Have you ever wondered if there was more to an ancestor’s home address or workplace address? Did you know that in the early 20th century many US cities reconfigured their “grid” resulting in new addresses? Do you know why certain streets simply seem to “disappear”? There’s more to street naming than you realize . . . learn how to drill-down to street information to improve your genealogy research. We’ll review the history of street naming and learn how to break down street address data. We’ll cover street grid changes for towns and cities as well as how to track “missing” streets. Learn how to use innovative online tools to visualize a specific street address and cover tips and tricks you need to know when working with street names and addresses.
Thomas MacEntee is a guy with a love of punk rock music but also art history who somehow “fell” into the technology industry years ago. He left a lucrative tech career to pursue his love of family history and genealogy. Technology and historical r
Excellent presenter who always gives a great presentation
5 ++ always such good info that I was not aware of. Thanks, Thomas.
a lot of interesting map and street information. Thomas is great
Always a great job!
Always a great presenter!
Always clear, concise presentation with easy to follow handout! Thomas is stellar.
Always enjoy Thomas’ webinars. They are so full of excellent information and resources. Look forward to the next one.
Always great info from Thomas! Thank you!
Always great with M. MacEntee
Always learn a lot from Thomas. Thank you
Always learn so much from Thomas MacEntee’s webinars and enjoy them
Always learn something new from Thomas!
Always learn something new from Thomas.
Always learn something new with Thomas. He makes learning FUN!!
Always love listening to Thomas!
Always love Thomas’ webinars!
Always the best – so interesting and a great sense of humor!
Another excellent presentation from Thomas, very enlightening and educational.
Another excellent, useful webinar by Thomas.
Another great session with Thomas! Always a pleasure and an education. So much info.
Another Great! presentation. I have been doing this a long time but am picking up some tips that will help me move farther. Thank you!
Anything by Thomas MacEntee is wonderful!!!!
anything tm does is great. thx
As always Thomas was excellent!
As always, a fantastic speaker doing a most interesting webinar!!!
As always, a terrific webinar by Thomas MacEntee. I’m going to check now to see if the series for the 1950 Census is up at the webinar site. Thanks!
As always, great stuff from Thomas.
Being Canadian, I knew that some of the information and resources would not apply, but this was still worthwhile and gave me leads to look at.
Can’t get enough of Thomas MacEntee! Always, always, learn something new and valuable from his presentations!
Can’t wait for the 1950 census release!
Even if you think you are sick of hearing about a subject, MacEntee always has a thought, a resource or a perspective you haven’t yet run across. Love TM!
excellent
Excellent delivery – clear and well-paced
Excellent info
Excellent info, and wonderful handout!
Excellent information and resources given. Always enjoy Mr. MacEntee!
Excellent information!
Excellent information, thank you!
excellent presentation
Excellent thanks so much
Excellent!
Excellent! Thank you!
Excellent! Thomas always includes so much good info.
Excellent!! I love maps. I live in Bellingham, Washington, which was originally made up of four little towns. Since all four were situated on Bellingham Bay, the streets go every which way. There’s one street in particular that changes its name four times without a person having to actually leave the street! I’ve lived here all my life and sometimes I’ve even gotten lost because of the crazy zigzagging streets. Plus, there’s a creek that runs through the middle of town that doesn’t help any.
Excellent, worth repeating
excellent. right up my alley
Fantastic
Fantastic webinar and lots of information! My brain is a bit overloaded already this morning! Thank you!
Fascinating and very well presented
Fascinating! All new way of looking at things! Very well organized and presented as always with Thomas MacEntee
fascinating, geeky LOL and educational. great tips and ideas
gave concrete sources and strategies for researching topic
good examples and great tips. Especially liked the links to steve morse and explanation about enumeration districts.
good information
Good information and nice live looks at certain databases.
Good information
Good information
great
Great
Great info
Great info. Tom, glad you put together this program. Learned a lot and thanks for all the resources in your handout. Bring on 1950! We will be ready.
Great Information
Great information about little known online resources.
great information especially for upcoming 1950 census
great presenter interesting and helpful info
Great resources and information!
