We
are pleased to announce our upcoming two-part program meeting
on Saturday, March
18, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. The start times are
approximate.
1:15 – 3:15 p.m. “The Military Tract – Revolutionary War
Bounty Land in Central
New
York”
- Skip Duett
New York
State awarded New
York Revolutionary War soldiers bounty land in the Military
Tract in Central
New York. Comprising 1,680,000 acres, it covered all of the
present day
counties of Onondaga, Cortland, Cayuga, and Seneca, as well as
parts of Oswego,
Tompkins, Schuyler, and Wayne counties. This military bounty
land opened up
Central New York to white settlement and left an enduring
system of land
designation that survives today. Your New York Revolutionary
War soldier may be
identified in Military Tract documents. Understanding New York
State bounty
lands can help you make sense of land transactions in the
region, regardless of
when your ancestors lived there.
3:15
– 4:00 p.m. A
Brick Wall Roundtable
Discussion
A brick wall roundtable discussion
with Skip Duett,
Janeen Bjork and CNYGS members will follow Mr. Duett’s
presentation. “Breaking
through Brick Walls, One Brick at a Time.” will be presented
by Janeen Bjork.
Janeen will give a quick lesson on OCR (optical character
recognition), the
technology that allows scanned newspapers to be indexed and
searched online.
You will learn how to get around the limitations of OCR to
unearth hard-to-find
items. Janeen will share the methods she used to break through
the brick walls
for her toughest genealogy commission - multiple generations
of O'Briens,
starting out in County Cork, Ireland and continuing to Monroe,
Orleans and
Onondaga counties.
Mark your
calendars for our Full-Day
Conference on April 22, 2017. Pamela Vittorio, APG, will
present a variety
of topics.
9:00 -
10:30 a.m. - Bust
Walls or Break Ground: Tips & Techniques for Solving
Genealogical Problems
in the mid-1800s
10:30 a.m.
- 12:00 p.m. - Early
Irish Immigrants to Canada & the U.S.: The Peter
Robinson Settlers (1823
& 1825)
12:00 -
1:15 p.m. - Lunch:
bring your own, or visit a local restaurant.
1:15 - 2:45
p.m. - The
U.S. Sanitary Records: Tracing Women's Roles During the
Civil War
2:45 - 4:00
p.m. - Was
Your (Great) Grandma a Suffragette? Records for the Women's
Rights Movement:
1848-1920
For
the latest news on our 2017 programs, including any venue and
parking changes,
please check our website:
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can also find CNYGS updates on Facebook:
Note: Members attend for free; guests pay $5 (half day) on March 18th; guests pay $15 (full day) on April 22nd; If interested the best option is to apply for annual membership
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