Category: General Announcements “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…
“Navigating FultonHistory.com Workshop” by Jeanette Sheliga

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…
VGA Book Club – January 2025

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…
VGA Hangouts: Ancestry’s Tree Checker

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…
VGA Hangouts: FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search

Hangout with VGA Members to practice using FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search and share techniques with each other while they work on their own trees! When: Sunday, November 17th at 6:00pm EasternTopic: FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search VGA Members can find the Zoom Registration Link in the Upcoming Webinars area of the Members Center.…
VGA Book Club – November 2024
“Ancestry Pro Tools: Enhance Your Family Tree and Increase Your DNA Analysis” by Kelli Bergheimer

Webinar: Ancestry Pro Tools: Enhance Your Family Tree and Increase Your DNA AnalysisSpeaker: Kelli BergheimerWhen: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 8:00pm Eastern Program Description:Have you heard about Ancestry’s new Pro Tools? For an additional fee per month, you can access some new tools to enhance your work with your family tree. Tree checker can…
VGA Hangouts: Census Citations

VGA Hangouts is an opportunity to “hangout” with other VGA members while working on your own family tree! When: Saturday, October 12th at 11:00pm EasternTopic: Census Citations Hangout with VGA Members to talk about chapter 7 in Evidence Explained (4th edition) by Elizabeth Shown Mills and practice creating census citations…
VGA Book Club – September 2024
“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…
“Navigating FultonHistory.com Workshop” by Jeanette Sheliga

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…
VGA Book Club – January 2025

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…
VGA Hangouts: Ancestry’s Tree Checker

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…
VGA Hangouts: FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search

Hangout with VGA Members to practice using FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search and share techniques with each other while they work on their own trees! When: Sunday, November 17th at 6:00pm EasternTopic: FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search VGA Members can find the Zoom Registration Link in the Upcoming Webinars area of the Members Center.…
VGA Book Club – November 2024
“Ancestry Pro Tools: Enhance Your Family Tree and Increase Your DNA Analysis” by Kelli Bergheimer

Webinar: Ancestry Pro Tools: Enhance Your Family Tree and Increase Your DNA AnalysisSpeaker: Kelli BergheimerWhen: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 8:00pm Eastern Program Description:Have you heard about Ancestry’s new Pro Tools? For an additional fee per month, you can access some new tools to enhance your work with your family tree. Tree checker can…
VGA Hangouts: Census Citations

VGA Hangouts is an opportunity to “hangout” with other VGA members while working on your own family tree! When: Saturday, October 12th at 11:00pm EasternTopic: Census Citations Hangout with VGA Members to talk about chapter 7 in Evidence Explained (4th edition) by Elizabeth Shown Mills and practice creating census citations…