Roberts Roots & Branches

JSTOR Part 2 While searching JSTOR using key words, one result kept coming up:   book reviews for “Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries…”.   At first I ignored the results, how could a book review help in my family research.   I continued to search, gather and download articles to read at a later time. The more I searched in Staffordshire, England using keywords:   coalmining, Hanley, Potteries, etc., numerous book reviews continued to be scattered in the results.  Then, I looked closer at the title of the book:   “Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries 1840-1880” by Marguerite W. Dupree.   I was elated, the time-period included the years the Hugh(1) and Margaret(2) family lived in Hanley, Staffordshire, England—the Potteries!   Hugh and Margaret arrived in Hanley, between 1857 and 1859 and left Staffordshire when they immigrated in April of 1886. Suddenly, I began looking closer at the book reviews because they were relevant to my family history. Next,

JSTOR Part 1 JSTOR, short for Journal Storage, is a not-for-profit digital library founded in 1995.   JSTOR includes books, primary sources, letter, scholarly papers and current issues of academic journals.   JSTOR provides a full-text search for almost 2,000 academic journals.   According to their website: “JSTOR currently includes more than 2,000 academic journals, dating back to the first volume ever published, along with thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for education. We have digitized more than 50 million pages and continue to digitize approximately 3 million pages annually.” (1) JSTOR does not hold the copyright to any of their content awarded to them nor does JSTOR request exclusive rights to the content of articles.   Some of the articles are public domain, and these articles are free.   JSTOR digitized millions of pages each year while providing access to people around the world.   There are two parts to JSTOR, one part is subscription and the

Family History work is more than research.   It is layers and degrees of genealogy, because of this there is no way to ever complete your genealogy and find everyone in your family. Family history is: ·          Searching for documents, histories, headstones, signatures, or any fascinating item of interest ·          Filing documents, certificates, and other collected papers ·          Copying and sharing documents, certificates, and other collected papers ·          Transferring information to personal software and to other research tools ·          Organizing all those files, papers and photographs ·          Collecting documents, histories, headstones, signatures, heirlooms, artifacts, photographs, or any other fascinating item of interest ·          Analyzing information that has been collected ·          Sourcing:   sourcing in personal software the information that you have found ·          Comparing and hypothesizing theories and ideas you might have

"There are a thousand things that everybody sees, and nobody thinks of," marvels the author of ‘Railway Magic,’ an 1855 article in the Englishwoman s Domestic Magazine.   The writer is particularly interested in drawing attention to the sensory experience of train travel. It is not just that new parts of the country open up to the railway, or that the speed allows one to cover new territory; the actual sights of the everyday are given new meaning when seen from the window of a train. The modernity of train travel enables the traveler to see the English countryside with new eyes: the eyes of a housewife.” Source:   "A Charm in Those Fingers": Patterns, Taste, and the Englishwoman's Domestic MagazineAuthor(s): MEGAN WARDSource: Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 41, No. 3 (FALL 2008), pp. 248-269Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Research Society for VictorianPeriodicals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2