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Genealogy: DNA Testing and the Results
Monday, October 8,
12:15 p.m.
Lutz Branch Library
Learn about DNA testing and the results when it comes to doing genealogy research. Presented by Kelly Whitelock of Tampa Bay Roots.
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Brandon Area Genealogical and Historical Society Tuesday, October 9, 6:30 p.m. Bloomingdale Regional Public Library - McLean Community RoomJoin us at this meeting of the Brandon Area Genealogical & Historical Society. The program is open to all interested in genealogy and family history.
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Online Genealogy Thursday, October 11, 1:00 p.m. Bloomingdale Regional Public Library - Room 5, Computer Lab Begin your family history research using Ancestry Library Edition, HeritageQuest and Fold3.
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Introduction to Genealogy
Saturday, October 13,
10:30 a.m.
Arthenia L. Joyner University Area Community Library - Community Room A&B
Want to take up genealogy but don't know where to start? This beginner's class gives attendees the tools to get started and strategies to succeed with family research.
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Tampa Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. (AAHGS)
Saturday, October 13,
1:00 p.m.
Robert W. Saunders Sr. Public Library - Ada T. Payne Community Room A
The Tampa Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. will hold a monthly meeting from 1- 4 P.M. The meeting is open to all interested in African American genealogy and family history. "Ask a Genealogist" assistance will be provided from 12-1 P.M. and from 4-5 P.M. Presented in partnership with the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.
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STEAM Squadron: Genealogy for Kids
Monday, October 22,
2:30 p.m.
North Tampa Branch Library - Computer Lab
Celebrate Family History Month! Learn the basics of how to create your family tree. For grades K-5. Funded by the Friends of the North Tampa Branch Library.
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Census Records for Genealogy
Thursday, October 25,
3:00 p.m.
Jan Kaminis Platt Regional Library
Learn to use federal, state, and special census records to research genealogy.
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Before You Test: DNA Basics You Need To Know
Saturday, October 27,
10:30 a.m.
Arthenia L. Joyner University Area Community Library - Community Room A&B
Drew Smith, a librarian at USF and expert instructor in Genealogy, will discuss how to avoid wasting time and money by learning how DNA is inherited, which type of DNA test to take, and exactly what you can expect to get as a result.
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FAMILY HERITAGE FESTIVAL Saturday, October 20, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. John F. Germany Public Library Join the Florida History & Genealogy Library as we host the 4th Annual Family Heritage Festival.
Participate in genealogy activities that include presentations by nationally known genealogy experts and visits with local history and genealogy societies. Topics will include DNA, city directories, MyHeritage, history of Tampa churches, and the research that led to the creation of the Fortune Taylor Bridge (formerly Laurel Street Bridge) historical marker.
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NEW GENEALOGY BOOKS in the Florida History & Genealogy Library @ John F. Germany Public Library
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DNA Q&A: Real Questions from Real People About Genetic Genealogy by Andrew LeeGenetic genealogy generates compelling questions as people around the world attempt to understand haplogroups, ethnicity, and genetic matches. DNA Q&A has curated actual questions from real people who have sought to better understand DNA. Is your question, or something similar, in the book? Find out the answer to questions such as: * What is the best testing companies for adoptees? * FAMILY TREE DNA now accepts imported data from the other services. Wouldn’t that make their database potentially the best overall?; * Why did I receive completely different ethnicity results when I uploaded my AncestryDNA results to GEDmatch.com and MyHeritage? * My brother and I sent our samples into AncestryDNA recently. We have the same biological parents, but our results were significantly different. Is genetic testing no better than astrology? * On 23andMe in DNA relatives, a woman is my father's half-sister. He doesn't have a half-sister. What is going on?
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The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing : How to Use Genetic Genealogy to Discover Your Long-lost Family by Tamar Weinberg Reconnect with your roots! Adoptees, foundlings, and others with unknown parentage face unique challenges in researching their ancestors. Enter this book: a comprehensive guide to adoption genealogy that has the resources you need to find your family through genetic testing. Inside, you'll find: * Strategies for connecting your genealogy to previous genealogists. * Detailed guides for using DNA tests and tools, plus how to analyze your test results and apply them to research. * Real-life success stories that put the book's techniques into practice and inspire you to seek your own discoveries.
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A Recipe for Writing Family History by Devon Noel Lee and Andrew LeeA writer is someone who communicates. If you can talk, you can write, says Devon Noel Lee and Andrew Lee. In A Recipe for Writing Family History, the Lees take the neophyte writer and researcher through a step-by-step process of writing down the stories of your ancestors -- the ones you have met and the ones you have not. The authors present the seven concrete steps to writing just one story about one ancestor that can be utilized over and over again. The seven steps are: select an ancestor; craft a simple sentence; expand using basic records; expand using charts; expand with additional records; expand with fun facts; and finish the story.
