Next Meeting May 22, 2018
Meeting at 7:00pm
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Mark your calendars and join us at any and all of these FHIG meetings on Tuesdays in 2018: We'll meet again on: June 26 July 24 August 28 September 25 October 23 November 27 Even in 2018, no FHIG in December!
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The Family History Interest Group (FHIG) at Bernards Township Library aims to inform, inspire and encourage you as you seek to learn about the life, loves and relationships of past family members. This newsletter is the place to find information about upcoming and past FHIG meetings, news and notes about related topics, and ideas, tips and suggestions for your own genealogy searches. -- Ruth
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with Russ Worthington Tuesday, May 22 No experience in family history research is required for this special FHIG meeting. All are welcome!
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Fold3 is available in the Library for anyone to use and from home for Bernards Township Library cardholders.
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About Russ Worthington Russ is well known to FHIG audiences, and in the wider genealogy world. Worthington started ‘collecting his ancestors’ almost 20 years ago and has since traveled from Maryland to Maine visiting cemeteries and archives, finding cousins and headstones, and taking photographs in search of family history information. He has become an enthusiastic user of Google Hangouts for family history discussions and tutorials, blogs regularly on genealogy topics and on the use of the computer genealogy program Family Tree Maker, and relishes opportunities to attend and present at genealogy conferences nationwide. FHIG participants have been fortunate to hear his insights and have his guidance in using today's genealogy tools with success.
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On May 22 Russ Worthington will demonstrate Fold3, an authoritative database that features premier collections of original military records from the US, UK and elsewhere. These records include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military. Russ would like to use EXAMPLES THAT YOU SUGGEST to show the different ways to getting to the answer(s) to the question being asked. If you have a military ancestor and question you'd like to know more about please respond to the brief questionnaire at http://bit.ly/FHIG-04 Russ will select four or five FHIG members' forms and respond to them live during the meeting.
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The Family History Interest Group (FHIG) meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month except December from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Program Room on the lower level at Bernards Township Library.
Coffee and tea (and cookies or snacks if participants bring them!) is usually served at 6:30 pm and participants are invited to socialize. Our coffee and tea arrangements are $elf $upporting -- If you enjoy a cup please consider dropping a quarter or two in the basket provided.
FHIG meetings are FREE and all are welcome, whether they have been previously involved in family history research or not. No prior experience in tracing genealogical roots is necessary. The Group provides opportunities for those interested in family history and genealogy to share information and experiences and be more successful in their search.
For more information please call the Library at 908.204.3031, ext.4 or email RLufkin@Bernards.org
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From the April meeting:If you missed the May meeting you can still catch up with the books we discussed! What a pleasure it was to have Timothy Boyce at Bernards Township Library to share the wonderful story beginning from his reading Tom Buergenthal's book, A Lucky Child, and the subsequent discovery of Odd Nansen's diary, From Day to Day: One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps, which has, as he himself put it - "changed his life in ways he wouldn't have imagined." The time and effort that he put into research, resulting in material to be added as annotations to Nansen's original work and the clarifications of language, idiom, etc. and the relationship he developed with Tom Buergenthal immensely compliment and enhance the original work. He is an accomplished story-teller, and kept the audience engaged and enthralled. An experience he shared from later that week, when he spoke to the Old Guard of Princeton: After his talk a gentleman approached him, unwrapped a towel he had, and revealed one of the original breadboards used to smuggle the diary out Germany! It was given by Nansen to Bjorn Andersen, the grandfather of this gentleman's wife. What an amazing addition to this moving and inspirational story!
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The Morris Area Genealogy Society is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a full day genealogy program featuring: Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist
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