Great resources!
great session.
great tips
Great tips and information – thanks Thomas!!
Great webinar on street name changes.
Great webinar. I’m looking forward to 1950 census being released. Thomas gave us info on how to be prepared to collect info now.
Great! Thanks so much.
Excellent and useful presentation.
He is always great. Please keep bringing him back. I always learn something new.
He sure Wow’d me!! He always has the best webinars and this one was way up top of his best!
I though I knew something about the subject–unti now.
I try never to miss one of Thomas’ webinars…..so much information and new directions to head with research!
I will definitely rewatch this.
I will have my husband view this webinar. He and his family is from Chicago. I would be very excited, if I were he. By 195040 my famliy had moved from rural Kentucky to DC. So much ro prepare!! So little time!
It was great. would like to watch it again
It was so helpful having the syllabus/handout for the webinar during the 24 hour marathon. The format Thomas used in the handout is excellent with topics and all the Resources listed at the end. Suggestion: Have every presenter next year have a handout similar to Thomas’s one. Then people can concentrate on the webinar instead of taking a lot of notes.
Learned about several websites I didn’t know
Lots of good info. Great job.
Lots of great clues for me for those unanswered mysteries. I did track down one house and sadly google earth showed me it was now an entrance ramp to the interstate, but it ended my search … finally.
LOTS OF VALUABLE INFORMATION. i MUST WATCH IT AGAIN
Love a Thomas webinar. Try and never miss one.
Love this guy’s presentations! Thanks!
Love Thomas!
Love your ancestry.com document tip!
Maybe more about cities in Europe too! Tnx
Never miss a webinar by Thomas…
Only US-centric information, unfortunately
Outstanding! Fantastic! The BEST!
OUTSTANDING…………such wonderful hints!
Really helpful and interesting information!! Really appreciated the sharing of the specific resources to reference.
So much great information
Something I hadn’t really thought about before.
Something I hadn’t thought about. Great presentation!
Terrific information that was VERY well presented. Thomas is always great!
Thank you Thomas
Thanks
They’ve all been awesome. This was very helpful for issues I’ve had!
This was a wonderful presentation with so much great information. Thomas presents so the topic so well, his list of resources will be very helpful in finding ancestors.
This way very informative!
Thomas always does a professional presentation and easy to understand steps.
Thomas always has good topics. He is my number 1 presenter.
Thomas always has great information
Thomas always knocks it out of the park. Now I know how to better prepare for the next census release
Thomas always teaches me something!
Thomas has always got tricks to searching that we have not thought of or used before.
Thomas is a genealogical treasure!
Thomas is a joy to hear as a speaker.
Thomas is always a great presenter with interesting topics!
Thomas is always a treat, to hear, and see, his detailed and helpful information, good voice! to see- those shirts!
Thomas is always EXCELLENT!!!
Thomas is always fun and informative. I make note of addresses, but never really thought of them so deeply. Something else to ponder!
Thomas is always great. I appreciated that he didn’t move so fast
Thomas is great to listen to! He concluded each section so quickly, I couldn’t catch everything. E.g., I don’t know what he means by check population sheets. I’m grateful for free access next week! So glad he put this together–I had no idea what the 1950 Census release meant to our research.
THOMAS MACENTEE IS ALWAYS A GREAT PRESENTER!!!
Thomas MacEntee is such a good speaker, and I always learn a lot from his webinars. Thank you!
Thomas MacEntee was great, as usual. Good organization, interesting examples, usually left on screen long enough to study a bit.
Thomas MacEntee–always rates a top evaluation! Great detail, well thought-out, very helpful in thinking about Chicago, and all other large and older cities, particularly! Great!
Thomas never disappoints with his topics. Great class.
Thomas presentations are always right on target.
Thomas’ presentations are always excellent and very informative! Thank you! : )
Thomas was so knowledgeable and he provided great tips that I will use in my research!!
Thomas’ webinars are always so informative!
Thomas’s talks are always excellent. Keep them coming!
