Next Meeting - May 26 Coffee at 6:30pm Meeting at 7:00pm
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.... bring along cookies or other goodies to share and those who assist in setting up and clearing away at our meetings. Your contribution at that time is particularly helpful as it allows me to wrap things up with the presenter and/or other participants and not face the cleanup alone afterwards, and IS noticed and valued, even when I don't say Thank You in person or in public. We relax and enjoy learning with new and old friends with something to nibble on and our coffee or tea.
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Mark your calendars and join us at any and all of these FHIG meetings on Tuesdays in 2015:
June 23 July 28 August 25 September 22 October 27 November 24 Still no FHIG in December! |
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The Family History Interest Group (FHIG) at Bernards Township Library can inspire and encourage you as you seek to learn about the wondrous lives of your forebears. This newsletter is the place to find information about upcoming and past FHIG meetings, news and notes about related topics, and ideas, tips and suggestions for your own genealogy searches. -- Ruth
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Tuesday, May 26 The collections of the David Library of the American Revolution (DLAR) in Washington Crossing, PA focus on the time period from 1750-1800, and the war for Independence. Included are primary and secondary materials on the military, political, social, domestic, and economic history of the time period. These resources provide an in-depth study of American & British soldiers, including Loyalists, and Hessians. The Library also holds records that speak to the French and Indian War and the early republic United States. Librarian Katherine Ludwig oversees this specialized research library and at the FHIG meeting May 26 will give a description of the David Library’s holdings, and discuss how to use the Library’s resources to research family history during the Colonial and Revolutionary time periods. Even if you yourself have no revolutionary war ancestry, you may find this an intriguing introduction to a significant, centralized history research collection assembled from repositories across the world - a real treasure, easily accessible from our area.
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About the David Library Businessman, philanthropist, and revolutionary-era enthusiast Sol Feinstone (1888-1980) founded the David Library in 1959; and named the institution in honor of his grandson David Golub. Feinstone began the DLAR with his extensive, private collection of revolutionary-era manuscripts. In 1974, he built the present library and auxiliary buildings on his 118-acre farm in historic Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania and opened them to the public. 1201 River Road, Washington Crossing, PA. TEL 215-493-6776
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The Family History Interest Group (FHIG) meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month except December from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Program Room on the lower level at Bernards Township Library.
Coffee and tea (and cookies or snacks if participants bring them!) is served at 6:30 pm and participants are invited to socialize. Our coffee and tea arrangements are $elf $upporting -- If you enjoy a cup please consider dropping a quarter or two in the basket provided.
FHIG meetings are FREE and all are welcome, whether they have been previously involved in family history research or not. No prior experience in tracing genealogical roots is necessary. The Group provides opportunities for those interested in family history and genealogy to share information and experiences and be more successful in their search.
For more information please call the Library at 908.204.3031, ext.4 or email RLufkin@Bernards.org
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Seeking Immigrant Origins and Naturalization Records with Bea Denman Howley I looked into some of the ideas Bea shared and found: - Pictures of ships once associated with the University of Baltimore library are now available through the Steamship Historical Society's Image Porthole. Search and browse almost 60,000 photographs of ships at http://www.sshsaimageporthole.org
- Register for free to access additional features.
- A possible map source - Among the special collections at Universty of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's Golda Meir library is the American Geographical Society Library, with over 1.28 million items, including maps, atlases, books, periodicals, photographic images, and digital data files, worldwide in scope with coverage from the 15th century to the present.
- Learn more at http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/
- Browse the digital collection of maps and photos at http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/agsldigital/
- Additional information and resources are available from the USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) at http://www.uscis.gov/genealogy Note: these may require payment and some of these resources are available for free elsewhere.http://www.uscis.gov/genealogy
Bea concluded "A most important responsibility for a genealogist is to make your ancestors 'live.' Do some digging and get the details." What excellent advice!
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Have you wondered what you might find on Ancestry.com? Stop in the Library and take a look at Ancestry Library Edition. FREE access to many of the resources you would find with a personal subscription. Available only in the Library but many folk have found it well worth coming in for. Need help getting connected? Ask at the reference desk.
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NEW in the Library collection
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