrt - 29 July 2024](https://dearmyrtle.com/mondays-with-myrt-29-july-2024/): Thank you to our panelists AND attendees for making this an awesome discussion! It's about the conversation, not a lecture. - [Cite the Date Posted or Viewed](https://dearmyrtle.com/cite-the-date-posted-or-viewed/): One of the most important ways a genealogist succinctly indicates a high level of consideration about the source they hold in "their hand" when looking for information that answers a question about a specific ancestor. If the cited source is no longer available, communication with the researcher is vital. It may be that newer information - [New Collaboration: MyHeritage & FamilyTreeDNA](https://dearmyrtle.com/new-collaboration-myheritage-familytreedna/): Note this additional collaboration copies your current ftDNA tree, but *not* your DNA results, to MyHeritage without cumbersome downloading/uploading. - [Is it a Numbers Game?](https://dearmyrtle.com/is-it-a-numbers-game/): Growth in subscriber numbers is a laudable and readily quantified goal, but it’s not indicative of the full impact genealogy content developers have. - [Got Burmese Ancestry?](https://dearmyrtle.com/got-burmese-ancestry/): Whenever I'm faced with a new locality of research, I check the FamilySearch Research Wiki for suggestions. - [Resources for Preserving Old Photographs](https://dearmyrtle.com/resources-for-preserving-old-photographs/): You know you’ve got to take care of those old family photos, so let’s get started by following a few simple guidelines. DIGITIZE now LABEL carefully PRESERVE the original DIGITIZE now Scanning old family photos facilitates sharing and saves wear and tear in the original. The only type of scanner to avoid is an auto-feed - [Right to Privacy](https://dearmyrtle.com/right-to-privacy/): Looking for guidance about privacy when sharing family history? - [Can you ever RETIRE from Genealogy?](https://dearmyrtle.com/can-you-ever-retire-from-genealogy/): So Ol' Myrt here thought she was tying things up neatly in a bow. Back in 2022, I said "Just call me DearMYRTLE, your RETIRED friend in genealogy." I was happy digitizing, organizing, and sharing my years of genealogical discoveries. - [Mondays with Myrt - 3 June 2024](https://dearmyrtle.com/mondays-with-myrt-3-june-2024/): Our topics include: Nathan Dylan Goodwin The Deserter's Tale (Morton #10) Interview - https://www.youtube.com/live/mtvb2muCvck Blaine Bettinger AI & Certification post where he muses about how BCG is spending time considering the best approach concerning AI when crafting portfolios for certification.It’s regrettable that he must also note “Actually, be warned, as the ICAPGen policy DOES prohibit - [Mini-Myrt: An Interview with Nathan Dylan Goodwin](https://dearmyrtle.com/mini-myrt-an-interview-with-nathan-dylan-goodwin/): Genetic genealogy fiction fanatics the world over have anxiously awaited the June 4th paperback release of Nathan Dylan Goodwin’s The Deserter’s Tale (Morton Farrier Book #10.) - [WACKY Wednesday: Swedish Lutheran Records on MyHeritage](https://dearmyrtle.com/wacky-wednesday-swedish-lutheran-records-on-myheritage/): Myrt's guest is Jason Oller, a former managing editor at FamilySearch, who now works at MyHeritage. He explains these records note any special events that happened like birth, or a marriage, or a death, or whether they moved out of the parish or whether they moved into their Parish and run from about 1684 through 1945. - [What to DO with all this stuff?](https://dearmyrtle.com/what-to-do-with-all-this-stuff/): Bogged down with a plethora of family photos, journals, documents, heirlooms, slides, videos, and voice recordings? Myrt has a plan! - [Detained Passenger at Ellis Island](https://dearmyrtle.com/detained-passenger-at-ellis-island/): The National Archives estimates “Between 1892 and 1924, ten percent or more of arriving immigrants were detained every day for a BSI [Board of Special Inquiry] hearing.” - [FamilySearch Wiki: Where to Look Next](https://dearmyrtle.com/familysearch-wiki-where-to-look-next/): My grandson just returned from a 2-year church mission to the tiny country of Cape Verde located about 400 miles off the west coast of Africa. The folks at FamilySearch have a Wiki page chock full of advice for genealogists that can be translated into a veritable plethora of languages. (It defaults to English since - [Get the Original](https://dearmyrtle.com/get-the-original/): This is an abstract — GET THE ORIGINAL. Why? Possible human error and additional info. Source: "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939", database without images, Frances Irene Goering, 1905, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24X-WMWK : viewed 28 May 2022). THIS IS THE ORIGINAL Note new information: Birthplaces of parents Ages of parents Occupations Informant was the attending physician, who undoubtedly - [Dad's Last 4th of July](https://dearmyrtle.com/4657-2/): I am thankful for happy memories like this from the last months of Dad’s life. Here he is in his 4th of July finery! Our father-dad on his last 4th of July Inter-Faith Flag Raising Ceremony at the Bellevue 1st Ward building in Bellevue, Washington in 2007. I have his straw hat, red suspenders and, - [WWI Draft Registration Card](https://dearmyrtle.com/wwi-draft-registration-card/): Accessed my paternal grandfather’s WWI Draft Registration Card for free @familysearch #genealogy “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918." Database with images, Shirley Player image 2181 of 4078, FamilySearch. (FamilySearch.org : viewed 8 July 2023.) Citing NARA microfilm publication M1509. