The Computer Genealogy Society of San Diego meets on Saturday, October 18, 2008 from 9:00 am to noon. CGSSD hosts a mini-fair this month! Select from presentations on current technology and software for genealogists during 2 sessions. No user groups this month. 9:00 - Brief announcements followed by Session 1 (choose one class): • Corlee Morris - Hosting a Family DNA Project. • Gene Powell - Preparing for Safe Flying in the Clouds (Computer security for web browsing and e-mailing). 10:15 - Break, refreshments. 10:30 - Announcements followed by Session 2 (choose one class): • Everett Ireland - Preparing for a Trip to the Family History Library. • Dona Ritchie - Making Genealogy Photo Books and Scrapbooks. We meet at the Robinson Auditorium complex on the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus in La Jolla. From North Torrey Pine Road turn at Pangea Drive into UCSD. Free parking is available in the parking garage on the left; use any A, B, or S space. Signs will mark directions to our meeting room. Please refer to our website www.cgssd.org; or the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies website http://irps.ucsd.edu/about/how-to-find-us.htm for driving directions and a map. Visitors are welcomed. Attendance is free. Linda Hervig VP Administration/Publicity

This is a last minute reminder to get your registration in for the (Co-Sponsored by the Tidewater Genealogical Society). You won't want to miss this event, if you have forgotten to mail your registration form in, please do not delay. After October 17th the fee goes up $5.00 You can download the Brochure/Registration form in as a MS Word Document or a PDF file (Adobe Reader) at the following website. www.vgs.org/events.htm Saturday, 1 November 2008 David Student Union, Christopher Newport University, 1 University Place 8:45-9:15 Registration 9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks 9:30-10:30 17th Century Hampton Roads: Gateway to Virginia Donald W. Moore, CG Moore 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:00 Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to About 1820 - Paul Heinegg 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-2:30 Complexities of Virginia's Land Records Carolyn Goudie 2:30-3:00 Break 3:00-4:00 Discovering the Story of Immigration at The Mariners' Museum Library - Jeanne Eubanks Hope to see you there. Scott Wagner, TGS Publicity Chair ************** New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002)

The Florida State Genealogical Society announces its 32nd annual genealogy conference to be held on Friday and Saturday, November 14 & 15, 2008. The conference will take place at the Sheraton Orlando North in Maitland, Florida. This year¹s conference features presentations by key guest Jana Sloan Broglin, CG, a nationally recognized genealogical expert, author, and speaker, and a member of the board of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. She will be joined by seven additional speakers: Ann Bergelt, Pamela J. Cooper, Amy Larner Giroux, CG & CGL, George G. Morgan, Donna M. Moughty, Mary P. Parker, Drew Smith, MLS, and C. Ann Staley, CG. The Florida Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists will host their popular ³Road Show² and will meet with attendees one-on-one to provide guidance and research suggestions. Vendors and genealogical societies will be present in the Exhibit Hall. The Florida State Genealogical Society will hold its Gala Banquet on Friday evening to award this years certificates in the Florida Pioneer Descendants Certification Program. Early-bird registration for the two-day conference is $88.00 for members and $98.00 for non-members through October 23rd. Registration increases by $10.00 in each category after that date. Full details about the conference and a registration form are available at the society¹s website at http://www.flsgs.org/. Contact: George G. Morgan aha@ahaseminars.com (813) 205-3032

