All The next meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 26 November 2007 at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15 pm for coffee, help with both genealogy and computers, and the bookstall, exchange journals and the library. The subject of the talk is "Archivist and Family Historians : the best of friends ?". This will be presented by Heather Forbes. I'm told by Heather that after a brief introduction on what Gloucestershire Archives has to offer Oxfordshire family historians, she will explore the theme of how archivists and family history societies can collaborate to provide an improved service for family historians. Heather will be using examples from Hampshire, Kent and Gloucestershire. She is also keen to explore any ideas the audience may have on this subject and to hear good examples of such collaboration from Oxfordshire. Our speaker Heather Forbes has been County and Diocesan Archivist of Gloucestershire since summer 2005. She previously worked for Canterbury Cathedral and Kent Archives Service, Hampshire Record Office and London Metropolitan Archives. All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. For directions as to how to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :- _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html) For a list of future OFHS meetings, 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/)
The Angelina County Genealogical Society will meet for its regular monthly meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, November 19, 2007, in the Community Meeting Room of Kurth Memorial Library, 706 South Raguet Street, Lufkin, Texas. The program will be presented by ACGS Newsletter Editor Ellen Pyle of Apple Springs on Family Postcards from the 1930's and 1940's. Society officers for 2008 will be elected during the business meeting. The proposed slate of officers are President, Bob Ham; Vice-President, Cindy McMullen; Secretary, Anita Crona; and Treasurer, June Moffett. Nominations will be accepted from the floor. An executive board meeting will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the small glassed-in meeting room off the Ora McMullen Genealogy Room prior to the regular society meeting at 5 p.m. All officers and standing committee chairmen are urged to attend. Ellen Pyle has e-mailed the Fall issue of the society newsletter to those members with working e-mails. Paper copies of the newsletter will be available at the meeting. Ellen can be contacted directly through the Ben Pyle E-mail address on the ACGS Web Page. Society contact information is on the society's web page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txacgs including a list of society publications. The ACGS web page now has a direct e-mail address to the Ora McMullen Room at Kurth Memorial Library for brief research questions. Contact the society by mail at P. O. Box 150631, Lufkin, Texas 75915-0631. Leave a message in the Ora McMullen Genealogy Room at Kurth Memorial Library at 1-936-630-0563. The December meeting of the society will be at 6 p.m. Monday, December 17, at Lufkin Bar-B-Que on the corner of Chestnut and Timberland. The meal will be "Dutch Treat" ordered from the regular menu. Any arrangements for special diet items should be made in advance directly with the restaurant. Special society guests will be the new Kurth Memorial Librarian Susan Randleman and her spouse. A program topic has not been announced. Some late breaking, very sad and disturbing news was received as Ellen was e-mailing the newsletter. The Nacogdoches Genealogy Society is disbanding. Please come to the ACGS meetings and support our society so that this does not happen to us. Vivian Cates, 2007 President Angelina County Genealogical Society
TO: Angelina County, Texas, Researchers You are invited to check out the new link for Angelina County research on the Angelina County Genealogical Society web page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txacgs. At the top of the home page is a new e-mail address that goes directly to the Ora McMullen Genealogy Room in the Kurth Memorial Library in Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas. With a name and a date, $2.00 and a SASE obituaries from the Lufkin Daily News can be obtained if one was published. The microfilmed newspapers are not indexed and the earlier newspapers did not have an obituary page/section as such. A specific date is required. To submit queries, short family genealogies,historical sketches, records abstracts for the ACGS spring 2008 ACGS newsletter click on the Ben Pyle e-mail address. The next meeting of the Angelina Genealogical Society with be 5 p.m. Monday, November 19th, at Kurth Memorial Library in Lufkin. The program will be presented by ACGS newsletter editor Ellen Pyle on Family Postcards from the 1930's and 1940's. The December meeting will be at 6 p.m., Monday, December 17th, at Lufkin-B-Que in their separate meeting room, order off the menu, Dutch Treat. Vivian Cates, Alto, Texas, 2007 President Angelina County Genealogical Society
