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What’s New on ACGSI.org for September 2020

Posted October 21, 2020
Filed under: ACGSI web site, Churches, Funeral Cards, History, Projects, Public, Research, Updates, Web Sites |

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New Allen County, Indiana records added to our www.acgsi.org website. Many items are Public, while some are Members Only. Volunteers, membership fees, and your donations of family research, time, and money make it possible to keep adding more items online.

October 12, 2020, was the 15th anniversary of acgsi.org. Our deed index continues to grow steadily. The index cites nearly 46,000 deeds (two parties each) in the period 1873-1889. We are now indexing in the 1890s.

Public Section

Funeral Card Collection through #17007
Marriage record #205, pp. 201-300 scanned and uploaded for indexing
Milner seminar registration information

Members-Only

ACGSI Bylaws & Guidelines updated
ACGSI Treasurer reports, Jun., Jul. & Aug. 2020
Allen County Lines, Sep. 2020
Central Catholic High School class of 1944 directory
Central High School anniversary program, 1954
Commencement programs
- Central Catholic High School, 1957
- Heritage High School, 2020
- Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing, 1950
- New Haven High School, 2020
Fort Wayne High School yearbook, 1921
Forest Park School Tatler newspaper, June 1934
GTE white pages, 1994-1995, Allen Co.
St. Therese 1st grade class photo, 1967-1968
Waynedale Elementary School yearbooks, 1988, 1989
Waynedale Elementary School yearbooks, 1995-1999

Free Monthly Educational Programs

Presented by ALLEN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIANA, INC. and THE GENEALOGY CENTER

Our Free Educational Programs are presented at 7:00 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month September through May. To expand our audience and bring the amazing resources of the society to a wider audience, our 2020-2021 season of programs will begin as virtual programs on the Zoom platform. Registration for the virtual programs will be on the ACGSI website. For more information and current program offerings, please see www.acgsi.org, or visit us on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or Twitter.

ACGSI members will be emailed an invitation to each Free Educational Program. Membership in the society is open to all.

Any changes to the meeting platform will be announced on our social media sites.

Our FREE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS are open to anyone who wishes to attend.

Web and Social Media Sites:

ACGSI web site: www.acgsi.org

ACGSI Events: www.acgsi.org/event.php

Monthly Programs: www.acgsi.org/meetings.php

Allen INGenWeb: www.acgsi.org/genweb/

Facebook: facebook.com/ACGSI/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/acgsifw/

Pinterest: pinterest.com/acgsi/

Twitter: twitter.com/ACGSI

WordPress blog: acgsi.wordpress.com/

October 14, 2020 – Finding Unknown Fathers or Grandfathers by DNA – Free Genealogy Program

Posted October 7, 2020
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Have a family secret in your family? Those with unknown fathers or grandfathers may not have found any traditional genealogical records naming their father or grandfather. A next step is to take a DNA test. Learn how to find an unknown father or grandfather by DNA testing.

Sara Allen is a senior librarian at The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library. She is the administrator of the Mitchell Y-chromosome surname project at FamilyTreeDNA. She has completed several advanced DNA courses at the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP).