"Treasure Hunt at the Division of Old Records" Guest Speaker: Joseph Van Nostrand, Senior Management Analyst, New York County Clerk's Office Sunday, February 21, 2010, 2:00 p.m. Center for Jewish History (CJH), 15 West 16th Street, Manhattan (between 5th and 6th avenues). Non-member admission: $5.00. Mr.Van Nostrand will discuss the use and the interrelationship of the various record series at the Division of Old Records for use in genealogy. This includes information provided in the New York County naturalizations (1792-1924), with emphasis on the dichotomy in the records before and after 1895. Census records for 1855, 1870, 1905, 1915, and 1925 as well as business records and the genealogical information they contain will be presented. Court proceedings in civil actions, such as divorces, guardianships, name changes, foreclosures, and other court actions, will be discussed in regard to the information they provide. The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History will be open from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. on February 21st for networking with other researchers and access to research materials and computers. In addition to its other holdings, the Genealogy Institute is an authorized branch library of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The microfilm loan agreement provides researchers with access to genealogical records from around the world that have been microfilmed by the Church of Latter-Day Saints. It has more than 2,000 microfilms and microfiche on long-term loan, including Jewish records from Austria, Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and several other countries as well as the German Minority Census of 1938, Philadelphia HIAS records, Russian Consular records and indexes, and Hamburg emigration lists and indexes. Subway: 4,5,6, L, N, Q, R, and W trains to the 14th Street and Union Square station. F, V, L, and PATH trains to the 14th Street and 6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) station. 1, 2, and 3 trains to the 14th Street and 7th Avenue station. Roni Seibel Liebowitz V.P. Programming Jewish Genealogical Society (NY) http://www.jgsny.org/ via Jim Garrity