Review of CGSI webinar on Love and Marriage in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This was a presentation by Kate Vasicek Challis dealing with societal and legal customs dealing with marriage during the rule of the Habsburgs, mainly in the 1800s up until about 1918. Notes from the webinar are at the link above.

Review of Eastside Genealogy presentation dealing with Organizing and Storing Genealogical Media.
This was a presentation by Desa Omli, who is an expert in the area. She got her start with Creative Memories and is now using Forever.com as a service to digitize and store her genealogy records. Notes are at the link above.

There was discussion about what to do for our November meeting. It has usually been a pot-luck lunch of Czech/Slovak foods. However, it appears that we will not be able to have a face-to-face meeting in November, so we need figure out how to have a virtual celebration. Some suggestions were to just talk about favorite Czech or Slovak foods; have deliveries from Czech or Slovak delis; make our own food and talk about it; have just coffee and kolaches.

We set the date of November 14, the second Saturday, for our meeting. Time and format to be announced. If you have suggestions for that meeting, please reply to Jo and we will send around a list of possibilities.

Other comments:
Ancestry.com usage is free on-line through the end of the year if you have an e-card from the library.

Check out Society6.com for designer face-masks.

Annette recommended a visit to the Wilber, Nebraska and its museum if you are in the Midwest (www.nebraskaczechsofwilber.com). Wilber bills itself as the Czech capital of Nebraska. She found 6 cousins through My Heritage. No need to have a membership to house your DNA and family tree there.

Some LDS records are no longer accessible online, perhaps because of relatives' objections. Researchers must now go to a Family History Center for these records. [NOTE from Mary Kathryn: Ever since the digitization of the microfilms began, there have been record sets that were only available to view at a Family History Center or Affiliate library. (Back in the day, there were microfilms that were only viewable at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and could not be loaned out to Family History Centers!) This has nothing to do with a relative's objections, but with the legal contracts that FamilySearch signed with the original providers of the materials in order to offer them for free. The timing of this comment likely has to do with the fact that unlike Ancestry (who owns all their content and can add or remove whatever it wants from behind the pay wall), FamilySearch cannot make these records available from home due to COVID, as the time and manpower it would take to contact each contract holder and get their permission is prohibitive.]

Mike reconnected with a grad school buddy and is enjoying that. He recommends researching without using the search function in various programs. Just input the surname and browse areas where data has not been indexed.

NEXT MEETING: Saturday, November 14. Time and format to be announced.

Jo Herber

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