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. - [Need Pro Advice?](https://dearmyrtle.com/need-pro-advice/): Craig R. Scott is doing some fantastic short subject videos that are sure to get you into the hunt. His YouTube channel is located here https://youtu.be/-1ZMuN9JOHo #genealogy - [50 Years ago - US Army, Army Air Force and Air Force Official Military Personnel ecords Destroyed by Fire at NARA St. Louis](https://dearmyrtle.com/50-years-ago-us-army-army-air-force-and-air-force-official-military-personnel-ecords-destroyed-by-fire-at-nara-st-louis/): Official military files reduced to ashes following 1973 fire at the Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri. - [Did They Have Land?](https://dearmyrtle.com/did-they-have-land/): Maybe your ancestor proved up a HOMESTEAD claim? Received a BOUNTY LAND script for military service? Purchased land from the US government for CASH? Your big clue — discovering your ancestor is paying local taxes on property, but there is no corresponding entry for the purchase in county grantee/grantor records. Why? Because the sales transaction - [Myrt's Day at the Archives](https://dearmyrtle.com/myrts-day-at-the-archives/): . Checking in as a researcher requires going through metal detection screening and presenting one's NARA Researcher card at the sign-in desk. My camera was inspected, and a new Equipment Receipt was issued to permit my carrying it further into the facility. These expire every 90 days, and it was time for this one to be renewed. - [Deciphering Old Handwriting](https://dearmyrtle.com/deciphering-old-handwriting/): Learning script has fallen to the wayside, sadly abandoned from elementary school curriculum in favor of learning to type on a computer. This means my grandchildren couldn’t begin to decipher the old handwritten documents that I’ve gathered in our family history research. - [Light Bulbs](https://dearmyrtle.com/light-bulbs/): Ol' Myrt here thinks the light bulb goes ON when a brilliant idea makes things more clear. - [Partially Paying Society Speakers?](https://dearmyrtle.com/partially-paying-society-speakers/): Is it ethical to withhold 25% of the speaker’s fee? - [Virtual Family Game Night](https://dearmyrtle.com/virtual-family-game-night/): Pre-Covid, people thought Cousin Russ and I were a tad too techie. HOW 1. You’ll all start out in Zoom so you can see and hear each other. 2. The host opens up their web browser and creates a game room at: https://codenames.game 3. The host copies the Code Names room link and pastes it in - [Why Not Keep Up?](https://dearmyrtle.com/why/): Why should I expect people to freely educate me when I haven’t done the basic work of keeping up? - [Pioneer Ancestors](https://dearmyrtle.com/pioneer-ancestors/): Eliza R. Snow mentions in her diary arising the next morning and visiting the tent of our ancestor “Mrs. Yearsley”. A light snow had fallen overnight on the souls huddled on the bleak western bank of the Mississippi River. - [52 THINGS: Cookoo for Checkers](https://dearmyrtle.com/52-things-cookoo-for-checkers/): Do you know about Give Away? It's the opposite of Checkers. - [Chaff & Grain](https://dearmyrtle.com/8-2/): Someone complained about an unnamed genealogy website for not caring about accuracy. They also didn’t want to share their tree nor take a DNA test. Participation in family history research is strictly optional, is it not? Digital images of old original church and government records are key to proving paper trail familial relationships. Genealogy websites - [Sticky Notes](https://dearmyrtle.com/sticky-notes/): Cyndi of Cyndi'sList publishes a "Filing Friday" post in The Genealogy Squad Facebook Group* each week. Today she asked us what we are working on - so I wrote about the plethora of sticky notes cluttering the edges of my monitor and my computer’s desktop. The term ‘sticky notes’ is the politically correct way of - [Zoom: Continuous Meeting Chat](https://dearmyrtle.com/zoom-continuous-meeting-chat/): Beginning next week, users on your account will automatically gain access to continuous meeting chat, which will allow meeting attendees to chat before, during, and after a meeting in a simple and seamless manner. - [Why have your own genealogy database?](https://dearmyrtle.com/why-have-your-own-genealogy-database/): “I've heard rumors that some of us started with clay tablets, but I think that may be apocryphal.” - [Yvette's Six Levels of Ancestral Profiles](https://dearmyrtle.com/yvettes-six-levels-of-ancestral-profiles/): Just HOW MUCH do you know about each ancestor in your family tree? Check out Yvette Hoitink’s evaluation system. - [Respect For Our Nation's Flag](https://dearmyrtle.com/respect-for-our-nations-flag/): This little boy is now over 6 feet tall and graduated high school last week. I pray he and his cousins will always remember to respect the flag. - [OUR CHALLENGE: Personal Histories and Compiled Genealogies](https://dearmyrtle.com/our-challenge-personal-histories-and-compiled-genealogies/): There’s a big difference between one’s personal history and a compiled genealogy. - [52 THINGS: Dad's articulating carved wooden photo frame](https://dearmyrtle.com/52-things-dads-articulating-carved-wooden-photo-frame/): Our dad, Glen S. Player, loved working in his shop. He could invent anything. He created a drip watering system made out of the tubing you use for the fish tank filter unit. 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