Westchester County Genealogical Society (NY) Upcoming Meeting The next meeting is this coming Saturday. TOPIC: Westchester County Genealogical Society is honored to welcome Libby McKee with her talk on Genealogy Opens Doors of Hospitality to the DAR this coming Saturday, October 11, 2008 at 10am. Libby McKee has been a member of the Quassaick Chapter (Newburgh, NY) of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) since 1985 and served as Chapter Regent for six consecutive years. Libby served as State Regent from 2004-2007 and serves now as one of twenty-one National Vice Presidents General. She recently returned from a four-day workshop to become a Genealogical Consultant with the DAR and travels around the state giving workshops to help people navigate through the DAR database to prepare their applications for membership. MEETING INFO: TOPIC: Genealogy Opens Doors of Hospitality to the DAR SPEAKER: Libby McKee WHEN: Saturday, OCTOBER 11, 2008 @ 10 a.m. WHERE: Aldersgate Methodist Church, 600 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry (across from Mercy College on route 9) For information about Westchester County Genealogical Society (Westchester Connection or Surname List), visit WCGS home page -- _http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywcgs/_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywcgs/) Hope to see you on Saturday! RESERVED THESE DATES FOR WCGS Future Meetings Nov 8, 2008 Gravely Speaking: the Who, What, When, Where & Why of Effective Cemetery Research Jo Heffernan Dec 13, 2008 Holiday Party – Special Interest Groups / Study Group Meeting Jan 10 2009 Return of the Ring Mary Hoar Feb 14, 2009 Hauntings of the Hudson River Valley Vincent T. Dacquino Mar 14, 2009 City Directories Toni McKeen Apr 11, 2009 Getting the Most Out of the US Census on Ancestry.com Gordon L. McDaniel May 9, 2009 Voyage to America Leslie Albrecht Huber June 13, 2009 NYC 1890 Police Census Debra Braverman **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc. Fall Program Fairfield County Loyalist Documents and Ghostly Encounters with Paul J. Bunnell, UE Sunday, October 26, 2008 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the New Cannan Historical Society 13 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, CT The Revolutionary War was the first Civil War in this region, pitting brother against brother, and father against son. Paul began his own genealogy not expecting it would lead him to a soldier in the company of Benedict Arnold. He has since become a leading expert in the field of Loyalist studies and is the founder and editor of the “Loyalist Quarterly”, the only U.S. Loyalist newsletter devoted to that history. This lecture is centered around the Loyalist ship, Union, and its passengers, many from Fairfield County who fled from New York City in 1783 for Saint John, Nova Scotia (New Brunswick) and their settlement at Kingston, New Brunswick. Paul will also discuss other families from the area and the type of documents you will find during research. His encounter with his Loyalist ancestors ghost in 1985 and the documents, photos and physic experiences that followed will shock you in what some research can uncover. Admission is free. However, please RSVP to Connecticut Ancestry Society with the number of attendees at (203) 778-4794 or via rlocke@ralii.com to ensure available seating. More information about Connecticut Ancestry Society can be found on our website: www.connecticutancestry.org.

The East Texas Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting on Saturday, October 11, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. at the Tyler Public Library in the Taylor Auditorium. The featured speaker will be Don Raney, a sixth generation Texan and an active genealogist for over thirty years. Don has spoken at many local, state, and national genealogical seminars and currently teaches Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Genealogy classes at Richland College in Dallas. The subject of his program will be “British Migrations to the American Colonies.” Mr. Raney will explain how researching our ancestors in Britain differs from researching their records after they arrived in America. British migrations beginning in 1607 and continuing through 1775 will be discussed - the counties or regions they came from, why they left Europe, and where they settled here. Included will be the East Anglian Puritans settlement in New England, the West Country Cavaliers settlement in the Chesapeake, the North Midland Quakers settlement in the Delaware Valley, and the British and Scottish Borderers settlements in the backwoods of America. Approximately thirty minutes following the conclusion of the regular program and refreshments, the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet and Sibyl Creasey will present a program titled “Creating Web Pages.” ETGS meetings are free and open to the public. For more information about ETGS go to our web-site: www.etgs.org or contact June Everheart, Publicity Director at 1stvp@etgs.org or (903)877-4501.

