Saturday, October 15, 2005

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Kermit the Frog 50th showbiz birthday on Friday

Entertainment News:
"Kermit made his debut in a 1955 television comedy called Sam and Friends, which aired locally in Washington, but he looked more lizardlike then. Kermit was fashioned from an old coat belonging to the mother of late Muppets creator Jim Henson and was named after one of Henson's childhood friends.
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Good luck Denmark

The seventh generation heir to the throne was born about 5 hours ago.

The China Post:

"Denmark's Crown Princess Mary gave birth early Saturday to a boy who is second in line to the throne of Europe's oldest reigning monarchy, the royal palace said.

Australian-born Mary gave birth to the boy at 1:57 a.m. Saturday (2357 GMT Friday) at the Copenhagen University Hospital, two weeks before her scheduled due date, the palace said. Both mother and child were doing fine, it said.

The boy was 51 centimeters (20 inches) and weighed 3.5 kilograms (7.7 pounds), Hofchef court chamberlain Per Thornit, head of Crown Prince Frederik's court, said in the statement. Deres Kongelige Højheder Kronprinsparrets Hofstat

His name is likely to be Christian. Since Christian II, who died in 1559, Danish kings have alternately carried the name Christian or Frederik.

Mary Donaldson, 33, who was born in Hobart, on the island of Tasmania, married Crown Prince Frederik, Queen Margrethe's eldest son, in a lavish ceremony in May 2004 at Copenhagen's Lutheran Cathedral. The couple met in a bar during the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Frederik, 37, is next in line to the throne.

Like its Scandinavian neighbors Norway and Sweden, Denmark is a constitutional monarchy where the royals have only ceremonial functions.

In line with a Danish tradition to mark a royal birth, 21 gun shots will be fired at noon (1000 GMT) Saturday from batteries in Copenhagen and from the Kronborg Castle, north of the capital. In the evening, the Danish Home Guard will light some 350 bonfires across the country. "
http://www.kronprinsparret.dk
Lørdag 15. oktober 2005
Det blev en Prins


failed post to ABC Tasmania radio news
http://dr.dk/
heard on Danmarks Radio

the Danish Government will continue with constitutional reform making the heir of the throne the first born girl or boy.


But this is now seen as not urgent and may take 3 to 5 years to get done

regards

Hugh Watkins

Genealogist
resident in Copenhagen, Denmark

researching LAPHAM families in Tasmania too
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lapham

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lapham&id=I2332

Friday, October 14, 2005

Kulturnatten - Forsiden

pass

yes I decided to stay at home and read a book
kulturnaut = culture nought

I was tempted to go to Christiansborg by a Socialdemocrat invitation
but last year over thirteen thousand people went there

so not for me



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what I am doing in November

Copyright and Fair Use

Using SOGCAT

Online access to the Society's Library Catalogue - SOGCAT

http://www.sog.org.uk/sogcat/access/

ALONG THOSE LINES . . .
"LOCATING LOCAL AND FAMILY HISTORIES ONLINE"
by George G. Morgan

I had the pleasure in May of this year of leading a genealogical research tour to England. It was sponsored by the Iowa Genealogical Society and, while we were in London, we had the opportunity to visit and conduct genealogical research in some of the great repositories of the world. Not the least of these was the Society of Genealogists (SoG). The genealogical materials they hold are the largest collection of its type in England, if not in all of Europe. When I was there, I spent a lot of time working with manuscripts and card files, a short time looking into published family histories.

At the time we were there, the prototype of their online catalog, SOGCAT, was accessible in the SoG building. Since that time, it has been made available to the general public at their Web site (http://www.sog.org.uk). This is an exciting development because it gives access to their holdings.

Since my time with the SoG's local and family histories collection was so limited, I only had the opportunity to research and photocopy a limited number of pages in a few books. Now that I have had a few extra hours to spend with my research, I decided to get into SOGCAT and see what published books are there. I identified several books about my BALL family history and then began to wonder how I could gain access to them. I certainly considered working with my public library to determine what libraries might have copies and then make an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request for a copy of the index, followed by another ILL request for copies of actual pages from the books that interested me. I also considered the possibility of using online used booksellers to locate copies of the books to purchase, but that could be an expensive proposition.

I decided that, before I did all that work, I would see if there were copies of any of the books I sought were accessible in digitized format online. Once again, the
Ancestry.com - Genealogy and Family History Records site came through for me. In "Along Those Lines . . ." this week, let me explain the process I used, and perhaps it will inspire you to do similar research.

