Gena Philibert Ortega's Blog – April 2012 Archive (11)

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Call for Papers

2012 Utah Genealogical Association Conference on Family History…

Genealogical Society of Hispanic America - Southern California General Meeting: Saturday, May 5, 2012 • 10 am - 4 pm Southern California Genealogical Society Library, 417 Irving Dr., Burbank, California (directions: 818-843-7247)

This program explores options for researching through the women, and brothers and sisters as well as other relatives in the family by looking at a combination of sources, some not often considered, and shows how to recognize the clues in your findings. It…

Workshops sponsored by the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America-Southern California (GSHA-SC), the Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS), and the Los Angeles Public Library,

Genealogy & History Dept.

Genealogy Garage:

Citing Your Sources

Keeping records of where we find information about our ancestors is an important, but often…

When the boiler exploded aboard the steamer Sultana on April 27, 1865, more than 1,700 people lost their lives. Most of those aboard were recently released Union prisoners from Confederate prisons in Cahaba, Alabama, and Andersonville, Georgia. They were en route from Camp Fiske in Mississippi to Camp…

In 1940, Americans were recovering from the Great Depression and on the brink of entering a world war. The recently released 1940 U.S. Census gives us data snapshots of people and families poised between two of the most devastating world-wide events of the 20th century.…

World’s largest family network unveils new mobile experience for searching historical records, including the 1940 U.S. Census, on iPhone, iPad and Android 

PROVO, Utah & LONDON…

Ancestry.com is proud to announce the first indexed states of the 1940 U.S. Census are now ready for searching. After 72 years being held from public view, the Nevada and Delaware 1940 Census is now available and searchable for free on Ancestry.com.  While the remainder of the U.S. states are digitized and available for…

Join us on 19 April 2012 at 7:00pm (MDT) for the Utah Genealogical Association's Virtual Chapter Meeting. Everyone is welcome. Please see the attached link for details.

UGA Virtual Chapter Meeting April

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

University of Minnesota researchers collaborate with Ancestry.com to create the most comprehensive database of the 1940 Census

Contacts:

Catherine Fitch, Minnesota Population Center, fitch@umn.edu, (612) 626-3923

Matt Hodson, University News Service,…

Ancestry.com is adding the 1940 US Census images to their website. Here are some things to know about searching them.

The National Archives and Records Administration will open the 1940 U.S. Federal Census on April 2, 2012—the first time this collection will be made available to the public. Once we receive the census, we will begin uploading census images to our site so the public can browse them. Initially, this…