Dear Genealogist, On Tuesday, November 20, 2007, the Mount Vernon Genealogical Society (MVGS) will meet in room 112 of the Hollin Hall Senior Center in Alexandria, Virginia. The meeting will start at 1:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The meeting will feature a presentation entitled "Buried Births: Finding Birth Information in Federal Records." The program will be presented by Susannah Brooks. Susannah E. Brooks is vice president/membership chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society (MAGS) and a volunteer genealogy staff aide at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC. As a researcher she specializes in German, 19th and 20th century general US research, and using bank records in genealogical research. She has lectured on topics related to German and German-American genealogical research, using bank records for genealogical research, and basic genealogical research skills. She has written articles that have appeared in Der Kurier (newsletter of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society) and Roots-Key (newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles). Determining the place of birth is often the key to finding additional information about our ancestor, but most federal records give only the state or foreign country in which a person was born. This presentation, through the use of many examples, will show how one may be able to find the exact place of birth in federal records. Emphasis will be on looking at all the details in each record to find the information or clues we need as researchers. The Hollin Hall Senior Center is located 4 miles south of Alexandria just off Fort Hunt Road at 1500 Shenandoah Road in Alexandria, Virginia. MVGS is a nonprofit organization and has over 260 members residing in Alexandria, Fort Belvoir, the counties of Fairfax, Prince William, Montgomery, and Prince Georges, as well as several states. Additional information about the meeting and MVGS can be found at http://www.MVGenealogy.org/. Any questions about the program should be directed to Harold McClendon at 703-360-0920.
Phone-in registration for our 10th annual Genealogy Computing Week at Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois has begun. Our offerings include: Overview of Free Genealogy Online—Monday 3 March 2008 Using Footnote.com—Tuesday 4 March 2008 RootsMagic---Wednesday 5 March 2008 Family Tree Maker 2008—two days---5 and 6 March 2008 Using Ancestry.com---Saturday 8 March 2008 More information can be found at http://www.rootdig.com/sandburg.html. To register by phone, call 1-877-236-1862 (ext. 5260). Nancy in the college's office will be happy to process your registration. If she does not pick up, leave name, number and best time to call (during 9-5). We'd love to have you join us. -- ------------------------------------ Michael John Neill May 2008 Group Trip to Salt Lake City http://www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html
The Angelina County Genealogical Society will meet for its regular monthly meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, November 19, 2007, in the Community Meeting Room of Kurth Memorial Library, 706 South Raguet Street, Lufkin, Texas. The program will be presented by ACGS Newsletter Editor Ellen Pyle of Apple Springs on Family Postcards from the 1930's and 1940's. Society officers for 2008 will be elected during the business meeting. The proposed slate of officers are President, Bob Ham; Vice-President, Cindy McMullen; Secretary, Anita Crona; and Treasurer, June Moffett. Nominations will be accepted from the floor. An executive board meeting will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the small glassed-in meeting room off the Ora McMullen Genealogy Room prior to the regular society meeting at 5 p.m. All officers and standing committee chairmen are urged to attend. Ellen Pyle has e-mailed the Fall issue of the society newsletter to those members with working e-mails. Paper copies of the newsletter