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    My Heritage SIG Summary

    By Tom Wilheim My Heritage SIG MeetingNorthwest Suburban Genealogical SocietyFriday, September 18, 2020 Ken Seifert – ModeratorZoom Participants ≈ 25Future Meeting times Third Friday of each month @ 2:00 PM, CST My Heritage ContactKen had an email exchange with Daniel

    Howard Cameron September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    Book Review: Kashubian Language in Canada, the USA and New Zealand

    Book Review Kashubian Language in Canada, the USA and New Zealand By Stanislôw Frymark, 312 pages (156 pages in English/flip the book for Kashubian). 2020. Non-Fiction. The ancient language spoken by Kashubians, a true ethnic minority, with West Slavic background

    Howard Cameron September 26, 2020September 28, 2020 Uncategorized 1 Comment Read more

    FamilySearch Creates Community Groups

    FamilySearch has created a new tool for researchers to get help with their family history research from their own homes.  This new site, called Community Groups, is a site where people can ask questions upload documents and get help with

    Howard Cameron September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    Try-it! Illinois

    TRY-IT ILLINOIS October 1-November 30 Welcome to Try-It! Illinois 2020, the annual statewide database trial, sponsored by Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White and the Illinois State Library.  Try-It! Illinois offers the staff and library users of the more than 5,000 ILLINET member

    Howard Cameron September 11, 2020September 11, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    Check out our New Video Archives Page

    Our “Paid” members now have one location where they can go and get links to all of our past meetings which have archived videos. You can locate the meeting by date or meeting topic. Click here for more information

    Howard Cameron August 9, 2020August 12, 2020 Uncategorized No Comments Read more

    German Surnames: Where They Come From and What They Mean

    If you’ve been researching your German ancestors — especially in light of MyHeritage’s release of the new and exclusive North Rhine-Westphalia Death Index 1874- 1938 — you’ve probably been spending a lot of time with their surnames. Perhaps you’ve been

    Talya June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    Perspectives on Boston’s 1764 Smallpox Epidemic

    On 13 Apr 1764, John Adams sent his fiancée Abigail a story about being inoculated against smallpox in Boston. Through a cousin of Abigail’s, Dr. Cotton Tufts, Adams and his brother had received a referral to Dr. Nathaniel Perkins. At

    Unknown June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    What’s In A Name?

    1794 Petition of Jacob Burkholder Do you have ancestors whose surnames were mangled in a variety of ways? Most of us do. Spelling wasn’t exact prior to 1900 and clerks often recorded names as they heard them. Often our ancestors

    Olive Tree Genealogy June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    My Last AncestryDNA AutoCluster Analysis From Genetic Affairs – Post 1

    I ran my last AutoClusters for AncestryDNA on Genetic Affairs on 11 March 2020, and I’m glad I did – see News From Genetic Affairs: Ancestry Demands They Stop Collecting DNA Match Data.  I finally  got around to looking at the

    Randy Seaver June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more

    The U.S. Version of “Who Do You Think You Are?” has been Renewed for Another Season

    Dick Eastman, author Dick Eastman has been writing this genealogy newsletter for 24 years. He has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He has worked in the computer industry for more than 50 years in hardware, software,

    Dick Eastman June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Blogs, Organizational Genealogy Blogs, Uncategorized Read more
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