This past week we’ve added some new books to our shelves that were donated to us. Here is a list:
1. Maryland Records Vol.1 and Vol. 2 by Brumbaugh
2. Some of the First Settlers, First Reformed Church of Easton, Penna. by Kieffer
3. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield [Connecticut] Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Parts 1 & 2) by Jacobus
4. Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District Vol. 1 – 3 by Manwaring
5. Inheritance in Ontario by MacNamara
6. The Pilgrim Church Register, Plymouth Congregational Church, Lockport, NY
Come look at these books in our NCGS Library! Our library is located on the 2nd floor of the Niagara County Historical Society located at 215 Niagara St., Lockport, NY 14094. We are open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 – 4:45pm or you can reach us by e mail at: comments@niagaragenealogy.org.
If you are unable to easily visit our library to research in our holdings, remember that your membership to the Niagara County Genealogical Society entitles you to one FREE 30-minute Look-up in our Library’s holdings. More information about our Society, membership and other benefits can be found at: http://niagaragenealogy.org/membership.html. (Psst: You can apply for a membership and renew online on our website!)
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga is Board Chairman and Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society, Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club, a member of APG (Assn of Professional Genealogists)and the National Genealogical Society
Throughout the years, our librarians and volunteers have clipped and copied loads of news articles and filed them by surname in our library. Files like these may also include pedigree charts, family group sheets, pictures, and more if members have donated them.
This folder also included a copy of an old family photo and a copy of a death certificate from 1895!
If you have family group sheets, pictures, pedigree charts, newspaper clippings, funeral cards, etc. that you would like to donate to our Vertical Files, please contact us! Our library is located on the 2nd floor of the Niagara County Historical Society located at 215 Niagara St., Lockport, NY 14094. We are open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 – 4:45pm or you can reach us by e mail at: comments@niagaragenealogy.org.
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga is Board Chairman and Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society, Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club, a member of APG (Assn of Professional Genealogists)and the National Genealogical Society
This past weekend we added some books to our NCGS library shelves. We visited the Historical Society of the Tonawanda’s and made a few purchases for our library shelves:
1. City of North Tonawanda Centennial Celebration 1897-1997
2. Centennial Magazine 1865-1965, North Tonawanda, NY
3. The Rand Family Left a Lasting Imprint on North Tonawanda — and the World!
4. Civil War Veterans of the Tonawandas by Stuart R. Brown (updated 2005)
Come look at these books in our NCGS Library! Our library is located on the 2nd floor of the Niagara County Historical Society located at 215 Niagara St., Lockport, NY 14094. We are open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1–4:45pm or you can reach us by e mail at: comments@niagaragenealogy.org.
If you are unable to easily visit our library to research in our holdings, remember that your membership to the Niagara County Genealogical Society entitles you to one FREE 30-minute Look-up in our Library’s holdings. More information about our Society, membership and other benefits can be found at: http://niagaragenealogy.org/membership.html. (Psst: You can apply for a membership and renew online from our website!)
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga is Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society, Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club, a member of APG (Assn of Professional Genealogists)and the National Genealogical Society
This past month we received a donations of yearbooks from Niagara Wheatfield Senior High School and Edward Town Middle School.
It was fun looking through these particular yearbooks as they were for the years that my parents (Jan Johnson and Jeff Sheliga) and aunt (Linda Johnson) went to Niagara Wheatfield.
Of course the fun quickly ended when I found my 6th grade yearbook picture!!
Jeanette Sheliga, 6th Grade…
Did nobody tell me to comb my hair? Who picked out those glasses? LOL
If you’d like to look through our yearbook collection, please visit our NCGS Library. Our library is located on the 2nd floor of the Niagara County Historical Society located at 215 Niagara St., Lockport, NY 14094 and we are open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 – 4:45pm.
If you do not live close to our library, you can become a member of our Society and take advantage of our Look-up Program. The Look-up services is available to members only. Members are entitled to one FREE 30-minute Look-up in the Library’s holdings. After the free Look-up, additional are available for a nominal fee. Look-ups for the membership year need to be requested by December 14th. You can apply for membership right from our website at: http://niagaragenealogy.org/membership.html.
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga of Lockport NY is Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society, Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club and a member of APG (Assn of Professional Genealogists)
Our library contains many family history books that have been donated by genealogists. We have five books on the Wightman family. The first two were written by Wade C. Wightman:
These books contain genealogies that also include pictures. They were written in 1990 and 1994.