will be available at the meeting. Ellen can be contacted directly through the Ben Pyle E-mail address on the ACGS Web Page. Society contact information is on the society's web page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txacgs including a list of society publications. The ACGS web page now has a direct e-mail address to the Ora McMullen Room at Kurth Memorial Library for brief research questions. Contact the society by mail at P. O. Box 150631, Lufkin, Texas 75915-0631. Leave a message in the Ora McMullen Genealogy Room at Kurth Memorial Library at 1-936-630-0563. The December meeting of the society will be at 6 p.m. Monday, December 17, at Lufkin Bar-B-Que on the corner of Chestnut and Timberland. The meal will be "Dutch Treat" ordered from the regular menu. Any arrangements for special diet items should be made in advance directly with the restaurant. Special society guests will be the new Kurth Memorial Librarian Susan Randleman and her spouse. A program topic has not been announced. Some late breaking, very sad and disturbing news was received as Ellen was e-mailing the newsletter. The Nacogdoches Genealogy Society is disbanding. Please come to the ACGS meetings and support our society so that this does not happen to us. Vivian Cates, 2007 President Angelina County Genealogical Society
Join us Tuesday November 20, 2007 8PM for a Teleconference Introduction to the NEW ENGLAND HISTORY FESTIVAL John Horrigan will provide an excerpt from NEW ENGLAND’S DARK DAY, as well as an overview of the program and participating societies. Register for the teleconference http://ancestralmanor.com/?tabid=159 Register for the on site event - WHAT: NEW ENGLAND HISTORY FESTIVAL WHEN: Saturday, November 24th, 2007 TIME: 6:00 PM – 10:00PM WHERE: Hibernian Hall, 151 Watertown Street, Watertown, MA 02472 WEB SITE:http://www.historyfestival.org/main.html Contact: John Horrigan 781-799-3781 johnhorrigan@hotmail.com TOPICS: LOST AT SEA BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD NAVAL BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION NEW ENGLAND’S DARK DAY THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND RADIO The Salem Witch Trials Featuring: Michael Tougias, Stephen Puleo, Donna Halper, Mike Ryan, Bill Rose, John Horrigan, Marilynne Roach Special Guests include: University of Massachusetts Boston, Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History, Waltham Historical Society, Historical Society of Watertown, Community Heritage Maps, Salem History Society, National Archives and Records Administration ***ALL HISTORICAL SOCIETIES WELCOME! Contact John Horrigan at 781-799-3781 for free table space to promote your organization***.
Smolenyak to Speak at Texas Hill Country Seminar Jan 26 Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak will be the speaker at the Fourth Annual Hill Country Family History Seminar at Boerne Texas, Saturday, January 26, 2008. Her topics include two lectures on DNA, and one each on Reverse Genealogy and Online Newspaper research for obituaries. She will also speak at a pre-seminar dinner on Friday evening. The seminar is sponsored by the Genealogical Society of Kendall County. For more information or a registration form, visit the GSKC website at www.rootsweb.com/txgskc/ or email Mary Alice Dell at rvgenie@gmail.com.
WHAT: NEW ENGLAND HISTORY FESTIVAL WHEN: Saturday, November 24th, 2007 TIME: 6:00 PM – 10: 00PM WHERE: Hibernian Hall, 151 Watertown Street, Watertown, MA 02472 WEB SITE:http://www.historyfestival.org/main.html Contact: John Horrigan 781-799-3781 johnhorrigan@hotmail.com ***ALL HISTORICAL SOCIETIES WELCOME! Contact John Horrigan at 781-799-3781 for free table space to promote your organization***. Print out a flyer here: http://www.historyfestival.org/histposter2.jpg TOPICS: LOST AT SEA BOSTON MOLASSES FLOOD NAVAL BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION NEW ENGLAND’S DARK DAY THE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND RADIO The Salem Witch Trials Featuring: Michael Tougias, Stephen Puleo, Donna Halper, Mike Ryan, Bill Rose, John Horrigan, Marilynne Roach Special Guests include: University of Massachusetts, Boston, Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History, Waltham Historical Society, Historical Society of Watertown, Community Heritage Maps, Salem History Society, National Archives and Records Administration ***ALL HISTORICAL SOCIETIES WELCOME! Contact John Horrigan at 781-799-3781 for free table space to promote your organization***.