Thomas’s webinars are always worthwhile for the tips alone. I always learn something new.
timely as always
Tom always makes an excellent presentation
Very educational and fascinating!!! Thanks so much.
Very helpful.. alot brought out that I had never thought about. Thank you Thomas
Very informative!
Very informative!
Very informative, for both rural and urban address and name changes. Great suggestions for how to work through these seeming dead ends.
Very informative. Couple good ideas to follow up on.
Very informative. Focus was heavy on urban areas (NYC & Chicago) and would have liked to have seen some comparisons to large towns/villages and small cities.
Very interesting and informative
Very interesting and informative.
Well done. Lots of great info. Good speaker.
Wonderful information. I never even thought about name changes for streets etc. I loved that Thomas mentioned Chicago Cook county as I have loads of relatives from there. I appreciate the syllabus as well with all the resource URL’s. Very helpful. Thank you.
Wow! Learned a lot. I especially liked the 1950 census tips. Thanks.
Wow, this was one of the best of the best (they’ve all been superb). I truly enjoyed Thomas’ warm and friendly manner, and his presentation-style. I’ve been doing this for years, but I learned a ton of new information and links from him today. Cannot wait to re-watch the video! Thanks so much!!!
Hiding Out in the Open: Discovering LGBT Family History
You may have heard family stories about a relative who was “different” or perhaps you’ve discovered someone who simply “disappeared.” Have you considered the possibility that you could have a gay or lesbian relative in your family tree? LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered) people can be found when researching genealogy, but the search syntax, keywords and strategies are very different. By understanding the basics of “gay history” as well as how LGBT folk lived, worked and socialized, you’ll not only locate these relatives, but realize the importance of preserving their stories.
You may have heard family stories about a relative who was “different” or perhaps you’ve discovered someone who simply “disappeared.” Have you considered the possibility that you could have a gay or lesbian relative in your family tree? LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered) people can be found when researching genealogy, but the search syntax, keywords and strategies are very different. By understanding the basics of “gay history” as well as how LGBT folk lived, worked and socialized, you’ll not only locate these relatives, but realize the importance of preserving their stories.
Genealogy Escape Room: The Case of the Only Name Change at Ellis Island
Imagine you are trapped in an archive and the only way out is to solve a series of genealogy research puzzles. Are you up to the challenge? Are you ready for Genealogy Escape Room™? Based on the popular escape room concept, Genealogy Escape Room™ turns the typical webinar format upside down! Each registrant will receive a Case Review File used to solve a series of online research tasks BEFORE the live webinar takes place. The webinar is the “reveal” where a step-by-step review of each puzzle, task, and clue all the way to the final “key” to open the door. Genealogy methodology concepts will be summarized before announcing who escaped first! The Case of Frank Woodhull: The Only Name Change at Ellis Island. You may have heard in a family story that a family’s surname or even a person’s given name was changed upon arrival in the United States at Ellis Island. This “urban legend” has been discussed and debunked for decades in the genealogy community. Since an immigrant’s name MUST match the ship’s manifesto, most name changes took place AFTER the person was successfully admitted. The change could have been done simply by adopting a new name or by selecting a new name during the citizenship process. But … there is ONE case of a name change of an immigrant at Ellis Island and that person is Frank Woodhull who arrived at New York City on October 4th, 1908. Follow an amazing research journey with twists and turns and you’ll find out how Woodhull lived under an assumed name in the United States for almost 15 years before his fateful return to the US from a holiday in England.
Imagine you are trapped in an archive and the only way out is to solve a series of genealogy research puzzles. Are you up to the challenge? Are you ready for Genealogy Escape Room™? Based on the popular escape room concept, Genealogy Escape Room™ turns the typical webinar format upside down! Each registrant will receive a Case Review File used to solve a series of online research tasks BEFORE the live webinar takes place. The webinar is the “reveal” where a step-by-step review of each puzzle, task, and clue all the way to the final “key” to open the door. Genealogy methodology concepts will be summarized before announcing who escaped first! The Case of Frank Woodhull: The Only Name Change at Ellis Island. You may have heard in a family story that a family’s surname or even a person’s given name was changed upon arrival in the United States at Ellis Island. This “urban legend” has been discussed and debunked for decades in the genealogy community. Since an immigrant’s name MUST match the ship’s manifesto, most name changes took place AFTER the person was successfully admitted. The change could have been done simply by adopting a new name or by selecting a new name during the citizenship process. But … there is ONE case of a name change of an immigrant at Ellis Island and that person is Frank Woodhull who arrived at New York City on October 4th, 1908. Follow an amazing research journey with twists and turns and you’ll find out how Woodhull lived under an assumed name in the United States for almost 15 years before his fateful return to the US from a holiday in England.
