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Immigrant Genealogy
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Paleography: Handwriting Studies for Genealogy Saturday, July,12 10:00am-1:00pm John F. Germany Public Library Cecil Beach Conference Room Many of us have come across handwritten materials that were difficult to read. Sometimes, nearly impossible. This is why the study of paleography is so important. What is paleography? Simply, it is the study and translation of old handwriting. In the resources section of this handout, you will find an extensive list of resources to help you refine your skills in this subject. |
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Your Heritage and Family HistoryFriday, July, 12, 11:00-12:00pm C. Blythe Andrews Public Library Community Room A&B From organizing your findings to leveraging DNA tools, this beginner-friendly session will equip you with strategies and resources to expand your family tree and add depth to your family history.
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Saturday, July, 19 3:00-4:00pm John F. Germany Public Library Cecil Beach Conference Room This program is a part of the City Of Tampa's Archive Awareness Week. Learn how to read the historical maps in the library’s collection and the abbreviations that are written on them. This lecture will help you delve into cartography and Florida’s history |
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Friday, July 5, 2025 8:00 am EST This recorded Webinar will be freely available to the public from midnight Thursday night through midnight Sunday night (ET), 4-6 Jul 2025. (The live webinar was originally presented on 7 Dec 2022.) The handout for this presentation will only be available to the public during the viewing period, and will not be downloadable or printable. (Available via the main Webinars page, “Current Webinar Handout” button.) It will open in a separate tab, however, so it can be referred to during the webinar. For logged in members, the handout is always accessible from the main Webinars page. (On the top menu, under Education & Events, select Webinars to go to the main webinars page. Scroll down and click on “Explore the Webinar Library”. That page has a link to “Member Webinar Handouts” (which is arranged in alphabetical order) in the leading paragraph.) This webinar is always available to members in the Member Webinars area of the website. Each members’ webinar page also has a direct link to the handout. Please register for the free webinar replay so that we may email the direct link to you. |
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Tuesday July, 1,2025 10am ET The Manatee Genealogical Society will host a virtual meeting and program on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm EST. Our program speaker, Paula Stuart-Warren, CG®, FMGS, FUGA, will present, via Zoom, “The U.S. National Archives: The Nation’s Attic”.
Sooner or later our research leads us to the treasures held at the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which houses census, military and pension records as well as records pertaining to the nation’s civil, military and diplomatic activities. This session and the handout focus on the Washington, D.C. facilities, with some discussion covering regional branches of NARA.
Paula, who has been a Board-Certified Genealogist since 1988, is an internationally recognized genealogical educator, researcher, and consultant, focusing on unusual resources, manuscripts, methodology, and analyzing records - specializing in WPA, railroad records, and Native American research, with extensive time spent at libraries, courthouses, state archives, historical societies, and U.S. National Archives locations. She is currently a coordinator and instructor for the GRIP Genealogy Institute and has presented courses at Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), Family Tree University, Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR), Ancestry Academy, and continues to present virtual seminars and webinars across the U.S and Canada. Paula descended from eight ancestral countries and has her own educational website and blog at genealogybypaula.com.
Members of the public are welcome to attend. Guests attending via Zoom must register at least one day in advance by emailing: info@mgsfl.org. The Zoom meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. EST. For more information, please visit our website at: mgsfl.org/.
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Free Virtual 8:00pm ET The historical immigrant experience was full of challenges. Genealogist Laura Chaplin will explain what many people faced as they journeyed to America.
This presentation begins with an engaging look at the immigrant experience from a historical perspective, followed by an exploration of the types of immigration and emigration records that were kept and where to find them. The naturalization process will also be covered, and, time permitting, we'll demonstrate some of the best search engines for finding immigration records.
This program will be presented using Zoom. Participants must register and provide a working email address to receive the login information.
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Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama by Frazine K. Taylor and Dr. James M. RoseIn Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama, Francine Taylor provides the information and guidance to help locate the resources available for researching African American records in archives, libraries, and county courthouses throughout the state. The idea for this guidebook rose out of her lecturing throughout the country and having noticed that reference guides on African American family history resources seemed to exist for every state except Alabama.
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A Seniors Guide to Genealogy : Discover Your History, Create Your Future by Virginia GrantGenealogy is more than just a hobby-it's a way to explore family history, uncover hidden stories, and preserve a legacy for future generations. For many, it also becomes an opportunity to turn years of research into something more. This book is designed for seniors who want to dive into genealogy with purpose, whether as a personal passion, a meaningful retirement project, or a way to generate income. It covers essential research tools, strategies for tracing family history, and practical methods for organizing findings. It also explores various ways to share and monetize genealogy expertise, from offering research services to writing family history books, creating genealogy-related products, and teaching others. With a friendly and conversational approach, this guide helps readers navigate the rewarding world of genealogy while balancing personal enjoyment with professional opportunities. Whether researching for family, teaching a new generation, or building a side business, this book provides the knowledge and confidence to move forward with purpose.
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Are you interested in tracing your family background? How fantastic would it be if your family can be traced back to an ancient royal lineage? When most people hear the term genealogy, they jump to conclusions telling themselves "it's too difficult and complex." But it does not have to be a daunting chore. Genealogy can be such a fun, exciting and rewarding experience. And sharing the information you gather with friends and family members will give you a feeling like no other .Genealogy Simplified is designed to be utilized as a guide to getting you well under way to tracing your heritage and to help you discover family roots you may not know you had. You will learn the basics of how to begin gathering information, where to look, how to assemble a family tree as well as the do's and do not's about genealogy in a non-invasive, understandable way. You will learn many helpful tips & tricks and how to avoid common mistakes people make when building their family tree.