Dear Genealogist: What are your plans for Wednesday, November 28, 2007? Why not go to the National Archives in Washington. DC at 10:15 a.m.in the Madison Room (Enter on Constitution Avenue) for a program on the Revolutionary War Records in the National Archives? Marie Melchiori, CG, CGL, will look at the more commonly used service and pension records, and the lesser used special manuscript collection and Papers of the Continental Congress. Reservations are required, and a fee of $20 is payable by cash or check at the door. Call 202-357-5288. Harold McClendon Mount Vernon Genealogical Society Publicity Chairman
Attention: Quarterly/Newsletter Editor Please announce this information at your meetings and include in your upcoming quarterly/newsletter. The 34th Annual Quad-Cities Genealogical Conference will be held on Saturday, 26 April 2008 at the Viking Club of Moline, 1450 - 41st Street, Moline, IL. Speaker will be Colleen Fitzpatrick. Topics will include: 1. Overview to Forensic Genealogy (or CSI Meets Roots) 2. You Will Never Look at Your Old Photos the Same Way Again 3. The Database Detective 4. Genealogical Revelations Through DNA Colleen Fitzpatrick is the author of two of the best-selling books in genealogy. Forensic Genealogy has been widely recognized for its innovative forensic science approach to genealogical research. She has been featured on NPR's Talk of the Nation radio program (July 2005), and has written cover articles for Internet Genealogy (June 2006), Family Tree Magazine (April 2006) and Family Chronicle (October 2005). Colleen writes a regular column for Ancestry magazine. Linda Polich, Co-Chairperson Quad-Cities Genealogical Conference
Westchester County Genealogical Society (NY) Upcoming Meeting TOPIC: The upcoming meeting of the 25th year of the Westchester County Genealogical Society will be “Crossing the Ocean with the Internet” a talk by Leslie Huber on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 10am. With more sources coming online all the time, tracing your ancestors across the ocean to their European hometowns has never been easier. During her talk, Leslie will help you to become familiarize with some important websites for making the cross-continent connection. MEETING INFO: TOPIC: CROSSING THE OCEAN WITH THE INTERNET SPEAKER: LESLIE HUBER WHEN: Saturday, NOVEMBER 10, 2007 @ 10 a.m. WHERE: Aldersgate Methodist Church, 600 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry (across from Mercy College on route 9) Guests are always welcome. 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/) RESERVED THESE DATES FOR WCGS Future Meetings Dec 8, 2007 Holiday Party – Special Interest Groups / Study Group Meeting Jan 12, 2008 Women of the House (Co-sponsored by Friends of Philipse Manor Hall) *** Meeting to take place at Philipse Manor Hall, 29 Warburton Ave, Yonkers Jean Zimmerman Feb 9, 2008 Identifying Photos from Costumes *** Meeting to take place at Yorktown Community& Cultural Center, 1974 Commerce Street, Yorktown Heights, 914-962-2970 Laura Lee Keating Mar 8, 2008 The Trail Our Ancestors Followed in Becoming Citizens Joseph Lieby Apr 12, 2008 Every Age Has a Story to Tell Peter Savigny from Heirloom Biography May 10, 2008 The Story of Sybil Ludington - American Revolutionary War Hero – the Female Paul Revere Vincent D'Aquino June 14, 2008 An Object of Great Importance: The Hudson River During the American War for Independence Christopher DiPasquale ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
The Genealogical Society of New Jersey will be providing a lecture on 10 November 2007 on restricted records in New Jersey archives. The speaker will be Joseph R. Klett, Deputy Director of the NJ State Archives. The lecture is titled "Whose secret is it anyway? An Archivists' Perspective." The lecture will be preceded by the GSNJ annual meeting, which is very short. The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Pane Room, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. There is no charge for the lecture and all are welcome. Please see our website for more details, as something in our press release is getting captured and detoured by Rootsweb's filters. www.gsnj.org then click on the link on the front page or on the Events page. Thanks and hope to see you there! Regards, Joan Joan M. Lowry mailto:jmlowry@earthlink.net
Program for November 12, 2007 St. Charles County Genealogical Society at Zion Lutheran Church, 3866 Harvester Rd. Nik Henle and Bill Glankler, archivists from the State of Missouri will present a program describing the COURT RECORDS (1805 - 1835) that were RECENTLY FOUND in the basement of the historic County Court House in St. Charles, Missouri. The records have been through a process of conservation, cataloging, indexing and copying in order to make the contents of the fragile documents available to researchers. Directions: From I 70, I 364--head south on Hwy 94-turn left at Harvester Rd. Follow Harvester Rd to the right. (Caulks Hill Rd branches off to left.) Church will be on left. From I 64/US 40--head north on Hwy 94--turn right at Jungermann Rd. Take Jungermann to Harvester Rd and turn left. Follow Harvester Rd. Church will be on right. PHONE: 636-946-1961 The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything...
