Hangout with VGA Members and practice using Ancestry’s Tree Checker. This is a year-long hangout theme where members keep tract of their current Tree Rating and try to improve their score throughout 2025. Even if you didn’t make it to the first Tree Checker Hangout in January, you can still…

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Webinar: Land for the Landless: Homestead Records and How to Use Them in Your ResearchSpeaker: Amber OldenburgWhen: Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 7:00pm Eastern Program Description:The Homestead Act of 1862 opened millions of acres of land for settlement across 30 states. Interested individuals needed to meet certain criteria before the land could gain…

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Webinar: “Navigating FultonHistory.com Workshop”Speaker: Jeanette SheligaWhen: Monday, February 17, 2025 at 12:00pm Eastern Program Description:FultonHistory.com, or Old Fulton NY Postcards, is a free, historic newspaper website that contains archives of over 50 million pages of microfilmed newspaper images (mostly New York State newspapers, along with collections from other states and Canada). This 2-hour…

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Join host, Sunny Morton, and VGA Members in the book club discussion of: Storytelling for Genealogists: Turning Family Lineage into Family History by Doug Tattershall. VGA Book Club will be discussing this book at our next meeting on Monday, January 27th, 2025 at 7:00pm Eastern. VGA Members can find the…

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Hangout with VGA Members and practice using Ancestry’s Tree Checker. Members can start off the new year by taking note of their current Tree Rating and try to improve their rating throughout 2025! When: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 at 12:00pm EasternTopic: Ancestry’s Tree Checker If you do not subscribe to…

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