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31 July 2019 Daniel Horowitz to be guest speaker at local genealogy meeting

Daniel Horowitz to be guest speaker at local genealogy meeting

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Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage.com will be the guest speaker at The DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island meeting on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. at the Sachem Public Library.

Horowitz will be speaking on “MyHeritage.com DNA Testing and Results.” MyHeritage DNA provides a detailed ethnicity report where you can see the percentage of your DNA that comes from different populations around the world together with your family events. MyHeritage recently added new DNA tools – The Theory of Family Relativity™ and  AutoClusters – to aid in understanding how you are related to your matches.

Daniel is the Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage, liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers and media, as well as lecturing, and attending conferences. He is involved in several crowdsource digitization and transcription projects and holds a board level position at the Israel Genealogy Research Association.

Registration required. There is a limit of 100 attendees for the program. You will need a Suffolk County library card in order to register online.

For online registration, go to: https://www.sachemlibrary.org/programs-events/

Change the calendar to August, then click August 3, then click on the DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island entry and register for the program.

You may also call the library at 631-588-5024 to register for the program.

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Several free webinars to cover railroad records and DNA research

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Several free genealogy webinars will be offered this week covering topics such as railroad records, DNA research and the Underground Railroad.

Ontario Genealogical Society will present “The Underground Railroad Ends Here” on Thursday, Aug. 1 at 7 p.m. The Underground Railroad brought tens of thousands of formerly enslaved men and women to eastern Canada in the 19th century. Do you have ancestors that might have been involved in the Underground Railroad as those escaping slavery or those helping assist? How do you find records of those who were involved? What was life like for those escaping slavery?

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/465808497242780675?source=website

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “DNA, Genealogy and Privacy” on Friday, Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. Has your concern for privacy prevented you or a family member for taking a DNA test? What about sharing your genealogy research data online with practical strangers (even though you might be related)? Especially as personal DNA testing increases in popularity, and with increased media attention about cold cases solved using DNA data and the use of genealogy databases, today’s genealogist needs to stay on top of the latest information concerning privacy. We’ll review the current status of privacy practices by the five major DNA test kit vendors, current laws and regulations, the role of law enforcement, and what we might expect to see related to privacy in the future.

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8915538867342760195

Southern California Genealogical Society will present “Successful Railroad Records Research in Today’s World” on Saturday, Aug. 3 at 1 p.m. Learn research methods to determine which railroad employed family members, what path the tracks followed, and where employment and retirement records might be found today including extensive and growing online free finding aids, free and subscription indexes, and a plethora of actual records.

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6686296630347357955

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25 July 2019 Ancestry.com.au offers free access to records this weekend

Ancestry.com.au offers free access to records this weekend

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Ancestry.com.au, the Ancestry.com affiliate of Australia, is offering free access to its records from now until 7:59 a.m. (U.S. Eastern Standard Time) on Sunday, July 28.

This free access covers all its Australian and New Zealand records. The collections include census images and indexes; birth/marriage/death records, obituaries and more. Even if you already have a free account set up for Ancestry.com, you may need to create an account at Ancestry.com.au.

To start searching records, go to: www.ancestry.com.au

If you get a pop-up asking if you want to go to Ancestry.com instead, make sure to click to continue to the Australian website.

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Brentwood Public Library to host genealogy program

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Brentwood Public Library will present a free genealogy program on Saturday, July 27 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

The program, “Research at the Suffolk County Historical Society,” will be presented by a representative of the historical society who will explain how to use the collections for genealogy research.

For more information, contact the library at 631-273-7883.

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Two free webinars to cover record hinting and census research

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present two free webinars this week.

“Automatic Record Hinting on Giant Genealogy Sites” will take place on Wednesday, July 24 at 2 p.m. Become a more savvy user of automated record hinting technologies on Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com when you learn how these technologies work-and their limitations. See crucial differences between record hints and your own search results. Learn how accurate hints are and how to determine whether a particular hint is a match.

To register for the webinar, go to: https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=919

“Census Hurdles: How to Jump Over and Go Around” will take place on Friday, July 26 at 2 p.m. Learn some tips and tricks for overcoming common and uncommon census research obstacles. Topics covered will include:  language barriers, literacy, indexing errors, imaging errors, errors (accidental), and errors (intentional). Using examples, see each of these issues and suggested solutions for overcoming them.

To register for the webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/739797996694141187

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More digitized newspapers to be added to Brooklyn Public Library collection

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The Brooklyn Public Library is adding more than 40 digitized newspapers to its Brooklyn Collection.

As of June, the library was still in the process of uploading all the new publications but 27 have been added so far.  Access to the collection is free but it can only be used at one of the Brooklyn Public Library branches. It will be three years before the newspapers can be accessed remotely.

Years of the newspapers range from 1835 to 1999 and some of the titles include: Bay Ridge Home Reporter, Brooklyn Sunday Sun, Canarsie Courier, Flatbush Times, Greenpoint Home News and Kings County Rural Gazette.

