October 15, 2024
10:00 am Let's Talk Genealogy: Members Only Event
We are looking for all levels of VGS members. Come and share with us about your latest research successes or about a research challenge you're ...
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October 17, 2024
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Northeastern Genealogy SIG Meeting – Special Session
SPECIAL SESSION We will be meeting in the Genealogy Section of the Leesburg Public Library. At noon, Dusty Hill Matthews, Library Adult Services Supervisor, ...
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October 18, 2024
11:00 am to 12:30 pm Scandinavian Genealogy SIG Meeting
Topic: TBA Coordinators: Per Andersson & Kris Petersen-Gauthier
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October 21, 2024
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Best Practices SIG Meeting
Coordinators: Annette Burke-Lyttle & Pat Adams Topic: Digitized Books & Manuscripts The SIG accepts new members throughout the year, but those who join ...
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October 22, 2024
2:00 pm to 3:50 pm Midwest SIG Meeting
Topic: Immigrants in the Midwest This session will include group sharing and Co-Chair presentations. Coordinators: Lynn Hall & Karen Pickelsimer
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Both Civil Registration and Census Returns run out when you get back to about 1840, and rarely provide information relevant before 1800. At this stage you need to turn to Parish Records: These date back to the mid 1500's. Cromwell, at the Court of Henry VIII, ordered that every wedding, baptism and burial should be recorded.
[Church Records]
Have any other records been destroyed? Yes! In 1896 fire damaged the 1890 supplemental schedules of crime, mortality and pauperism and other special classes. Any remains were later destroyed by order of The Interior Department.
[Census]
“Sometimes the buyer never returned to the courthouse to retrieve the now-recorded document. The original deed of your ancestor’s property may be in that old box marked “original deeds” or “unclaimed deeds” on the top shelf, gathering dust."
[Court Records]