Come meet "Teddy Roosevelt" on Oct 8th at the Melbourne Public Library. The Genealogical Society of South Brevard will be sponsoring his visit at 9:30AM as presented by Ben DuBose. Mr. DuBose will share genealogical information about Teddy Roosevelt and also be dressed as this historic figure. The library is located at 540 E Fee Avenue, Melbourne, Florida. Please visit our website www.gssb.net for further information. Douglas Burnett Publicity Chairman ************** New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)

GENEALOGY WORKSHOP: GLF-MIKE would like to announce that we will be holding a Genealogy Workshop to celebrate our 4th year anniversary. This event will run from February 1 -14, 2009. Our regular scheduled chats will be cancelled during this 2 week celebration. To kick off this celebration on February 1, 2009, we will have an anniversary party. Every GLF chat member is invited to attend. This will be an open discussion whether the topic is genealogy related or not. The HOSTS will be encouraged to attend in their hats so that everyone can get to know them if chatters have not attended one of their chats. The exact time for the party has not been scheduled but it will be posted in the near future. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genealogylookup/chatroom.html The Genealogy Workshop will include genealogical topic presentations and/or discussions with our HOSTS and Guest Speakers. We encourage any chat member who may be interested in presenting a genealogical topic or holding a specific genealogical discussion, please email your interest to GLF-MIKE at genealogylookup@sbcglobal.net and he will forward it to the planning committee. If anyone knows of a great guest speaker to invite to hold a topic talk/presentation in our chat, please inform GLF-MIKE at genealogylookup@sbcglobal.net . Be sure to forward this notice to your genealogy cuzzies and friends. Our planning committee for this event will consist of GLF-DAE, GLF-JAYNE, GLF-SUSI & GLF-ZOS. GLF-MIKE will post the Genealogy Workshop schedule online ASAP. NOTE: Due to schedule availability & topic interest. GLF reserves the right to pick and choose the genealogical topic presentations and/or discussions that will be the most beneficial for our GLF chat members.

The next meeting of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan will be held next Saturday, October 11, 2008 at the Mount Clemens Public Library, 150 Cass Avenue, Mount Clemens, Michigan. The meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. Our speaker, Lori Feret, will talk about "The Bob-Lo Steamers: Matriarchs of the Detroit River". Light refreshments will be served. There will be plenty of time after the meeting for networking/socializing. Bring your charts, your "brick walls", your exciting finds, and documents needing translation. This is the time to get the help you need to further your research! French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan meetings are open to the public. For additional information, please visit our website at http://habitant.org/fchsm. If unfavorable weather conditions exist (snow or storms), call the Mount Clemens Public Library at 586-469-6200 to check if the meeting has been canceled. Peggy Youngs -- One person's mess is merely another person's filing system. -

PANCHO-VILLA-EXPEDITION mailing list. This list is for listing the U. S. solders who served in the the "Punitive Expedition of Pancho Villa 1916-1917". To subscribe from the list, including the list digest, please send an email to PANCHO-VILLA-EXPEDITION-request@rootsweb.com with the word"subscribe" in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. Sincerely, The PANCHO-VILLA-EXPEDITION List Administrator PANCHO-VILLA-EXPEDITION-admin@rootsweb.com

Lucille Gudis Memorial Fund All Day Seminar "From Here to Eternity: Jewish Cemetery Research, Preservation and Restoration Sunday, November 16, 2008 Sign in: 8:45 a.m. Lectures: 9:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m. UJA-Federation 130 East 59th Street, 7th floor Manhattan Distinguished Speakers Session 1 - The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) - Joyce Field, JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition: Session 2 - How to Catalog Jewish Cemeteries for the JOWBR - Ada Green, Chair of the JGSNY Cemetery Project: Session 3 - Do Stones Speak? - Interpreting Jewish Monuments; Visiting Jewish Cemeteries - Rabbi Abraham Laber, founder of Jewishdata.com Session 4 - Panel on Cemetery Preservation and Restoration:* Chaim Bruder, Heritage Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries Steve Lasky, Founder of the Museum of Family History Norman Weinberg, Executive Coordinator of Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project * Panel open to all JGS Members $30 for JGS members $36 for non-JGS members Registration must be received by November 10, 2008. Advanced registration required; there will be no onsite registration. A kosher buffet lunch is included in the cost of registration Visit www.jgsny.org <http://www.jgsny.org/> to access the registration form.

