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What’s New at ACGSI.org for January 2022

Posted February 16, 2022
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. Your financial Donations, Volunteer time, articles for Lines, Certificate research, and Membership fees make it possible to maintain and add more items online to our ACGSI website.

We are also adding videos of our Free monthly online Zoom Programs in our Members Only section.

December 8, 2021 Free program Family Tree Maker Software for Moderate Users

Public Section

Fort Wayne Times, Aug. 29, 1840, newspaper with added index
Issue (v.1 n.6) contained much discussion of William Henry Harrison’s campaign for president. It has
much of genealogical value including court notices from Allen, Dekalb, Steuben, and Whitley Counties, numerous local and regional advertisements, and three obituaries. One of the obituaries was for Michael Crants, aged about 90, one of the nine known Revolutionary War veterans buried in Allen County.
Funeral card collection through #17669
Probate case files from boxes 793, 794, 795 & 796 added to Estate Index (1890s)
Rev. Geo. S. Marlow church calendar added to Clergy Records Collection
Marriages, 2021

Members-Only

Fort Wayne Press Club dinner program, 1958
South Side High School class of 1961 reunions, 1971, 1981, 1986, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016
St. John’s Evangelical & Reformed Church financial report, 1936
St. John’s Reformed Church financial reports, 1927, 1929
St. Joseph Hessen Cassel Catholic Church pictorial directories, 1979, 1995, 2005, 2010, 2015
Woodlan H.S. class of 1973 reunion, 2013

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.

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ACGSI web site: www.acgsi.org

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

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

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“Finding Your Germanic Ancestral Place of Origin” – February 9, 2022 – Free Genealogy Program

Posted February 2, 2022
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To make progress in our German family history, we often want to keep going and “jump the pond” back to the old country. Yet, there is no central record repository for the former Germanic states, and many of the records we need were kept at the parish and local level. Thus, our first step is to find our ancestors’ local place of origin. We will look at a variety of sources in the U. S. and abroad that can guide you to your ancestor’s home place of origin. Examples and case studies will highlight how to approach and interpret these records when you find them.

Gail Shaffer Blankenau is on a mission to help fellow genealogists to succeed with their family history. She shares her research and advice in a wide variety of publications and speaks on genealogy at local, state, and national conferences, as well as at the Legacy Family Tree webinars online. She specializes in German genealogy, the Midwest and West, land records, homesteading, 19th-century photographs and lineage research. She was a consulting researcher for William G. Thomas III’s award-winning book A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War (2020 Yale University Press), and serves as the genealogist for the Nickerson Family Association (Cape Cod), and the Germanic Genealogy Society board. She recently earned a master’s degree in history with an award-winning thesis “Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory.”

You may register for this free genealogy educational online Zoom program.

To see all our upcoming online Zoom programs go to the Programs page of our website: www.acgsi.org/meetings.php