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Subject: [PALAWREN] Genealogical Educational Opportunities
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:03:29 -0500

Below are several genealogical educational opportunities in the Region.
All welcome the public to participate and may be worth traveling to for
their unique offerings! Permission is granted to crosspost. My apologies
for the length but a lot of wonderful things are happening this spring!

Saturday, February 21, 2004, 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. POINTers in
Person Chapter 20 will meet in the Third Floor Meeting Room of the
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA
15213-4080. Free and open to the public. “Alphabet Soup or rather,
Minestrone” is the title of our gathering as we welcome representatives
from a sampling of Pittsburgh’s Italian American Organizations. The
guests will give us a brief history and background of their group and
explain what their main goals and yearly activities are. They will let
us know about membership and meetings. Included are :Anthony J. DiNardo,
President, CIAO (Coalition of Italian American Organizations), Nicholas
Ciotola, Curator Italian American Exhibits, Heinz History Center,
Vittorio Pugliano, President of the Calabria Club of Pittsburgh and
Albert Silvio, Vice President, ISDA Western PA Italian (Sons & Daughters
of America). For more information contact Rose at .


Saturday, February 21, 2004, 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., Cranberry
Genealogical Society will meet at the Cranberry Municipal Center, Room 6,
Rochester Road, Cranberry Township, Butler County, PA. Free and open to
the public. "Evaluating Sources on the Internet" will be presented by
Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS and will discuss how to best determine what
you find is fact or fiction. Examples included will come from the Ellis
Island database, the Bureau of Land Management database, Ancestry.com,
Rootsweb, and FamilySearch. For more information contact Kara at
.


Sunday, February 22 through Sunday March 28 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at CCAC North Campus, 8701 Perry Highway, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, a
Genealogy Course will be held which will discuss the various records that
are available to researchers and how to find them on-line and in
libraries and other repositories. For more information or registration
you may view www.CCAC.edu under the Lifetime Learning link for course
YCA-007 or call (412) 369-3700 or 412-244-5206 . Walk-ins are also
welcome and there is no surcharge for out-of-county residents. "Get
started on learning how to trace your ancestors and where they came from.
Census, courthouse records, passengers lists, and Internet sources will
all be discussed. A hands-on field trip may be taken."


Monday, March 1, 2004, 7 p.m. at the Beaver County Courthouse Jury Room.
Beaver County Genealogical Society meets the first Monday of each month
with a very interesting program.


Monday, March 8 to Monday April 5, at the Westmoreland County Historical
Society's new building, 41 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, PA 15601. A set
of classes will be held on Mondays beginning March 8 at 10 a.m. with
tours of the Historical Society's Library and the various departments of
the Westmoreland County Courthouse as well as the Greensburg-Hempfield
Library. The subsequent Monday classes will be held at the WCHS beginning
at 1 p.m. and include: Benefits and Drawfacks of Family, County, and
Community Histories; Church and Cemetery Records; Using the Colonial
Records and Pennsylvania Archives; Evaluating Sources on the Internet;
Using the Federal Census, Industrial Records and Professional
Genealogical Researchers. Fee is $15 for WCHS members and $20 for
non-members or the entire 5 sessions for $45 members, $65 non-members.
Please see www.starofthewest.org for more information. Please call
724-836-1800 to register as the website may not be up-to-date.


Tuesday, March 16, 7 p.m. the North Hills Genealogists will meet at the
McKnight United Methodist Church, on Braunlich Road just off McKnight
Road, Pittsburgh, PA. Free and open to the public. "Coming From the Reich
- Part 2" presented by Ruth Kittner is about the history of Germany and
what drove our ancestors to emigrate. This month we continue on the topic
of German History, with the focus on the Northside Swiss/Germans, how
some of them got here, what they did when they got here, other German
"encampments" around here, the role of the church in the community, etc.
For more information please see www.NorthHillsGenealogists.org.


Saturday, March 20, 2004, 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. POINTers in Person
Chapter 20 will meet in the Third Floor Meeting Room of the Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080.
Free and open to the public. For those who want to meet others with
Italian heritage and learn how to research. POINT stands for Pursuing Our
Italian Names Together. For more information contact Rose at
.


