Delta County,Michigan B-M-D Online

If you have ancestors from Michigan, specifically Delta County, you are in luck. The county’s website contains several great references for our use.

They offer a searchable birth , marriage, and death index covering  years back into the 1860’s. Death and marriage records run to 2010 and 2014 respectively, while birth records run to 1914.

The site also links to a mapping site for the county that is very attractive and easy to use.

Check it out at:  Delta County of Michigan

USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer

Here is a great site if you wish to explore topographical maps for the areas in the US where your ancestors lived.

The interface is easy to use. Zoom to the area of the US you are interested in (this is done by using your mouse scroll wheel), then where ever you click, a timeline of maps available will appear at the bottom of the screen. The year of publication of the map and the scale will be shown. Click on the map of interest and it will be displayed. In the left panel of the screen you’ll find a handy set of instructions to guide you.

Once the map is displayed, you can zoom in without loss of detail. You can download your chosen map to a PDF file.

USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer

PGS Events for the Week of 26 Apr-2 May 2015

Monday, 27-Apr-15 at 9:00 AM--Memorial Park Cemetery Canvass—9:00-11:00 AM. Meet at the south parking lot at 5750 49th Street N (intersection of 49th St. N. and 54th Ave, west side). Bring your digital camera and sun protection. Water and other refreshments will be provided. Wear your PGS shirt if you have one. Please RSVP to Debbie Schuler: deborah.e.schuler@hotmail.com, (727) 470-9967. Memorial Park Cemetery, 5750 49th St N.

Monday, 27-Apr-15 at 6:00 PM--Genealogy Numbering Systems and How to Use Them: -- Have you ever been confused by the array of numbers you see in printed genealogies? Family lineages presented in text format require an organizational system to allow the user to “easily” follow family lines. This class explains several of the most common systems you may come across, and may give you some ideas on how to construct your own. Summers, Local History Room, Largo Library.

Wednesday, 29-Apr-15 at 10:00 AM--National Archives,–Ordering Data. This is an in-depth explanation of how to order several different records from the National Archives. The records include military (both historic and modern), naturalization, census, land, and microfilm. Both online and postal mail ordering procedures will be covered. Summers, Local History Room, Largo Library.

 Saturday, 2-May-15 at 10:00 AM--Family Tree Maker User Group--Questions & Answers and Demonstration of how to use the Family Tree Maker genealogical database software. Hosmer/Bryan, Jenkins C, Largo Library.

Immigration to Canada in The Nineteenth Century

This site will be of interest if your ancestors immigrated to Canada in the 1800’s and early 1900’s. It give links to ship arrivals, immigration guides, voyage accounts, as well as sources outside of Canada (America, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Finland, etc.).

Actually, there is so much here that I can’t adequately describe it. Check it out at:  Immigrants to Canada in Nineteenth Century - Ships - Emigration Reports - Emigration Handbooks

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online

The Free Genealogy Tools  Blog offers a listing of free Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. The link below will take you to a page listing the sates. Once you click on a state, you can then choose a community. Not all the states or communities are represented, but there are enough that you will want to do some exploring.

For those of you not familiar with Sanborn maps, this will be a real treat. These maps are incredibility detailed and will take you down to individual building, their dimensions, building material, and more.

Check it out at:  Free Genealogy Tools: Free Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

San Mateo County Genealogical Society Offers Online Databases

If you have ancestors from the San Mateo area of California, the genealogy society there has some online databases that may be of interest.

They include an obituary index, a digitized book on early county deaths, an index of county coroner records, an index to county court minute and record books, and more.

Databases | San Mateo County Genealogical Society

PGS Events for the Week of 19-25 April 2015

Monday, 20-Apr-15 at 6:00 PM--Ancestry.com searching--the next level. This class will explore approaches to difficult searches--how to find them when they're not where they should be.  Summers, Local History Room, Largo Library

Tuesday, 21-Apr-15 at 1:00 PM--Italian Genealogy Interest Group, LeConte, Local History Room, Largo Library

Wednesday, 22-Apr-15 at 10:00 AM--Library Catalog Searching for Genealogists– Libraries are a great place for finding genealogy resources. This class will show you how to find libraries and archives that can help you in your search, how to get the most from catalog searches, and discover other helpful resources available through online catalogs. Fortin, Local History Room, Largo Library.