The schedule and topics for our 11th annual Genealogy Week at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois, have been announced. Days and Topics: · 9 March 2009-Using Ancestry.com · 10 March 2009-Using Footnote.com · 11 March 2009-Using FamilySearch.org · 12 March 2009-Using Land Records · 13 March 2009-Genealogy Problem Solving · 14 March 2009-Using Non-English Language Records Registration for each day is separate. Workshops based upon a website will be in a computer lab and attendees will have computer and website access for the duration of the workshop. Registration is limited, includes handouts, but does not include lunch. More details are on our website at http://www.rootdig.com/sandburg.html Questions can be directed to Michael Neill at mjnrootdig@gmail.com Thanks. Michael -- ------------------------------------ Michael John Neill May 2009 Group Trip to Salt Lake City http://www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html

November 8, 2008 10 AM - 12 Noon PITTSBURGH 250 - COLONIAL FAMILY TREES By Marilyn Cocchiola Holt As Pittsburgh celebrates the 250th anniversary of the city's founding in 1758, We have the opportunity to reflect on the people instrumental in its formation. This program focuses on the family history and background of those both famous and obscure figures involved in the struggle to control the Gateway to the West. Marilyn Cocchiola Holt is Department Manager of the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and President-Elect of WPGS. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Lecture Hall 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (Oakland Area) Free and Open to the Public/Reservations not required For more information - visit www.wpgs.org or 412-687-6811 Parking fee at Carnegie Library - $5.00 Next Meeting - January 10, 2008

Hello readers The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will be a computer meeting to be held on Monday 6 October 2008 at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. The doors will open at 7.15pm. The meeting will start at around 7.30pm. It will feature a demonstration by Alan Simpson and other contributors entitled "Google - how to make more use of its facilities". This will be a session looking at the various features of Google, including advanced searching, Google Earth, Google Office Applications, Google mail and the beta Chrome internet browser. Taking that basket of topics, I would suggest that all attendees are likely to learn something ! All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. Admission and car parking are totally free. For directions how to get there, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html) For a list of future meetings of Oxfordshire FHS, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html) Any queries, please contact me off-list. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Web : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/)

Wednesday, 1 October 2008 Monthly meeting of the Durham-Orange Genealogical Society of North Carolina TOPIC: "The Misha Defonseca Holocaust Fraud: Forensic Genealogy Lessons for Your Own Family" The program for this month will be The Misha Defonseca Holocaust Fraud: Forensic Genealogy Lessons for Your Own Family. This is a film of a presentation by Sharon Sergeant to the Massachusetts Genealogical Council Annual Meeting and Seminar in April 2008. The film was produced by David T. Robertson and the Framingham, Massachusetts Public Access Television station. The research methods used in exposing the Misha Defonseca Holocaust Fraud case can provide many lessons for any family history researcher in forensic genealogy techniques. To read more about Sharon Sergeant: How a touching memoir became a shocking fraud: http://tinyurl.com/4x27dn To read more about the producer: Uncovering hidden truths: Framingham man documents the exposure of a fraud: http://tinyurl.com/3p7vey D-OGS Meeting will be held on: Wednesday evening, 1 October 2008 at 7 p.m. Duke Homestead Visitor's Center 2828 Duke Homestead Road, Durham 27705 Phone: (919) 477-5498 One-half mile from I-85 and Guess Rd (Exit 175) Follow the brown historic site road signs. A Map! http://tinyurl.com/3mbuj Another Map! http://tinyurl.com/4gnkm Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ ********************************

The Hudson County Genealogical Society will begin its second season with our Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 11, 2008. The meeting will start at 11:00 am at the Secaucus Public Library. We will have election of officers, followed by Solve Your Hudson Research Problems with our Panel of Experts. We have an excellent year of speakers lined up, and look forward to seeing you there! For more information, please see our website, www.hudsoncountynjgenealogy.org. Ellen Healy Secretary Hudson County Genealogical Society

