The meeting for the Honolulu County Genealogical Society this Saturday, April 10th, at 9 am is our Zoom meeting. The main presentation was by Donna Wendt on: Image Search & ID using Google
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MONTHLY ZOOM MEETING OF THE
HONOLULU COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
- Present: Lenore Hansen-Stafford, Kathy Hudson, Karin Jones, Stanley Jones, Isabelle Rivera, Martha Reamy, Trisha Robertson, Ellen Schneider, Alan Taft, Susan Victor and Donna Wendt
Meeting began at 9:13 a.m.
Todays’ presentation by Donna Wendt is on IDENTIFYING IMAGES ONLINE
Whether you are searching for images or trying to identify one that you already possess, the internet is wonderful source. Your search is enhanced when you practice some of the following techniques.
Donna demonstrated using Google Search. Go to Google Search>Click on Images>Drag your photo image onto the screen>Google will search for similar images. Use the same technique on Microsoft Bing.
An excellent good resource is Elevenses With Lisa, a free YouTube weekly show. Donna ran Lisa Louise Cooke’s video “How to Find Photos and Images with Google Images”. You can also go to Lisa’s website, lisalouisecooke.com. Highlights included doing image searches on Google Video, how to search with desktops and mobile phones, getting better image results when looking for people, filter on black and white photos in searching for old photos. Lisa recommends being flexible, put as much information as possible and consider variations.
Note: Permission is required to use images from Google Images. Check the website if an image has a copyright. If it does, send an email to the source listed for permission to copy.
Lisa’s suggestion in identifying images you possess, such as a postcard with no identifying data, is to go to https://images.google.com > click on the camera icon > upload your image.
Trying to search on a mobile? In Safari, you go to Google Images, no camera icon! You go to Google Apps, no camera icon! Go back to Settings > Go to Safari > request desktop website > turn button “on” > Google > go to the nine (9) dots icon > Google Image > camera. Now you can upload your image.
You can also copy old photos to your phone.
CALABASH BOWL :
Karin Jones began our meeting with a short presentation on the work she has been doing to put together Stan Jones’ autobiography using the FOREVER.com Artesian software. Stan’s mother’s scrapbook was a valuable asset full of beautiful photos from the 1920’s. She demonstrated how to create a page using the Artesian software. Karin will be sending emails to interested members on details of an upcoming sale for this particular software.
Kathy Hudson has very recently been helping a friend work on his genealogy linage. She was able to find much information online for his relatives who came to the U.S. in the 1920’s and she was very excited to present to him what she has found. Kathy’s “brick wall”, relatives on the Dunning line, may be coming to light. Since February of this year, a Dunning relative as begun contacting Kathy and is willing to share information and open to having a DNA test. This is a good example of patience and persistence.
Member, Leilani McGuire, is currently involved with the Hawaiian Mission Houses Archives. She had asked Donna to convey that their library reading room is open. Donna also displayed a flyer for on upcoming event – a reading from a play, Open Your Hearts Wide, by Marion Lyman-Mersereau. The play consists of interviews with the descendants of the missionaries. View more information on their website, www.missionhouses.org.
Donna had a follow up to her Newspapers.com presentation from March 2021. She found an article titled “Perjury for License”. Her great-aunt Fern had eloped at the age of 16 with a William Burnett. The couple had lied about Fern’s age. Five (5) months later they divorced.
Lenore had recently received an email from 23&Me on two (2) DNA links with her paternal grandmother’s name. She is looking forward in initiating contact.
Family Lands Scandinavia: During a discussion of family lands later in our meeting, Karin shared photos of her heritage visit(s) to Sweden.
Donna mentioned a new PBS Masterpiece series, Atlantic Crossing. It is based on the experiences of the Norwegian royal family during WWII. The king, the prince and Council were able to escape to England. The princess and her children fled to American at the invitation, and assistance, of President Franklin Roosevelt.
Reading Suggestions from Karin Jones and Martha Reamy:
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. It is a 1989 story about the smuggling of Jews from Denmark to Sweden on fishing boats during WWII.
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan. This children’s novel was published in 1942 telling the story of How Norwegian children smuggled their country’s gold bullion past German soldiers to a waiting ship.
Beethoven’s Hair by Martin Russell. This 2000 novel is about the journey through time of a lock of hair snipped from Beethoven on his death bed.
Martha Reamy inquired if anyone was having trouble printing records from Ancestry. Donna did a test right on the spot and there did not seem to be any problems.
NEW BUSINESS:
Karin brought up the topic of finding a new meeting site when people will feel safe to meet in person once again. Martha suggested finding a restaurant which would be able to accommodate groups.
Lenore Hansen-Stafford suggested Big City Diner and local libraries. Karin offered to begin the process of checking around and report back at the May 8, 2021 meeting.
Our meeting concluded around 11:52 a.m.
(Emailed 05/07/2021 by Isabelle Rivera)
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