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“Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors in Local Archives” by Melissa Barker
Webinar: Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors in Local ArchivesSpeaker: Melissa BarkerWhen: Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 12:00pm Eastern Program Description:Local archives of all kinds have records for your female ancestors. Many times, these records are not digitized or available online. Learn from a seasoned archivist how to locate and research female records in…
VGA Book Club – March 2025
Join host, Sunny Morton, and VGA Members in the book club discussion of: Genealogy and the Law: A Guide to Legal Sources for the Family Historian by Kay Haviland Freilich & William B. Freilich. VGA Book Club will be discussing this book at our next meeting on Monday, March 24th,…
VGA’s 7th Birthday – Call for Volunteer Proposals
Virtual Genealogical Association’s (VGA) 7th Birthday Party is on Sunday, April 27th, 2025! The tentative time frame of the live event is 1:00pm – 4:00pm Eastern. VGA is looking for short presentations (between 5 – 30 minutes in length) that are either pre-recorded or presented live on the day of…
VGA Hangouts: Ancestry’s Tree Checker (March 2025)
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…
“Land for the Landless: Homestead Records and How to Use Them in Your Research” by Amber Oldenburg
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…
