Interestingly, the best thing I learned from earning a graduate degree in creative writing is to keep it brief. I always aked myself these three questions that have been said many times before writing a book, article, or fiction--novel, script, play, or life story. Lecturing isn't communicating. Connecting is.
1. What's the situation, event, or experience?
2. What outcome/impact/result is it causing?
3. What's your resolution? (Solve the problem or get measurable results in clearn and easy-to-understand steps the readers can follow.)
It really works as a formula for writing book proposals as well as a query letter and also for the book or follow-up. That's the basis of a good novel or nonfiction book. The details are in the where, how, why, and when.
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Ethnoplayography
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abstract from a book abstract database at:
http://www.shvoong.com/books/play/1623015-ethno-playography-create-salable-ethnographic/.
Ethno * Playography: How To Create Salable Ethnographic Plays, Monologues, &
Skits
By: Anne Hart
Ethno * Playography
How to Create Salable Ethnographic Plays, Monologues, & Skits from Life Stories,
Social Issues, and Current Events—For all Ages with Samples for Performance,
by Anne Hart, ASJA Imprint, paperback, iUniverse, Inc., July 2007, ISBN:
978-0-595-46066-3 (0-595-46066-6).
The craft of ethnoplayography is about instructional play and dramatic and docu-drama
video writing. You also can use the method to study play around the world as
well as dramatizations or actual stage or radio plays that emphasize ethnic and
folkloric themes.
My book is about how to research, interview, write, and market full-lenth,
one-act, or monologue and skit-type ethnographic plays, ethnic science
monologues, or skits, docu-dramas, or documentaries from life story experiences,
highlights, Social issues, current events, rites-of-passage, coming-of-age, and
life’s turning points. This book is a compelling tattoo of precise instruction
on how to write ethnic or ethograpic plays based on folkoric themes or life
stories.
Thus the title, Ethno*Playography, which also encompasses all types of play
activities among all ethnicities around the globe, including their folklore and
drama as well as documentaries, docu-dramas, videos, life stories, social
history, and current issues. Play around the world geographically, write plays
or produce dramatized videos.
Emphasis is on ethnography and playwriting research, performance, and publishing
with writing instructioned interweaved with sample plays and monologues to
perform. The book also contains help for you to adapt your own story or novel
from which a play and monologues can be adapted. So you can readily adapt your
own novel to a play or theme. The book contains a play and several monologues.
Use the format of the play and monologues based on life stories and social
issues to create your own novel based on your own life story. There is a sample
copyrighted, published play written and published by the author, for performance
(or to adapt to your own novel or story changing the characters, location, and
ethnicities--or for inspiration) and three monologues as well as 24 chapters of
instructional material, such as "What Ethnographic Playwrights and
Documentarians Can Learn from Published Authors about Visibility Online."
Start your own play-based or dramatized life story, news, and social issues or
current events-based documentary and/or ancestry-television business online.
The term ethnoplayography also describes the geography and joy of play, song,
dance, music, art, writing, oral traditions, poetry, and drama around the world
encompassing ethnic customs, folklore, games, life story experiences,
reminiscence, and traditions. I coined the word in 2007 by combining the
long-known word playography with ethno describing ethnic-related.
Ethnoplayography is playwriting and dramatization. Playography is a compilation
of information, including history and databases, reviews, and other material and
resources on plays, biographies of playwrights and players, and photographs or
art work pertaining to plays. Ethnoplayology is the application of ethnic
science to playology--or the science of studying play behavior and enjoying play
as in activity. So ethnoplayography is about writing, staging, and producing as
well as researching the ethnography of plays and playwriting and related docu-drama,
including monologues, skits, and life stories that are dramatized or adapted
from novels and short stories.
Learn how to launch ethnographic or multi-cultural family history/genealogy
television shows globally on your Web site, produce videos, and publish hobby
materials or life stories as a pay-per-view or sponsored free entertainment.
Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the country, with more than 113
million participants and researchers. Create social, oral, or personal history
documentaries highlighting life stories. Here’s how to finance, write scripts,
interview, and produce a documentary.
The second chapter includes the techniques and tools for you to write, publish,
and market family or personal history publications such as books or newsletters
on a shoestring budget.
Start and operate a business supplying tools, research, training, and
entertainment for those interested in genealogy, family history/ancestry,
vintage maps, and current issues in the news—for the hobbyist, researcher, or
entrepreneur. For further resources for writers, see the author's Web site.
Yes, there are Online markets waiting for you to start your own play, skit,
monologue, or documentary script adaptation writing service for classrooms,
drama groups, learning materials publishers, or a Family History Channel online.
Choose your niche. Use maps for stage and script props. Show those historic
genealogy maps accompanied by video commentary.
Or create a virtual family history or current events theater on your Web site as
an online television station. Your family history videos can improve the quality
of life for others by showing how you made choices and overcame adversities to
finally transcend life’s issues by showing commitment to your most important
values.
Family history as drama is one of the fastest growing viewing markets around the
world just as genealogy is becoming the USA’s second most popular hobby. It’s
social history. It can be an online TV documentary. It draws global traffic.
Make money from your family history/genealogy hobby by customizing family
atlases using historic real estate, plat, and panoramic maps. Any topic related
to your roots and everyone else’s is show business.
Look at historic railroad maps, real estate maps, and maps of schools and houses
of worship. In some countries, you can trace older maps of the wealthy manor
houses and a variety of large buildings. Look for signs of property changing
hands from the one ethnic group’s nobility to another ethnic group’s peasants
just after the turn of the 20th century.
In tracing family history, it’s important that you find a vintage map like this
one showing details of cities, small towns, railroads, steamship routes, and
natural features. It’s like finding a map of the old neighborhoods, streets, and
houses.
Regardless of the city or nation your ancestors came from, the research tools
are the same—vintage railroad maps, real estate maps, and maps of routes of
orphan trains can point to clues even after stores have been built on top of
historic homesteads.
For compelling videos on roots and family trees, you might focus on matriarchal
genealogy folklore. As social history, you can compare matriarchal societies to
patriarchal ancestral nations. After all, family history is part of social
history.
Relevant Links: http://www.iuniverse.com
http://annehart.tripod.com
Anne Hart
Web sites:
http://annehart.tripod.com
Articles and instruction in creative writing, personal history techniques, and genealogy journalism resources may be used to gather information for applying the techniques of ethnoplayography writing.
How to Decide Whether to Publish Your Book Print on Demand or with a Brick and Mortar Publisher
How to
Decide Whether to Publish Your Book Print on Demand or with a Brick and Mortar
Publisher View the 35-minute Video on Google’s Web site.
