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Collin County Genealogical Society eNews Issue 18, November 2017

COLLIN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Come join us at our Nov. 8th meeting!

Ari is back again by popular demand! She will provide tips on how to best use your library and its resources.

The annual FamilyTreeDNA project administrator’s conference is in the near future. Hope to return with new information for our project members.

Annual dues are $25.00 for an individual and $27.00 for a family membership. Pay online with PayPal. Go to our link to renew or join today!

http://www.collincountygenealogicalsociety.com/ Please renew soon and thank you for your continued support.

See you Wednesday night! Paula

Editors Corner

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FindAGrave Changes & Genealogies in the Library of Congress

DNA, FamilyTreeDNA Admin Conference & DNA Special Interest Group Meeting

CCGS upcoming programs, society contacts, area genealogy programs

Frisco Genealogy Fair

Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 7:00pm Haggard Library,

1st Floor Mtg. Room 2501 Coit Road,

Plano, Texas 75075 Getting the Most Bank for Your Buck Out

of the Library Time and money are a researcher's most precious commodities. Don't waste valuable library time on ordinary collections and databases when you are sitting on a gold mine of unique resources! Learn to maximize your experience at your local and destination libraries. Ari Wilkins is a graduate of Louisiana State University and has been actively researching family history since 1998. She is the owner of the genealogical consulting company, Black Genesis.

Ari has been a Library Associate at Dallas public Library since 2007. She teaches a series of basic research classes using popular genealogical websites and specializes in African American research. She has spoken at many national genealogy conferences as well as a multitude of local societies.

We hope to see you there! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

FREE TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE

For those members of CCGS who are no longer comfortable driving at night or who are temporarily incapacitated, please contact [email protected] to arrange for one of the officers to pick you up and drop you off. We would like for you to be able to continue to attend the meetings and enjoy the camaraderie of CCGS.

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When you search for ancestors, you find great

friends!

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Find-A-Grave Will Change

Findagrave.com has announced that the web site soon will change. Some changes are cosmetic, while others are functional. A map feature has been added.

The home page, formerly just a list of over thirty choices, will become a photograph with a few menus selections across the top. That page will be dominated by the search panel, which will function largely as it has in the past and with the same options for every search box except those related to location. The current search panel specifies location via pull-down lists for country, state, and county. The new search panel offers a single box for location, in which you are supposed to type the name of a place. As you begin to type a city, county, state, or country that box auto-fills with suggested place names, which you can select with a mouse click. Use the American English equivalent of a country name; Germany works but Deutschland doesn’t.

The new home page’s menu bar goes across the top of the screen. Clicking CEMETERIES takes you to a page that lets you hunt cemeteries in either of two ways. Near the top left of the page is a search box where you can type a cemetery name. This auto-fill box works as above. When you select a name, you see a hit list of cemeteries with that name. Each entry on the hit list displays some facts about that cemetery, and a link to its information page. That page contains a search box that you can use to hunt for a person’s name.

Instead of using that cemetery-name search box, you can use the cemetery-place search box to its right. Clicking a place name produces a map of cemeteries near that place. You can zoom the map in or out, and can pan it in any direction. (If the map doesn’t display any marker pins, zoom in.) After a name is in that search box, clicking Search leads to a hit list of cemeteries near that place. Use this hit list the same way you use the other cemetery search box.

To see and experiment with all the planned changes, go to https://findagrave.com/ and then click preview now near the top center of the screen. Thanks to Ted Bainbridge, Ph.D. for this article

Genealogies in the Library of Congress submitted by Fran Faitt

http://www.genealogical.com/products/Genealogies%20in%20the%20Library%20of%20Congress%20A%20Bibliography%20[5%20volume%20set]/3133.html

Researchers and libraries have an opportunity to purchase a reprint of the greatest reference work in all of American genealogy, Marion Kaminkow's Genealogies in the Library of Congress (2 vols.), two Supplements and the renowned Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress.

These five massive volumes comprise the most comprehensive listing of family histories available. Answering the all-important question as to what family histories have already been written, they represent the first step in genealogical research. The proof of which is manifested in the fact that they provide details on over 50,000 family histories, published and unpublished, in genealogical books as well as non-genealogical books, in periodicals, monographs, in English as well as other languages, in the Library of Congress as well as other major libraries!

Even the Internet can't match the wealth of information found in this work, and with the uneven, almost random, listings of family histories found on one web site after another, this work is seen not only as a starting point in genealogical research but a refuge! Google Book: Genealogies in the Library of Congress Volume 1.

https://books.google.com/books?id=-he3ju_Sm-cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=genealogies+in+the+library+of+congress+vol+1&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilh6fX6Z_XAhWM1IMKHaRYCZkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=genealogies%20in%20the%20library%20of%20congress%20vol%201&f=false


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FamilyTreeDNA Admin Conference

FamilyTreeDNA is hosting their annual volunteer project administrator’s conference soon in Houston. Speakers such as Roberta Estes, Judy Russell the Legal Genealogist and a host of other speakers will be presenting educational topics to help project administrators keep up to date on the latest techniques and tools offered by FamilyTreeDNA. No other testing company has project admins or training conferences. Admins come from Ireland, England, Scotland and Sweden to name a few of the locations. We will also tour the testing lab, which will be an exciting venture. FamilyTreeDNA is the testing partner with the National Geographic Genographic Project. Testers with that project can transfer their results for free to FamilyTreeDNA. https://www.familytreedna.com/landing/nat-geo-transfer.aspx#/verify When ordering a new test go to our link below to join. Collin County ancestry not required. Dallas Genealogical Society DNA Special Interest Group will meet Thursday, November 16 at 6:00 pm on the 7th floor. For further information contact Mic Barnette at [email protected] The FamilyFInder autosomal test is currently on sale for $69.00. Look for other tests to be on sale in the very near future.

