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Free Genealogy Webinars
Webinars (WEB semINARS) are online seminars, usually in the form of a PowerPoint presentation where you can hear the presenter’s voice and see the charts. Some of the most recent webinars (these are FREE) include:* "Getting the Most Out of ...
Interesting Blog Articles -- August 2009
The genealogy blogosphere has many interesting and useful articles written each month, including these from August and early September:* Sharon Tate Moody wrote an excellent tutorial on the organization of land records at U.S. county courthouses. It ...
Interesting Genealogy Blog Articles
Here is a selection of genealogy blog articles gleaned from late July and early August, in case you missed them the first time around:* It’s 2014! Do You Know Where Your Data Is? By Dick Eastman in Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter. (http://w...
Useful Websites for Genealogy Research - July 2009
This is my list of new to me and useful genealogy websites for the month of July:* The Biblio web site at http://www.biblio.com/ has used, rare and out-of-print books available. This site has over 50 million listings and is used by used book dealers ...
Must-Read Blog Posts from June 2009
This is my selection of must-read blog posts from June 2009:* A Genealogy Blog Primer by Thomas MacEntee on the Geneabloggers blog. Thomas created a primer on blogging for genealogy, and has a PDF version and a presentation version.* “The ...
"Digital Documentation" by Shirley Becker - CVGS Program Summary
....Shirley Becker presented "Digital Documentation" to the Chula Vista Genealogical Society today. There were 25 in attendance for this excellent description of a problem almost all of us have - how to organize our computer files so that we can find...
CVGS Seminar on Saturday, 25 April - "Finding Your Elusive Ancestors"
....The next Saturday Seminar of the Chula Vista Genealogical Society will be Saturday, 25 April 2009, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chula Vista Civic Center Library (365 F Street, in Chula Vista) in the Auditorium.The Seminar theme is "Finding Your ...
Genealogy Class at Chula Vista Adult School
CVGS member Judy Helton is teaching a FREE weekly class on Genealogy at the Chula Vista Adult School (1050 Fourth Avenue, Room 303, a computer lab) on Mondays from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Judy describes the class as:"We work from the Family Tree Make...
CVGS Research Group Summary - 11 March 2009
....The Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Research Group meeting today had only eight attendees, but it was a loquacious bunch. Fun, too, with lots of good research experiences this past month. We went around the table, and had these discussi...
Genealogy News Summary for February
....Here's the genealogy news for late January and early February compiled from several genealogy news sources and my own research:1. INTERESTING GENEALOGY WEB SITESa) http://www.scribd.com - Scribd is a place where you publish, discover and dis...
CVGS Research Group Summary - 14 January 2009
The Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group met at the library today. Twelve fun-loving genealogists were there to share their research experiences and offer help to several attendees.Randy Seaver just returned from a visit to The Generations...
Genealogy News Summary for January 2009
....Here's the genealogy news for late December and early November: 1. INTERESTING GENEALOGY WEB SITES* http://wardepartmentpapers.org/ - Papers of the U.S. War Department 1784-1800 are in this collection of more than 55,000 documents in a free, o...
CVGS Research Group highlights - Wednesday, 12 November
....The Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group meeting at the Library today had 12 in attendance, including three visitors. We went around the table and everybody shared their genealogy highlights for the last month:John is still chasing bir...
Genealogy News Summary for November
....Here's the genealogy news summary for late October and early November:1. INTERESTING GENEALOGY WEB SITESa) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ - the Perry-Castaneda Historical Maps Collection at the University of Texas.b) http://freepages.genealo...
Genealogy News Summary for September 2008
Here is the Genealogy News summary for September that we briefly discussed in the CVGS Research Group today (and emailed to the CVGS members):1. INTERESTING GENEALOGY WEB SITESa) http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames -- The Public Profiler site pl...
CVGS Web Site Updated
Wrbmaster Gary Brock has updated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society web site at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacvgs2/. Gary made a presentation to the CVGS Board of directors in July offering a choice of web design templates, and the Board pi...
Genealogy class at Chula Vista Adult School
CVGS Member Judy Helton emailed me with information about her Chula Vista Adult Education class (at 1034 Fourth Avenue in Chula Vista, between Moss and Naples Streets, 619-691-5760). The Adult School brochure says:ARTS & CRAFTS - RECORDING YOUR ...
Lineage Society for Descendants of Early Settlers of Spanish-Mexican Land Grants
Debbie Wayne Parker emailed me with this announcement:HOUSTON, TEXAS - Organizers announced today the formation of a lineage society for Early Settlers of Spanish and Mexican Land Grants (ESSMLG).This is the first national lineage society that recogn...
Practice Reading Old Handwriting
...Susi passed along the United Kingdom National Archives web site that discusses Paleography. What is Paleography? The site describes it as:"Palaeography is the study of old handwriting."In this context, "old" means between 1530 and 1800 in the U...
Genealogy News Summary for August 2008
..Here is the Genealogy News summary for August that we briefly discussed in the CVGS Research Group today (and emailed to the CVGS members):1. INTERESTING GENEALOGY WEB SITESa) www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1881 -- Library and Archive...
The CVGS Mentor Program
What is a "mentor?" The dictionary says:men - tor /ˈmɛntɔr, -tər/–noun1. a wise and trusted counselor or teacher.2. an influential senior sponsor or supporter.–verb (used without object)3. to act as a mentor: She spent years mentoring to jun...
Genealogy News Summary for July
Here is the Genealogy News summary for July that we discussed in the CVGS Research Group today (and emailed to the CVGS members):1. INTERESTING GENEALOGY WEB SITESa) www.cookcountygenealogy.com -- The Cook County Clerk's Bureau of Vital Records pr...
Online Everton's Genealogical Helper - FREE Until 7/12
Leland Meitzler posted "Everton’s Genealogical Helper “Online Edition” FREE for the Next Week" that announced that for the next week, the Jul-Aug, 2008 issue will be “in the clear,” and available to anyone that wants to check it out.If you ...
Genealogy Days in Chula Vista for June
The Chula Vista Genealogical Society events for June 2008 include:** Wednesday, June 11, 12 noon, Chula Vista Civic Center Library -- CVGS Research Group meets in the Library Conference Room. We will review the latest genealogy news, share success st...
