Category: General Announcements VGA’s 7th Birthday: “Navigating the New National Archives of Ireland Census Website” by David Ryan
“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
VGA’s 7th Birthday – Call for Volunteer Proposals
VGA Hangouts: Ancestry’s Tree Checker (March 2025)
“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’s 7th Birthday: “Navigating the New National Archives of Ireland Census Website” by David Ryan
“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
VGA’s 7th Birthday – Call for Volunteer Proposals
VGA Hangouts: Ancestry’s Tree Checker (March 2025)
“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…





