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Local Genealogy Groups to have virtual meetings in March

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Several local genealogy groups, all part of the Genealogy Federation of Long Island, will be having virtual meetings in March.

Wednesday, March 3 – Connetquot Public Library – 7 p.m. – “Italian Family Research on FamilySearch.org”

For Zoom login information, email dhaberst@connetquotlibrary.org

Thursday, March 4 – German Genealogy Group – 7:30 p.m. – “Organizing Your DNA Results”

This is a members only program. Members will be sent a link to the program. To become a member, go to: www.germangenealogygroup.com

Wednesday, March 10 – Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island – 7 p.m. – “Esther’s Children”

This program is open to the public. Check the website, http://jgsli.org for more information.

Saturday, March 13 – Italian Genealogical Group – 10:45 a.m. – “Methods for Accessing New York City Vital Records”

This program is open to the public. Check the IGG website, www.italiangen.org, for log-in information.

Saturday, March 20 – Irish Family History Forum – 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. –  “Making Sense of Family Stories/ Death and Burial Customs of 19th Century Ireland”

This is a members only program. Members will be sent a link to the program. To become a member, go to:  www.ifhf.org

Sunday, March 21– Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island – 2 p.m. – “Searching for Paterson Roots Remembered and Forgotten in Heritage Tourism Abroad”

This program is open to the public. Check the website, http://jgsli.org for more information.

The Patchogue-Medford Public Library will offer free Genealogy Research Discussion Group meetings on March 3, 10, 17 and 24 at 10 a.m. To register, go to the library website Calendar of Events – https://pmlib.org

In addition, the Brentwood Public Library will offer free webinars on March 5, 12 and 19 at 3:30 p.m. on a variety of topics. To register, go to the library website Calendar of Events – https://brentwoodnylibrary.org

 

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Two local genealogy groups to meet this weekend

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Two local genealogy groups will be meeting this weekend.

The Brentwood Genealogist will meet this Saturday, Jan. 25 at 10 a.m. at the Brentwood Public Library. This month’s topic will be “Italian Genealogy” and the speaker will be Alec Ferretti.

For more information, call 631-273-7883.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet this Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. at the Y-JCC in Plainview.

This month’s topic will be “The Key to Our Future Is to Remember… Our Past: The Veterans’ Testimonial Project” and the speaker will be Edna W. Susman. A longtime reference librarian at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library in Dix Hills, Edna Susman created the library’s Veterans Testimonial Project in 2014, to preserve the memories and experiences of veterans. Since the inception of the project, over 115 veterans from every military branch and conflict since World War II have been interviewed and their stories recorded.

For more information, go to the club website at: https://jgsli.org

For more information about other genealogy meetings on Long Island, go to: http://gfli.net and click on the monthly calendar tab.

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Three local groups to meet this week

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The local genealogy groups will have meetings this week.

The Connetquot Public Library will present “Choosing the Right Family Tree Software” on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at  7 p.m. The presenter will be Chuck Weinstein.

For more information, contact Diane at 631-567-5079.

The Brentwood Public Library will present “Exploring Cemeteries” on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. The presenter will be Susan Jaycox Murphy.

For more information, call 631-273-7883, ext. 131.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet on Sunday, Oct. 27 from 2-4 p.m. This month’s topic will be “Jewish Genealogy: News You Can Use.” The presenters will be several members of the organization. Learn about Jewish research in Germany and Ukraine as well as updates regarding local resources, including the JGSLI library collection and a new JGSLI project.

For more information, go to the club website at:  http://jgsli.org

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Three local genealogy groups to meet this week

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Three local genealogy groups will meet this week.

The Brentwood Genealogists will meet at the Brentwood Public Library on Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 7-8 p.m.

This month’s topic will be “What to Do After the DNA Test,” a live webinar presented by Blaine T. Bettinger. For more information, call 631-273-7883 ext. 131.

The Irish Family History Forum will meet on Saturday, Sept. 21 at the Bethpage Public Library.

This month’s program will be “Finding Irish Place of Origin in U.S. Records” presented by Kathleen McGee. Everyone on this side of the Atlantic who researches an Irish ancestor hopes to discover the place in Ireland where he or she was born. It’s a search that starts, not with Irish sources, but with U.S. records. This presentation will focus on American sources that show birthplace, such as draft registration records; birth, marriage, and death records; gravestones; probate records; death notices; some census records; and more.

There will be a Help session at 10 a.m. followed by “Ask the Experts” at 10:30 a.m. The program will begin at 11:15 a.m. For more information, go to the club website at:  www.ifhf.org

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet on Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Y-JCC in Plainview.

This month’s program will be “Two Horses in Lubin.” The presenter, Dan Oren, will describe how he used unanticipated local records to investigate genealogy and family history which revealed unthinkable discoveries. Dan is Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Adjunct) at Yale University and president and founder of The Friends of Jewish Heritage in Poland.

For more information, go to the club website at: http://jgsli.org

For more information about all the genealogy meetings on Long Island, go to: http://gfli.net and click on the monthly calendar.

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Brentwood Public Library to present genealogy webinar

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The Brentwood Public Library will present “A Nose for News” on Saturday, Aug. 24, at 10:30 a.m.