To order new tests at CCGS DNA project go to this link:

https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Collin_CoGS&code=Q47092 FamilyTreeDNA Learning Center will help you successfully understand your personal page and DNA terms. A glossary is available too. https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/account/

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. –


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Upcoming Area Events

CCGS Programs

Fall Dates – Mark Your Calendars!

Nov. 8 – Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck Out of the Library- Ari Wilkins

Dec. 13 – Holiday Social & Navigating FamilyTreeDNA – LuAnne Jones

Jan. 10, 2018 - Are You Being A Good Ancestor? – Michael Bassett

Feb. 14, 2018 – Depression Era Records -Pat Gordon

Mar. 14, 2018 – Portal to Texas History – Kathleen Murray

Apr. 11, 2018 – TBA

May 18, 2018 – TBA

June 13, 2018 – Year End Social & Forum

Guests Always Welcome!

Collin County Genealogical Society (a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation) P.O. Box 865052 Plano TX 75086-5052 OFFICERS AND STAFF President LuAnne Jones [email protected] 1st VP-Programs Janice Quick [email protected] 2nd VP-Membership Lee Stirm [email protected] Recording Secretary Beverly Lenoir [email protected] Corresponding Secretary Paula Rosselet [email protected] Treasurer Frances Faitt [email protected] Parliamentarian Gwen Neumann [email protected] Collin Chronicles Co-Editors Nancy & Michael Bassett [email protected] eNewsletter Editor Paula Perkins [email protected] Historian Janice Smith [email protected] CD/DVD Lectures Lee Stirm [email protected] Facebook Editor Aurora Chancy Publicity Paula Rosselet [email protected] Book Committee Chair Gwen Neumann mailto:[email protected] The new society year begins July 1st. We are now accepting dues for the Society year, July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018. Annual dues are $25.00 for an individual and $27.00 for a family membership. Membership includes a subscription to the Collin Chronicles, the Newsletter, admittance to all regularly scheduled program meetings and DNA discounts. Please join or renew today! http://www.collincountygenealogicalsociety.com/

Genealogy Expo: My Place In History

November 18, 2017

Frisco Senior Center 6670 Moore St., Frisco, TX.

Details can be found at their website:

https://friscolibrary.com/event/genealogy-

expo

Texas State Genealogical Society

http://www.txsgs.org


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News Continued

Genealogy Center News - Haggard Library Check out the resources available at the Genealogy Center

Daughters of the Republic of Texas https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/ar

ticles/vnd03

November 6 is the founding of the DRT. The Genealogy Center has several books regarding member information. You can find information of the brave souls who braved wilderness to come to the Republic of Texas prior to statehood.

https://www.plano.gov/907/Genealogy-Center

Before There Was States….

Finding and Using Territorial Records by Jack Butler

http://www.shwgenealogy.com/TerritorialRecords.pdf Territorial Papers of the United States. 26 Volumes. Compiled by Clarence Edwin Carter. Available in digital format: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000495370 The Federal Road

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gentutor/Federal.pdf

Thanks to Fran Faitt for providing this information. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We inherit from our ancestor’s gifts so often taken for granted. Each of us contains within this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise. – Edward Sellner

North Collin County Genealogy Society

National Archives Webinar

The meeting will be on Thursday, Sept. 9th at 6:45 p.m. for the North Collin County Genealogical Society Meeting. National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair webinar. The meeting will be at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library, 101 E. Hunt Street, McKinney, Texas.

Subscribe to the McKinney Public Library Genealogy Newsletter

This newsletter features posts about the Genealogy collection and programs at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library located at 101 E. Hunt Street in McKinney, Texas. It highlights new items in the collection each month, area Genealogy programs, and other information relevant to our Genealogy researchers. Take a look, you may find something that will enhance your research or arouse your interest! You can find them at http://www.libraryaware.com/1685/Subscribers/Subscribe?showonlynewsletterlists=true. Pick out any or all newsletters that you are interested in. By clicking on a title, you can get more information on that newsletter and view past issues. Thanks to Janice Quick for providing this information. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````

Texas Ranger Hall of Fall

Bicentennial Book Signing Join us on Saturday, December 2nd when authors Darren L. Ivey and the team of Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice discuss their work and autograph copies of their new books, The Ranger Ideal: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame 1823-1861 and Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy. These books are the first two in the Texas Ranger Bicentennial Publication Series and are available for purchase in the Museum Gift Shop.

www.texasranger.org

Collin County Genealogical Society eNews Issue 18, November 2017

Collin County Genealogical Society

P. O. Box 865052 Plano, TX. 75086-5052

Collin County Genealogical Society Publications For Sale

Collin County Texas Marriages

#4 for January 26, 1876 to June 22, 1880

#7 for 1888-1890

#8 for 1891-1893

#9 for 1893-1895

#10 for 1895-1897

These books are $6.00 each plus $3.00 shipping and handling

Hawkins County, Tennessee Deed Abstracts 1801-1819 by Joyce Martin Murray

Logan County, Kentucky Deed Abstracts 1792-1813 by Joyce Martin Murray

Logan County, Kentucky Deed Abstracts 1813-1819 by Joyce Martin Murray

These books are $10.00 each plus $3.00 shipping and handling

If ordered by mail the please include check to CCGS and mail to our society post office box address listed below.

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