I published 80+ paperback books with a print-on-demand publisher in the past six
years, 11 books with a mainstream publisher in the last 30 years, and one book
this summer with a popular mainstream publisher. And my preference for getting
each book published in four to six weeks with my own art work on the cover is to
go with a quality print-on-demand publisher. Some P.O.D. publishers have
contracts with specific writers' associations to get you a discount on
publishing.
Other P.O.D. publishers or printers let you upload your manuscript to their
browsers and publish your book for free, whereas others charge a fee. Here's how
to decide for yourself based on who is your intended or niche audience/market of
readers. There are several alternatives--mainstream publisher accepting
unsolicited manuscripts, mainstream, agent only publisher, small publisher,
entertainment/intellectual property rights attorney auctioning your manuscript
to the highest-bidding publishers and/or agents, and self-publishing or group
and community publishing. Another alternative is to package your book with a
manufacturer's products.
I prefer the better quality print-on-demand publisher. Articles and excerpts are
on my Web site at:
http://annehart.tripod.com. You can be any age. You can be a student or
teacher, or a freelance writer, or age-wise and publishing your memoirs or life
story highlights, events, and turning points.
Whatever you want to publish--fiction, poetry, plays, how-to books, if you find
an audience that needs the information to solve problems, make decisions, get
measurable results, or follow step-by-step instructions, you have a potential
book.
All you need to do is write one page a day for a year or a few months and edit
your book for errors.
Check your facts and save those written letters of permission when you need
them. Now go ahead and write your book. Publishing alternatives are easy.
Getting your book discussed by the media and promoted by word of mouth or your
Web site is your next step. Here's the first step to take in learning how to
publish a print-on-demand book.
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Topics Include: Creative Writing Instructional Materials & Resources
Writing & Producing Documentaries
Videography-Documentary Production, Family Studies, Adapting Genres, Book Cover
Illustration, Articles, & Reviews
Reality Check for Book Authors
Your goal as a book author is to expand your platform (visible expertise).
That’s one way of building additional audiences once you’ve written a book.
Begin by writing a new book proposal emphasizing what is different about your
platform (topic of expertise) and what is the fresh news angle regarding your
next marketing strategy. Your objective is to convince publishers, editors,
agents and your potential readers/viewers that the market for your next book is
significantly larger than the audience for your previous book.
A book proposal and/or plan details credible, current facts showing how you will
reach that expanded audience. Otherwise you’re headed for a downsizing
destination. This happens all too frequently with freelancers that depend on
sales statistics. Downsizing occurs when the next book you write commands
increasingly smaller advances.
Compare your present advance to your previous book’s advance. Are your advances
growing or shrinking? Publishers have to decide whether your platform expansion
and the increase in your audience are worth investing in your book because
you’re given a contract and advanced primarily based on whether your book poses
the least financial risk to your publisher.
As a writer, you are also ‘hired’ when you pose the least financial risk to your
publisher. That refers not only to your book’s potential, but whether your
commitment is reliable. Will you have the book ready on time? And will you
fulfill the details of the contract and provide the quality and quantity of
writing the publisher wants that you outlined in your proposal?
For your next book, there are alternatives. You can publish with a
print-on-demand publisher. You can publish with a smaller publisher who gives a
smaller advance or no advance at all. Or you can self-publish and hire a
distributor because book stores buy from specific books-in-print catalogues.
To make your next book proposal inviting, show with specific details outlined
exactly how you intend to increase the sale of your book and why this will work.
Publishers link the visibility of your expertise—your platform to markers
pointing to logical reasons for higher sales. Publishing is not as subjective as
often deemed. It’s all about whether you pose the least financial risk to the
publisher as to whether or not your book is ‘hired.’
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Most Popular of Author's Books
Anne Hart is the author of 80+ published books currently in print and 11 more
books out of print since the 1980s and1990s. Recent books now in print also
include family history novels and numerous DNA-driven genealogy books. She's a
member of the American Association of Journalists and Authors, and Mensa, and
holds a graduate degree in English/Creative Writing emphasis.
See her book titled, 102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family
History/Genealogy: How to Find a Job, Internship, or Create Your Own Business.
ISBN:
0595413161.
2006. ASJA Press, iUniverse, Inc. 1-800 Authors or
http://www.iuniverse.com.
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Employment Personality Assessments Book
Employment Personality Tests Decoded. (Book) Click Here.
Publisher: Career Press, 2007.
Information/Description of the book titled, Employment Personality Tests Decoded
(Paperback) by
Anne Hart
(Author) with
George Sheldon
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Employment Personality Tests Decoded (Paperback) by
Anne Hart
with
George Sheldon
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
At least 30 percent of American companies, from American Express and Bank of
America and IBM to Marriott, Procter & Gamble, Time Warner, and a host of
smaller firms, subject their employees to one or more personality tests each
year.Why do they do it? Employers want to hire and retain employees who are
qualified, confident, resilient, even-tempered, and loyal. Personality
assessments, like coaches, help them identify potential problems. The corporate
world is intense. Employers need to know how their staff will deal with the
inevitable pull of priorities between a regimented corporate life and family
responsibilities.
Under normal conditions--and under stress--how do you deal with conflicts, solve
problems, and arrive at results? Will you overlook important details? Find it
difficult to interact with your colleagues? Disrupt a team? Threaten your
supervisor?Employers care how you make sense of the world because they want you
to be reliable-as reliable as the test they're subjecting you to.
You will be hired--or retained--because the test shows you will pose the least
financial risk to your employer.Can these tests be "beaten"? The short answer is
no. But you can certainly learn more about them and, based on that knowledge,
have a better idea of the answers each test is looking for.Crack Employment
Personality Tests will show you:* Why corporations require tests.* Details of
the most popular tests.* How to prepare for each type of test and assess your
score.* What good (positive) attitudes employers want to see on personality
assessments and profiles.* How to solve problems, get results, and simplify
answers for clarity.* Your legal rights when taking corporate personality
assessments.* How to ace team-building and leadership assessments, even under
stress.
With Crack Employment Personality Tests, you'll never again have to worry that
you will fail to get the job you want--or keep the job you love-because you
couldn't pass the personality test! About the AuthorAnne Hart is a popular
California behavioral-science journalist, columnist, scriptwriter, and author of
70 books. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and
Mensa and holds a graduate degree in English/writing. She has designed dozens of
tests and assessments.George Sheldon is a journalist, photographer, author of 22
books, and a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Sheldon
writes about business, travel, and history. He is a native of, and still resides
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Product Details
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Career Press (July 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1564149463
ISBN-13: 978-1564149466
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How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online: Start Family History/Ancestry
Shows Globally
By
Anne Hart
Publisher's price: $21.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9Pages: 312ISBN:
0-595-44947-6Published: May-2007
USA orders: Call 1-800 AUTHORS International orders:Call 00-1-402-323-7800
Or Order the ASJA Press imprint at:
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-44947-6
Here’s how to start your own ancestry-television business online on a shoestring
budget. Learn how to launch family history/genealogy television shows globally
on Web sites.