Currently the only free digitized newspaper is the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

For more information about the Brooklyn Collection,  go to:  https://www.bklynlibrary.org/brooklyncollection

To see a list of the newspapers that have been uploaded so far, go to:  https://www.newspapers.com/papers/  and type the word “Brooklyn” in the search box. The only remote access is through a subscription to Newspapers.com

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Family History Center to offer free webinars in July

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The Family History Center Library in Salt Lake City will be offering several free webinars in July. All times listed are Eastern time.

Thursday, July 18 – 1 p.m. – Obituaries: A Family History Goldmine

Tuesday, July 23 – noon – Tips and Tricks for Finding Elusive Records on FamilySearch.org

Tuesday, July 23 – 1:30 p.m. – Germans from Russia: Locating the town with websites and gazetteers

Tuesday, July 23 – 3 p.m. – German and Danish research: Schleswig-Holstein Censuses

To attend any of these webinars, go to: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/img_auth.php/c/cf/07-July_2019.pdf and click on the appropriate date.

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Free webinars to discuss Netherlands research, Civil War records

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Several free webinars will be offered this week covering the topics of farm records, Netherlands research, genetic genealogy and Civil War research.

The Wisconsin State Genealogical Society will present “Reconstructing the Lives of Our Farming Ancestors” on Tuesday, July 16 at 8 p.m. It’s a rare family tree that doesn’t contain at least some farm families. What was daily life like for our farming ancestors? Learn how genealogical records and social history resources can help us answer that question in four different centuries of American history.

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4506208064208385283

Legacy Family Tree Webinars will present “Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands” on Tuesday, July 16 at 2 p.m. The Netherlands has excellent records. Records of births, marriages, and deaths were kept by the civil registration since 1811 and by churches since the early 1600s. Genealogists who don’t look beyond these records may create trees that go back ten generations, but they can be bare or have mistakes. By expanding the research to lesser used sources, we can learn more about our ancestors’ lives and find evidence of family relationships to build reliable conclusions.

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5674803106641466113

The Southern California Genealogy Society will present “Genetic Genealogy Apps and Extensions” on Wednesday, July 17 at 9 p.m. Learn how to leverage new technology to optimize your genetic genealogy research experience.

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/850363788019240451

The Florida State Genealogical Society will present “Anatomy of a Civil War Pension File” on Thursday, July 18 at 8 p.m. Civil War Pension Files are filled with genealogical information but are often large and intimidating. This lecture will discuss methods used to organize, extract, and analyze the documents and data in a Civil War Pension File.

To register for this free webinar, go to: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8206603453210942723

The Utah Genealogical Association will present “Voting Records: Genealogy’s Best Kept Secret” on Thursday, July 18 at 9 p.m. Looking for a date of birth or death? The date and court of naturalization? Where your ancestor disappeared to, or where he came from? His political outlook? Even what kind of house he lived in? Voting records may have the answer. These often-overlooked gems can be packed with genealogical information, and you won’t believe what they can tell us about our ancestors!

To register for this free webinar, go to:   https://ugagenealogy.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5liIvjiSTheY53IlP71NTw

 

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New titles added to NYS historic newspapers website

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The New York State Historic Newspapers website added several new titles in June 2019.

New Titles

The Colonial News (Endicott) – 1946-1970

The Daily Review (Freeport) – 1912-1926

The Long Island News and the Owl (Rockville Centre) – 1919-1931

Nassau Daily Review (Freeport) – 1928-1937

Nassau Daily Review and Nassau Star – 1937-1937

Nassau Daily Review-Star (Freeport) – 1937-1954

The Observer (Northport) – 1962-current

The Owl (Rockville Centre) – 1909-1919

The Picket (Rockville Centre) – 1865-1870

Pipe Dream (Binghampton) – 1970-current

South Side Observer (Freeport) – 1870-1918

Updated Titles

Ithaca Daily Journal (Ithaca) – 1872-1913

Westfield Republican (Westfield) – 1855-current.

To start searching, go to: http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/

 

 

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Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage to speak on Long Island

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 The DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island will meet on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. at the Sachem Public Library. This is a new starting time for their programs.

Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage.com will be speaking on “MyHeritage.com DNA Testing and Results.” MyHeritage DNA provides a detailed ethnicity report where you can see the percentage of your DNA that comes from different populations around the world together with your family events. MyHeritage recently added new DNA tools – The Theory of Family Relativity™ and  AutoClusters – to aid in understanding how you are related to your matches.

Daniel is the Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage, liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers and media, as well as lecturing, and attending conferences. He is involved in several crowdsource digitization and transcription projects and holds a board level position at the Israel Genealogy Research Association.

Registration required. Online registration opens July 11. There is a limit of 100 attendees for the program. You will need a Suffolk County library card in order to register online.

For online registration, go to: https://www.sachemlibrary.org/programs-events/

Change the calendar to August, then click August 3, then click on the DNA Genealogy Group of Long Island entry and register for the program.

You may also call the library at 631-588-5024 to register for the program starting July 11.

 

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