Italian-American Genealogy Group (Washington, DC Metropolitan Area)
April 26, 2014 Meeting Minutes
The Italian-American
Genealogy Group (Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area) held its quarterly meeting
on April 26, 2014, at the Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Avenue,
McLean, Virginia.
Marie Melchiori, CG, CGL opened the meeting by
circulating a flyer prepared by the Cleveland Italian Ancestry Organization
(CIAO) announcing an Italian Genealogy Seminar on June 21, 2014 in Cleveland,
Ohio. The two guest speakers are accredited genealogists Paola Manfredi, AG and
Suzanne Russo Adams, AG from Salt Lake City.
There is more detailed information at http://www.wrhs.org
Marie provided
information on behalf of Susan Frederick about how to join pie-online. You can go to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pie-online and request to join the list. Or, if you don't have a google account, you can send an email Subject: [pie-online] Joining PIE to pie-online+subscribe@googlegroups.com Please include a short intro with the request to join. If you experience difficulties with either of these procedures, send an email to pie-online@googlegroups.com
Marie also distributed copies of three different issues of
the Italian Tribune newspaper including the April 10, 2014 issue with photos
depicting Holy Week in Italy. These issues were provided to her by the
Italian Tribune Publishing Company in Newark, New Jersey. If you would
like to subscribe to this newspaper, go to www.ItalianTribune.com
The remaining time
was spent sharing our Italian genealogy research accomplishments, personal
experiences, and a few ‘how-to’ questions.
A few websites to
explore are:
- http://www.fultonhistory.com/ - According to the Family Search web
site, "The Old Fulton NY Post Cards" website originally began as a postcard
digitization project, but has since evolved into the largest free online
collection of New York newspapers on the Internet. The site currently (March
2012) has over 18 million historical newspaper pages online from over 450 New
York Newspapers spanning the years 1795 to 2008. In addition to newspapers, the
Main Album page includes Fulton County cemetery
records, censuses, city directories, church records, maps, photos, postcards
and probate records."
- The Family Tree software on https://familysearch.org/
has face recognition software. You will
need to create an account and pay a subscription fee to use this software. There are quite a few search features
available in addition to face recognition but be sure to read the fine print to
determine whether you want to use this software.
- Go to http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/category/dna/ to view Judith Russell's blog about the
various companies conducting DNA analyses and where you can get the most bang
for your DNA bucks. There are also links
there for 23 & me, Ancestry and National Geographic's DNA web sites.
- For more information and details about the
lists of questions the census takers were required to ask from 1790 through
2000, go to http://www.census.gov/ and
enter "Measuring America" in the search field.
Ten members were in
attendance.
Other information:
Our next meeting is scheduled for July 19, 2014 at the Dolley Madision Library,1244 Oak Ridge Avenue, McLean, Virginia. For updates to this information, please check back on our website at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapip6gs.
Our meetings
run from 10 am until about 12:30 pm. After our meetings everyone is welcome to
join us for lunch at a local restaurant
Submitted by Anne M. Jeffery
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