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In this her latest book, Ms. Mills-Nichol has written about the French Jewish immigrants from the Bas-Rhin who settled in forty-nine of the sixty-four Louisiana parishes over the course of the last two centuries. She begins by explaining the special pitfalls of Jewish genealogical research, then goes on to show how to use both French and English on-line records in order to unlock the secrets of long-departed ancestors. Ms. Mills-Nichol includes four case studies as examples of how to tackle certain genealogical brick walls. While the novice researcher can expect to unlock many secrets from the past, there will also be many frustrations in store for him, many unanswered questions, and some details which may take years to uncover. Patience is the watchword for the competent genealogist. The remainder of the book is devoted to the study of over six hundred Jewish immigrants who left from places in the Bas-Rhin, Alsace, such as Strasbourg, Haguenau, Hoenheim, Harskirchen, Rothbach, Ingwiller, Schirrhoffen, Schliethal, and Oberlauterbach, to name just a few. Some unlucky souls never even completed the journey. They may have died of disease in European ports while awaiting passage, or perished at sea during the arduous voyage. Those lucky enough to arrive did not always settle in New Orleans. Many journeyed still farther inland to big towns such as Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Alexandria, Opelousas, Donaldsonville or smaller villages like Chackbay, Waterloo, Livonia, Mansura, Hohen Solms, Bunkie, Berwick, Big Cane, Bayou Goula, or Pointe-a-la-Hache. Still others were employed as store keepers on plantations such as Azima, Belmont, Cinclare, Cora, Cote Blanche, Cypress Hall, Live Oak, and Tezcuco. While many of them prospered in Louisiana, others suffered unspeakable tragedies in their adopted homeland. Some were murdered. Others ended their own lives. A frightening number of them succumbed to cholera, typhoid, or yellow fever, many within a few years of their arrival. Whatever their story, the reader cannot help but be caught up in the drama of the existence of these immigrants who risked everything to start anew in Louisiana." |
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Transatlantic voyages, 1600-1699by David DobsonAttempts to bring together evidence of seventeenth-century voyages from Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Channel Islands to North America and the West Indies.
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Ellis Islandby Loretto Dennis SzucsAlmost half of all Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the United States through Ellis Island (also called America's Gateway). In Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway, leading family history author and researcher, Loretto Dennis Szucs, explains how you can find out if your relatives were among the millions who were processed for entry at this historic landmark. This book details the immigrant experience at Ellis Island and teaches you about the records that are available to help you trace your ancestors' entry into the New World.
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Between the late 1700s and 1924 New York was a key gateway for millions who journeyed to the United States to establish new lives. Today, millions of Americans descend from immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and Castle Garden. Tracing Immigrants through the Port of New York: Early National Period to 1924 details the records and research strategies for use when tracing immigrants who passed through New York City. Genealogists, family historians, local historians, social scientists, and others will find the book essential to their research. Compiled by Anne Sibert Buiter, PhD, professor of Economics at Birkbeck, University of London, during the past 6 years, this unique publication provides an informed perspective on a topic of interest to so many Americans. Part I - The Records, details key sources of information to use when tracing immigrants through the Port of New York: passenger lists, customs records, naturalization records, foreign passenger lists, and other important U.S.-based records. Part II - The People, includes historical overviews and highlights tools and strategies for tracing specific immigrant groups including Irish, German, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Jewish, Puerto Rican, and Afro-Caribbean families.
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Contains detailed information, including occupation, genealogy, public service, estate and unusual or interesting facts, about each family or individual who emigrated to Plymouth Colony between 1620 and 1633.
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This historical/genealogical goldmine tells of the Caddos and associated Indian tribes who arrived about A.D. 500, followed by the Spanish colonials in the seventh and eighteenth centuries, and the Anglo-Americans and European immigrants in the nineteenth century |
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Germany and Scotland Immigrants in Iowaby Margaret Krug Palen This book offers much more than an historical account of German and Scottish immigrants in Iowa. Margaret Krug Palen's personal recollections of her German-Scottish family breathe life into this narrative that includes school days, family and community celebrations, medical care, the Great Depression, World War II, and much more. The author presents detailed accounts of farm life on an Iowa farm in the early twentieth century. Tending animals, growing crops, and maintaining farm buildings and agricultural equipment requires a substantial amount of daily labor and the entire family pitched in. Even young children had numerous daily chores that included gathering eggs, working in the garden, moving cattle, and helping with food preparation. This joint effort was rewarded with simple pleasures, strength of character, and steadfast bonds within the family and the community. In these decades before disposable technology and fast food, nothing was wasted: not time, not food, not possessions, not money.
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Databases and Online Resources |
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Ancestry Library EditionSearch billions of records in census data, vital records, military records, directories, and photos to find your family's history. Powered by Ancestry.com.In-Library Use Only |
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Learn about America's communities through our data profiles. They cover 100,000+ different geographies: states, counties, places, tribal areas, zip codes, and congressional districts.
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Genealogy information including family trees, photos, and altogether more than 6 billion exclusive records from all over the world. |
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Contact the Florida History & Genealogy Library
900 N. Ashley Dr. Tampa, FL 33602 Phone: 813-273-3652 Email: LIB-FHGL@hillsboroughcounty.org |
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