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Upcoming Events
| December 18 |
Toni McKeen, Research Problems that Made My Eyes Cross Toni will discuss difficult research problems and how to solve them. Ancestors have a way of hiding in genealogy records. I will show the tricks I use to locate difficult relatives using many different databases in my case studies.
This will be a ZOOM meeting.
Members with email addresses on file will be invited about one week in advance.
If you don’t receive an invitation, please contact memberstream@ifhf.org |
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| January 15 |
Dorothy Dougherty The 1950 U.S. Federal Census Dorothy Dougherty, who coordinates public programs, outreach, and exhibits for the National Archives at New York City, has lectured to the Forum several times in the past. Now she returns to the Forum to educate us about the 1950 U.S. federal census, due to be released to the public on April 1. What questions did the census ask? What information can be gleaned from it? Will it be available on FamilySearch, Ancestry, and other sites – and if so, when? Don’t miss this introduction to an important new research tool. |
| February 19 |
Annual Show-and-Tell. Will be rescheduled at a later date. To be announced
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| March 19 |
Marie Scalisi and Alec Ferretti, Ask a Genealogist
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| April 16 |
TBA
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| May 21 |
Patrick Young, The Effect of the Civil War on Irish Immigrants Young will discuss the effect of the Civil War on Irish immigrants; their participation in the military; the effect of the massive loss of life on the Irish in the U.S. and on their families at home. He will talk about the politics of war from the decision to join the army, to the resistance to the draft, to the NY Draft Riots. Woven throughout are stories of nuns, revolutionaries, laborers and their wives, and others. Young, who is Special Professor of Immigration Law at Hofstra University, writes the online series The Immigrants’ War and publishes the Reconstruction Era blog. |
| June 18 |
TBA
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