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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Join host, Sunny Morton, and VGA Members in the book club discussion of: State Census Records by Ann S. Lainhart. VGA Book Club will be discussing this book at our next meeting on Monday, November 25th, 2024 at 7:00pm Eastern. VGA Members can find the registration link in the Upcoming…
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 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…
Join host, Sunny Morton, and VGA Members in the book club discussion of: The Family Tree Toolkit by Kenyatta D. Berry. VGA Book Club will be discussing this book at our next meeting on Sunday, September 29th, 2024 at 6:00pm Eastern. VGA Members can find the registration link in the…
Webinar: Alienation of Affection: Divorce in the United StatesSpeaker: Christine CohenWhen: Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 6:00pm Eastern Program Description:Divorce in not just a 20th Century phenomenon. At first, granted by the State Legislature and then by the Courts, these are public records. The case files can include marriage date and place, names…
