Westchester County Genealogical Society (NY) Upcoming Meeting The Westchester County Genealogical Society welcomes Gordon McDaniel with his program Getting the Most Out of the US Census on Ancestry.com at our next meeting Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 10am. Dr. McDaniel is a researcher, translator and lecturer and began his own genealogical research more than twenty years ago. He has been a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists for more than ten years. He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and has taught Russian and Serbo-Croatian at the University of Washington (Seattle); the University of Colorado (Boulder); the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) and at UCLA. He has put his knowledge of Slavic languages to good use in his genealogy work, primarily in translating and transcribing large document sets from Russian and Polish for Jewish genealogy groups. Dr. McDaniel also holds a master’s degree in library science and has been a librarian for almost twenty years. He worked for several years at Berkeley and at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Library, and is now the Head of Cataloging Services at the Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden. The meeting opens at 10:00 a.m. at the Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 600 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Guests are welcome. Coffee and conversation precede the meeting at 9:30 a.m. MEETING INFO: TOPIC: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE US CENSUS ON ANCESTRY.COM WHEN: Saturday, APRIL 11, 2009 @ 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 May 9, 2009 Voyage to America Leslie Albrecht Huber June 13, 2009 NYC 1890 Police Census Debra Braverman