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Two local genealogy groups to meet this Saturday

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Two local genealogy societies will meet this Saturday.

The DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island will meet at 10 a.m. at the Sachem Public Library. This month’s program will be the Second Anniversary Members Celebration.

For more information, go to the club website at:  http://dggli.com

The Huntington Historical Society will meet at 11 a.m. at the South Huntington Public Library. This month’s program will be “Local Online Databases” presented by Don Eckerle.

For more information, call 631-427-7045.

To see a listing of other genealogy meetings for June, go to the Genealogy Federation of Long Island website, http://gfli.net,  and click on Monthly Program Calendar.

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Free live streaming available for SCGS Jamboree 2019

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The Southern California Genealogical Society is offering 12 free live streamed presentations of its Jamboree 2019 conference.

Access to live streaming sessions is for use by individuals only. Membership with SCGS is not required to watch the free presentations. The presentations will be available until July  31, 2019.

You  must register to be able to view the presentations. To register, go to: http://genealogyjamboree.com/genealogy-jamboree-streaming/

All times listed are Eastern Time.

Friday, May 31, 2019

4 – 5 pm            Funeral Homes and Family History: They’re Dying to Meet You | Daniel Earl

5:30 – 6:30 pm   Strategies for Finding the Locality of Your Irish Ancestors | Donna M Moughty

7 – 9 pm            Major Midwestern Databases and Indexes for Family History Research | Paula Stuart-Warren

Saturday, June 1, 2019

11:30 am – 12:30 pm   Genealogy Pit Stop: Research in 15 Minute Increments | Thomas MacEntee

1 – 2 pm             Working More In-Depth with Mexican Civil Registration Records | Colleen Greene

2:30 – 3:30 pm   Historical Maps: The World at Your Fingertips | Michael L Strauss,

5 – 6 pm             Afro-Latinx in the Old West | Janice Lovelace, PhD

6:30 – 7:30 pm   Plain Folk – Researching Amish and Mennonite Families | Peggy Clemens Lauritzen

Sunday, June 2, 2019

11:30 am – 12:30 pm  Canadiana’s Genealogical Treasures | Dave Obee

1 – 2 pm                     Online Library Catalogs: A Genealogist’s Best Kept Secret | D Joshua Taylor

3:30 – 4:30 pm           Silent Voices: Telling the Stories of Your Female Immigrant Ancestors | Lisa Alzo

5 – 6  pm                   Border – What Border? Our Ancestors Who Called Both Canada and the USA Home | Annette Burke Lyttle

 

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Free webinar to discuss translating, transcribing records

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “Tools for Translating and Transcribing Genealogy Records” on Wednesday, May 29, at 2 p.m.

Documents are a requisite resource for genealogy research. Learn the latest tools and programs available to translate foreign language documents as well as transcribe documents in order to extract needed information.

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4024700035326498818

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Access military records for free this weekend

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In honor of Memorial Day, the genealogy website MyHeritage will be offering free access to all of its military records in SuperSearch from today through May 28.

There are over 47 million records to explore. To get started searching, go to:  www.myheritage.com/military-records

The genealogy website Fold3.com will also be offering free access to its military records until 11:59 p.m. on May 28.

On Fold3.com you can find World War II draft registration cards, World War I medal cards, Civil War pension records,  Revolutionary War service records, and much more.

To get started searching, go to: https://go.fold3.com/freeaccess?xid=2374

 

 

 

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Two local genealogy group to meet this weekend

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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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Jewish genealogy society to meet this Sunday

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The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island will meet this Sunday, May 19, at the Y-JCC in Plainview from 2-4 p.m.

This month’s topic will be “The Secret of Priest’s Grotto Cave” presented by Chris Nicola. Since the mid-1970s, Chris Nicola has explored dozens of caves around the world. One of his  expeditions was to the Ukrainian cave where a group of Jews was rumored to have hidden for over a year during the Holocaust. Chris confirmed the story and went on to locate 14 of the 38 cave dwellers.

He has co-authored a book about the cave and participated in making a documentary, No Place on Earth, about the survivors’ experiences. Chris also runs the Priest’s Grotto Heritage Project, a genocide awareness project which connects the grandchildren of the survivors who lived in Priest’s Grotto Cave with the grandchildren of those who lived above the cave.