Saturday, April 17, at the Sheraton Four Points, Warrendale, PA (at the
intersection of I-79 and I-76 Cranberry exit), Western PA Genealogical
Society will have its Spring Seminar featuring Dr. John Philip Colletta
of Washington, DC who will give four lectures. A hot buffet luncheon is
included in the modest price of $35 WPGS members and $40 non-members.
Topics include "Libraries, Archives and Public Record Offices:
Understanding Resource Repositories," "Passenger Arrival Records," "How
to Prepare for a Successful Research Trip in European Records," and
"Turning Biographical Facts into Real-life Events: How to Build
Historical Context." This is one worth travelling for as John Colletta is
extremely knowledgeable. He is author of the books "They Came In Ships"
(recognized as the how-to bible for passenger lists), "Italian Genealogy"
and "Only a Few Bones." This will also be the April meeting of POINTers
in Person Chapter 20. Please see www.WPGS.org for more information


Tuesday, April 20th, 7 p.m., the North Hills Genealogists will meet at
the McKnight United Methodist Church, on Braunlich Road just off McKnight
Road, Pittsburgh, PA. Free and open to the public. "Genetic Genealogy
Researching using DNA Testing." will be presented by Russ Cooper. Russ
created the North East Ohio - Computer-Aided-Genealogy Society [NEOCAG]
and served as President, now serving in an active Retiring President
mode. Weekly volunteer at Cleveland's WRHS (Western Reserve Historical
Society). Was also Program Vice President for Cleveland's ECCGS (East
Cuyahoga County Genealogical Society) where programming was directed to
providing "how to" monthly! For more information and directions see
www.NorthHillsGenealogists.org

The value of DNA testing is aiding an ability to help find “Genetic
Cousins” by comparing the results of as few as two people. Males are able
to see if another male is a descendant from their direct paternal line;
or if a spelling change or adoption confuses relationship; is there a
relationship with another family in another region or with individuals in
other lineage groups. Women, thru separate testing, can establish or
disprove sequencing relatedness of ancestor females. Discussion will
include what is DNA testing, as a scientific tool, which involves many
facets such as facilitating a unique family fingerprint; DNA signature
matching and interpretation of results for surname groups or lineages;
generation distance; surname/clan reconstruction and regional migration.
Deciphering the terminology such as markers, mutation rates, Haplogroups,
MRCA, etc. can help understanding and take the mystery out of this new
genealogy tool. And how I can use public service DNA databases to further
matching of my results with other DNA submitters using other commercial
services for testing.


Thursday April 22 through Saturday April 24, 2004, The Ohio Genealogical
Society will have its annual conference in Wilmington, Ohio. With 7
lectures per hour no genealogist will lack from an interesting and
educational experience. Sales exhibits will let you see products and
discuss their merits before purchasing. Dr. Tom Jones, CG, CGL is the
keynote speaker giving the opening lecture "Seven Habits of Highly
Effective Genealogist" as well as "Five Proven Techniques for Finding
Your Ancestor's European Origins" and "Solving the Myster of the
Disappearing Ancestor." For more information and registration (Early Bird
special until April 4) please see www.OGS.org under the 2004 conference
brochure link.


Saturday, May 15, 2004, 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. POINTers in Person
Chapter 20 will meet in first floor Director's Room of the Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080.
Free and open to the public. "Evaluating Sources on the Internet" will be
presented by Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS and will discuss how to best
determine what you find is fact or fiction. Examples included will come
from the Ellis Island database, the Bureau of Land Management database,
Ancestry.com, Rootsweb, and FamilySearch. For more information contact
Rose at


Sunday June 20 through Friday June 25, The Ohio Genealogical Society will
sponsor a Summer Workshop at the OGS Library in Mansfield, Ohio. Each
day's theme will be presented by knowledgeable lecturers on the subjects:
Basics Day, A Sense of Place, Migration Trails into Ohio, Church and
State, and High Voltage Genealogy. Students will have exclusive use of
the library during the evenings. Although it is possible to register for
single days ($50 each day), space is limited and preference will be given
to those who register for the entire workshop ($215 for OGS members, $245
for non-members). Make this the summer that you increase your knowledge
of genealogical records and methods and break through your brick walls!
For more info see www.OGS.org or write to .

CGRS, CG, CGL, Certified Genealogical Records Specialist, Certified
Genealogist, and Certified Genealogical Lecturer are Service Marks of the
Board for Certification of Genealogists used under license after periodic
evaluations by the Board. http://www.BCGcertification.org

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