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Several free genealogy webinars to be offered this week

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Several free genealogy webinars will be offer this week on the topics of courthouse records, blogging,  Scottish genealogy and British genealogy.

Minnesota Genealogical Society will present “Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong and Other Courthouse Records,” on Wednesday, May 1, at 8 p.m. Local county courthouses are a very much underutilized resource; they are not as hard to maneuver in as most people think. Learn about this rich resource and discover the fabulous records contained within their walls and examine how the sources/records can aid in your search.

To register for the webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8692257739110466060

Ontario Genealogy Society will present “Blogging Your Family History” on Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Join the more than 3,300 genealogists already blogging their family history. The president of GeneaBloggersTRIBE will discuss the most popular, free, and easy blogging platforms, as well as where to find writing prompts and inspiration.

To register for the webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2593552612989055747

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “Foundations of Scottish Genealogy” on Friday, May 3 at 2 p.m. Finding your Scottish ancestors is impossible without the vast and essential resources of ScotlandsPeople, ScotlandsPlaces and the National Library of Scotland. This introductory session will show participants how to register for and access these resources, and exactly what is and is not free to search and/or download.

To register for the webinar, go to:  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8476117943777480962

The Southern California Genealogical Society will present “British Genealogy Online” on Saturday, May 4 at 1 p.m. Researching your family history in England and Wales has never been easier. Many digitized church records, census records and wills are online. Now that newspapers dating back to the 1600s are online, you can search for a name and find it anywhere in millions of pages instantly. You will learn about some of the key sites for British genealogy, many of which are free.

To register for the webinar, go to:  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4099865950306442755

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Several local genealogy groups to meet this week

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Several local genealogy groups will be meeting this week.

The Patchogue-Medford Public Library will present “Climbing Your Family Tree” this Wednesday, May 1, at 10 a.m.

For more information, contact the library at 631-654-4700.

The German Genealogy Group will meet Thursday, May 2, at the V.F.W. in Hicksville. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and orientation will begin at 7 p.m. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m.

This month’s program will be “Finding Lost Family…A Genealogy and DNA Journey.” The presenter will be Patricia Ann Kellner, president of the DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island. Come hear how she used traditional genealogy and DNA to find lost family. In this lecture, she will explain how to use wild card searches, research on FamilySearch.org, conduct DNA cousin matching, use DNA Painter and more.

For more information, go the the club website at:  www.germangenealogygroup.com

The DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island will meet on Saturday, May 4, at the Sachem Public Library at 10 a.m. This month’s program will be “Did my Great-Grandmother Have a Family? A Documents and DNA Case Study” presented by Rhoda Miller, Ed.D., CG.

Do you have a “floating” female ancestor that cannot be attached to a larger tree? This case study will demonstrate ways to break through that brick wall with problem-solving strategies utilizing records, oral history, photographs, DNA, mapping, and cluster techniques.

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

The Huntington Historical Society will meet on Saturday, May 4, at the South Huntington Public Library at 11 a.m. This month’s program will be “Dating the Dead: Using Fashion Details to to Date Old Photographs” presented by Beth Chamberlain.

For more information, go to the society’s website at: https://www.huntingtonhistoricalsociety.org/

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Jewish Genealogy Society to meet Sunday

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The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet on Sunday, April 28, at the Mid-Island Y-JCC in Plainview.

This month’s program will be “Who We Are, When and How Did We Get Here?” presented by Adam R. Brown. Advances in genetic testing in the last few years have greatly expanded our understanding of the origins of the Jews and the pathways that brought families to Eastern Europe.

Avotaynu Online Managing Editor Adam Brown will describe the tools available to apply these techniques to your own family, and how to use them. Adam has researched his family’s Ashkenazi and Sephardi origins for three decades.

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

 

 

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Free online DNA workshop to take place on April 25

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The Family History Library in Salt Lake City will be offering a free, all-day DNA workshop on Thursday, April 25.

You do not need to be in Salt Lake City to attend. All the workshops will be available free online. All times listed are Eastern Standard Time.

11:30 a.m. – An Introduction to DNA and Genealogy

1 p.m. – I’ve Tested my DNA, Now What?

3 p.m. – Finding an Unknown Parent Using DNA: A Case Study

4:30 p.m. – Making DNA Connections through Descendancy Research

6 p.m. – DNA Open Lab

To attend any of these webinars, go to:  April calendar  and click on the program you wish to attend.

 

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Two free genealogy webinars to take place this week

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Two free genealogy webinars will take place this week covering top genealogy websites and analyzing sources.

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “Comparing the Genealogy Giants’ on Wednesday, April 24 at 2 p.m.  Should you use Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com or MyHeritage.com? Or should you be using more than one site to accomplish your family history goals? Learn how these genealogy giants compare in 2019 for historical records, online trees, DNA tools and access options. This overview of each site’s strengths and weaknesses will help you know which to use now and which to keep in mind when your research interests or budget change.

To register for the webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/670821234877004545

The Florida State Genealogical Society will present “The Discriminating Genealogist” on Thursday, April 25 at 8 p.m. As genealogists we are taught to discriminate, choose in favor of, prefer certain types of evidence to others, certain bits of information to others, certain sources to others. What are the rules we follow, what do we need to know to do this right, and what tools are available to help us?

To register for the webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4645435925461923340

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NYS Genealogical Research Death Index recently updated

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The New York State Genealogical Research Death Index had been updated and now includes deaths up to March 31, 1969.

The index starts at 1957. However, the index does not includes deaths for the five boroughs of New York City.

The index provides the date of death, gender, age at death, New York State file number and residence code. In order to interpret the residence code number, you must go to the far right of the page and click on the red tab that says About. Scroll down to attachments and open either the third attachment for Out of State codes or the fourth attachment for New York State Gazetteer.

To search the index, go to:
https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/Genealogical-Research-Death-Index-Beginning-1957/vafa-pf2s/data

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Irish Family History Forum to meet this Saturday

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The Irish Family History Forum will meet this Saturday, April 20, at the Bethpage Public Library.

This month’s program will be “Behind the Walls of Institutional 19th Century New York City”  presented by Joan Koster-Morales. Learn how to access institutional records, when available, online and in archives. The presenter will also talk about the impact of the Health, Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) on records access and current New York State Freedom of Information law.

Genealogy Tips and Tricks with Kathleen McGee will begin at 10 a.m. Meet the Experts will begin at 10:45 a.m. This is a chance to meet one-on-one with an experienced genealogist to ask a basic genealogy question. The monthly program will start a 11:15 a.m.

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

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Free webinars to cover German research, digital photography

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The Wisconsin State Genealogy Society will present “Cataloging Digital Family Photographs” on Tuesday, April 16 at 8 p.m. Family photographs may seem so complex that they defy organizing. Tame your digital family photographs by learning how to insert names, dates, and other information inside images to make them searchable. This webinar outlines a simple and effective workflow, beginning with scanning and adding information for retrieval, followed by linking photos to digital images, and then filing and backing up your family photographs.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3307326973560366851

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “Boost Your Germanic Research” on Wednesday, April 17 at 2 p.m. Meyer’s Gazetteer is great for determining jurisdictions as of 1912. Topics included in this webinar are: use of Meyer’s Gazetteer and its impact on the Family History Library catalog, macro jurisdictional changes in historical Germanic areas, and tactics for determining jurisdictions of a village or small land holding over time. Key German vocabulary will be included.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=917

The Southern California Genealogical Society will present “Tracing Female Ancestors in WWI Military and Non-Combatant Records” on Wednesday, April 17 at 9 p.m.  Women were essential to the success of America’s troops in World War I. This webinar will outline a plan to locate and use a variety of local, state, and national records to discover the stories of female ancestors serving in military and volunteer roles.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8862036627669346819

The Utah Genealogical Association will present “Power of Probates” on Thursday, April 18, at 9 p.m.  Explore the history of probate records, understand the probate process, and unlock the information from records that go beyond just your ancestor’s life to what they left behind.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://ugagenealogy.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YS0kQUKwSjWok-APT68zwg

 

 

 

 

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West Hempstead Obituary Index updated

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The West Hempstead Obituary Index has just been updated and now includes close to 825 entries.

This index includes obituaries and death notices related to residents and, in some cases, former resident of West Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. The majority of the entries are from 1930 to 1968. New entries will be added on a continuous basis.

The information in the index comes from area newspapers such as The Brooklyn Eagle, Newsday, The Hempstead Sentinel, the Nassau Daily Review Star, and the New York Times.

The index includes the date of death, publication and date of publication.

Anyone interested in copies of articles from this index, can contact Jean King at the West Hempstead Public Library, 516-481-6591 ext 22 or email jking@whplibrary.org.

You can access the link by clicking on the words just above this blog posting or click on
WH Obituaries

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Local genealogy groups to discuss DNA research

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Two local genealogy groups will be meeting this week.

The Connetquot Public Library will present “Understanding DNA Tests and Using Them to Find Relatives” this Wednesday, April 10, at 7 p.m. The presenter will be Susan Jaycox Murphy.

Millions have tested their DNA to find out who they really are and to discover their ancestors. What do you do when you get your results with thousands of matches and don’t recognize the names? You’ll be shown how to select the right test, what to do when you get your results, and how to contact your matches. DNA tools and websites will be discussed.

For more information, call 631-567-5079.

The Italian Genealogical Group will meet this Saturday, April 13, at the Bethpage Public Library.

There will be a Help Session at 9:30 a.m. and the program will begin at 10:30 a.m. The topic will be “Strategies to Get Your Family Tree and DNA Relatives to Respond” and the presented will be Patricia Ann Kellner, president of the DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island.

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

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