This 6 part guide will help you get started.
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Fee Hikes for the USCIS Genealogy program
The USCIS is proposing increasing fees for access to historical records of interest to genealogists.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Research Guide
This is a link to an extensive African-American Research Guide from FAU in Boca Raton.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
The AAHGS "was founded in 1977 in Washington, DC by a small group of historians and genealogists, who felt a need to share resources and methodology for pursuing historical and genealogical research".
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Black History Month
February is Black History Month. Research your family tree at Ancestry.com (in-library only), Fold3(for military records), and Heritage Quest, all found on the library website under Research Tools . In addition, here is a list of the Best African American Genealogy Websites of 2022, from Family Tree magazine.
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New titles added to newspapers.com
Newspapers. com, which is available to library card holders from the library's website, has added 450 more papers from 15 states and 3...
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Sometimes information about our ancestors can come from places where we'd rather not find it, such as arrest and prison records. This ...
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Records encountered when doing genealogical research often include abbreviations. Family History Daily published this list of abbreviatio...
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Back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the mail moved slowly and some citizens had to travel a good distance to check for mail...