Trivia contests seem to be all the rage now. But if you were ever a fan of the television show Jeopardy or the game Trivial Pursuit, here’s a way to test your genealogy knowledge. With genealogy expert Thomas MacEntee as presenter, you can participate in a fun, fast paced, and educational genealogy trivia game. Every participant will receive a handout at the END of the adventure complete with genealogy trivia questions and answers!
Trivia contests seem to be all the rage now. But if you were ever a fan of the television show Jeopardy or the game Trivial Pursuit, here’s a way to test your genealogy knowledge. With genealogy expert Thomas MacEntee as presenter, you can participate in a fun, fast paced, and educational genealogy trivia game. Every participant will receive a handout at the END of the adventure complete with genealogy trivia questions and answers!
Imagine you are trapped in an archive and the only way out is to solve a series of genealogy research puzzles. Are you up to the challenge? Are you ready for Genealogy Escape Room? Based on the popular escape room concept, Genealogy Escape Room turns the typical webinar format upside…
Imagine you are trapped in an archive and the only way out is to solve a series of genealogy research puzzles. Are you up to the challenge? Are you ready for Genealogy Escape Room? Based on the popular escape room concept, Genealogy Escape Room turns the typical webinar format upside…
Tools for Translating and Transcribing Genealogy Records
Documents – old and new – are a requisite resource for genealogy research. Learn the latest tools and programs available to translate foreign language documents as well as transcribe documents in order to extract needed information.
Documents – old and new – are a requisite resource for genealogy research. Learn the latest tools and programs available to translate foreign language documents as well as transcribe documents in order to extract needed information.
One Touch Genealogy Research: How to Handle a Record Just Once
Do you get so excited when you find a new record for an ancestor that you forget to collect the information you need? Does that record shine and glitter so brightly that you are blinded to other vital clues you might need? Learn the “One Pass” approach to genealogy research…
Do you get so excited when you find a new record for an ancestor that you forget to collect the information you need? Does that record shine and glitter so brightly that you are blinded to other vital clues you might need? Learn the “One Pass” approach to genealogy research…
Rescuing Orphaned Items: How to Save and Share Ebay, Etsy and Flea Market Finds
Participants will learn how to locate lost family heirlooms at in-person events like flea markets as well as at online websites. We’ll cover how to research the history of an item, how to work with the seller, how to contact possible family members related to the item and more.
Participants will learn how to locate lost family heirlooms at in-person events like flea markets as well as at online websites. We’ll cover how to research the history of an item, how to work with the seller, how to contact possible family members related to the item and more.
What's Been Done: Using Someone Else's Genealogy Research
Whether you are new to genealogy or you've been working on your family history for years, incorporating the research of others can always be tricky. Here's how to develop a proven strategy to benefit from the work of other genealogists.
Whether you are new to genealogy or you've been working on your family history for years, incorporating the research of others can always be tricky. Here's how to develop a proven strategy to benefit from the work of other genealogists.
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Excellent presenter who always gives a great presentation
5 ++ always such good info that I was not aware of. Thanks, Thomas.
a lot of interesting map and street information. Thomas is great
Always a great job!
Always a great presenter!
Always clear, concise presentation with easy to follow handout! Thomas is stellar.
Always enjoy Thomas’ webinars. They are so full of excellent information and resources. Look forward to the next one.
Always great info from Thomas! Thank you!
Always great with M. MacEntee
Always learn a lot from Thomas. Thank you
Always learn so much from Thomas MacEntee’s webinars and enjoy them
Always learn something new from Thomas!