IDENTIFYING THE BOOKS
I visited the SoG Web site and went into the SOGCAT. I wanted to look for my BALL ancestors and family. I figured the surname might be in the titles of a number of books but thought that a subject search might yield more items. I therefore selected "Look For SU" (Subject) and entered ball family. At the top of the search results list was "Ball (surname)" and a notation and option to "Search Also Under: Balls (surname)." I clicked on the link to "Ball (surname) and was rewarded with nineteen titles. Some are books, others are typescripts (including newsletters), and there are references to periodical reprints.

In SOGCAT\'s search results, to the left of each entry is a little box. Click the box next to each one you are interested in and then, at the top or bottom of the page, click on the View button. You can the see each item you checked, record by record, examine more details about the item, and then either print or e-mail the entire list to yourself.

I e-mailed my list of three books to myself and the list appeared in my mailbox almost immediately. Wow! I opened the e-mail, printed it, and then began my search for the following three books.

1. Ball Family Records: Genealogical Memoirs of some Ball Families of Great Britain, Ireland & America
Author Wright, William Ball

2. Colonel William Ball Of Virginia, The Great-Grandfather Of Washington
Author Heck, Earl L. W.

3. Virginia Genealogies; A Genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland & Virginia, also of the families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace & others, of Virginia & Maryland

I decided that, before I did all that work, I would see if there were copies of any of the books I sought were accessible in digitized format online. Once again, the Ancestry.com site came through for me. In "Along Those Lines . . ." this week, let me explain the process I used, and perhaps it will inspire you to do similar research.


FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORIES AT Ancestry.com - Search Family & Local Historiesis one of the premium subscription databases. Within this collection, I have found digitized books that are not available in my local public library\'s rather sizeable genealogical collection. Once you identify a book in the collection, you can click on the link to display a search template and a full table of contents. The search template allows you to search within that book (title) only or among all the Family and Local Histories collection.

Of the three titles I had identified in SOGCAT, I found William Ball Wright\'s book (#1) and Horace Edwin Hayden\'s book (#3). While I did not find book #2, I did find several other BALL genealogies, including two whose contents added to my knowledge of some of my direct ancestors.

1. Edward Ball and Some of His Descendants, by Nicholas Ball

2. The Ball family of Southwest Virginia: a genealogy of some of the descendants of Moses Ball of Fairfax County, by Palmer Ray Ball

Ancestry.com\'s images allow me to zoom in and out of the document, change the resolution for faster loading, scroll from page to page, and print, save, and/or e-mail the material.

Since I had not found the second book in Ancestry.com\'s collection, I returned to the search template and entered the first name of William, the surname of Ball, and a keyword of Colonel, hoping to narrow the search a bit. The search results were even more encouraging than I had hoped! The two books I\'d already found were included, but there were ninety-six other search results.
Author Hayden, Horace Edwin

Ancestry.com - Search Family & Local Histories
The Family and Local Histories collection is one of the premium subscription databases. Within this collection, I have found digitized books that are not available in my local public library's rather sizeable genealogical collection. Once you identify a book in the collection, you can click on the link to display a search template and a full table of contents. The search template allows you to search within that book (title) only or among all the Family and Local Histories collection.

Of the three titles I had identified in SOGCAT, I found William Ball Wright's book (#1) and Horace Edwin Hayden's book (#3). While I did not find book #2, I did find several other BALL genealogies, including two whose contents added to my knowledge of some of my direct ancestors.

1. Edward Ball and Some of His Descendants, by Nicholas Ball

2. The Ball family of Southwest Virginia: a genealogy of some of the descendants of Moses Ball of Fairfax County, by Palmer Ray Ball

Ancestry.com's images allow me to zoom in and out of the document, change the resolution for faster loading, scroll from page to page, and print, save, and/or e-mail the material.

Since I had not found the second book in the collection, I returned to the search template and entered the first name of William, the surname of Ball, and a keyword of Colonel, hoping to narrow the search a bit. The search results were even more encouraging than I had hoped! The two books I'd already found were included, but there were ninety-six other search results.

The first one in the list is a 1941 book titled "A Few Early Families of America," by Johnson Albert. When I clicked on the link, I was taken to page 136 where William Ball (Colonel) is listed as the father of one Joseph Ball. A drop-down box at the top of the screen labeled "Go to section:" allows me to move around the rest of the sections of this book, including the table of contents and the index.