Saturday, 25-Apr-15 at 10:00 AM--RootsMagic User Group--Questions and answers and demonstrations of how to use the RootsMagic genealogy database software program. Summers, Local History Room, Largo Library

Newberry Research Library in Chicago

According to their website, this research library has been collecting genealogy and local history material since 1887. Chicago is certainly represented in their holdings, but the range of the material goes well beyond that location.

The link below takes you directly to the genealogy and local history page, but take some time to explore other pages of this helpful site. Of particular interest is the link to “Newberry Research Guides.” You will find it in about the middle of the landing page.

Genealogy and Local History | Newberry

Help Out with the Memorial Park Canvas

Here's an opportunity to do some volunteer work. We continue to canvas the Memorial Park Cemetery. It is a big job and help is needed. 

WHEN:  9:00am continuing for 2 hours  
WHERE:  5750 49th Street North, St. Petersburg  (at the  intersection of 49th Street North and 54th Avenue North, west side). We plan to meet in the South section of the cemetery (south of 54th avenue)

Here is the schedule for the rest of the season:
Monday, April 27th
Monday, May 4th
Monday, May 11th
Tuesday, May 26th (because that Monday is Memorial Day)

Rochester Churches Indexing Project

If your ancestors are from the Rochester, NY area, this site may be beneficial to your research. Currently there are over 31,000 marriages, 42,000 baptisms, and 500 deaths in the database.

To get to the search screens from the landing page, click on the terms “Marriages,” “Baptisms,” and “Deaths” under the welcome line at the top of the page.

This indexing project is ongoing, so it is worth revisiting the site every once in a while to see what new data has been added.

Rochester Churches Indexing Project

PGS Events for the Week of 12-18 April 2015

Tuesday, 14-Apr-15 at 10:00 AM --GENEALOGY PHOTOS: ORGANIZING, MANAGING AND ENHANCING -- This class will demonstrate how to organize and manage your digital genealogy photos so they can be easily found and how to enhance their appearance. This includes cropping, straightening, one-touch fix, removing blemishes, adding captions and text to the photo, making a collage, and much more. All this can be done using Picasa, the powerful free program from Google. Bryan, Citrus County Genealogy Society, Lecanto, FL

Tuesday, 14-Apr-15 at 6:00 PM--INTRODUCTION TO GENEALOGY (Beginner) -- Basics of how to get started in researching your family history—what to do first, where to look & how to do it. Bryan, Local History Room, Largo Library

Thursday, 16-Apr-15 at 12:30 PM--English & Welsh Poor Law Records (1601-1948)--Records of Poor Law Officers and Parish Paupers. Pearson, Aging Well Center, 1501 N. Belcher Rd., Clearwater, FL

Friday, 17-Apr-15 at 10:30 AM--German Genealogy Interest Group. Dellinger, Local History Room, Largo Library

Saturday, 18-Apr-15 at 10:00 AM--Computers in Genealogy--Question and answer session on the use of computers in genealogy research and record keeping. Bryan, Jenkins B, Largo Library.

Saturday, 18 Apr 15 at 11:00 AM—Program Meeting-- What Can Your Ancestors' Religion Reveal About Them - Debra Fleming, the principal of The Ancestry Detective™, LLC a genealogical research firm, will present the topic, Jenkins B, Largo Library.

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How to Use Your Scanner

This article in GenealogyInTime Magazine takes you through how to use your scanner to capture old photos in five steps. It starts with the basic step of attaching the scanner to the computer, and ends with the step of storing the scanned image.

If you are a bit fuzzy on the basics, check out the article at:  How to Scan Old Photos for Genealogy Research

Digitized Patent Plans of Ontario, Canada

Good news for genealogists! You can now access more than 4,100 recently digitized patent plans on the Archives of Ontario’s Visual Database.

Look down the landing page to the heading “Accessing the RG 1-100 Paten Plan Images” for instructions on how to use the database. You can search by keyword or browse, but you have to know the rules. You might want to browse first to see the type of maps available.

Archives of Ontario Offers New Digitized Patent Plans

JGSTB Meeting Notice/Reminder - Sunday April 12, 2015

The next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay will be this coming Sunday April 12, 2015.  They are presenting an excellent program planned on researching your Jewish ancestors using FamilySearch.org. 

