Monday, September 30, 2024

We Went Off Grid In 30 Days With $25,000

This is the best advice for starting an off grid tiny cabin that I have seen:

We Went Off Grid In 30 Days With $25,000 by Acorn Land Labs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLY-N5iVVEY

Some of the things they use:

Methane Digester (biodigester, biogas plant, composter)

https://amzn.to/3N8mOfa

IBC container (intermediate bulk container)

https://amzn.to/3ZJKFci

Uline https://www.uline.com/BL_173/IBC-Tanks

Σhomesteading

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Genealogy TV on YouTube

I had never heard of this - but she is really good!

Genealogy TV on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@GenealogyTV

https://www.facebook.com/Genealogytv/

https://genealogytv.org/

Evidence Explained & The Chicago Manual of Style & Dewey Decimal

I am going to try to figure out how to cite email & letters (AKA correspondence). I will be using Evidence Explained & The Chicago Manual of Style

some of my questions

1. If the email is written to you do you have to send a second email asking if you can cite first email?

I found this myself: Yes you need to get permission from the original emailer. I know this seems obvious, I just wanted to find sources for this answer and I did.

a. Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, 4th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2024), 174.

b. Editorial Staff. The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017), 851

2. Citing something means the reader should be able to access the original, correct? How can that be if the email is only on the computer and not published?

I'm going to be asking these questions at the Evidence Explained forums

https://www.evidenceexplained.com/forum

And reading The Chicago Manual of Style

(There is an online (CMOS), free trial, and I think you can ask questions there? I will try it and report back)

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Part B citing books when there are multiple editions

I need to be able to cite one particular edition of a book when there are multiple editions.

For this example I am going to use

Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants

by Wyndham Robertson 1887

the first thing to look at is the actual title page

Since there was no classification system at this time the only way to distinguish this edition would be to use the publication year (1887) and maybe the page numbers (no, because Internet sources are not consistent on how many page numbers of first edition)?

This is before ISBN, so it won't have one, UNLESS someone assigned a number "posthumously", which it looks like someone did:

ISBN (still searching for isbn number)

The Chicago Manual of Style citation 2024:

Robertson, Wyndham. Pocahontas: Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants Through Her Marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, Gentleman; Including the Names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Boling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewel, Walke, West, Whittle, and Others. United States: J. W. Randolph & English, 1887.

MLA

Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888, and R. A. (Robert Alonzo) Brock. Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka: And Her Descendants Through Her Marriage At Jamestown, Virginia, In April, 1614, With John Rolfe, Gentleman; Including the Names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Polythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, And Others. Richmond: J. W. Randolph & English, 1887.

APA

Robertson, W., Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo). (1887). Pocahontas, alias Matoaka: and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, gentleman; including the names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Polythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and others. Richmond: J. W. Randolph & English.

WorldCat OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1651163

https://search.worldcat.org/title/1651163

Going forward. What about a newish book?

Lake Pend Oreille

Found a great online map of Lake Pend Oreille that shows depth and everything:

https://usa.fishermap.org/depth-map/pend-oreille-lake/

paper map from Amazon

https://amzn.to/4elOsAR

Bathymetric map of Lake Pend Oreille and Pend Oreille River, Idaho

downloadable 2-plate pdf of Lake Pend Oreille 1996

https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/wri964189

ΣIdaho

Sunday, August 25, 2024

Journals of the House of Burgesses

The Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 are the official minutes of the lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature. Throughout the colonial period, the legislature met frequently but irregularly, with sessions lasting from a few days to several weeks; in some years, the legislature did not meet at all. " -- section of book, pg. _ or v. _

Contents: v. 1. 1619-1658/59 (1915) -- v. 2. 1659/60-1693 (1914) -- v. 3. 1695-1696, 1696-1697, 1698, 1699, 1700-1702 (1913) -- v. 4. 1702/03-1705, 1705-1706, 1710-1712 (1912) -- v. 5. 1712-1714, 1715, 1718, 1720-1722, 1723-1726 (1912) -- v. 6. 1727-1734, 1736-1740 (1910) -- v. 7. 1742-1747, 1748-1749 (1909) -- v. 8. 1752-1755, 1756-1758 (1909) -- v. 9. 1758-1761 (1908) -- v. 10. 1761-1765 (1907) -- v. 11. 1766-1769 (1906) -- v. 12. 1770-1772 (1906) -- v. 13. 1773-1776, including the records of the Committee of Correspondence (1905).

Edited and published by authority of the Library Board, Virginia State Library(1).

this description is from FamilySearch - that page has a link list for each volume

Archive.org (I think all the volumes are here?)

The online books page - convenient list includes year (unlike FamilySearch list that only includes volume #)

available for purchase at Amazon if you know which volume you want

1. Note that the current Library of Virginia was formerly known as the Virginia State Library and as the Virginia State Library and Archives.

ΣVirginia

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Digital Collection

Digital Collection

This is from a post I saw by Saundra Stewart in Shawnee Genealogy, DNA and Gedmatch group

Friday, August 23, 2024

The Handbook of North American Indians

The Handbook of North American Indians is a series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Native American studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978

I noticed this in the Wikipedia article about Aaron Carapella - that he used these books as a reference to make his maps.

So I am trying to find where to read them. SO far no luck and they are 300 dollars each on eBay

WORK IN PROGRESS

Σindigenous