Meeting / Presentation in Moncton

Ukrainian Genealogy Group - Prince Edward Island

The Next Meeting

is Saturday, November 25th, 2006

at 1300h (1:00pm)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Family History Centre

10 Northridge Parkway (off St Peter's Road behind the KFC)

Charlottetown, PE.

Researching your Halychyn (Galician) / Bukovinian Roots

with new information from the

East European Genealogical Society / Federation of East European Family History Societies

conference this summer

as well as access in the Family History Centre

to Ancestry.com

Please pre-register so that

we can have sufficient resource materials

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Closer to Moncton?

a presentation to the

Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

at 1300h (1:00pm)

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Family History Centre

2070 Mountain Road

Moncton, New Brunswick

for futher information on the Moncton Presentation, contact

Gloria Drayson, President

506.389.3794

edrayson@nbnet.nb.ca

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Ukrainian Genealogy Group - Prince Edward Island

http://uggpei.isn.net

http://uggpei.blogspot.com/

contact:  Ted Lomatski  902 569-8611

Google News Archives

Google has put thousands of newspaper archives on-line and they are
adding more on a daily basis. They have extracted text from page
images using Optical Character Recognition technology and although it may
appear disorganised, should give you the gist of the article or
reference. In a lot of cases, you must become a member of an
information website (somebody had to do the work) although I noticed
that Time magazine was free. Members enjoy access to full size
newspaper images as they were printed and therefore in most cases
experience 100% readability.

The link is below:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

be sure you bookmark it as 2 minutes after I accessed it, Google
pulled the link. I guess their servers were being overwhelmed.

What can you find here? Well I did a quick search on 'Ukraine' and
came up with articles dating back to 1764 in the Times of London.

Genealogical Services at LAC

Here is an eMail that I received that should be of interest to our members.

Dear Members of the Ukrainian Genealogy Group - Prince Edward Island,
My name is Amy Larin. I am a graduate student working for the summer with Judy Lee, Library and Archives Canada librarian responsible for the acquisition of genealogical & multicultural publications, on an outreach project with Canadian genealogical publishers. This summer, we are contacting all Canadian genealogical societies to update our publisher database, and inform publishers about the many services we offer.

Library and Archives Canada would appreciate some additional information on your group, including information on any publications. Genealogical publications comprise an important part of our collections, and we appreciate the cooperation of authors and publishers that help us build these collections.

As you may know, Library and Archives Canada offers many beneficial, and, most importantly, free services to publishers (including researchers publishing family histories), including the Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) service and the New Books Service:

Cataloguing in Publication (CIP):
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cip/index-e.html
New Books Service:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/newbooks/index-e.html
The New Books Service allows you to include supplementary information such as table of contents, cover pages, and book reviews to help you market your titles.

Library and Archives Canada Services for Publishers
Library and Archives Canada provides a wide range of services that bring together Canadian publishers and recording companies with retailers, libraries, readers, listeners and researchers. Participation in the ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) and Legal Deposit programs assures publishers and recording companies of two valuable benefits: that their works are included in the national collection and preserved for posterity; and that information about their works is included in the national bibliography, Canadiana, and in other sources such as, New Books Service for distribution throughout Canada and around the world.

Please visit the websites listed below for more information:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/publishers/index-e.html and
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/6/27/s27-200-e.html
ISBN (International Standard Book Number):
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/isbn/index-e.html
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number):
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/issn/index-e.html
Preservation Services:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/preservation/13_e.html
One copy of every publication, in any format, is stored in LAC's preservation collection, where it is kept in a carefully controlled environment and allowed limited use only. The objective is to ensure its availability for future generations. The second copy is available for use in our library or by interlibrary loan.

Legal Deposit:
Legal Deposit is the means by which a comprehensive national collection is gathered together as a record of the nation's published heritage and development. Canadian publishers are required to send two copies of all the books, pamphlets, serial publications, microforms, spoken word sound recordings, videorecordings, electronic publications issued in physical formats (CD-ROM, CD-I, computer diskette, etc.), and one copy of musical sound recordings and multi-media kits they publish, to Library and Archives Canada. For more information on legal deposit, see:

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/6/25/index-e.html
Legal Deposit Forms: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/6/25/s25-201-e.html
Here is our mailing address for your books:
Legal Deposit Section
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N4
As you may know, two copies are required to be deposited when the print run exceeds 100 copies. However, most genealogical publishers issue titles with a very small print run, requiring only one copy for deposit. If your print run is less than 101, we would like to purchase the second copy of your genealogical title. For your convenience, you may wish to send us two copies of each of your publications with an invoice for the second copy specifying the price and print run (please note that you can include postage/handling costs and the GST, if applicable, in the invoice).