Book Description
Browse Before You Buy
Here’s how to start your own ancestry-television business online on a shoestring
budget. Learn how to launch family history/genealogy television shows globally
on your Web site, produce videos, and publish hobby materials, publications,
books, multimedia, or life stories as a pay-per-view or sponsored free
entertainment. Create social history documentaries.
Customize vintage maps and family atlases. Give visibility to family history
educational entertainment businesses.
Supply genealogy tools and videos to followers of the second most popular hobby
in the country with more than 113 million people interested in genealogy and
related family history topics. Provide or market content and tools to those that
want to know more about their ancestor’s roots, migrations, and social history.
What news did the papers print in your ancestor’s lifetime? You’ll learn
practical, specific steps on how to adapt real life stories into romance novels,
skits, plays, monologues, biographies, documentaries, or newsletters.
Produce genealogy/family history television programs on Web sites or
specialty/niche television stations. Follow steps to start genealogy journalism
and personal history television, Web-based businesses. Interview individuals
tactfully with these sample questions. Record life experiences using oral
historian’s techniques.
Avoid pitfalls. Learn to write and/or collect and showcase personal history
videos. Produce your own documentaries. Showcase other people’s genealogy tools.
or to browse book excerpt, click on the publisher's site at:
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-44947-6
Cheers to the Internal Locus
It has been a wonderful career inspiring people to do the best they can with
what they have. I am now retired. Since June 1959 I have been a full-time
independent (freelance) journalist, creativity enhancement motivator, book
author, personal historian, videographer/documentarian, illustrator/book cover
artist, observer, scriptwriter, playwright, and photographer, and after 1972, a
part-time university-level educator in creative writing. My paperback books are
available. Inspiring explores creative writing, music, and art as healing tools.
Motivating involves creative listening.
Yes, there are many alternative uses of a Master of Arts degree in
English/creative writing emphasis (writing fiction, plays, and poetry) and
minors in book illustration, psychology, and anthropology. I've made full use of
nearly every course I took in college and/or graduate school. What college
courses taught me in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s have remained ageless and
non-dated, since I've survived all these years on my daily reading, writing, and
7th-grade course in touch typing. My work life consisted of listening.
I am now a Full-Time Senior Volunteer and Loving It. My books and articles are
reality checks. They reveal practical applications of details/facts, routes, and
universals that work well and also inspire, motivate, and applaud your
creativity. My purpose is not to dish out directives but to give information. My
goal is not to tell you what to do, but how to think in practical and in
universal ways with additional depth and breadth.
When you face that first blank page alone, that list of alternatives and
possibilities in your notebook may lead to new applications of familiar details.
Listen for the concrete nuances, and then expand the checkable, updatable facts
to the abstract universal with which everyone may identify.
I am white haired, based at home with little mobility, proud to be old,
optimistic, a non-driver, and am officially retired. Presently I am spending my
time with my friendly dog, a Labrador retriever, volunteering, and painting
mandalas in acrylics for my daily meditation on peace and joy. Most pleasant is
the joy of a happy, upbeat work-place life from 1959 to 2007, and I am proud and
wonderfully happy not to be working any longer.
Most memorable is the pursuit of and the autodidactic study of the psychology of
happiness. It is rewarding to give the utmost praise and thankfulness to those
who have worked side by side with me totally dedicated to enhancing the
creativity in anyone through healing music, beautiful artwork. And for the past
44 work years, and more than 80 books, encouraging, motivating, and inspiring
others to do their best with creative writing. The focus emphasized writing
about family history/family studies, genealogy, nutrition journalism, and
DNA-driven genealogy reading resources.
This is my time for play. And I'm spending my golden years being kind to people
I meet and devoting my time to sharing happy moments with others. This is best
done by helping where I'm needed through lending a hand and a smile. Thank you,
Creative Force in all the universes for allowing me the joy of being 'spent' and
at peace with the beauty and optimism in all creation, art, and music as a tool
of healing. I thank all of you that have read or will read my books and articles
or plays, scripts, and poems. Enjoy, and share the optimism in all universes as
a healing tool.
Anne Hart
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How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses:
Applying Your Communications Skills to Popular Health or Ancestry Issues in the
News
By
Anne Hart
Publisher's price: $23.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9Pages: 398ISBN:
0-595-44278-1Published: Apr-2007
102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy : How to Find a
Job, Internship, or Create Your Own Business
by
Anne Hart
Publisher's Price: $16.95 Format: Paperback
How-To Books
How to Publish in Women's Studies, Men's Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family
History Research
25 Ways to Organize Your Communications Training Business
How to Publish in Women’s Studies, Men’s Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family
History Research: 25 Ways to Organize Your Communications Training Business
By
Anne Hart
Publisher's price: $22.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9Pages: 393ISBN:
0-595-44232-3 Published: Apr-2007
International orders:Call 00-1-402-323-7800
USA: Call 1-800-AUTHORS
http://www.iuniverse.com
Here are practical writing, publishing, game design, and organizational skills,
emphasizing businesses to start, and careers in Women’s Studies or Family
History policy analysis.
Book Description
Apply these strategies:
How to Publish in Women’s Studies, Policy Analysis, & Family Issues.
How to Earn a Practical Living Applying Women’s Studies & Family Research to
Business Writing or Corporate Communications Training.
Organizing, Designing, & Publishing Life Stories, Issues in the News, Current
Events, and History Videos, Board/Computer Games, Scripts, Plays, and Books.
How do you start your own Women’s Studies policy analysis writing and
communications business? How do you earn income using practical applications of
Publishing/Producing, Women’s Studies, Current Events, or Family History Issues
Research and Writing in the corporate world? How do you train executives to
better organize writing and interpersonal communications skills? What specific
projects would you use to organize communications, publish your research, or
train others?
Use these vital platforms of social history to start 25 business and creative
writing or publishing enterprises. Apply practical communications. Organize and
improve communication and publishing projects in the corporate world or
academia.
Open 25 different types of writing, publishing, or production businesses. Train
executives and entrepreneurs in how women’s and men’s studies, family history,
and current issues in the news relate to business writing, creative concepts,
producing multimedia, and training others in interpersonal communications or
policy analysis.
