Honolulu County Genealogical Society  

             June 11, 2022   Zoom Meeting

 Attending:  Bella, Lenore in California, Donna, Karin (Susan Victor and Sue Miller sent regrets)

Ancestry.com news –  "Side View" is a new feature showing your DNA broken down to both parents

Family Tree Maker– security against hackers has triggered a error when synching – you must remove any “Class.” In your notes, etc.  Do a Find for "class" followed by a period.... and Replace

                -  If you want to open another window while looking on ancestry, click on ….next to URL  (this will also show you the photo of what your are searching for under HINTS)

Ancestry.com --has Photomyne on website or phone app.  Go to your tree's Gallery and select a black and white photo... then select the "edit" pencil -- you can colorize that photo, the original black and white is saved.

Paper Flattening - Lenore has baptismal certificate of father from 1915..she wants flattened and asked for advice.  Linda offered advice from a study she has done on paper and paper flattening with a humidity box. "I'm attaching a picture of a newspaper flattening project I did for the Hawaiian Historical Society.  It involved just a styrofoam box; a suspended wooden frame with plastic screen hammered to it; and putting a pan of boiled water beneath the screen and changing it frequently.  I think it took 2? weeks for me to get the curled up newspapers flat.  When they eventually began to "relax" I inserted empty glass jars to hold them partially open and continued the hot water steaming.  The process is gradual and cannot be speeded up otherwise the paper will crack.  I hope someone at UH Preservation will be able to help with this or maybe there are written instructions or Youtube demos online.  It might be called a "humidification chamber."  Determining the stability of the ink used on the paper, before humidifying it, is advisable, because the paper becomes somewhat damp.  I used "dispensable" duplicate newspaper issues to practice on -- since I was totally "winging it."  But it worked and all of the newspapers were eventually able to be microfilmed."

Next meeting July 9^th.  2022 on Zoom.  Same ID and password and link.

MINUTES FOR THE JUNE 11, 2022 MONTHLY ZOOM MEETING OF THE HONOLULU COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY 

Present: Lenore Hansen-Stafford, Karin Jones, Stanley Jones, Isabelle Rivera, and Donna Wendt With a sparse gathering this beautiful Kamehameha Day our June meeting was begun at 9:10 a.m. 

 OLD BUSINESS: The Cemetery Pupu Theatre sponsored by Hawaiian Mission Houses is back! Donna Wendt has purchased her ticket for the event for the 18th of June. Anyone interested in joining her will need to purchase her/his ticket soon. Attendees and participants are looking forward to a great time after a two year COVID19 shutdown. 

Longtime member, Linda L., via Donna Wendt, had additional suggestions regarding an inquiry from April 9, 2022 into separating fragile papers. She took up the challenge and did some research. Instructions can be found online for making your own humidification chamber and flattening paper. It is a process that takes time and patience. Before using this technique make sure to check the stability of the ink. YouTube demonstrations from the University of Hawaii’s Preservation Department can also be found online. 

 Karin Jones continues her work organizing and documenting Stanley Jones’ family tree and life. She shared their current project of creating a Forever book on Stan’s children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.  The first page is cleverly title, “So How Are We Related?” Shown on this page is Stan Jones with his first wife, Catherine Martin, their children and grandchildren.  The second page has photos of the great-grandchildren (1st cousins once removed or second cousins)  Karin cleverly used colored frames around the photos to distinguish the different families. Part of this project is the use of QR coding. Through Forever.com you can now record, store and watch videos. Karen agreed to have a formal presentation on Forever QR coding at our September 10, 2022 meeting. Zoom 

With the growing use of Zoom, a discussion popped up regarding sharing hosting duties. Donna asked about the “host key”. This “host key” is applied to meetings scheduled by the initiating Zoom host. The Google instructions regarding the “host key” are as follows:  Sign in to Zoom  In the navigation panel, click Profile  Scroll down to the Meeting section  Select the eye icon next to your Host key to view your current 6-digit pin  Click Edit  Input the new host key desired and click Save.

Scanning Suggestions If you are scanning documents or photos which are grainy, set your computer on the gray scale. Scanning important documents? Use 600 megapixels. Less important documents, use lower megapixels such as 300. Photographs Ancestry.com now offers a colorization process on the Ancestry phone app (and website at the individual's Gallery). Ancestry.com has partnered up with Photomyne. “Photomyne is a media preservation and archiving specialist company”. Photomyne provides an “easier way to digitize old family photos by scanning and uploading multiple photographs at once through the Ancestry mobile app.” Click on a photo from your Ancestry gallery > In the Edit tool on the right side, choose Edit Image Colorize. It will not affect the black & white original. Always keep your originals safe. Though not as good as the MyHeritage program yet, it is pretty good and they continue to work on improving it. 

CALABASH BOWL: Podcast recommendation – Blast From the Past sponsored by MyHeritage. Interested in joining a hiking group? Donna has a couple of suggestions – Hiking With Aloha, information can be found on their website, www.meetup.com; and a Facebook Group, “Aloha Hiking Explorers & More. Places she has been to include, the Bamboo Forest off the Pali Highway/Nuuanu, Koko Crater Botanical Gardens in Hawaii Kai, and discovering neighborhoods. 

The memory of a past excursion to Hawaii’s Plantation Village in Waipahu by the Honolulu County Genealogical Society was mentioned. Donna offered to search for a video on immigration which had been filmed that day. Bella Rivera noted ties that her family had to part of the land which the Plantation Village now sits on. Her paternal family farmed on that land for decades. Many members have very busy summer schedules: 

 Lenore Hansen-Stafford joins us today from a very hot Sacramento, CA. She heads to Portland in a couple of days. She returns to Honolulu on June 17. She continues her summer travels in August with a cruise to Iceland/

 Karin and Stan Jones will continue their summer travels planning to be away the next 2 months. They will first head to the Forever.com convention taking place in Denver. After that they head off to Sweden. 

 Susan Victor is celebrating this Kamehameha Day with friends in Michigan. 

 Donna Wendt will be traveling to Denver.

 . For those listed above and everyone else enjoying their summer, we wish you all well, safe travels and look forward to seeing you whenever you are able to join our zoom meetings. Our next meeting will be on Saturday, July 9, 2022, 9:00 a.m. Donna Wendt might be sharing a presentation she had given in June 2022 at The Caledonian Society of Hawaii – Research Tips in Scotland.

 Meeting adjourned at 11:19 a.m. (Emailed on 07/08/2022 by Bella Rivera)