The German Genealogy Group will hold its next monthly meeting on Thursday, October 2nd at: Hicksville VFW Hall—Post 3211 320 South Broadway (Route 107) Hicksville, New York 11801 The program this month will be, “Jumping Over Hurdles in German Research” with presenter Leslie Huber. Has a hurdle on your German research path brought you to a screeching halt? Locating hometowns, accessing records, or learning to deal with language and handwriting doesn't’t have to throw you out of the race. Learn some skills that can help you leap over these common research hurdles. Ms. Leslie Albrecht Huber is a freelance writer and speaker, is involved in several genealogical societies and has worked as a professional German genealogist. Her articles have appeared in over twenty different magazines and journals. Her website, www.understandingyourancestors.com, provides information for people tracing immigrant ancestors. . An Orientation session for beginners and newcomers will be held at 7 PM and the regular meeting will start at 7:30. GGG members and guests will have access to the building beginning at 6:30 PM. Among the many benefits of membership are a newsletter published ten times a year, a database of surnames, a free translation service, a book and CD lending library, interesting guest speakers at the meetings, mentoring, a start-up kit of helpful information and much more. We welcome all who are interested in researching their Germanic origins. There is no fee for guests and all are welcome. Visit our website at http://www.GermanGenealogyGroup.com and while there, be sure and visit our free, searchable Church, Yearbook, Vital Records and Naturalization databases.

The 12th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry is being hosted in Auckland, New Zealand by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists from 16- 20th January 2009. Earlybird registrations close on 30 September. www.affhocongress2009.org There is a great line up of over 35 local and international speakers covering a vast range of topics. Book now to secure the lectures you wish to attend. There is still single and twin accommodation available. We look forward to seeing you there. If you have any questions please email contact@affhocongress2009.org

Hi listers and colleagues Oxfordshire FHS visits foreign parts on Sunday 28 September 2008, when for the first time ever, we will have a stall at the Open Day of the West Middlesex FHS. Wendy Archer will be representing Oxfordshire FHS at the event, when she will be selling our CDs and carrying a small selection of stock from our bookstall. In addition, she will have our "Search Services" available on computer, featuring an array of Oxfordshire and North Berkshire indexes to censuses, baptism registers, marriage registers, burial registers and monumental inscriptions. Those researchers wishing to plan their visit to our stall in advance can view our resources on the following webpages :- CD sales ; _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/CDsales.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/CDsales.html) bookstall ; _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/books.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/books.html) Search Services ; _http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/_ (http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/) The Open Day of the West Middlesex FHS takes place on Sunday 28 September 2008 at The White House Community Centre, 45 The Avenue, Hampton, Middlesex TW12 3RN. The doors open at 10.00am. Further details about the event itself and how to get there from :- _http://west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk/index.html_ (http://west-middlesex-fhs.org.uk/index.html) Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Web : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)

HANDS-ON GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH WORKSHOP COME RESEARCH WITH US!!! October is being observed as Family History Month. Get FREE individual help with your research problems Sunday, October 12, 2008, 2 to 5 PM Sponsored by the Tidewater Genealogical Society, At the restored Warwick Court House 14415 Old Courthouse Way Newport News, VA. Get free individual one-on-one help and free research consultations with experienced genealogical researchers about your genealogy research problems from the membership of the Tidewater Genealogical Society. Informal atmosphere!  No formal presentations! Refreshments! Come for an hour or two or stay the entire time to do your own research or to help others. New beginning researchers are especially welcome to attend. It would be extremely helpful, but not absolutely necessary, if just beginning researchers, could have at least one surname and a general location where their family lived in 1930 or earlier. If volunteers and/or computers are really busy, times will be limited to 15 minutes. For more information about TGS, see the web site at www.rootsweb.com/~vatgs ************** Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)