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Explore your ancestors' hometowns! This book guides you through American history by looking at the 16 most populous and historically influential cities in the U.S., such as New York, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, and Baltimore. Each section features beautiful full-color maps published at crucial points in each city's history, tracing its growth and development from its founding to the early 1900s. Use the maps to find your ancestor's home, trace your ancestor's walk to work, and identify the streets and buildings from your ancestor's everyday life. Delve further into the past with a quick-reference timeline of key dates from each city's history. You’ll also discover easy genealogy research tips for finding local birth, marriage, and death records; federal and state censuses; and city directories. The book features: * More than 130 full-color historical maps of 16 important cities, including Houston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. * Timelines highlighting the most important moments in each city's history. * Lists of city-specific genealogy websites and resources for records that will help you discover your family history. * An index with instructions on viewing online versions of each map, allowing you to zoom in for more detail or use them with programs like Google Earth.
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Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA by Richard Hill Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes readers on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer. In the vein of a classic mystery, Hill gathers the seemingly scant evidence surrounding the circumstances of his birth. As his resolve shores up, the author also avails of new friends, genealogists, the Internet, and the latest DNA tests in the new field of genetic genealogy. As he closes in on the truth of his ancestry, he is able to construct a living, breathing portrait of the young woman who was faced with the decision to forsake her rights to her child, and ultimately the man whose identity had remained hidden for decades. This book offers guidance, insight, and motivation for anyone engaged in a similar mission, from ways to obtain information to the many networks that can facilitate adoption searches. Included is a detailed guide to DNA and genetic genealogy and how it can produce irrefutable results in determining genetic connections to help adoptees bypass sealed records and similar stumbling blocks.
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Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past by Peg Meier The earliest European visitors to Minnesota marvel at the area's flora and fauna. A soldier at Fort Snelling contemplates deserting. Swedish settler Andrew Peterson makes a daily record of his haying schedule, dropping in, without comment, a note of his marriage. Sarah Christie pleads with her father in the 1880s for a chance to go to college. Turn-of-the-century accountant Walter T. Post keeps his family informed of his saving and spending habits. In the 1920s, the Pioneer Press publishes recommendations for young ladies seeking a spouse. These stories and more emerge from select diary and journal entries, from published accounts and business records – the experiences of ordinary Minnesotans. Matched with drawings and photographs that capture a way of life at a particular moment, these impressions offer a telling history of the state in the words of its people.
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Genealogy of a Village: 19th Century Frontenac, Minnesota by Lorry WendlandFrontenac, a unique village on the National Register of Historic Places, was first platted as Westervelt in 1857. In 1859 the name was changed to Frontenac. A predominance of German and Norwegian immigrants found their way to the area and with determination and skill built a village out of the wilderness. The genealogy of every family who lived in 19th century Frontenac is documented in this book and presented by family group and census records. Two 19th century photo albums are reprinted as well as two original letters from Lewis and Israel Garrard, a prominent Minnesota family. A Frontenac tour guide is included for those who visit and tour the village.
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Ohio Amish Directory: Holmes County and Vicinity [Holmes, Tuscarawas, and Wayne counties] Edited by Marvin WengerdThis book is considered the most comprehensive directory of its kind among the Amish. It contains more than 24,100 entries: names, addresses, occupations, birth dates, children's names/birth dates, and maps, as well as histories of the directory and the Amish parochial school movement. This year 2000 edition incorporates 5,275 families and 183 church districts compared to the 1996 edition of 4,727 families, 156 church districts, and 20,107 Amish entries. There are church districts by name, church districts by bishop, church ministry & membership, family listings by church districts, and an index by household head. The book also includes a locations map of Ohio Amish settlements not represented in this directory.
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Family Maps of Tillman County, Oklahoma, with Homesteads, Roads, Waterways, Towns, Cemeteries, Railroads, and More by Gregory A. BoydLocating original landowners in maps has never been an easy task -- until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Tillman County, Oklahoma, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s.
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Research like a Pro: A Genealogist's Guide by Diana ElderAre you stuck in your genealogical research? Wondering how to make progress on your brick wall problems? Discover the process that a professional genealogist uses to solve difficult cases. Diana Elder shares her step-by-step method using real world examples, easily understood by any level of genealogist and written for the researcher ready to take their skills to the next level. Learn how to form an objective, review your research by creating a timeline analysis, construct a locality guide to direct your research, create a plan, style source citations, set up a research log to organize and track your searches, and write a report detailing your findings and ideas for future research. Work samples and templates are included.
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