Always learn something new from Thomas.
Always learn something new with Thomas. He makes learning FUN!!
Always love listening to Thomas!
Always love Thomas’ webinars!
Always the best – so interesting and a great sense of humor!
Another excellent presentation from Thomas, very enlightening and educational.
Another excellent, useful webinar by Thomas.
Another great session with Thomas! Always a pleasure and an education. So much info.
Another Great! presentation. I have been doing this a long time but am picking up some tips that will help me move farther. Thank you!
Anything by Thomas MacEntee is wonderful!!!!
anything tm does is great. thx
As always Thomas was excellent!
As always, a fantastic speaker doing a most interesting webinar!!!
As always, a terrific webinar by Thomas MacEntee. I’m going to check now to see if the series for the 1950 Census is up at the webinar site. Thanks!
As always, great stuff from Thomas.
Being Canadian, I knew that some of the information and resources would not apply, but this was still worthwhile and gave me leads to look at.
Can’t get enough of Thomas MacEntee! Always, always, learn something new and valuable from his presentations!
Can’t wait for the 1950 census release!
Even if you think you are sick of hearing about a subject, MacEntee always has a thought, a resource or a perspective you haven’t yet run across. Love TM!
excellent
Excellent delivery – clear and well-paced
Excellent info
Excellent info, and wonderful handout!
Excellent information and resources given. Always enjoy Mr. MacEntee!
Excellent information!
Excellent information, thank you!
excellent presentation
Excellent thanks so much
Excellent!
Excellent! Thank you!
Excellent! Thomas always includes so much good info.
Excellent!! I love maps. I live in Bellingham, Washington, which was originally made up of four little towns. Since all four were situated on Bellingham Bay, the streets go every which way. There’s one street in particular that changes its name four times without a person having to actually leave the street! I’ve lived here all my life and sometimes I’ve even gotten lost because of the crazy zigzagging streets. Plus, there’s a creek that runs through the middle of town that doesn’t help any.
Excellent, worth repeating
excellent. right up my alley
Fantastic
Fantastic webinar and lots of information! My brain is a bit overloaded already this morning! Thank you!
Fascinating and very well presented
Fascinating! All new way of looking at things! Very well organized and presented as always with Thomas MacEntee
fascinating, geeky LOL and educational. great tips and ideas
Fasinating presentation. Nice job, Thomas.
Fun and educational as usual Thomas!
gave concrete sources and strategies for researching topic
good examples and great tips. Especially liked the links to steve morse and explanation about enumeration districts.
good information
Good information and nice live looks at certain databases.
Good information
Good information
great
Great
Great info
Great info. Tom, glad you put together this program. Learned a lot and thanks for all the resources in your handout. Bring on 1950! We will be ready.
Great Information
Great information about little known online resources.
great information especially for upcoming 1950 census
great presenter interesting and helpful info
Great resources and information!
Great resources!
great session.
great tips
Great tips and information – thanks Thomas!!
Great webinar on street name changes.
Great webinar. I’m looking forward to 1950 census being released. Thomas gave us info on how to be prepared to collect info now.
Great! Thanks so much.
Excellent and useful presentation.
He is always great. Please keep bringing him back. I always learn something new.
He sure Wow’d me!! He always has the best webinars and this one was way up top of his best!
I though I knew something about the subject–unti now.
I try never to miss one of Thomas’ webinars…..so much information and new directions to head with research!
I will definitely rewatch this.
I will have my husband view this webinar. He and his family is from Chicago. I would be very excited, if I were he. By 195040 my famliy had moved from rural Kentucky to DC. So much ro prepare!! So little time!
It was great. would like to watch it again
It was so helpful having the syllabus/handout for the webinar during the 24 hour marathon. The format Thomas used in the handout is excellent with topics and all the Resources listed at the end. Suggestion: Have every presenter next year have a handout similar to Thomas’s one. Then people can concentrate on the webinar instead of taking a lot of notes.
Learned about several websites I didn’t know
Lots of good info. Great job.