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

 

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Many free webinars offered this week

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The Illinois State Genealogical Society will present “An Introduction to Researching Your Mexican Ancestors” on Tuesday, May 14 at 9 p.m. This webinar covers key U.S. records and strategies for identifying when and where your Mexican ancestors immigrated and for identifying their hometown in Mexico. It will also provide an overview of the main Mexican record types available online for tracing those family lines further back in Mexico. Learn how even a non-Spanish speaker can be successful at this research.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2110383221450902275

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “The 10 Most Useful Databases for Eastern European Research” on Wednesday, May 15 at 2 p.m. With more information available online, it is often possible to find key records for your Eastern European ancestors in free and subscription databases. Learn about the various record sets available, how to access them, and how to overcome privacy and language issues and other research roadblocks.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7358785428778458625

The Southern California Genealogical Society will present “Erie Canal and the Opening of the Midwest” on Wednesday, May 15, at 9 p.m. The Erie Canal revolutionized 19th-century travel and offered our ancestors a high-speed route to the Midwest. It made settlement of the Old Northwest Territories economically possible by providing an efficient means of exporting agricultural products to the markets and ports of the east. But it was also one of the most challenging and fascinating projects ever undertaken in America.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1261992354156177411

Florida State Genealogical Society will present “To Transcribe, Extract, Abstract: What’s the Difference’ on Thursday, May 16 at 8 p.m.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2056141017900712205

The Utah Genealogical Association will present “Genealogy Research in the Keystone State” on Thursday, May 16 at 9 p.m.  From early ship passenger lists to land and church records, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is home to a wealth of genealogical information. This webinar provides an in-depth look at what information is available and where to find it.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://ugagenealogy.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e5OTG5qPSkGLNTnWfwQnCA

 

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Tips for locating maiden names of your female ancestors

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In honor of Mother’s Day, here are a few sources that could prove helpful in locating the maiden names of your female ancestors.

*Marriage certificate or wedding announcement

*Death certificate for her or for her children

*Census records may help if your ancestor’s parents were living with her or if a brother was living with her

*Birth certificate or baptism records of her children – make sure to check all the children because her maiden name may be on one and not another

*Marriage and/or death certificates for her children

*Usual middle names of her children could be your ancestor’s maiden name

*Obituaries

*Social Security application

*Locate her place of burial – she may be buried with her parents

*Military records for her or her children

*Naturalization papers (however, until 1922 women could not file their own naturalization papers. They were automatically naturalized when their husband became a naturalized citizen.)

*Land records

*Passport applications

*Divorce papers (divorce records in New York are sealed for 100 years.)

 

Good luck with your research!

 

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Free genealogy webinar to discuss research logs

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The Georgia Genealogy Society will present “Research Logs: The Key to Organizing Your Family History” on Thursday, May 9 at 8 p.m.

Are you ready to take your family history efforts to the next level and actually get organized? Do you sometimes feel like you have spent the last hour of research, mindlessly surfing the web looking for records of your family but you have no idea where you’ve been and what you’ve found? Learn about the different kinds of research logs and get started using one.

To register for this webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7480995048975819009

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Two local groups to meet this week

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Two local genealogy groups will meet this week.

The Connequot Public Library will present “Preserving, Organizing and Sorting Your Genealogy” given by Arielle Hessler on Wednesday, May 8 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Researching your family’s history is fun and educational, but it can become overwhelming when faced with a large collection of disorganized photos, letters, deeds, and other memorabilia. In this program, learn how to properly care for, house, and organize your family’s history according to your needs and budget. Ms. Hessler, owner of Ash & Elm Press and the bookbinder for Stony Brook University Libraries, will go over the proper ways to preserve items for the long haul and provide basic plans to help keep your family archive safe, sound, and organized.

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

The Italian Genealogical Group will present “Ask the Experts” on Saturday, May 11 at the Bethpage Public Library. Experts will be answering questions submitted by members in advance of the meeting.

There will be a Help Session at 9:30 a.m. followed by the program at 10:30 a.m. For more information, go to the club website at:  italiangen.org

In addition, the Sagtikos Manor Historical Society will host a lecture “More Stories from Ellis Island: Those Who Were Held,” on Saturday, May 11 at 1 p.m. at the West Islip Public Library.

Mr. Voss volunteers as a tour guide at Ellis Island, leading both historical and photographic tours of the abandoned hospitals. For more information, go the the society’s website at: sagtikosmanor.org and click on events.

 

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