FamilySearch Classes for April

  
Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars in April 2019

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (March 29, 2019), The FamilySearch Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, has announced its free classes and webinars for April 2019. The main focus this month will be on learning how to use DNA in genealogical research. Several beginner classes address how to add information to your family tree, tips and tricks to find elusive ancestors, and how to find Polish ancestry. Participants can attend in-person or online. No registration is required.

READ MORE: What Is DNA?

FamilySearch.org and Family Tree Classes will be offered every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. MDT throughout the month of April.

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 at Family History Library classes and webinars. 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 classes are in mountain daylight time (MDT).

(Find and share this announcement online in the FamilySearch Newsroom).

DATE/TIME	CLASS (SKILL LEVEL)	WEBINAR | ROOM
Tuesday, 2 April, 10:00 A.M.	What’s New at FamilySearch (Beginner)	Webinar | Main Lab
Wednesday, 3 April, 3:00 P.M.	Using the Polish Website Szukaj w Archiwach (Intermediate)	Webinar | Main Lab
Thursday, 4 April, 10:00 A.M.	Indexing Online on FamilySearch	Webinar | Main Lab
Tuesday, 9 April, 10:00 A.M.	Overview of FamilySearch (Beginner)	Webinar | Main Lab
Saturday, 13 April, 1:00 P.M.	Dicas de Pesquisa no FamilySearch (Beginner)	Webinar | B1Lab
Tuesday, 16 April, 10:00 A.M.	Navigating, Adding and Editing, Standardization of Dates and Places on Family Tree (Beginner)	Webinar | Main Lab
Thursday, 18 April, 10:00 A.M.	Spanish Language Indexing (Beginner)	Webinar | Main Lab
Saturday, 20 April, 1:00 P.M.	Agregando fuentes al Árbol Familiar (Beginner)	Webinar | B1 Lab
Tuesday, 23 April, 10:00 A.M.	Tips and Tricks for Finding Elusive Records on FamilySearch (Beginner)	Webinar | Main Lab
Thursday, 25 April, 9:30 A.M.	An Introduction to DNA and Genealogy (Beginner)	Webinar | Main Lab
Thursday, 25 April, 11:00 A.M.	I’ve Tested my DNA, Now What? (Intermediate)	Webinar | Main Lab
Thursday, 25 April, 12:00 P.M.	CAN Open Lab (In Person Only) (Beginner)	Main Lab
Thursday, 25 April, 1:00 P.M.	Finding an Unknown Parent Using DNA: A Case Study (Intermediate)	Webinar | Main Lab
Thursday, 25 April, 2:30 P.M.	Making DNA Connections through Descendancy Research (Intermediate)	Webinar | Main Lab
Thursday, 25 April, 3:30 P.M.	DNA Open Lab: Attending In Person begins at 3:30, Attending Online beginas at 4:00	Webinar | Main Lab

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Saturday Challenge: Favorite Photographs

From GeneaMusings a couple weeks ago:

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:

1)  Show us one of your favorite photographs of your family - a group, yourself, your mom, your dad, your sibling(s), your grandparents, etc.  Tell us about it - the date, the event, the setting, the persons in the photograph.

Two photographs come to mind as perhaps not favorites, but cherished photos. They were taken in summer about a year apart and are among the last photos that my father was there for. Both are of four generations and show his oldest great-grandchildren. 

This photo contains my parents, along with their oldest, Jim, his oldest, Heather, and her oldest, Bridget who was about a year old that day. Her cousin had just been born and didn't like pictures so was in very few. The photo below is of her.

This was taken the following summer. Again my parents, this time with their second child, David, his oldest, Richard, and his oldest, MacKenzie now about a year old.

Both pictures were taken at family gatherings at my brother, David's house. The first is in the kitchen and the second, on the back porch.

These pictures are perhaps the only ones exisiting in my direct lines that feature four different generations.
 

Wordless Wednesday: The Cow Sheds

Jefferson County Monthly Meeting

JCNYGS MONTHLY MEETING

MONDAY, 8 APRIL @ 6:00 PM

AT THE FLOWER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
   
The staff of the Flower Memorial Library, 229 Washington Street, Watertown, will have us in for an “evening of artwork” where we will tour and learn of the many artworks located throughout the library. Known as one of the most beautiful buildings in Northern New York, the library is home to treasures hidden in plain sight. Come an enjoy history through art and sculpture, much like many of our closely related Jefferson County ancestors have.

The event is free and open to the public and no reservations are required.

Saturday Challenge- Birth Orders

I actually got time to finish one of Randy Seaver's Genealogy Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenges this week for the first time in awhile:

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:

1)    Pick one of your ancestral lines - any one - patrilineal, matrilineal, zigzag, from a famous ancestor, etc.  Pick a long one if you can.

2)  Tell us which position in the birth order that your ancestor was in each generation.  For example "third child, first son."  Also list how many children were born to these parents.  

1.     Nancy Ward Remling (1965-….) last child of three by a long shot of Gordon J and Alice (Wooster) Ward.

Dad and I 1975

2.     Gordon J Ward (1919-1998) third son of three of William J and Frances (Ingalls) Ward.

3.     William J Ward (1887-1962) fifth child (second son) of six children of John S and Maria (Titus) Ward.

William Ward

4.     John S Ward (1854-1932) second son of nine children of William and Mary (Blackwell) Ward (4 sons 5 daughters although I’ve seen a listing of 2 additional mystery children in England before immigration I'm not sure if they actually existed).

5.     William Ward (1930-1902) fourth child and first son of nine children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Wood) Ward. (4 sons and 5 daughters).

FamilySearch Databases Updates

New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of March 18, 2019

SALT LAKE CITY, UT—FamlySearch added millions of new, free, indexed historical records this week from Argentina, Colombia, England, Germany, and United States: Hawaii, Montana Oregon, Virginia, and over 3.5 million WWI Draft Registration Cards. (Find and share this announcement online in the FamilySearch Newsroom).

Search these new records and images 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
Argentina	Argentina, Corrientes, Civil Registration, 1880-1930	26,862	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Colombia	Colombia, Diocese of Barranquilla, Catholic Church Records, 1808-1985	14,867	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
England	England, Derbyshire, Church of England Parish Registers, 1537-1918	422	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
England	England, Hampshire Parish Registers, 1538-1980	253,538	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
Germany	Germany, Bavaria, Middle Franconia, Brenner Collection of Genealogical Records, 1550-1900	2,667,770	0	New indexed records collection
Other	Find A Grave Index	2,089,734	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	French Combatants in the Revolutionary War, 1778-1783	26,866	0	New indexed records collection
United States	Hawaii, World War I Service Records, 1917-1919	9,527	0	New indexed records collection
United States	Montana, Deer Lodge County, Anaconda, Cemetery Records, 1878-2005	5,768	0	New indexed records collection
United States	Oregon, Benton County Records, 1856-1984	3,666	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	Virginia, Fluvanna County Colbert Funeral Home Records, 1929-1976	64	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection
United States	World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918	3,442,535	0	Added indexed records to an existing collection

Searchable historic records are made available on FamilySearch.org through the help of thousands of volunteers from around the world. These volunteers transcribe (index) information from digital copies of handwritten records to make them easily searchable online. More volunteers are needed (particularly those who can read foreign languages) to keep pace with the large number of digital images being published online at FamilySearch.org. Learn more about volunteering to help provide free access to the world's historic genealogical records online at FamilySearch.org/indexing.

FamilySearch 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 for free at FamilySearch.org or through more than 5.000 family history centers in 129 countries, including the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.