August Classes at FamilySearch

 Free Family History Classes and Webinars for August 2018

Salt Lake City, Utah (25 July 2018), The FamilySearch Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, has announced its free family history classes and webinars for August 2018. Research classes will focus on the Boy Scout Merit Badge, England, France, Germany, Low Countries, Sweden, Switzerland, United States (Midwest Region) and DNA Research. Weekly FamilySearch sessions for the Family Tree are offered in English and in Spanish. Participants can attend in person or online. See the calendar below for the complete list. No registration is required. (Find or share this announcement online in the FamilySearch Newsroom.)

Weekly webinars are organized along the following track schedule throughout the month:

Mondays—FamilySearch Catalog at 10:00 a.m. MDT

Tuesdays—FamilySearch.org and Family Tree Classes at 10:00 a.m. MDT

Wednesdays—Indexing Classes at 10:00 a.m. MDT

Thursdays—Research Classes at 1:00 p.m. MDT

Mark your calendars for events you want to join. Online classes are noted on the schedule as webinars. Webinar attendees need to click the link next to the class title at the scheduled date and time to attend the class online. Those attending in person simply go to the room noted. Invite your family and friends. All class times are in mountain daylight time (MDT).

If you are unable to attend a class in person or online, most sessions are recorded and can be viewed later online at your convenience. Access archived classes online at Family History Library classes and webinars.

DATE / TIME All Classes are in MDT			CLASS	SKILL LEVEL	ROOM
Thurs	2-Aug	1:00 p.m.	Calendar Changes in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries Webinar	Beginner		Main Lab
Sat	4-Aug	1:00 p.m.	Búsquedas eficaces Webinar	Beginner		Main B
Tues	7-Aug	10:00 a.m.	Starting Family Tree: Navigating, Adding, Editing, and Standardization of Dates and Places Webinar	Beginner		Main Lab
Thurs	9-Aug	10:00 a.m.	Web Indexing Webinar	Beginner		Main Lab
Thurs	9-Aug	1:00 p.m.	United States Research: Midwest Region Webinar	Beginner		Main B
Tues	14-Aug	10:00 a.m.	Using the FamilySearch Catalog Effectively Webinar	Beginner		Main Lab
Thurs	16-Aug	1:00 p.m.	England Non-Conformist Church Records Webinar	Intermediate		Main Lab
Sat	18-Aug	10:00 a.m.	Boy Scout Genealogy Merit Badge (1½ hrs). To register, go to the FamilySearch Boy Scout Merit Badge Site	Beginner		2S Lab
Sat	18-Aug	1:00 p.m.	Ayudando a los demás Webinar	Intermediate		B1 Lab
Tues	21-Aug	10:00 a.m.	Tips and Tricks for Using the FamilySearch Historical Record Collections Webinar	Beginner		Main Lab
Thurs	23-Aug	1:00 p.m.	Swedish Moving Records Webinar	Beginner		Main Lab
Tues	28-Aug	10:00 a.m.	Starting Family Tree: Attaching Sources Webinar	Beginner		Main Lab
Thurs	30-Aug	1:00 p.m.	Genetic Genealogy: An Introduction to DNA Webinar	Beginner		Main B
Thurs	30-Aug	2:15 p.m.	DNA: I've Tested. Now What? Webinar	Beginner		Main B

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Seneca Falls Historical Society

Inside the mansion

Seneca Falls Historical Society

Address: 55 Cayuga St, Seneca Falls, NY 13148

Phone: (315) 568-8412

Website: sfhistoricalsociety.org

Hours: 9am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday

Pulling into the driveway of a mansion on Cayuga Street, the main thoroughfare in Seneca Falls, one might imagine that they have arrived for a visit at a millionaire’s mansion. In a sense, you have. Wilhelmus Mynderse, the founder of Seneca Falls, first built the 23 room historic mansion. He was in his time the equivalent of a millionaire today. A visit to see the home or a tea party or other activity is still a possibility as this is now the home of the Seneca Falls Historical Society.

