ORANGE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL DINNER and ALL-DAY SEMINAR Dinner, Friday, 2 May 2003//All-Day Seminar, Saturday, 3 May 2003 Goshen United Methodist Church Main Street, Goshen, NY (NEXT DOOR TO 1841 HISTORIC COURTHOUSE at 101 MAIN ST.) Annual Dinner: 6:30 pm. Roast Beef Dinner w/Potatoes, vegetables, rolls and butter, homemade desserts, and coffee or tea. Cost $12.00 per person Use advanced reservation form attached. Following Dinner: MASTODONS, MAMMOTHS IN THE ICE AGE OF ORANGE COUNTY by Dwight Warren. Dwight has been a resident of Orange County all his life with Ted Sly as his history teacher in high school. He is Vice-President of the Orange County Chapter of the NYS Archaeology Association. Presently employed by three archaeological firms and is earning a degree is anthropology and geology. Seminar Registration: 8:30 am with refreshments Business Meeting: 8:45 am (Election of Officers) First Session: 9:30 am "USING VITAL RECORDS AND RELATED SOURCES TO TRACE 20TH_CENTURY IMMIGRANT ORIGINS" by Leslie Corn. This talk focuses on using not only marriage and death records, but also biographies and who's whos, newspapers, membership organization records, school publications, military records, and other sources to find ancestral towns. Case studies are featured. Break Second Session: 11:00 am "BITING THE BIG APPLE: A TASTE OF NEW YORK CITY RESEARCH" by Roger D. Joslyn. This presentation is intended as a "meat and potatoes" discussion of what New York City-area records there are, where they are, what is indexed, and what is published. The "gravy" includes little-known sources, indexes, and finding aids, how to use the records, and some case history examples. Emphasis is mostly on 19th_century records of the five New York City boroughs. Lunch Break: Noon to 1:00 pm. Sandwiches with salad, beverage, and dessert $5.00. Use advanced reservation form attached. Third Session: 1:00 pm "FINDING YOUR ANCESTORS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK" by Roger D. Joslyn. This presentation will focus on New York State genealogical source records, their location, content, and use, with particular emphasis on the nineteenth century. Research examples will be discussed and special attention given to the uniqueness of certain records, such as probate petitions, state censuses, and Civil War lists, all with the intention of quieting the myth that New York is a genealogical graveyard. Break Fourth Session: 2:30 pm "A 19TH_CENTURY CASE STUDY FROM CYBERSPACE: STATEGIES FOR FINDING AND USING RELIABLE HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL DATA ON THE INTERNET" by Leslie Corn. This presentation, using only Internet resources, demonstrates in-depth research done online for one intriguing 19th-century man whose life wasn't revealed in the expected places, such as in an obituary, probate, or biographical sources. Instead, his life unfolded online in full-text and other sources. Having disappeared into the mists of history, he was discovered quite unexpectedly to have played a prominent part in mid-19th-century history. This presentation is driven by visuals that demonstrate research techniques and off-the-beaten-path URLs for doing historical and genealogical research on the Internet. Our Seminar Speakers Roger D. Joslyn, CG, FASG, is a past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and a fellow of the American Society of Genealogists (and current president), the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and the Utah Genealogical Association. A full-time, professional genealogist since 1978 and a Certified Genealogist since 1981, he has taught courses in genealogy, lectured widely in the U.S. and Canada, and has published articles and reviews in major genealogical journals, some of which he indexes. He authored the Mid-Atlantic state chapters in Ancestry's Red Book, and (with Anita Lustenberger) is preparing for publication New York Revolutionary War era tax records. Roger serves on the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society's Publication and Education and Library committees and the New York State Archives Advisory Committee, and he has worked with Indian tribes seeking Federal recognition and given expert testimony in court regarding matters o! f kinship. Leslie Corn, M.A. A native Manhattanite, Leslie Corn is a professional genealogist who uses a blend of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century repository and Internet research to serve attorneys, investigators, heir search firms, realtors, and private clients. She is an author and lecturer for such organizations as the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, where she serves on the Education and Publication Committee, Library Committee, and Committee on Collection Development; and the New England Historic Genealogical Society, for which she writes the column on New York City research for www.newenglandancestors.org. She is a frequent contributor to the NYG&B Newsletter. She has appeared on-air for CBS and CNN. A graduate of the National Institute on Genealogical Research at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Leslie is a Director of the National Institute on Genealogical Research Alumni Association. In her former life, she was a producer, director, and writer, and Direct! or of Programming at CBS and ABC. Mail reservations to: Dinner/Seminar Committee, Orange County Genealogical Society, 101 Main Street. Goshen, NY 10924. Questions call Marilyn Terry, 845-562-2749 or by email at mvtgrterry@aol.com BOTH EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SEMINAR IS FREE ___________Reservations for the dinner close April 22, 2003__________ ROAST BEEF DINNER SANDWICHES Friday, 2 May 2003 Saturday, 3 May 2003 ______________$12.00 each ___________Turkey $5.00 each _____________ Roast Beef $5.00 each ________________________ ___________________________ Name(s) Name(s) Total Enclosed ____________ Total Enclosed______________