Please feel free to forward this to others who may be interested. We are not going to accept registrations until the conference as that seems the most fair way to allow all TSGS Conference attendees a chance to sign up. But interested persons can use the links to print the forms and come prepared for a consultation. http://lonestarapg.com/roadshow_forms.htm Don't Miss the Genealogy Roadshow Presented by Lone Star Chapter, Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) at the Texas State GS Annual Conference 9-10 November 2007 in Tyler, Texas The Lone Star Chapter of APG is conducting a Genealogy Roadshow at the Texas State Genealogical Society (TSGS) Annual Conference on November 9th and 10th. We are offering free 15-minute consultations during breaks to provide ideas to solve one genealogical problem for conference attendees. To participate in the Genealogy Roadshow please print this linked registration form <http://lonestarapg.com/roadshow_form.pdf>, complete it, and bring it to the conference along with any pertinent documentation. At the conference visit the Lone Star Chapter APG booth to be assigned a consultation time slot. At the time assigned an experienced genealogist will discuss your problem and offer research suggestions that may help further your research. Due to the time limitations it is necessary to focus on a very specific research question. For example: * There were four men with the same name in the same place at the same time. How can I determine which was my ancestor? * I need help determining my great-grandmother's maiden name. The documents I already have are [provide a brief list of sources here with details provided on the document]. * My ancestor served in the Civil War. I have his pension file. What other records might be available to add to his story in this time-frame? * I can trace this family in every census but one. What techniques might I use to find them? Questions are not limited to these topics. These are just examples to show how you might focus on a very specific question. Lone Star Chapter APG members will be available to assist as needed in focusing your question.
The German Genealogy Group will hold its next monthly meeting on Thursday, November 1st at: Hicksville VFW HallPost 3211 320 South Broadway (Route 107) Hicksville, New York 11801 The program this month is Prove it! Evidence Analysis for Genealogists with presenter Laura Murphy DeGrazia, a board-certified professional genealogist who specializes in New York City area research and the Irish in New York. She is published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record, and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. This presentation will illustrate how genealogists can pull clues from the records, evaluate those clues as reliable pieces of evidence, and combine evidence from various sources to turn those clues into proof. 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 GGG 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. For additional information call: Ruth at 718 460-4240 or Don at 631 265-0621
We recently announced our annual May 2008 trip to Salt Lake City's Family History Library. Now there is even more incentive to start planning early. Those registrants who register by 16 November 2007 will be entered in a drawing to receive their hotel accomodations free (room only). To be eligible, registration must be received by 16 November. More information about our trip can be found on our website. Questions about the contest can be sent to me privately. Thanks! And good luck. -- ------------------------------------ Michael John Neill May 2008 Group Trip to Salt Lake City http://www.rootdig.com/slctrip.html
The November meeting of the Sun Country TMG Users' Group will be Saturday, November 10 from 10 a.m. until noon at the West Walley Genealogical Society Library, 12222 North 111th Ave., Youngtown AZ. We will continue our discussion on TMG exhibits. Visitors are welcome! Barbara Shroyer Secretary
Hi listers and colleagues Oxfordshire FHS visits "foreign parts" next Saturday 3 November 2007, when the annual Open Day of the West Surrey FHS takes place at Woking Leisure Centre. Traditionally, this is one of the larger society Open Days that we attend, with a substantial number of stalls in attendance. I'm delighted to report that the Oxfordshire FHS stall will be selling our CDs, microfiche and some items from our bookstall. In addition, we 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) microfiche sales ; _http://www.ofhs.org.uk/mfiche.html_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/mfiche.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 Surrey FHS takes place on Saturday 3 November 2007 at Woking Leisure Centre. The doors open at 10.00am. Further details about the event itself, its location and other stallholders can be obtained from :- _http://www.wsfhs.org/Openday.htm_ (http://www.wsfhs.org/Openday.htm) That URL even links to a plan of the hall, so why not organise your day now ? Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Minutes Secretary and Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Web : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)
Listers I am pleased to report that Oxfordshire FHS will be taking part in the Henley History Day, which is to be held at Henley Library on Wednesday 31 October 2007. For further details of the event itself, please see :- _http://tinyurl.com/2bzkrr_ (http://tinyurl.com/2bzkrr) We will have our "Search Services" at the event, this being a database of census, parish register and monumental inscription indexes and transcriptions. Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer and Minutes Secretary Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/)