THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM’sThursday EveningE-News, Edition22 February 2018 |
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For a complete GFO CALENDAR click here. Also, if you missed your free copy of our monthly Insider for February 2018, you’re in luck because we saved you a copy HERE. NOTE: The Insider issues are now located under the “Learn” > “Our Publications” menu at www.gfo.org. |
Curious about the status of your GFO Membership?? We’d love to have you as a GFO Member! |
What’s on Feb 25th? GFO’s Civil War Era Workshop! |
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TOPIC: African American Civil War Military and Pension FilesThis coming Sunday, 9:30am to noon, at the GFO. Presenter: Kate Eakman, M.A. Come learn all about using the Freedmen’s Bureau Records and other Reconstruction Era documents to trace your African American Ancestors. After the Civil War’s end in April of 1865 the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created to provide assistance to former slaves (and impoverished whites) in the South. The war had resulted in the liberation of about 4 million enslaved people, but it also destroyed many of the southern cities and towns as well as the plantation-based economy. Former slaves were free, but they had been dislocated from their homes and they faced starvation and powerful racial biases and inequalities. The records from the Freedmen’s Bureau and other records of 1865-1872 include local censuses, marriage records, medical records, bank account records, and voting registers. These, in turn, can provide the names of spouses, children, siblings, parents, and former slave-owners as well as places of birth and locations where an individual lived between birth and freedom. This class will focus on the contents of these documents, where to locate them, and how to use them to add details to, and possibly extend your family tree. |
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GFO’s Star This Month – Jackie PhillipsJackie Phillips has stepped up to the volunteer plate on several levels. She serves as a Research Assistant, as well as helping to train other RAs. She sits on the Library Committee, regularly shelves books in the library, and tracks and processes the periodicals GFO receives. Having a long background customer service, Jackie is a marvel in dealing with our patrons. Many thanks, Jackie! |
GFO’s Open House is coming! Details linked below… |
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Click HERE for the Flyer and HERE for the full detailed class schedule. Click the picture above for a video.Complete printed schedules with class descriptions are also available at the library’s reception desk by the front door. They are also on our online calendar HERE. |
Help make our Spring Seminar raffle a total blast!! |
Donations Needed for the Spring Seminar Treasures RaffleAs we take registrations for our upcoming Spring Seminar, we’d like to ask you to search your closet or desk for a gently used item that we can auction at the WHAT? Suggestions include genealogically related books, household decorations, carry bags, certificates toward GFO membership or research costs, and computer items. HOW? Leave the item(s) at the front desk in the library with a note that it’s a donation to the seminar treasures auction. Raffle tickets are sold for $1 each or 6 for $5, and they are placed in separate paper sacks for each prize so you win only something you want! Our Spring Seminar is April 14th & 15th! As always, thanks for all you do for the GFO! |
More books to review! Catch ’em before they’re gone! |
Come on in to the GFO and choose a good book from those listed below.Sign the clip board next to the books, take a Book Review sheet, read your book, write your review, email to: bookreviews@gfo.org, and presto you are done. That was easy wasn’t it.? Questions: email or call Joan Galles: bookreviews@gfo.org or 503-252-2807.
Thanks, Joan Galles |
This Week at the GFO… |
SATURDAY, February 24thDNA Beginners 9:30am – noon Are you in a quandary about who to test and what test will work for a particular issue? Are you lost in all the DNA jargon? Have you reached a dead-end on what to do with your test results? For the February meeting, bring any questions you have for an open discussion, but keep your questions concise so more people can be helped. Please download the Suggested DNA Topics for 2018 and the DNA Interest Group Feedback form. Genetic Genealogy is the most accurate tool a genealogist has. If you are prepared to discover whether your genealogical paper trail is accurate, and if you are willing to take some time outside of our meetings to reinforce what you learn at each session, the GFO Beginners DNA Interest Group is for you. You are welcome to send me your questions before the meeting. Email: aulicino@hevanet.com. African American Ancestry Group 12:30 – 2:30pm Description: Are you sure you’re getting the most out of the Census? Laurel Smith will reveal some of the often overlooked information on the U.S. Census. Particular attention will be paid to the aspects most helpful to African American research. Julie Ramos will facilitate the group. SUNDAY, February 25thHalf-Day Workshop: African Americans in the Civil War Era 9:30am – noon African American Civil War Military and Pension Files “Rallying with hearts of lions.” About 185,000 African-American men, both slaves and free, served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. Their military and pension files can provide important information for their descendants today, describing their military service, identifying their family members and possibly their former owners, and tracing their lives for forty years or more after the Civil War. Join Kate Eakman, M.A., for this exciting class! Register online HERE. |