Browse Before You Buy
Novels by Anne Hart
Historical Time-Travel Novel set in 150 BCE Ancient Rome
Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome: A Time-Travel Novel of Love as Growth of
Consciousness & Peace in the Home
By
Anne Hart
Publisher's price: $12.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9Pages: 162ISBN:
0-595-42977-7 Published: Feb-2007
International orders:Call 00-1-402-323-7800
USA: Call 1-800-AUTHORS
http://www.iuniverse.com
This ancient Roman family time travels to study the human condition and world
peace. They recommend finding inner peace in art galleries in order to find
peace in the home.
Book Description
It is 150 BCE. Twenty-year old Quintus Cincinnatus Aemilianus arrives at his
family estate in the Etruscan-farmed countryside an hour’s ride from Rome to
face adult responsibilities. He’s a world traveler, senator-in-training, and
learned in architecture. But he has only one mission in life: to maintain peace
in the home. He believes family harmony is a microcosm of all that exists.
He learns his father, a man with Etruscan enemies, is missing. After childhood
years spent learning Greek, Latin, and Aramaic from diverse sages in Alexandria,
seeking proper, holistic parenting is no problem. He owns the Antikythera
device, a mechanism of complicated gears physically representing the Callippic
and Saros astronomical cycles. It’s not only gears he wants to mesh. It’s the
human condition. And he looks for patterns in nature.
Quintus believes in proper holistic parenting as an adventure within a timeless
search for the perfect nurturing mother. His goal and life purpose are achieved
through practical deeds. He is an ancient builder of dreams so far ahead of his
century, that he finds time travel a gift of destiny. For Quintus, the explorer
and observer of comparative thought, the best way to study the human condition
is through art. He believes that peace in the home feeds the growth of
consciousness.
Browse Before You Buy
Browse this novel at publisher's site at:
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595429777
USA: Call 1-800-AUTHORS
http://www.iuniverse.com
Also see article and excerpt links.
USA - Call 1-800-AUTHORS or to browse book, click on the publisher's Web site:
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-44232-3
Published in paperback on April 16, 2007 by ASJA Press, an imprint of iUniverse,
Inc. (http://www.iuniverse.com).
DNA-Driven Genealogy Books
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How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses:
Applying Your Communications Skills to Popular Health or Ancestry Issues in the
News
By
Anne Hart
Publisher's price: $23.95 Format: Paperback Size: 6 x 9Pages: 398ISBN:
0-595-44278-1Published: Apr-2007
ASJA Press, 1-800-AUTHORS
International orders:Call 00-1-402-323-7800
Open your online DNA-driven genealogy reporting service business. The laboratory
you contract with does testing and sends you reports that you interpret for your
clients.
Book Description
Here's how to open your own online DNA-driven genealogy reporting/interpreting
service business. You wouldn't do the actual DNA testing. The laboratory you
contract with does the testing and sends you reports that you interpret for your
clients.
As a DNA-driven genealogist, you would prepare illustrated and text-driven
reports, colorful CDs, brochures, press kits, covers, Web sites, and guides to
interpreting the DNA-for-ancestry-based information. You would interpret tests
for deep ancestry to your clients.
What verbal skills and any other preparation would you need to empower consumers
with knowledge from reports you receive from your partnering DNA-testing
laboratory? Would you also interpret reports from genetics counselors testing
for predisposition to diseases? Or emphasize only deep ancestry?
Would you need a self-taught science background, a genealogy hobby, or only
marketing and communications experience? Who does the actual interpreting? How
would you contract with DNA laboratories to send reports and other information
related to ancestry?
You may be a genealogist, a personal historian, or a life story videographer
thinking of partnering with a DNA-testing laboratory. Your business would be to
make complex information easy to understand and interpret in plain language DNA
reports from scientists to genealogy clients and surname groups. The DNA tests
could be for ancestry and/or nutritional genomics issues.
Browse Before You Buy
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-44278-1
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101 Ways to Find Six-Figure Medical or Popular Ghostwriting Jobs & Clients : A
Step-by-Step Guide
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2.
102 Ways to Apply Career Training in Family History/Genealogy : How to Find a
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3.
1700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity : Don't Pay to Market Your Writing
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4.
32 Podcasting & Other Businesses to Open Showing People How to Cut Expenses :
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5.
35 Video Podcasting Careers and Businesses to Start : Step-by-Step Guide for
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6.
801 Action Verbs for Communicators : Position Yourself First with Action Verbs
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8.
Anne Joan Levine, Private Eye : Internal adventure through first-person mystery
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Astronauts and Their Cats : At night, the space station is cat-shadow dark
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Anne Hart
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10.
The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History : How
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by
Anne Hart
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11.
Cleopatra's Daughter : Global Intercourse
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12.
Counseling Anarchists : We All Marry Our Mirrors—Someone Who Reflects How We
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by
Anne Hart
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13.
The Courage to Be Jewish and the Wife of an Arab Sheik : What's a Jewish Girl
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by
Anne Hart
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14.
Cover Letters, Follow-Ups, Queries and Book Proposals : Samples with Templates
by
Anne Hart
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15.
Creating Family Newsletters & Time Capsules : How to Publish Multimedia
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Anne Hart
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16.
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17.
Cutting Expenses and Getting More for Less : 41+ Ways to Earn an Income from
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Cyber Snoop Nation : The Adventures Of Littanie Webster, Sixteen-Year-Old Genius
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20.
Diet Fads, Careers and Controversies in Nutrition Journalism : How to Organize
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Anne Hart
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21.
The DNA Detectives : Working Against Time
by
Anne Hart
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22.
Dramatizing 17th Century Family History of Deacon Stephen Hart & Other Early New
England Settlers : How to Write Historical Plays, Skits, Biographies, Novels,
Stories, or Monologues from Genealogy Records, Social Issues, & Current Events
for All Ages
by
Anne Hart
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23.
Find Your Personal Adam And Eve : Make DNA-Driven Genealogy Time Capsules
by
Anne Hart
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24.
Four Astronauts and a Kitten : A Mother and Daughter Astronaut Team, the Teen
Twin Sons, and Patches, the Kitten: The Intergalactic Friendship Club
by
Anne Hart
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25.
The Freelance Writer's E-Publishing Guidebook : 25+ E-Publishing Home-based
Online Writing Businesses to Start for Freelancers
by
Anne Hart
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26.
How to Interpret Family History and Ancestry DNA Test Results for Beginners :
The Geography and History of Your Relatives
by
Anne Hart
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27.
How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results For Family History & Ancestry :
Scientists Speak Out on Genealogy Joining Genetics
by
Anne Hart
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28.
