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“Using Ortssippenbucher to Research Your German Ancestors”
Daniel Lilienkamp
Monday, August 9, 2021
6:30 pm
Members ONLY
Ortssippenbucher contain genealogical information about families within a specific town, village, or parish. Information can cover many generations of a family going back to the beginning of written records. Discover the areas of Germany where these books are available and learn how to use this resource yourself through a case study.
Daniel R. Lilienkamp, J.D. earned a BA in History from Texas Lutheran University and a J.D. from Tulane University. He has been researching his own family for more than twenty years. He is also the Reference Specialist at History & Genealogy at St. Louis County Library where he has worked for the past thirteen years. He regularly speaks at local, regional, and national conferences where he uses expertise in African American, German, Swiss, Alsace & Lorraine, French Canadian (Quebec), Appalachian and Ohio Valley genealogy to demonstrate sound research practices and the use of complex sources.
This program is FREE to WVGS members. If you are not a member, you may join this meeting and all the following meetings in 2021, by sending $15 per individual, or $20 per family to Wabash Valley Genealogy Society, P O Box 7012, Terre Haute, IN 47802-7012, If you wish to pay using PayPal, add $2 to each choice. You can obtain the application, by going to www.inwvgs.org. Click on membership. Watch this site to see more upcoming events or check WVGS Facebook page. Send application at least one week before meeting date.
For this fee, you will be able to obtain assistance from other members when you reach a “brick wall” in your research. Handouts and recorded videos will be available for periods of time for members only. . . so join to take advantage of the WVGS offerings.
St. Louis County Library
National Archives Genealogy Series
Free Webinars
10 Rules for Accepting (or Rejecting)
Online Family Tree Hints
Online family tree hints can make it easy to build out your ancestor timelines and add people to your tree. Or they can fill your tree with the wrong relatives and incorrect information. Here are 10 rules for evaluating and using hints.
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While we are all living with the horrible pandemic, social distancing, and avoiding everything and everyone, it gets easy to forget about things we usually do. WVGS is hosting ZOOM meetings and webinars to keep our members up-to-date and current with genealogy programs as much as possible. We hope these efforts will help you decide to remain with WVGS and renew your membership for 2021. Please see the November Newsletter for instructions on how to operate and use ZOOM. Please contact Gary Jones if you have any problems downloading our members only ZOOM connection: webmaster@www.inwvgs.org
Your Membership Dues expire December 31 - we appreciate your support and input at all times. If you think you have already paid for 2021, please let me know. You can pay via postal mail or via PayPal. If you have a “recurring account” with PayPal, please change the payment amount to the current charges.
Add $2.00 to any membership paid online via PayPal to cover their fees.
_ Individual with e-mail account $15.00 / $17.00 if paid by PayPal
_ Individual by postal mail $25.00 (additional fees to cover postal mail fees)
__ Family e-mail $20.00 / $22.00 paid by PayPal (must reside at same address)
__ Family by postal mail $30.00 (must reside at same address)
If you want a business card dues payment receipt, please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your payment. Otherwise, I will be sending out an email copy to you.
If you have any questions, please contact me:
Linda Gregory
genealogyrocks1n2n3@gmail
Please add WVGS Dues to the subject
Death Certificate
What are this three of four digit numbers under cause of death? (ICD)
International Classification of Diseases (ICD), in medicine, diagnostic tool that is used to classify and monitor causes of injury and death and that maintains information for health analyses, such as the study of mortality (death) and morbidity (illness) trends.
Find more information at :
http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/index.html 1900 to present
Link to New Gmail Tools with Genealogy Tasks and Correspondence
Check out the FREE webinars at;
http://www.genealogycenter.org/
Vigo County Public Library.
All meeting rooms have been cancelled through 2021.
The library will let us know more in the next few weeks as to new scheduling of the rooms.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Quote from Tribune Star Genealogy
"Many of us are home bound now and looking for something new to do. But to many people who more recently started their quest to discover their family history, something old can be something new. In 1997 the first national television series that dealt with family history and genealogy made its debut on PBS.
Entitled “Ancestors,” the series was hosted by Jim and Terry Willard, a husband and wife team of amateur genealogists who were “discovered” by the series producer at a genealogical conference. Alex Haley, the author of Roots, also contributed to the initial program planning. The series consists of twenty-three 30-minute episodes, each covering some aspect of genealogy. Every episode of this series can be viewed online for free through Brigham Young University by using this link"
: https://www.byutv.org/show/54f848ee-6d19-4502-9981-070cdbd1f1bf/ancestors.
Read the rest of the story at
https://www.tribstar.com/community/genealogy/article_5936cf17-ff12-5a87-a5eb-18ce4442eb57.html
KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM
Enroll or Renew for 2021
WVGS is participating in the Kroger Community Rewards Program. Kroger will donor a percentage of purchases made by members and friends who register their Kroger Plus Shopper's Card. Follow these instructions to help WVGS earn extra money for future projects.
Register your card online at krogercommunityrewards.com.
Be sure to have your Kroger Plus card handy and register your card with your organization after you sign up.
If a member does not yet have a Kroger Plus card, please let them know that they are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger.
Click on Sign In/Register
Most participants are new online customers, so they must click on SIGN UP TODAY in the ‘New Customer?’ box.
Sign up for a Kroger Rewards Account by entering zip code, clicking on favorite store, entering your email address and creating a password, agreeing to the terms and conditions
You will then get a message to check your email in box and click on the link within the body of the email.
Click on My Account and use your email address and password to proceed to the next step.
Click on Edit Kroger Community Rewards information and input your Kroger Plus card number.
Update or confirm your information.
Enter NPO number (JH148) or Wabash Valley Genealogy Society, select organization from list and click on confirm.
To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see your organization’s name on the right side of your information page.
REMEMBER, purchases will not count for your group until after your member(s) register their card(s).
Special Note: WVGS's NPO number is JH148.
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