GENEALOGY BOOK CLUB:
 
Once I Was You
By: Maria Hinojosa
January 9, 2025
 
2:00 PM
In Person
 
In Once I Was You, Maria shares her intimate experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. She offers a personal and illuminating account of how the rhetoric around immigration has not only long informed American attitudes toward outsiders, but also sanctioned willful negligence and profiteering at the expense of our country’s most vulnerable populations—charging us with the broken system we have today.
An urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all, this honest and heartrending memoir paints a vivid portrait of how we got here and what it means to be a survivor, a feminist, a citizen, and a journalist who owns her voice while striving for the truth.
 
 
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GENEALOGY ROUND TABLE:
 
 
All are welcome to come share their ideas, show genealogy treasures or tell us about a brick wall that they have encountered. We all have a lot of experiences to share with each other!
 
January 10 at 2:00pm
 
January 24 at 2:00pm
 
 
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ZOOM GENEALOGY PRESENTATION:
January 21, 2025 
ZOOM
6:30 PM
 
Y-Chromosome Insights & Strategies
Presenter:  Richard Hill
 
Learn how Y-DNA testing of suitable males can trace and confirm paternal lines in your family tree. See how to choose the right test and how to work with your genetic matches. Examples cover STRs, SNPs, genetic distance, match thresholds, Tip reports, the Y-DNA tree, haplogroups, group projects, account settings, and more.
  
 
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BOOKS WITH DNA INTEREST:
DATABASE SPOTLIGHT:
 
Detroit Free Press and The Times Herald - Port Huron, Michigan are just some of the titles in this database!
 
Historical newspaper content is among researchers’ most sought-after primary source material. With more than 60 premier historical titles, ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ is the definitive newspaper digital archive empowering researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to history.
 
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