Lots of great clues for me for those unanswered mysteries. I did track down one house and sadly google earth showed me it was now an entrance ramp to the interstate, but it ended my search … finally.
LOTS OF VALUABLE INFORMATION. i MUST WATCH IT AGAIN
Love a Thomas webinar. Try and never miss one.
Love this guy’s presentations! Thanks!
Love Thomas!
Love your ancestry.com document tip!
Maybe more about cities in Europe too! Tnx
Never miss a webinar by Thomas…
Only US-centric information, unfortunately
Outstanding! Fantastic! The BEST!
OUTSTANDING…………such wonderful hints!
Really helpful and interesting information!! Really appreciated the sharing of the specific resources to reference.
So much great information
Something I hadn’t really thought about before.
Something I hadn’t thought about. Great presentation!
Such helpful information. Thank you so much!
Terrific information that was VERY well presented. Thomas is always great!
Thank you Thomas
Thanks
They’ve all been awesome. This was very helpful for issues I’ve had!
This was a wonderful presentation with so much great information. Thomas presents so the topic so well, his list of resources will be very helpful in finding ancestors.
This way very informative!
Thomas always does a professional presentation and easy to understand steps.
Thomas always has good topics. He is my number 1 presenter.
Thomas always has great information
Thomas always knocks it out of the park. Now I know how to better prepare for the next census release
Thomas always teaches me something!
Thomas has always got tricks to searching that we have not thought of or used before.
Thomas is a genealogical treasure!
Thomas is a joy to hear as a speaker.
Thomas is always a great presenter with interesting topics!
Thomas is always a treat, to hear, and see, his detailed and helpful information, good voice! to see- those shirts!
Thomas is always EXCELLENT!!!
Thomas is always fun and informative. I make note of addresses, but never really thought of them so deeply. Something else to ponder!
Thomas is always great. I appreciated that he didn’t move so fast
Thomas is great to listen to! He concluded each section so quickly, I couldn’t catch everything. E.g., I don’t know what he means by check population sheets. I’m grateful for free access next week! So glad he put this together–I had no idea what the 1950 Census release meant to our research.
THOMAS MACENTEE IS ALWAYS A GREAT PRESENTER!!!
Thomas MacEntee is such a good speaker, and I always learn a lot from his webinars. Thank you!
Thomas MacEntee was great, as usual. Good organization, interesting examples, usually left on screen long enough to study a bit.
Thomas MacEntee–always rates a top evaluation! Great detail, well thought-out, very helpful in thinking about Chicago, and all other large and older cities, particularly! Great!
Thomas never disappoints with his topics. Great class.
Thomas presentations are always right on target.
Thomas’ presentations are always excellent and very informative! Thank you! : )
Thomas was so knowledgeable and he provided great tips that I will use in my research!!
Thomas’ webinars are always so informative!
Thomas’s talks are always excellent. Keep them coming!
Thomas’s webinars are always worthwhile for the tips alone. I always learn something new.
timely as always
Tom always makes an excellent presentation
Very educational and fascinating!!! Thanks so much.
Very helpful.. alot brought out that I had never thought about. Thank you Thomas
Very informative!
Very informative!
Very informative, for both rural and urban address and name changes. Great suggestions for how to work through these seeming dead ends.
Very informative. Couple good ideas to follow up on.
Very informative. Focus was heavy on urban areas (NYC & Chicago) and would have liked to have seen some comparisons to large towns/villages and small cities.
Very interesting and informative
Very interesting and informative.
Well done. Lots of great info. Good speaker.
Wonderful information. I never even thought about name changes for streets etc. I loved that Thomas mentioned Chicago Cook county as I have loads of relatives from there. I appreciate the syllabus as well with all the resource URL’s. Very helpful. Thank you.
Wow! Learned a lot. I especially liked the 1950 census tips. Thanks.
Wow, this was one of the best of the best (they’ve all been superb). I truly enjoyed Thomas’ warm and friendly manner, and his presentation-style. I’ve been doing this for years, but I learned a ton of new information and links from him today. Cannot wait to re-watch the video! Thanks so much!!!