Please feel free to contact me at the coordinates at the end of the e-mail. Alternatively, you can contact Judy Lee at the following coordinates:

Judy Lee
Legal Deposit Section Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N4
E-mail: judy.lee@lac-bac.gc.ca
Tel: (819) 953-2114
Fax: (819) 953-8508
(toll free) 1-866-578-7777
Finally, if your members would like copies of our newly revised genealogical publication Tracing your Ancestors in Canada, please send us an e-mail specifying the number of copies.

Library and Archives Canada thanks you for helping us build a strong genealogical collection.
Sincerely,
Amy Larin
Canadian Monograph Acquisitions Assistant
Legal Deposit Section | Section du dépôt légal
Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
395 rue Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0N4
E-mail | Courriel: Amy.Larin@lac-bac.gc.ca
Tel: (819) 934-9384
Fax | Télécopieur : (819) 953-8508
Toll free|sans frais: 1-866-578-7777

Ancestry.com Research Tool now available

The Family History Centre at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), now has two computers with free access to Ancestry.com. This is an excellent tool to further your genealogy research and provides access to many databases that would cost you $15 per month based on an annual subscription.

The Family History Centre is located at: 10 Northridge Parkway (off St Peter's Road behind the KFC), Charlottetown, PE. Tel 902 566-1013 (you must call ahead to reserve a computer or fiche reader) Hours are Tuesdays 1900h - 2100h and Thursdays 0900h - 1600h.

The new version of Personal Ancestral File (PAF 5) from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is available by download only, at no cost. This is one of the best software packages around and the only one I am aware of that will accept cyrillic letters and print out properly. However, if you are running anything older than WIN98, you should download PAF 4, which unfortunately does not support cyrillic. I understand that WIN95 will work with the drivers, but if you are hesitant, best to stick to the previous version and put your cyrillic notes into a word processor file. Go to: http://www.familysearch.org/

Lecture on Monumental Sculptures in "Kalyna Country"

Art / Architectural Historian S. Holyck-Hunchuck will be part of a panel at the upcoming conference of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada.

The conference will be held in Charlottetown at the Confederation Centre, running from June 14 - 17.

http://www.canada-architecture.org/

The panel she will be participating in will be on June 15th, currently scheduled for 0845h (although the schedule is currently being revised).

Her topic is Heritage & Kitsch: The Monumental Sculptures of "Kalyna Country", Alberta.

The presentation looks at 4 different sculptures in Alberta, their history, why they were conceived, the cultural meaning, how thousands of years of history shaped these monuments and how they affect the soul of who we are.

Anyone interested, can come and watch the presentation. Please give me a call for any further information.

I will be sending out a reminder and the final schedule when it is available.

Ukrainian Easter

For those who have been asking:

Easter 2006

Gregorian (new) calendar: April 16

Ukrainian / Julian (old) calendar: April 23

for Ukrainian Easter Customs and information please go to:
http://ukrainian-easter.20m.com/

for a Paska or Easter Bread recipe go to:
http://www.magma.ca/~lomatski/eastreci.html

2nd Annual Ukrainian Christmas

Hi folks,

I would like to thank all of you that made the 2nd Annual Ukrainian
Christmas a success!

The food was great, the camaraderie was heartwarming and the only
thing missing was the horiwka from the snow bank, although at first I
thought we had that when I saw the water jugs on the tables!

This Sunday, a few of us are getting together to do a bit of a
postmortem or a lessons learned if you prefer the managerial twist.
This will be an ongoing process, and we will have another meeting
towards the end of February. However, I know this is a short
time-frame, but could we get some feedback from you by tomorrow?
This is what we would like to know:

1) What did you like about the way it was done this year?

2) What changes, improvements would you like to see?

3) Would you like to be on the committee for next years celebration?

Cheers,

Ted

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Ukrainian Genealogy Group - Prince Edward Island

http://uggpei.isn.net

http://uggpei.blogspot.com/

contact: Ted Lomatski 902 569-8611

NeoOffice / OpenOffice

SAVE MONEY! Do I have your attention?

I think that there are a number of you out there that do some computer work at home and have need from time to time, for a full blown suite of office products, but cannot justify the cost of Microsoft Office, or are just morally opposed to giving Bill Gates any more money!

This is where NeoOffice / Open Office come in.

NeoOffice/J is a full featured office productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality. It can be used as a free alternative to Microsoft Office:Mac. You can exchange documents with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org users, even on other platforms!

Here are a list of the Features:

http://neowiki.sixthcrusade.com/index.php/NeoOffice/J_Feature_Comparison

NeoOffice is for Mac Users and can be downloaded at:

http://www.neooffice.org/

OpenOffice for the peecee is at:

http://www.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice is also available for the various flavours of Linux and Unix.