How to Make Money Organizing Information
by
Anne Hart
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29.
How to Make Money Selling Facts : to Non-Traditional Markets
by
Anne Hart
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30.
How to Make Money Teaching Online With Your Camcorder and PC : 25 Practical and
Creative How-To Start-Ups To Teach Online
by
Anne Hart
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31.
How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success
Stories for Clients : Make Hand-Crafted Personalized History
by
Anne Hart
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32.
How to Refresh Your Memory by Writing Salable Memoirs with Laughing Walls : A
Pop-Culture Course in Reminiscing for Pay
by
Anne Hart
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33.
How to Safely Tailor Your Food, Medicines, & Cosmetics to Your Genes : A
Consumer's Guide to Genetic Testing Kits from Ancestry to Nourishment
by
Anne Hart
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34.
How to Start Personal Histories and Genealogy Journalism Businesses : Genealogy
Course Template, Syllabus, Writing & Marketing Guide
by
Anne Hart
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35.
How To Stop Elderly Abuse : A Prevention Guidebook
by
Anne Hart
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36.
How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books : Using
Humor or Proverbs
by
Anne Hart
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37.
How to Write Plays, Monologues, or Skits from Life Stories, Social Issues, or
Current Events : For All Ages
by
Anne Hart
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38.
How Two Yellow Labs Saved the Space Program : When Smart Dogs Shape Shift in
Space
by
Anne Hart
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39.
Infant Gender Selection & Personalized Medicine : Consumer's Guide
by
Anne Hart
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40.
Is Radical Liberalism or Extreme Conservatism a Character Disorder, Mental
Disease, or Publicity Campaign? : When The One Universal We Have In
Common—Imagination—Divides Us. A Novel of Intrigue.
by
Anne Hart
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41.
Job Coach-Life Coach-Executive Coach-Letter & Resume-Writing Service :
Step-by-Step Business Startup Manual
by
Anne Hart
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42.
The Khazars Will Rise Again! : Mystery Tales of the Khazars
by
Anne Hart
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43.
Large Print Crossword Puzzles for Memory Enhancement : Neuron-Growing
Stimulation for the Age-Wise Brain
by
Anne Hart
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44.
Make Money With Your Camcorder and PC: 25+ Businesses : Make Money With Your
Camcorder and Your Personal Computer by Linking Them.
by
Anne Hart
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45.
Middle Eastern Honor Killings in the USA : (A Thriller)
by
Anne Hart
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46.
Murder in the Women's Studies Department : A Professor Sleuth Novel of Mystery
by
Anne Hart
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47.
New Afghanistan's TV Anchorwoman : A novel of mystery set in the New Afghanistan
by
Anne Hart
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48.
Nutritional Genomics - A Consumer's Guide to How Your Genes and Ancestry Respond
to Food : Tailoring What You Eat to Your DNA
by
Anne Hart
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49.
One Day Some Schlemiel Will Marry Me, Pay the Bills, and Hug Me. : Parents &
Children Kvetch on Arab & Jewish Intermarriage
by
Anne Hart
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50.
A Perfect Mitzvah Gift Book : Time Travel with the Kagan's Kids to 10th Century
Kiev, "When Jews Of Eastern Europe Had No Hope Other Than The Grace Of The
Almighty, The Coming Of The Meshiach, Or The Arrival Of The Khazars."
by
Anne Hart
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51.
Popular Health & Medical Writing for Magazines : How to Turn Current Research &
Trends into Salable Feature Articles
by
Anne Hart
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52.
Power Dating Games : What’s Important to Know About the Person You’ll Marry
by
Anne Hart
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53.
Predictive Medicine for Rookies : Consumer Watchdogs, Reviews, & Genetics
Testing Firms Online
by
Anne Hart
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54.
A Private Eye Called Mama Africa : What’s an Egyptian Jewish Female
Psycho-Sleuth Doing Fighting Hate Crimes in California?
by
Anne Hart
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55.
Problem-Solving and Cat Tales for the Holidays :
Historical—Time-Travel—Adventure
by
Anne Hart
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56.
Roman Justice: SPQR : Too Roman To Handle
by
Anne Hart
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57.
Sacramento Latina : When the One Universal We Have In Common Divides Us
by
Anne Hart
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58.
Scrapbooking, Time Capsules, Life Story Desktop Videography & Beyond with Poser
5, CorelDRAW ® Graphics Suite 12 & Corel WordPerfect Office Suite 12
by
Anne Hart
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59.
Search Your Middle Eastern and European Genealogy : In the Former Ottoman
Empire's Records and Online
by
Anne Hart
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60.
Social Smarts Strategies That Earn Free Book Publicity : Don't Pay to Market
Your Writing
by
Anne Hart
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61.
Tools for Mystery Writers : Writing Suspense Using Hidden Personality Traits
by
Anne Hart
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62.
Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry
Online : Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Estonian, Latvian,
Polish, Lithuanian, Greek, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Hungarian, Eastern
European & Middle Eastern Genealogy (All Faiths)
by
Anne Hart
Publisher's Price: $14.95 Format: Paperback
63.
Tracing Your Jewish DNA For Family History & Ancestry : Merging a Mosaic of
Communities
by
Anne Hart
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64.
Verbal Intercourse : A Darkly Humorous Novel of Interpersonal Couples and Family
Communication
by
Anne Hart
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65.
Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records : Also:
Mediterranean, Assyrian, Iranian, Greek & Armenian
by
Anne Hart
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66.
The Writer's Bible : Digital and Print Media: Skills, Promotion, and Marketing
for Novelists, Playwrights, and Script Writers. Writing Entertainment Content
for the New and Print Media.
by
Anne Hart
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67.
Writer's Guide to Book Proposals : Templates, Query Letters, and Free Media
Publicity
by
Anne Hart
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69.
Writing 7-Minute Inspirational Life Experience Vignettes : Create and Link
1,500-Word True Stories
by
Anne Hart
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70.
Writing What People Buy : 101+ Projects That Get Results
by
Anne Hart
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71.
Writing, Financing, & Producing Documentaries : Creating Salable Reality Video
by
Anne Hart
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72.
30+ Brain-Exercising Creativity Coach Businesses to Open: How to Use Writing,
Music, Drama & Art Therapy Techniques for Healing
by
Anne Hart
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73.
Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome: A Time-Travel Novel of Love as Growth of
Consciousness & Peace in the Home
by
Anne Hart
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74.
Why We Never Give Up Our Need for a Perfect Mother: Trapped at Home by Anxiety &
Panic?
by
Anne Hart
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75.