In the index I could look at all the Ball family members included in the book. Based on the page number listed for William Ball, I returned to the top of the screen and entered page number 135 as cited in the index. That page was displayed and, sure enough, there was Col. William Ball. (My exact search using the keyword of \'Colonel\' had excluded this page because his military rank was abbreviated. This taught me another lesson about entering too narrow a search.)

MAKING THE CONNECTION WITH THE BOOKS
I am a huge fan of Interlibrary Loan and I use it a lot to extend my research into materials in the non-circulating collections of distant libraries and archives. However, I never forget that there are digitized local and family histories online, searchable, printable, and with other options. As I showed you in this scenario, I was easily able to locate and access two of the three books at the SoG that had been digitized, and this saves me another trip to England as well as using ILL. I also found several other books I had not known were part of the Ancestry.com Family and Local Histories collection. Boy, do I have more fodder for my research now!

Happy Hunting!
George
____________________________________________


Visit George's Web site at http://ahaseminars.com/atl for information about speaking engagements. Upcoming appearances:

--- 19 October 2005
Marion County Genealogical Society (Ocala, Florida)
--- 29 October 2005
Charlotte County Genealogical Society (Port Charlotte, Florida)
--- 10 November 2005
Halifax Genealogical Society (Ormond Beach, Florida)
--- 11-12 November 2005
Vero Beach Book Festival (Vero Beach, Florida)

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Welsh League of Arizona Homepage

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Cyfarchion oddi wrth
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News from Wales

City's apology for drowned valley

BBC NEWS | Wales:

"BBC Wales can reveal that Liverpool council is close to making a formal apology for the drowning of a Welsh valley almost half a century ago.
Party leaders on the city council have agreed the wording of an apology to go before the council on 19 October.
Tryweryn, near Bala in Gwynedd, was flooded in 1965 to create the Tryweryn reservoir to supply water to Liverpool. "

When Liverpool Council announced its plans, they faced united opposition in Wales. Thirty-five of the 36 Welsh MPs voted against the plans and Tryweryn itself became the site of demonstrations and bombing attacks on construction equipment.

snipped
"The failure of the attempts to stop the plans led to a rapid growth in nationalism and calls for devolution and in the space of less than a year Plaid Cymru was transformed from a tiny pressure group into a major political party.

The resolution - to go before Liverpool's full council - will express remorse for the decision to flood the valley and for the insensitive way in which the matter was handled by the authorities.

It has come about a result of an intervention by the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Roberts of Llandudno who was saddened that Tryweryn was cited by many as a reason why the National Eisteddfod should not visit Liverpool.

nobody died

Thursday, October 13, 2005

City and County of Swansea - Leisure and Tourism

City and County of Swansea - Leisure and Tourism: "The Cambrian was the first English-language newspaper to be published in Wales, running from 1804 - 1930.
Swansea Library Service is proud to announce that a computerised index to the contents of a large number of the newspaper's issues is now freely available - follow the links below for instructions on how to use the search, what to expect and the search itself"

Cambrian Index Online

Danish church frescoes and War memorials

Kalkmalerier i danske kirker

NB! Kalkmalerier.dk har 5.500 sidevisninger daglig og derfor flere brugere end serveren kan klare. Derfor de mange afvisninger. Vi h�ber p�at skaffe penge til en st�rre server.

Kalkmalerier.dk has 5.500 pageviews daily and more users than the server can manage – so please be patient if you are refused.

from my email.-
How can you connect danish kalkmalerier from ca 1200 to ca 1500 to
the Danish-Prussian-Austrian War of 1864 etc??????

well actually many war memorials are in chuches or churchyards

In English: "The name of the database is Monuments in Danish Market Towns 1864-1920. It covers the following events:

the Danish-Prussian-Austrian War of 1864

the First World War

the re-unification of North Schleswig / Southern Jutland with Denmark in 1920.

Tacitus Historical Atlas

Tacitus Historical Atlas

The purpose of this website is to illustrate the European countries history with maps, population statistics and regent lists. The website is still under construction and more pages will be added when time permit.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

ShoeString Genealogy

ShoeString Genealogy focuses on lowering the costs of research and raising the quality of information. Although not all resources are free, many are. There are several excellent resources that are inexpensive, too. " but the Tiny TAfel is enormous

L'EASY ONLINE

L'EASY ONLINE:

what does it really cost?

