Minutes March 23, 1016 Discussion Group

Date: 3/23/2016

Announcements:

1. Treasurer Report: Phyllis Edwards

      - $480.00 Donated from proceeds from first writing class

           taught by Phyllis Edwards

      - $150 additional income

      -expenses of $232.32 for training and $90 for posters

      - $307.68 remaining balance

      - Proceeds from 2016 writing class will be donated to NSC

      - $4,000.00 grant to the computer club has been used

2. Conference/Meetings:

      - Nancy Lyons presenting an Italian Genealogy lecture

          4/23/2016 10:30 ?Delaware Archives? not sure

          of location - if interested contact Helen Browne

      - Cherry Hill April discussion to be announced Shamalie

        - Susan Kirk Ryan, President of Delaware Genealogical Society

             will speak at our next Discussion Group Meeting, April 20

             Topic: Bumps in the Road: Quirks, Lucky Finds, Challenges

             on the Ancestral Trail

        - Phyllis Edwards will present a lecture on 7/23/2016, 3:00

             Topic: Claiming Your Heritage

        - Phyllis Edwards will be presenting a lecture at the Baltimore

             Lithuanian Society Meeting

        - Phyllis Edwards has been invited to have a table at the Lithuanian

             Festival in May

        - Genealogy Detectives Topic: Redoing Research File System

             Webinar - for info contact Helen Browne

        

3. Discussion Items:

          - Myron G: Apple will not support Family Tree Maker after the end

              of the year. Ged.com bought software and moving to another

              database.  Max DS leased - can be downloaded now - continues

              support. Roots Magic can be synced with Ancestry

         - Becky - 160 page list of of genealogy websites has been placed

              on the Genealogy Blog on our website

         - Becky - will give Discussion Group e-mail addresses to Genealogy

              Detectives to be placed on their mailing list. They have very good

              newsletters and information.

PLEASE NOTE: Next meeting will be the third Wednesday this month due to

          the Spring Fair - April 20

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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.

Related

•            Getting an accurate census count. Listen

•            Online resources for genealogy research. Read

•            Begin building your family tree. Read

•            Catch up on kin during your next trip abroad. Watch

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