Spirited Recipes:
Cooking with Nut & Grain Milks, Wines, Beers, Ales, & Liqueurs, for Intimate
Gatherings or Celebrations. Paperback. Buy book online at lulu.com
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76.
How to Open DNA-Driven Genealogy Reporting & Interpreting Businesses: Applying
Your Communications Skills to Popular Health or Ancestry Issues in the News
by
Anne Hart
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77.
How to Start Engaging Conversations on Women's, Men's, or Family Studies with
Wealthy Strangers:
A Thriller by
Anne Hart
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78.
How to Launch a Genealogy TV Business Online : Start Family History/Ancestry
Shows Globally
by
Anne Hart
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Publishers:
1. ASJA Press, an imprint of iUniverse, Inc. at
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or in the USA call: 1-800 AUTHORS
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Also view Anne Hart's Web site of reviews of software, books, and documentary
videos by clicking on the reviews link at
http://annehart.tripod.com.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
My home page
Web site is at http://annehart.tripod.com
Check out links and articles, excerpts and reviews.
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Any Other Science Journalists Enjoy Reading Cosmology News?
Any one
else's hobby cosmology? Anyone else who writes has a hobby of reading the views
of cosmologists such as Stephen Hawking? Interested in whether information in
the universe gets tossed or restored in the long run?
I enjoy reading about S. Hawking who realized that the Universe was, in effect,
a black hole in reverse. Instead of matter being crushed into a singularity, the
Universe began when a singularity expanded to form everything we see around us
today - from stars to planets to people.
I like reading easy-to-understand writings about Quantum theory that says any
process can be run in reverse. So starting conditions might theoretically be
inferred from the end products alone. This implies that a black hole must
somehow store information about the items that fell into it.
So it's a computer that compresses information and then restores it like a
software program that expands compressed files. Any object falling into a black
hole is not completely obliterated. Just like deleted information is still in
your computer's cache. So a black hole is a cache in this universe, but maybe
not in the other parallel universes.
Instead, the black hole is altered as it absorbs the object. Although it would
certainly be very difficult to retrieve any information about that object, the
data are still there, somewhere inside the black hole, and somebody has to
invent a software program in the future that expands the compressed information
and restores it to look just like it did when you were there.
How could that information ever escape? The answer lies in one of Hawking's
greatest discoveries: that black holes slowly evaporate into space by losing
particles from the very edge of the gravitational precipice at their rim, called
Hawking radiation.
The black hole eventually shrinks to a teensy weensy kernel, at which point a
growing torrent of radiation begins to leak out, potentially carrying the lost
information with it.
Like in your slow computer cache, information takes a long time to escape. But
reincarnate and restore it does. A black hole is a region where information
takes a long time to escape. A black hole does not narrow to a weensy
singularity.
So you can come back after all or go back in time and history and see it all, or
restore it all someday, if you're talking about information.
Hawking would say something like "The Euclidean path integral over all
topologically trivial metrics can be done by time slicing. It's unitary when
analytically continued to the Lorentzian."
But if you take the opposite view, the path integral over all topologically
non-trivial metrics is asymptotically independent of the initial state.
As a science writer freelance, I have to take words like these that say "Thus
the total path integral is unitary and information is not lost in the formation
and evaporation of black holes." and make it easy to understand by saying
something like "The way the information gets out seems to be that a true event
horizon never forms, just an apparent horizon." Then I have to define event
horizon and apparent horizon....
Then I explain what a singularity is supposed to look like. Isn't science
writing fun? Any other journalists or book authors like to read about cosmology?
I think about this night and day. It's great. I don't have to look for the
negative. And like Pollyanna, love to play the game of looking for the positive
in every event horizon. See, all your information will be restored someday out
the other end of a black hole into a whole new universe that don't necessarily
have to use black holes to compress and expand the same information over and
over and....well, that explains my belief in reincarnation and recycling of
information.
Anne
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Monday, May 7, 2007
Researching Genealogy from the Baltic to the Middle East
Baltic and
Beyond Genealogy
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Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, & Middle Eastern Ancestry
Online: Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Estonian, Latvian,
Polish, Lithuanian, Greek, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Hungarian, Eastern
European & Middle Eastern Genealogy (All Faiths)
by Anne Hart
Publisher's price: $14.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 186
ISBN: 0-595-35773-3
Published: Jun-2005
ASJA Press (1-800-Authors)
Smart card and database online genealogy for virtual travelers is the wave of
the future. Are you online and ready for global population authentication?
Here’s how to search family history for nations bordering the Baltic Sea, the
Balkans countries, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The nations
listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Assyria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria,
and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans—Croatia, Macedonia,
Bulgaria, Eastern Europe—Hungary, and more.
Book Description
Are you online and ready for global smart card and database genealogy for
virtual travelers? Here’s how to search family history for nations bordering the
Baltic Sea, the Balkans countries, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle
East.
The nations listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Armenia, Assyria, Greece,
Lebanon, Syria, and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans—Croatia,
Macedonia, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe—Hungary, and more.
Collecting details about people is moving toward smart card technology and its
offspring. The new wave in genealogy is authentication technology.
Authentication begins with new-wave technology used to gather population
registers.
Compare the new technology to the old method of door-to-door census taking,
tombstone tracings, and city directory publishing. No, genealogists are not
using smart cards this year, but smart card technology is being used to compile
population registers in Europe.
The future holds a new wave of technology used for authentication for banking
transactions being applied to other areas. Currently this technology is used for
collecting details for population registrars such as census taking.
The application for research is of interest to family historians, librarians,
and governments. It’s already in use by private industry for electronic
authentication.
Family history is now about intelligent connections, whether it’s a population
registrar, census detail, or electronic identity for banking. Smart card
genealogy began in 1998 in Finland with governments seeking to put census and
population registers in an electronic form that would be available to
researchers, and these applications are going global.
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Where and How to Search Middle Eastern Family History Records
By Anne Hart, M.A.
Old neighborhood and house maps of Lebanon and Syria can help you locate your
family records faster than trying to find recorded surnames in tax and court
records. Many Syrian and Lebanese families, particularly Christians, after 1932
took similar names such as Peter Jacobs, Adam Peter, or George Thomas. The name
‘Thomas’ in Lebanon is spelled in translation as either Touma or Toumas.
When surnames in Lebanon became a requirement in the thirties, you have very
popular names such as Peter George Khoury in America being Boutros Girgis Khouri
in Lebanon or Syria when translated into Arabic. In the Levant, daughters have a
first name and their father’s given name meaning “daughter of Yusef” or Ayah
Yusef. Translated into English at Ellis Island, it could have become Aya Joseph.
