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ACGS Spring Workshops - April 28th 2012

It’s Free!  It’s Free! It’s Free! It’s Free! It’s Free! It’s Free! It’s Free! It’s Free!

DISCOVER GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES:   IN HOUSE – ON LINE – AND ELSEWHERE

Where:  ACGS LIBRARY BUILDING – 4 ELM ST. IN MANCHESTER, NH

(The library building is next door to Blessed Sacrament Church –    PARKING: in lot behind building)

TELEPHONE:   603-622-1554

8:00 - REGISTRATION [enter at back of building – lower lever]  No pre-registration required.

9:00 - Welcome:   Primary, secondary & tertiary sources, assessment and evaluation.

9:15-10:15 - Janine Penfield

• Ancestry.com: the best and worst;   Library vs. home editions

• Heritage Quest: Persi (periodical source index for journals) books and more

• Family Search -  Mormon website now searchable online

10:30-11:30 - Library Tour: Six stations, four 15 minute blocks, you choose!

• Indexes, repertories and references, Canada and US Jackie Watson

• Available Computer Databases  Gerry Savard

• Vital records &other sources on film and fiche  Pauline Cusson

• Family genealogies, family files  Jeanne Boisvert

• Periodicals, obituaries, directories Janine Penfield

• In the stacks: Loyalists, Indian captives, Soldiers, Acadians Muriel Normand

11:30-1:00 - Lunch out or bring your own and join others in our lunch room

     
1:00-2:00 - Muriel Normand

• Online and about-Websites – (with a dedicated focus)

• (Gen Web, Library & Archives Canada and many more)

• NH libraries, town & city offices, museums and societies.

• NEHGS

 2:15-3:15  -  Results:

    Janine Penfield
        Seriously? A French Canadian in the DAR

     Nelson Disco
        Persistence, many records and luck: Scaling a Wall.

Basic Library Tour:

• Indexes:  Blue Red, Petit and Fonds Drouin, Tanguay, Jette, Talbot, Charbonneau

• References: Town names, dit names, dictionaries

• Films: NH, Ma, Vt and Manchester vitals.

• Fiches: IGI,  Loiselle and female Drouin.

• Border crossings

Reps and other vital records on the shelves:

• Quebec, New England, New York, Midwest and West

• Ontario and the Maritime

Computer Databases: (not online)

Drouin, PRDH, Dictionnaire, our holdings, Ma vitals, BMS 2000

 In the Stacks and in the back. 

• Main Collection:  Histories, Biographies, state info, wars, natives, loyalists, filles du roy.

• Journals, obits, directories

• Acadian Collection

• Notary indexes, general references, Archives

Online:

Ancestry, Heritage Quest, Family Search

Other Sources Of Information:

• Genealogy Bank, Archives, Fold 3, regional sites, cemetery,

• Quebec genealogy online (and the other provinces),

• Library and Archives Canada,

• US genealogy web, state websites.

• Blogs, facebook and Elsewhere in New England

• State and city libraries, archives and vital records (focus on NH)

• Town and city clerk’s offices

• NEHGS

• DAR: great example of the use of resources!

Local Events- Something for Everyone!

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