It might be one of these projects that encourages us to celebrate: An index of state level birth and death records That newspaper card index in the local history room The newspaper clippings file at the county historical society Indexes and transcriptions of old probate records, naturalizations, county commissioner minutes List of burials in many […]
UPDATE: The registration limit has been reached. Watch the MGS website for more great webinars. If you join MGS, you will be able to view all past webinars. One more reason why genealogical society membership is important. Join me on Wednesday, April 6, for a FREE webinar sponsored by the Minnesota Genealogical Society. My […]
Have you signed up yet? The Ohio Genealogical Society Conferences are always great learning and networking events. The 2016 edition takes place at the Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio. That’s 25 miles north of Cincinnati. The dates are April 28-30 and I hope to see you there. Pre-conference activities on Wednesday, April 27 include […]
What am I doing this week? For one, you can stay at home wearing your slippers and listen to me. For the second one, you do have to get fully dressed, including shoes! Wednesday, March 30 Family Tree University webinar, “Census Problems and Solutions for Genealogy” Time: 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central/5 p.m. Mountain/4 p.m. […]
If you aren’t among the many genealogists who are on Facebook, you have missed a fun project going around. My California friend, J. Paul Hawthorne, created a template in Excel on which you add the birth state or country for you and your first four ancestral generations. I added county names to mine and in […]
In 2016 we are fortunate to have a plethora of books and periodicals indexed online. Even with all of that and with the libraries in our home areas, there are undoubtedly books, microfilms, and periodicals to which you don’t have direct access. Think about all those genealogy books, county histories, family histories and other items […]
What better day than St. Patrick’s Day to announce that registration is open for the Celtic Connections Conference, to be held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Park Place in St. Louis Park, Minnesota from August 5-6, 2016. This event is for researchers at all levels interested in discovering their Irish, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish […]
The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announced today that presentation proposals are now being received for its 2017 Conference, “Building Bridges to the Past,” to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August 30 – September 2, 2017. The conference will be held in cooperation with the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society as local host. The deadline for […]
It was the late 1990s at a genealogy conference in some city. After so many years of attending them, it’s tough to remember which one I was at, but I do remember meeting this Cyndi who was in charge of Cyndi’s List. I had owned a computer for at least a dozen years at that […]
Tomorrow, March 2, is the opening of online registration for the 2016 second week of the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh. This week takes place from July 17-22. Things get going early on Sunday evening. Get your fingers ready so you get the course you want! In fact, look at the GRIP registration NOW in order […]