When surnames became a requirement, many included professions or place names,
especially Halaby (from Aleppo) or Antaky (from Antioch). The largest Lebanese
community in America is in Dearborn, Michigan. In Lebanon, most names were
Christian prior to 1870, and the Christian names could also be European,
especially Greek names like Petros (Peter) which later becomes Boutros in
Arabic.
Where to Search Lebanese and Syrian Family History When No Surnames Can Be
Found
When you have no surname, search the religious affiliation and the profession,
court records, and tax records. If you’re Moslem, search the military records
and recordings of migrations in and out of a district. If you’re Christian or
Jewish, search the court proceedings and the personal tax records.
After 1870, in Lebanon and Syria names in Christian families became Arabic
rather than European due to increasing pressure by the Ottoman Empire on
Christians to use Arabic instead of Greek names. After the demise of the Ottoman
Empire at the close of World War I, Hellenistic (Greek) names such as Kostaki
(Constantine) and Gustavos (Gus) became popular in Beirut.
The distinctly Christian Lebanese surnames Khoury (priest) or Kourban sprang up
again when Lebanon became a French protectorate. Neutral, Greek, and Old
Testament names also return. You see many French first names in Christian
families between 1914 and 1950.
After the 1950s, Christian and French first names dwindle, and Arabic names
appear. If your ancestors were Moslem, instead of a surname prior to 1932, you
were known as “son of” (Ibn) as in Ibn Omar, for a male, and for a married woman
with children called, “mother of” (om) as in Om Kolthum, (mother of Kolthum).
You’d be called mother of your first born son, (Om___Name of first born son) (Om
Ahmed). If you had no sons, you’d be called mother of your first born daughter (Om
Rania) (Om___Name of first born daughter). Single women often were called
“daughter of” as in Bint Ahmed (daughter of Ahmed).
Arabic women’s first names were used at home. Examples include Samara, Zobaida,
and Salwa. Children had first names.
Categorize the occupation, name of any school attended, and the religion.
Color-code cards or files noting the date, ethnic group, and town. Did the
relative come to America before or after the end of the former Ottoman Empire?
For example, Antioch, now in Turkey used to be in Syria before World War II. And
before 1918, Syria and Lebanon was one province. Compare old and new maps to see
what country or date to emphasize. Check Web sites with old maps of Syria and
Lebanon.
Check the Syrian National Archives
Maps of old neighborhoods show locations of houses. Start with the national
archives in the country of origin. For Syria that would be the Syrian National
Archives in Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, or Hama where court records are archived for
the years 1517 to 1919. If the relatives lived before the end of the Ottoman
Empire or before World War I, also search the census records of the former
Ottoman Empire in Turkey rather than the archives in the country of origin. That
country by name may not have existed before the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Records stand alone rather than being grouped or displayed in catalogs.
Where to Locate Lebanese and Syrian Family Records That Don’t List Surnames
Censuses may not show any surnames in Lebanon and Syria. What’s really in the
census? Ottoman census records in Syria and Lebanon for the period 1831-1872
were compilations of male names and addresses for fiscal (tax), migration, and
military purposes. Instead of population counts, the Ottoman records contained
the name of the head of household, male family members, ages, occupation, and
property. Search professions, wills, notaries, migrations, and property
inheritances in the court proceedings and tax records. No surname? Try the house
or street address.
You won’t find surnames in old records. Most Middle Eastern countries didn’t
require surnames until after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. If you’re searching
Middle Eastern genealogy before 1924, begin by familiarizing yourself with the
record keeping and social history of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkish language written in Arabic script is the key to searching genealogy
records in European and Middle Eastern areas formerly ruled by the Ottomans.
You’ll need an Arabic-English dictionary or instruction guide that at least
gives you the basic Arabic script alphabet.
You’ll also need the same type of phrase book with alphabet translation for
modern Turkish written using Latin letters. You can put the both together to
figure out phrases. Who teaches courses in both Turkish and Arabic? Contact
private language schools such as Language School International, Inc. at: http://www.languageschoolsguide.com/listingsp3.cfm/listing/4092.
Where to Find Assyrian Presbyterian Genealogy Records:
If you’re searching Assyrians, check out the Assyrian Nation Communities Web
site at: http://www.assyriannation.com/communities/index.php. Assyrians, a
Christian minority in N. Iraq speaking a dialect of Aramaic, often have
genealogy records saved in the Presbyterian Church’s archives in the city in
which they joined the church, either in the US or in Iraq.
According to the Public Services and Outreach division of the Presbyterian
Historical Society, while the Presbyterian Church sent missionaries to the
Middle East, materials at the Presbyterian Historical Society document their
activities there and do not contain any information about individuals from the
Middle East who immigrated to the United States.
To get an idea of the types of materials at the Presbyterian Historical Society
useful for genealogists, review the following sections of their website at:
http://www.history.pcusa.org/famhist/ or http://www.history.pcusa.org/collect/.
This second page also provides links to their on-line finding aids, http://www.history.pcusa.org/finding/index.html,
and catalog, CALVIN, http://www.history.pcusa.org/dbtw-wpd/WebOPACmenu.htm.
Search each to see what they might have for your area of interest.
Records of individual congregations are the main resource for family history
research at the society. According to the Presbyterian Historical Society,
“There are no centralized denominational registers of church memberships,
baptisms, or marriages; nor is there a comprehensive index to the thousands of
family names included in the records in our holdings.”
To start a search, it is essential to know both the location (city and state)
and the full and correct name of the congregation associated with the individual
you are researching. They do not have lists of churches by township, city, or
county, or street name cross indexes.
Research genealogy records of members of the Assyrian Presbyterian Church in the
US or in Iraq and Iran. Search Assyrian communities and social centers or
schools in various US cities for genealogy records related to the Presbyterian
Church activities related to your ancestor’s participation in any church-related
history.
If you are searching Assyrian records, and your family belonged to the
Presbyterian Church, check out the Presbyterian Church Historical Society at:
http://history.pcusa.org/finding/phs%20379.xml#scopecontent where you can find
book titles and/or records such as the Assyrian and National Church History,
volumes 1 and 2. Look up Isaac B. Moorhatch (1880- ) Papers, 1938, Finding Aid
to Record Group 379, © Presbyterian Historical Society , Philadelphia, PA 19147.
From the early 20th century, many Assyrians immigrating to the US joined the
Presbyterian Church. This is due to the missionaries in Persia and Iraq in the
early 20th century. For example, In 1910 Isaac Moorhatch established the
Assyrian Presbyterian Church of Gary, Indiana.