If you are not a member and would like to discover your own Jewish family history, you are welcome to go and look them over – there is no charge to attend, and guests are always welcome. For more information: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fljgstb/

Here are the details on the upcoming meeting:

Date:          Sunday, April 12, 2015

Time:         1:30PM   Refreshments, Schmooze & Library Access                   
                   2:00PM   Program

Where:       Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services
                   4041 Icot Blvd., Clearwater, FL

PGS Events for the Week of 5-11 April

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Monday, 6-Apr-15 at 9:00 AM--Memorial Park Cemetery Canvass—9:30-11:30 AM. Meet at the south parking lot at 5750 49th Street N (intersection of 49th St. N. and 54th Ave, west side). Bring your digital camera and sun protection. Water and other refreshments will be provided. Wear your PGS shirt if you have one. Please RSVP to Debbie Schuler: deborah.e.schuler@hotmail.com, (727) 470-9967. Memorial Park Cemetery, 5750 49th St N

Monday, 6-Apr-15 at 2:00 PM--Swedish Genealogy Interest Group--Sherry Brocker will present a program on the exhibits at the Swedish American Museum, Chicago, Illinois. The exhibit is called  A Dream of America: Swedish Immigration to Chicago. The program will explore the causes of and the experiences during emigration as well as life in their new home.

After this presentation, Don Ekberg will talk about his Family Tree DNA project that focuses specifically on those with Swedish ancestry. Charest, Local History Room, Largo Library.

Tuesday, 7-Apr-15 at 6:00 PM--Familysearch.org—the class will demonstrate how to search the vast databases available on this rapidly-expanding site made available from the LDS (Mormon) genealogy collection. Bryan, Local History Room, Largo Library.

Wednesday, 8-Apr-15 at 10:00 AM--Documentation-An introduction on the content of proper source citations. Using modern genealogy programs to enter citations will also be covered (PAF, Roots Magic, and Family Tree Maker will be addressed). Summers, Local History Room, Largo Library.

Wednesday, 8-Apr-15 at 1:00 PM--England/Wales Genealogy Interest Group. NOTE DATE CHANGE--ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 15 APRIL. Pearson, Local History Room, Largo Library.

Thursday, 9-Apr-15 at 10:00 AM--FOLD3 AND GODFREY LIBRARY -- Fold3 is an online database focused on digitized military records. It is a fee site that is free if accessed at or through the Largo Library. This presentation explains how to get the most out of using it. The Godfrey Library databases are a recent subscription available at the Largo Library. This collection of databases focus mainly on the New England states and offers information not available on other websites. This presentation focuses on what the site offers and how to use it in your research. Summers, Local History Room, Largo Library.

Saturday, 11-Apr-15 at 9:00 AM--Memorial Park Cemetery Canvass—9:30-11:30 AM. Meet at the south parking lot at 5750 49th Street N (intersection of 49th St. N. and 54th Ave, west side). Bring your digital camera and sun protection. Water and other refreshments will be provided. Wear your PGS shirt if you have one. Please RSVP to Debbie Schuler: deborah.e.schuler@hotmail.com, (727) 470-9967. Memorial Park Cemetery, 5750 49th St N.

St. John's Cemetery, Albany, New York

The Troy Irish Genealogy Society gives us an online listing of interments in St. John’s Cemetery in Albany, New York. In addition to the index, there is a good history of the cemetery and a focus on Irish interred there.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to get to the index of the over twelve thousand names.

Troy Irish Genealogy Society - St. John's Cemetery, Albany - Intro & Index

Library and Archives Canada Increases Its Directory Offering

The Library and Archives Canada has added directories for Hamilton, Kingston, and London ( all in Ontario). Also new are farm directories covering southwestern Ontario counties.

These new additions to their collection are not searchable, and are in PDF format only. This is not a great drawback, since the entries are alphabetical, and you can use your PDF viewer search capability if you wish. Although the time frame for the directories differs by community, the collection covers generally the second half of the 19th century.

Check it out at:  Available editions in PDF format - Library and Archives Canada

Pinellas Pioneers Annual Picnic on Saturday, 11 April

The Pinellas Pioneers Association celebrate their Annual Picnic at Eagle Lake Park, Shelter #3 (1800 Keene Road) starting at 10 am with eats at noon on Saturday, 11 April.

Bring your family and friends and meet the Pinellas County Pioneers. Bring a chair for your comfort.

For more information contact Bob Delack 727-441-1338.