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From this mornings New Journal.  This is part of the same series that Helen attended a couple of weeks ago.

 GENEALOGY

Program showcases using church records for info

Church records, many of which predate government-required records, can help find missing branches of family trees.

An upcoming program at the Dela­ware Public Archives, starting at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 4, will feature genealogist Nancy Lyons presenting information how to use church documents – such as membership, baptism, marriage, death and burial records – to access some of the earliest genealogical information available.

The free program will be held at the Archives at 121 Duke of York St. in Dover.

Lyons, chair of the Delaware Genea­logical Society Education Committee, founded the Irish Family History Re­search Group and is a longtime volun­teer at the Mormon Family History Center in Wilmington.

For more information about the program, contact Jessica Carmichael at 744-5081 or jessica.carmi­chael@state.de.us.

Today after the meeting, a question was raised about Ellis Island.  I learned that all immigrations did not have to go through Ellis Island.  This link http://www.ellisisland.org/genealogy/ellis_island_history.asp has a short history of immigration at the Port of New York.
 The article also mentions a fire that destroyed many immigrations records for the period of 1855-1897.

Becky Bennett

Family History Center

Information about the Newark Family History Center for the blog.
It is located at the Mormon Church on West Chestnut Hill Road.

500 West Chestnut Hill Road
Newark, DE 19713
(302) 456-9301

Hours:

Tues., Wed., Thurs.
  10 a.m. -  2 p.m.
   6 p.m. -  9 p.m.

Sat. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Cheryl Rolph

A valuable resource awaits family historians

by: Judi Hasson | from: AARP Bulletin | April 26, 2012

It’s a big deal when personal details from a U.S. census are released, 72 years later, to the public. Family history buffs and historians get their first access to information about every American citizen at a moment in time — details that, by federal law, were until then restricted. But April’s release of the 1940 census has aroused special interest.

Besides name, age, gender, race, occupation, relationship to householder and place of birth, the 1940 census includes income and level of education. And, for the first time, logs painstakingly handwritten by census workers who trudged door to door were digitally scanned and are now on the National Archives website.

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Various projects under way — the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project, the USGenWeb Project and Ancestry.com — aim to make these records searchable by name and street address. For now, however, to browse for a specific record it’s helpful to know a person’s address to determine the appropriate census enumeration district — one of 147,000 geographic areas that carve up the U.S. map.

And, as always, if you don’t have access to a birth certificate, you — or an heir or legal representative — can order an official transcript of your own Census data to help you qualify for Social Security and other retirement benefits, obtain a passport, settle estates and in other situations. The cost is $65 per record. If you have questions, call the National Processing Center at 812-218-3046 or send a fax to 812-218-3371.

You may also like: How to obtain vital records.

 Tom Sutor

Google

Hi everyone. 
Becky Bennett and I were in John Bray's Google class yesterday.  Found out about two options in Google you might want to explore:  Books and Utube.  If you log into Google from your browser and click on the last option across the top "More".  At the bottom of the list is another "more" option. Choose Utube or Books and type genealogy in the search box at the top.  There are lots of choices under each. Utube videos are free; some books are free some have a cost.

Worth exploring (if you have some time)

Helen 

Article disclaimer

Please excuse the size of the articles that I published on behalf of Cheryl.  Trying to figure out how to post as a larger image.  If you would like to read,, please email me at nscgenealogy@gmail.com and I'll send the original pdf files.  Sorry (I'm still learning)

Helen

Here is an article on the traits of a genealogist courtesy of Cheryl Rolph

Here is a tips and tricks article courtesy of Cheryl Rolph

Several people were talking about naturalization records today.  Here is a link to a list of searchable  naturalization records-not all are free.  Some are free to search, but not to see the actual document.
http://www.germanroots.com/naturalization.html

Becky Bennett

Just wanted to let you know, that recently, I attended the Slavic Roots Seminar with Mary Osborne, Jim Gitney, and Bill Adreavich.  Thanks to the Genealogy at Newark Senior Center blog.
     If it wasn't for the blog, I would not have known about the program and that several of our members were planning to attend.  Just one of the advantages of having such a wonderful resource.
     In case anyone is interested, I converted the handouts to PDF files to share with all.
     I will send a series of e-mails, each containing one file, just in case your e-mail client has limitations on the size of files that can be sent.
     Take care and have a good weekend.

Tom Sutor

Thanks for doing this.
I'm currently working on my father's family.
Locations are Manhattan and maybe Queens in New York City.
Also northern New Jersey.
Is anyone else working on those locations?
Cheryl Rolph

In case you missed it in Sunday News Journal
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20120422/NEWS/204220330/A-look-Delaware-life-1940?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home&nclick_check=1

This article was shared with me by a Senior Surfer member.  First link it to the whole article and videos on 1940 census.  Second link is directly to the video of Tom Doherty who Jayne knows.  I will also post this to the blog and demonstrate when we roll it out.

://www.delawarefirst.org/24919-census-release-snapshot-of-past

 

 

http://www.delawarefirst.org/24919-census-release-snapshot-of-past?media=video&file=http://www.delawarefirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/census2.flv&pl=n

 

Eastern European Genealogy Presenttion

Will you pass along the following information to the genealogy group, and possibly have it announced at the computer club meetings? I don't know who heads the genealogy group, and my schedule is so erratic I never know when I can make it to the club meetings.

The lectures in Philadelphia on April 28, 2012, are a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in Eastern European genealogy to get great information--first-hand and free--from experts in the field. The attached notice from Gen Dobry, a Polish genealogy publication, describes the content of the lectures. More information about the speakers can be found by checking out their website: http://www.langline.com/

I have a keen interest in the genealogy of my Ukrainian (Boyko and Lemko) grandparents and plan to attend the lectures. I would welcome anyone who would like to ride along with me. My husband would welcome it even more so he won't have to go! Feel free to give anyone who expresses interest my email address and/or my phone number: 302-737-8306.

Mary Osborne

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