This will be a webinar presented by Mary Kircher Roddy. Learn how to learn newspapers to further your family history research.

The library is located at 34 Second Avenue in Brentwood. For more information, call 631-273-7883.

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Two local genealogy groups will be meeting this weekend.

The Brentwood Genealogist will meet this Saturday, June 22, at the Brentwood Public Library at 10 a.m. This month’s program will be “Roots and the Genealogical Proof Standard” presented by librarian Peter Ward.

For more information, call 631-273-7883, ext. 131.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet this Sunday, June 23, from 2-4 p.m. at the Y-JCC in Plainview.

This month’s program will be “The Trip of a Lifetime: Refugees Find Safe Haven Via Japan” presented by Mark Halpern. In the summer of 1940, diplomat Chiune Sugihara – known as “the Japanese Schindler” – issued transit visits that enabled over 6,000 Jews to escape Europe.  Halpern will describe one Polish Jewish woman’s journey from Poland to California, with stops in Lithuania, Russia, Japan, China, and Canada.

Mark is the founder of the Bialystok Area Jewish Genealogy Group. He was the winner of the IAJGS’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award.

For more information, go to the club website at: http://jgsli.org

There will be on club meetings in July or August.

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Two local genealogy groups will meet this Saturday, May 25.

The Irish Family History Forum will meet at the Bethpage Public Library beginning at 10 a.m. Genealogy Tips and Tricks with Kathleen McGee will begin at 10 a.m. Ask the Experts will begin at 10:45 a.m. and the featured program will begin at 11:15 a.m.

This month’s program will be “Missing Boyles of Drumcrew” presented by Michael Carragher. What do you do when a gret-grandfather disappears, his siblings abandon their farm and emigrate for destinations unknown and the paper trail turns up no firm answers? Michael, past president of the IFHF, will explain how DNA matches and genetic genealogy can provide the clues to solve the riddle.

For more information, go to the club website:  www.ifhf.org

The Brentwood Genealogists will meet at the Brentwood Public Library beginning at 10 a.m. This month’s program will be “Finding Lost Family: A Genealogy and DNA Journey” presented by Paricia Ann Kellner.

For more information, call 631-273-7883, ext. 131.

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The Brentwood Genealogists will meet this Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m. at the Brentwood Public Library.

This month’s topic will be “Mitochondrial DNA.” For more information, contact the library at 631-273-7883 ext. 131.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet this Sunday, March 31, at the Y-JCC in Plainview.

This month’s topic will be “Prussian Polish Research” and the speaker will be Roger Lustig. Roger is the son of German Jews. His father began compiling vital records databases over 35 years ago. Working with GerSIG and JRI-Poland, Roger continues this effort. He has visited various European archives and has transcribed over 100,000 vital records. As GerSIG research coordinator, he supervises database and resource projects. His experiences with difficult data and old handwritten sources have assisted his work with Jewish records.

For more information, go to the club website at:  jgsl.org

 

 

 

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Three local genealogy groups to meet this weekend

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Three local genealogy groups will be meeting this weekend.

The Patchogue-Medford Public Library Genealogy Research Group will meet this Saturday, Feb. 23, at 10 a.m.

This month’s topic will be “Researching African-American Heritage” and the speaker will be Diane Warmsley. For more information, call the library at 631-654-4700.

The Brentwood Genealogists will also meet on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Brentwood Public Library.

This month’s topic will be “Roots and the Genealogical Proof Standard” and the speaker will be librarian Peter Ward. For more information, call the library at 631-273-7883 ext. 131.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet this Sunday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m. at the Mid Island Y-JCC in Plainview.

This month’s topic will be “A Look at New York Lost Synagogues” and the speaker will be Ellen Levitt.  Ellen will take us on a visual tour of synagogues on the Lower East Side, in the Bronx, in Brooklyn’s Brownsville, East New York, and Bedford-Stuyvesant, and in other areas of New York City which once had large and thriving Jewish communities. She will discuss the shuls’ architectural features, the demographics of the communities they served, and how the buildings are used today.

For more information, go to the club website at: http://jgsli.org

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Three local genealogy groups to meet this weekend

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Three local genealogy groups will be meeting this weekend.

The Brentwood Genealogists will present “Using Historic Burying Grounds in Genealogical Research” on Saturday, January 26 at 10 a.m. at the Brentwood Public Library.

For more information, go to the library website at:  www.brentwoodnylibrary.org

The Connetquot Public Library will present “Italian Genealogy Q & A” on Saturday, January 26 at 2 p.m. The speaker will be Alec Ferretti.

For more information, contact the library at 631-567-5079.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will present “Lost and Found: Where Were the 4000 Members of the Richard Family of Hungary?” on Sunday, January 27 at 2 p.m.  The speaker will be  George Richard.  JGSLI member George Richard has been researching his Reichard family for eight years, creating a family tree that dates back to the 17th century. He’ll describe his experiences, including creative strategies that helped him break through “brick walls,” family myths that have been undone, and successes he has had through collaboration with others who are studying this family.

For more information, go to the club website at:  http://jgsli.org

 

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