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Afbetaling pr. md. 299,-


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I don't like those graphics on paper or on the web because I think they are deceptive,
so I photoshopped them at the percentages above.

danish cable tv

TDC.com - About TDC - Profile - Profile - TDC A/S - TDC Cable TV: "In cooperation with TDC Cable TV, TDC Solutions has introduced a number of field trials, which will in the next couple of years lead to extensive changes in the domestic telecom market where the borders between the traditional tele and cable TV networks will eventually disappear. The objective is for TDC to offer its customers TV, broadband, and telephony in one joint package irrespective of whether they are customers on the cable network or the telephony network.

It is the so-called IP technology that makes it possible to connect the traditional telecom network with the cable TV network. Thereby it becomes possible to deliver the same products on the two networks: It will be possible to make telephone calls over the cable TV network and to watch television over the telephone network. "

they are playing catch up with their competitors
still 2 or 3 times the price of broadband or dsl in other countries.

TDC Kabel TV - Forside


Beboer TV S9 161.25 G,M,F
TV Danmark K5 175.25 G,M,F
TV2 Norge K6 182.25 G,M,F
TV 2 Lorry K7 189.25 G,M,F
DR2 K9 203.25 G,M,F
DR1 K10 210.25 G,M,F
Infokanalen S11 231.25 G,M,F
Sverige 1 S13 245.25 G,M,F
Sverige 2 S14 252.25 G,M,F
ARD S15 259.25 G,M,F
ZDF S16 266.25 G,M,F
NRK 1 S29 367.25 G,M,F
Ekstrakanalen S30 375.25 G,M,F
Kanal København S31 383.25 G,M,F
Kanal 5 K21 471.25 M,F
CNN International K22 479.25 M,F
Reserveret til Video K33 567.25 M,F
Reserveret til Selector K41 631.25 M,F
TV4 K42 639.25 M,F
TV3+ K43 647.25 M,F
TV 2 Charlie/BBC Food K44 655.25 M,F
TV3 K45 663.25 M,F
VH1 / Private Blue K49 695.25 F
Cartoon Network K50 703.25 F
TV5 Europe K51 711.25 F
Jetix / Hallmark K52 719.25 F
MTV Danmark K54 735.25 F
Discovery Channel K55 743.25 F
The Voice TV K56 751.25 F

CNN pr. 1/11 TV2FILM K57 759.25 F
BBC World K58 767.25 F
BBC Prime K59 775.25 F
Turner Classic Movies K61 791.25 F

Kanal 5 pr. 1/11 Disney K62 799.25 F
Viasat Sport 1 K63 807.25 F
Eurosport K64 815.25 F
dk4 K65 823.25 F
TV 2 Zulu K66 831.25 F
Discovery Animal Planet K67 839.25 F
National Geographic / CNBC K68 847.25 F

Radiokanaler FM Frekvens Info

Forbeholdt lokalradio 87.7 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 88.9 G.M.F
BBC World Service Radio 88.4 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 89.4 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 90.6 G.M.F
NDR 1 90.1 G.M.F
Radio Schleswig-Holstein 91.2 G.M.F
Sverige P1 92.2 G.M.F
Sverige P4 92.7 G.M.F
Sverige P3 93.5 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 95.2 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 95.2 G.M.F
Radio 100FM 96.1 G.M.F
DR P2 Musik & Kultur 97.0 G.M.F
The Voice Radio 97.7 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 98.8 G.M.F
Sverige P2 98.2 G.M.F
Klassik Radio Tysk 99.4 G.M.F
Sky Radio 100.5 G.M.F
DR P1 101.5 G.M.F
DR P4 Københavns Radio 102.7 G.M.F
DR P3 103.2 G.M.F
DR Klassisk 103.9 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 104.5 G.M.F
RTL Radio Tysk 105.0 G.M.F
Forbeholdt lokalradio 105.7 G.M.F
NDR 2 106.6 G.M.F
NDR Kultur 107.2 G.M.F
BBC Radio One Engelsk 107.6 G.M.F


TDC Kabel TV - Kanalnøgler and they are rearranging the frequencies again

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Brinck Elektronik best for cables

snaps: Bristol and the BUNFIGHT

Sunday, October 09, 2005

projects that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think'

Breaking America's grip on the net

Guardian Unlimited: "After troubled negotiations in Geneva, the US may be forced to relinquish control of the internet to a coalition of governments "