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2/8
The February Meeting has been CANCELED
2012 Meeting Announcements
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| Date | Topic | Speaker | Description |
| January 14, 2012 | Photo Restoration | Linda Burgess | Linda Burgess will show us how our old photos can be repaired and restored. After Linda's demonstration, our "Panel of Experts" will answer questions to help members get their research back on track. Questions may be sent in advance to ALAGI10105@AOL.com Type "IGG ASK THE EXPERTS" in message line. |
| February 11th, 2012 | The Italian Genealogy Group will meet on Saturday morning at 10 am on February 11th, 2012 | Our guest speaker will be Art Sniffin | Arthur Sniffin of the Huntington Historical Society and the Federation of Genealogical Societies will lecture on "What's in Utah" and "Breaking Through Bricks Walls." |
| March 10, 2012 | " Finding Your Female Ancestors - Researching Their Maiden Names " | Our March guest speaker for the Italian Genealogical Group will be our very own member Tony Lauriano | Our March guest speaker for the Italian Genealogical Group will be our very own member Tony Lauriano who speak about finding your Female Ancestors. |
| April 14, 2012 | The Orphan Train Era | Tom Riley |
Between 1854-1929 over 273,000 children were sent by train from New York City in the largest migration of children in American history. During the 1880's and right up to the early 1900's many Italians were immigrating to America. As with any ethnic group coming to America some families experienced hardship, the death of a provider, loss of a spouse, a work place accident or financial reverses. Being an orphan in the 19th Century was really brutal for a child. When adults fell victim to alcoholism, prostitution or drug addiction, their children were the first to suffer.
The Orphan Train Era is all about helping people find their roots. There were many Italian youths who were separated from their brothers and sisters as one boy was picked by a farmer in Texas and the train rolled on to Oklahoma and a sister was taken by a family there. I remember I was contacted by an Italian lady who asked me to find her grandfather's brother who had been kidnapped at Ellis Island and lost among the confusion of bringing so many children here. The woman and I concluded after research that he had been taken to the Children's Aid Society and was sent on a train---this often happened when a mother had so many children she was unable to care for them. She would sometimes agree to keep 5 children and send 3 to the Children's Aid Society where they were put on a train. One of the things we need to do is to give these children back their original names and reunite them even posthumously to their real family roots--it's a project your group could take on. |
| May 12, 2012 | Getting ready for the 1940 census - searching without a name index | Steve Morse | The US census has been taken every ten years starting in 1790 but is sealed for 72 years due to privacy laws. The 1940 census does not have a name index. To access the census, you will need to obtain the Enumeration District of your desired location In future months a name index will be available. Before you can determine the family’s Enumeration District, you will have to know where they were located. If you do not already have their address, there are several ways of finding it. Steve's lecture will present the various tools to obtain the ED's and show circumstances in which each can be used. Stephen Morse is the creator of the One Step Website which also contains numerous tools for obtaining the ED's. |
| June 9, 2012 | The Italian Genealogical Group will present our scholarship winners their deserving awards. Voting for our board and committee members will also be presented. A luncheon for our paid up members will be served. | ||
| September 8, 2012 | "Passenger Lists and those Annotations" | Larry Fermi | WELCOME ABOARD! - PASSENGER LISTS & THOSE ANNOTATIONS Learn how to find your immigrant relatives on the manifests of the ships that brought them to America and what those scribbles next to their names mean. The Welcome Aboard lecture will discuss the various types of passenger lists that have existed over the years and what might be found on them including discussion of research in the ship manifests prior to 1820, Customs Passenger Lists in the years 1820 to ca 1891, and the Immigration Passenger Lists from ca 1891 forward. We will also look at the various annotations that were made on the passenger lists and how they can be used to determine additional information about the immigrants including other ships they may have traveled on, nationality, medical status and even clues to US Naturalization records and dates. |
| October 13, 2012 | Intermediate Genealogy | Toni McKeen | INTERMEDIATE GENEALOGY: Using a system to keep track of documents this will include a genealogy tree, helpful sites and handouts. Some important information on city directories, state censuses, probate courts and wills will be included. |
| NOVEMBER 10, 2012 | Geneograms | Christine Crawford-Oppenheiner | GENOGRAMS: Genograms, a cross between pedigree and descendancy charts, can help identify family patterns, including health history, genetic diseases, and family dynamics. Learn how to create and use them. A short talk by Mike Colamonica, a WW2 POW to precede the above lecture. |
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