Feel free to cross post these wonderful learning opportunities! Monday, May 6 at 7 p.m. at the Beaver County [PA] Courthouse, second floor, the Beaver County Genealogical Society will have Reed B. Powell speak about the Internet and Genealogy. Free and open to all, regular meetings the first Monday of each month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Thursday, May 9 at 7 p.m. at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA (in the Oakland section of town), FREE and open to all. Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society (www.WPGS.org) will feature "Sailing into the Sunset: Tips on Finding Your Ancestor's Passenger List" by Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS. Passenger lists can be a wonderful resource for finding out more about the origins of immigrant ancestors. Most people have at least one immigrant ancestor who arrived by ship, but as most of the records are organized chronologically, it may be difficult to find a person without knowing more about them and the records. Various indices, research aides, examples of records and where to find them are all discussed in this presentation, including Internet resources. Understanding these resources and what records exist are keys to your success in finding your ancestor's record. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday May 15 to Saturday May 18, Milwaukee, WI will host the National Genealogical Society's annual conference. For more information and to see the program of over 200 lectures go to www.NGSgenealogy.org and click on "Milwaukee 2002." You can expect the same type of great program from NGS when it will be held in Pittsburgh, PA next year from May 28 - 31, 2003. Mark your calendars now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. in the Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road, Pittsburgh, free and open to the public, the North Hills Genealogists will feature "How Did my Pennsylvania Ancestor Get There?" by Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS. For more information email pioneerbook@juno.com. The importance of knowing and understanding migration trails is important in tracing your ancestors. The various ethnic groups such as Germans, Scots-Irish, English, Irish, and Welsh moved west through Pennsylvania for many reasons. And, in doing so, they left behind clues in the areas they passed through. They followed Forbes Road and the National Road (now Route 40) in their westward push to find new opportunities for land, jobs, and family connections. Some men were rewarded with land for military service, and some had a pioneering spirit. No matter what drove them, they were naturalized and married in places where they may NOT have settled. Finding these records can be difficult unless one knows their migration path and the laws and customs of the time. Internet resources will also be identified where appropriate as an aid for these searches. Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS is president of the North Hills Genealogists, and past-president and current program chairperson of the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society. She conducts family research and lectures on various genealogical subjects at regional meetings and conferences. CGRS is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. ( http://www.bcgcertification.org ) -------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, June 13 at 7 p.m. at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA (in the Oakland section of town), FREE and open to all. Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society (www.WPGS.org) will feature "Hookers, Crooks and Kooks, or Aunt Merle Didn’t Run a Boarding House!" by Jana Sloan Broglin. This lively presentation, done in costume, discusses family tradition, court records, military records and little-used records such as jail registers, hospital, and coroner’s inquests, for finding missing ancestors and discovering the black sheep in your family. However, not all were scalawags! A fun evening to wrap up the program year. Jana Sloan Broglin, a northwestern Ohio native, is a professional genealogist, lecturer and freelance writer. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Genealogical Society. As a board member, Jana has been the program chair and conference chair for OGS. She served as conference chair again in 2002. Since joining OGS in 1979, Jana has contributed articles to the OGS publications the "Newsletter," and the "Report," and has indexed books for the OGS library. She was named a "Kentucky Colonel" for more than 30 publications on Kentucky. These publications include abstracts of pension applications for the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and early Indian Wars. Also published for Kentucky is a series of early wills and estates abstracting all the persons mentioned in the documents. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road, Pittsburgh, FREE and open to the public, the North Hills Genealogists will feature “Using the Resources of the Family History Centers in Your Genealogy Research” by Lorrie Danko Guthrie, Director, Pittsburgh Family History Center. Everyone should be aware of the fantastic resources available through the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and how they can bring those resources to view at their local Family History Center. Lorrie will enlighten us on the process and what is available that will help you in your research. For more information on this program email pioneerbook@juno.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------- June 23-28 in Mansfield, OH, the Ohio Genealogical Society will have a 5-day Genealogy Workshop with 5 lectures per day and time for Library Research. Please see www.OGS.org and click on "Events" for more information and for the schedule. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, July 16 at 7 p.m. in the Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road, Pittsburgh, free and open to the public, the North Hills Genealogists will feature "Preserving Genealogy and Family History Materials" by Lynn F. Wohleber, Archivist for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. For more information on this program email pioneerbook@juno.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 15 at 7 p.m. at the Griley Memorial Home, Baltimore, OH, the Fairfield County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society will feature "Messages From the Grave: Listening to Your Ancestor's Tombstone" presented by Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS. For more information and an email contact see the Fairfield county listing on www.OGS.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 20 at 7 p.m. in the Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road, Pittsburgh, free and open to the public, the North Hills Genealogists will feature “Methodist Church Records, Archives, and Historical Society.” Rev. Jeff Bobin, Western PA Conference United Methodist Church and Betty Anne Stroup, Conference Genealogist. For more information on this program and the following ones, email pioneerbook@juno.com. Tuesday September 17 at 7 p.m. in the Northland Public Library, "Carpatho-Rusyn Genealogy in Pittsburgh and the North Hills" Speaker: John Righetti, President, Carpatho-Rusyn Society. (See their web site: www.carpathorusynsociety.org) Tuesday October 15 at 7 p.m. in the Northland Public Library, "Minerd-Miner-Minor Family Web Site, Reunion, Research, Records, Archives, Etc." Speaker: Mark A. Miner, President, National Minerd-Miner-Minor Reunion and Founder of Minerd.Com. (See their web site: www.minerd.com to experience the possibilities of online communications for family genealogy and history. It’s awesome!) Tuesday November 19 at 7 p.m. in the Northland Public Library. Round Table discussion. Tell us about your favorite research source, web site, database, etc. for family genealogy and history. Bring samples. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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