A subsequent owner had it for sale for $40,000 in the 1960s when she found out the historic society was interested in owning it and moving their offices there. Seneca Falls Historical Society was offered it and bought it for half price- $20,000 since they would be preserving the home as a museum.

The building is a museum, but also has a research room open to the public that has books and other resources about the local area. There is parking in the gravel driveway behind the mansion and an entrance off of the driveway takes you into the back of the house where the gift shop and office for the society is. The research room is located on the second floor and contains a wide assortment of materials on the history of the village and the people that inhabited it over the years.

For the research room you need to pay $10 or if you don’t want to visit and instead would like to contact them to do research for you, they charge $25. Once you find something you are looking for, it costs 50 cents if you want to make a photocopy of that page.

The British Red Coat

The first room on our tour of the mansion itself had a display of Revolutionary War era clothing including a red coat. A red coat? It was one of the infamous red coats worn by the British during the war! Thus we began. Room after room of not only the furnishings of a typical Victorian mansion, but also many oddities that had been collected as well as items that are unique to the area can be found within the mansion. One room contained various items once (and sometimes still) manufactured in the area. There were pumps galore. Something you might not often think about unless yours isn’t working, but once there were multiple manufacturers in Seneca Falls, most well-known being Gould’s Pumps. One thing that Seneca Falls is famous for which there was little of in the museum was information and items about women’s suffrage. Of course, just a little way down the street is a whole national park site dedicated to that subject!

Just a few pumps

A tour of the museum itself with all of its displays gives you much background on the area in a fun expedition.

Wordless Wednesday: The Old Mill

Wordless Wednesday: The Frontenac Museum

Wordless Wednesday: Glass Manufacturing Canastota

FamilySearch New Records

New Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of July 2, 2018 

SALT LAKE CITY (3 July 2018), FamilySearch expands its free online archives this week with new records and or images from Australia, Billion Graves, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Find A Grave, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Slovakia, Uruguay and the United States (Arkansas, District of Columbia, Georgia, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas). Those with Native American Heritage ancestors in the Ute Tribe will be excited to search new content for the tribe's 1944 Census. (Find or share this announcement online in the FamilySearch Newsroom).

Research these new free records by clicking on the collection links below, or go to FamilySearch to search over 8 billion free names and record images. 

Country	Collection	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
Australia	Australia, South Australia, Immigrants Ship Papers, 1849-1940	25,927	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Canada	New Brunswick Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899	23,947	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Chile	Chile, Cemetery Records, 1821-2015	51,174	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Colombia	Colombia, Catholic Church Records, 1576-2014	60,424	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
France	France, Coutances et d'Avranches Diocese, Catholic Parish Records, 1533-1894	13,339	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
France	France, Saône-et-Loire, Censuses, 1836	382,683	0	New indexed records collection
Germany	Germany, Baden, Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau, Catholic Church Records, 1678-1930	69,391	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Italy	Italy, Terni, Civil Registration, 1861-1921	12,556	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
New Zealand	New Zealand, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1840-1981	474,031	0	New indexed records collection
Other	BillionGraves Index	387,937	387,937	Added indexed records and images to an existing collection
Other	Find A Grave Index	2,533,302	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Slovakia	Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books, 1592-1935	9,828	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Arkansas Confederate Soldier Home,1890-1963	1,448	0	New indexed records collection
United States	District of Columbia, Glenwood Cemetery Records, 1854-2013	97,681	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Georgia, Fulton County Records from the Atlanta History Center, 1827-1955	1,475	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Georgia, Houston County, Marriage Records, 1832-2015	229	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Maine, United States Naturalization Records, 1918-1991	14,100	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	North Carolina, County Divorce Records, 1926-1975	19,013	0	New indexed records collection
United States	Ohio, Crawford County Obituaries, 1860-2004	167,619	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1963	154,346	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Texas, Cooke County, Birth Records 1873-1876	162	0	New indexed records collection
United States	United States, Native American, Census of the Ute Tribe, 1944	2,480	0	New indexed records collection
Uruguay	Uruguay, Passenger Lists, 1888-1980	163,438	0	New indexed records collection

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About FamilySearch

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 5,000 family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.