In 1923 he arrived in Philadelphia, where the Assyrian colony asked him to serve
as their pastor. After ordination, he took charge of the Persian/Assyrian
Presbyterian Mission. He served this mission until retirement in 1950.
Isaac Moorhatch was born in Urumia, Persia, the son of Presbyterian
missionaries. He grew up in Iran and attended the Presbyterian college in Urumia.
In 1897 he began working as an evangelical and educational missionary for the
Board of Foreign Missions (PCUSA).
In 1909, Moorhatch arrived in the United States with the intention of entering a
Presbyterian seminary and returning to work among the Persian Moslems after
graduation. In the end he enrolled in the Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas
City, KS in 1912. For your own records, search the Presbyterian colleges in
various Middle Eastern countries when they were under the Ottoman Empire.
According to the Web site of the Presbyterian Church History records at: http://history.pcusa.org/finding/phs%20379.xml#scopecontent,
“In 1910 Moorhatch established the Assyrian Presbyterian Church of Gary, IN. In
1923 he arrived in Philadelphia, where the Assyrian colony asked him to serve as
their pastor. After ordination, he took charge of the Persian/Assyrian
Presbyterian Mission. He served this mission until retirement in 1950.”
Make a ‘map’ of any or all of the Assyrian communities in the US at the time
your relative was participating in those communities. Or were any of your
relatives a missionary to Assyrians, Lebanese, or Syrians in a country then
under the former Ottoman Empire or during the years after when countries were
being re-named?
If you research the collection of Presbyterian Church History records, you can
read Moorhatch's two-volume manuscript work titled: Assyrian and National Church
History: History of Iran: Rise of Islam. The work is written in Aramaic. Each
volume includes a table of contents. So if you come from an Assyrian family or
any other ethnic group that is able to read Aramaic, such as many Jews and a few
groups in Syria, you can read or even translate the Aramaic to English.
If you’re searching the collection of Presbyterian Church history, records less
than 50 years old are restricted. Contact the archivist. The collection was
processed in 1993. Your reference point would be: Finding Aid to Record Group
379, Box 1 Folder 1. Assyrian and National Church History, volumes 1 and 2.
Folder 2-3.
Categorizing Family Records by Religion and Profession
Color-code cards or files noting the date, religion, ethnic group, profession,
and town. When did the immigrant arrive in the US from a Middle Eastern country?
Was it before or after the end of the former Ottoman Empire? For example,
Antioch, now in Turkey used to be in Syria before World War II. And before 1918,
Syria and Lebanon was one province under the Ottoman Empire. So use old and new
maps to see what country to emphasize at which dates.
Check the Court Records at the Syrian National Archives
Maps of old neighborhoods show locations of houses. Start with the national
archives in the country of origin. For Syria that would be the Syrian National
Archives in Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, or Hama where court records are archived for
the years 1517 to 1919. Check tax and court proceedings, notaries, and
registrations of property as well as migrations in and out of the country.
If your relatives lived before the end of the Ottoman Empire or before World War
One, also search the census records of the former Ottoman Empire in Turkey
rather than only in the archives in the country of origin. Syria and Lebanon
were formerly one country before the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Records are archived alone rather than in groups of catalogs. Look at school
records, even old dental records still on file. Check separate Jewish genealogy
sources and synagogue documents for the Jewish records in Syria and Lebanon,
such as marriage ketubim, bar mitzvah records, births, deaths, rabbinical
documents in Aleppo and Damascus or Beirut. Look for records of marriages, or a
‘Get’ for a divorce, or a pedigree called a Yiccus. There are records from 19th
century Jewish and French schools such as the Alliance Israelite, that many
Jewish children from Syria or Lebanon attended.
If you’re checking Sephardic (Jewish) records of the former Ottoman Empire,
there’s an excellent article on Jewish genealogy published in Los Muestros
magazine, a publication of Sephardic and Middle Eastern Jewish genealogy titled
Resources for Sephardic Genealogy at: http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/010/cardoza.html.
Also see the magazine, Los Muestros at: http://www.sefarad.org/publication/lm/010/som10.html
for archived Sephardic genealogy articles.
Another excellent publication of Jewish genealogy, Avotaynu maintains a Web site
at: http://www.avotaynu.com/. If you’re looking for Jewish records in the Middle
East, such as in Lebanon and Syria or Egypt, also check the Sephardic
associations, for example, Sephardim.com at http://www.sephardim.com/. Look for
memorabilia, diaries, house keys, and maps of neighborhoods.
For Sephardic genealogy in the former Ottoman Empire, contact the Foundation for
the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture Web site at: http://www.sephardicstudies.org/cal2.html
to learn how to interpret calendars and how to read birth certificates. You’ll
learn how to decipher the handwritten entries using Arabic script. Regardless of
the religion of the individual, this site shows you how to read the certificates
written with certain types of scripts.
The site also shows the dialects spoken in the various areas of the Ottoman
Empire. Also there is information on how to read the Arabic script but Turkish
language writing on gravestones, especially in Turkish cemeteries. The site
shows you how to read the alphabet encountered in genealogical research in the
former Ottoman Empire. Emphasis is on interpreting Sephardic birth certificates.
Translating the Records
Ottoman census records for the period 1831-1872 were compilations of male names
and addresses for fiscal and military purposes. Instead of population counts,
the Ottoman records contain the name of the head of household, male family
members, ages, occupation, and property. If you’re searching Middle Eastern or
Lebanese/Syrian genealogy before 1924, begin by familiarizing yourself with the
record keeping of the Ottoman Empire.
Turkish language written in Arabic script is the key to searching genealogy
records in areas formerly ruled by the Ottomans. You’ll need an Arabic-English
dictionary or instruction guide that at least gives you the basic Arabic script
alphabet.
You’ll also need the same type of phrase book with alphabet translation for
modern Turkish written using Latin letters. You can put the both together to
figure out phrases.
Find in your town a teacher who reads Arabic script and modern Turkish. Hire the
student or teacher to copy the records you want when overseas. Barter services.
Or contact the Middle East history and area studies, archaeology, or languages
departments of numerous colleges.
Who teaches courses in both Turkish and Arabic? Contact private language schools
such as Language School International, Inc. at: http://www.languageschoolsguide.com/listingsp3.cfm/listing/4092.
See my book titled, Tracing Your Baltic, Scandinavian, Eastern European, &
Middle Eastern Ancestry Online ISBN: 0-595-35773-3 or Search Your Middle Eastern
& European Genealogy--In the Former Ottoman Empire’s Records, ISBN:
0-595-31811-8, paperback at: http://www.iuniverse.com. The instructional video
is uploaded to Google at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8001693217353518015&hl=en.
My Web site is http://annehart.tripod.com.
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