The remaining three are binders written by James Edward Wightman.
They include items such as stories, newspaper clippings, pictures, military information and much more!
If you are connected to the Wightman family, please visit our library to look through these resources! Our library is located on the 2nd floor of the Niagara County Historical Society located at 215 Niagara St., Lockport, NY 14094 and we are open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 – 4:45pm.
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga of Lockport NY is Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society and Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club.
From June 24-28, I attended my first genealogy institute! The one I chose was the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) https://www.gripitt.org/ at La Roche College in Pittsburgh. I mostly selected it for two reasons: one was because it is the closest to where I live and secondly because Tom Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS was teaching the course Mastering the Art of Genealogical Documentation.
I had heard that maybe Tom
Jones was going to retire from speaking soon and I didn’t want to lose my
chance to learn from him. Especially since he was speaking on a topic that I
have been struggling with which is creating source citations. I know some people
might find it strange that somebody would choose to spend money and a week of
their time learning about citations, but I was excited about it.
I felt like I was able to
keep up with the information the first day, and then I started to feel
information overload. Luckily the handout was amazing and I can refer to that
as I continue to process the information and start to put it into practice.
When asked, I teased that we spent a whole morning talking about the
semi-colon! Which we did, although we also talked about many other punctuation
markings. I don’t think I ever knew there was such a thing as an en dash or em
dash!
We were given pre-reading
before the institute along with homework each night. The pre-reading was an
article that Tom Jones wrote for the National Genealogical Society Quarterly
(NGSQ) and it was of particular interest as it referenced a family that lived
for a time in Niagara County. I mentioned to Tom during a break that I live in
Niagara County and we got to talking over the course of the week. He mentioned
there was somebody in my area that he was hoping to make a connection to as she
was a DNA match to him and could help break a brick wall. It turns out that I
knew the person he was talking about (she is a music teacher in Orleans County)
and I reached out to her and helped them connect! What a small world! I felt
really happy that I was able to help Tom in that small way as he has helped the
genealogy community so much over the years.
I got the chance to talk to
and thank the GRIP Co-Directors. It is hard to not “geek out” when
meeting these well-known genealogists. I did approach Elissa Scalise Powell and
personally thank her for her webinar that she gave to the Western New York
Genealogical Society (WNYGS) titled Your
Personal Education Plan: Sifting through the Options as it opened
up my eyes to what level genealogist I was and what I needed to do to become a
better researcher.
It was really neat to walk
around during the breaks and hear bits of conversation. Everyone there was so
nice and were “speaking my language.” You could feel comfortable
sitting with strangers at a table during mealtime and have plenty to talk about.
Three of the evenings, they had speakers give a lecture that you could
optionally attend if you wanted to. Maia’s Books https://www.maiasbooks.com/
was also there and you could browse all of the books during the breaks. I *may*
have bought a few books… like 5 of them, but I promise to read them!
Members of WNYGS with
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM CG, CGL. WNYGS sponsored her Thursday evening
lecture.
I really enjoyed my week at
GRIP. It was a great opportunity to network, make friends, and learn from
others. A few of us WNYGS members http://www.wnygs.org
had carpooled together. I stayed in a hotel across the street from the campus
which was very nice and I had paid for the campus meal plan which was
delicious. I also took some time during the breaks to look at a few of the
Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) Portfolios https://bcgcertification.org/
that they had on display. I very much look forward to the next time that I can
attend a course at GRIP!
Receiving my Certificate of Completion from Dr. Tom Jones
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga of Lockport NY is Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society and Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club.
Throughout the years, our librarians and volunteers have clipped and copied loads of news articles and filed them by surname in our library. Files like these may also include pedigree charts, family group sheets, pictures, and more if members have donated them.
This
particular file also includes some copies from an old family bible.
If
you have family group sheets, pictures, newspaper clippings, etc. that you
would like to donate to our Vertical Files, please contact us! Our
library is located on the 2nd floor of the Niagara County Historical Society
located at 215 Niagara St., Lockport, NY 14094. We are open
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 – 4:45pm or you can reach us by e mail
at: comments@niagaragenealogy.org.
If you are unable to easily visit our library to check out our Vertical Files, remember that your membership to the Niagara County Genealogical Society entitles you to one FREE 30-minute Look-up in our Library’s holdings. More information about our Society, membership and other benefits can be found at: http://niagaragenealogy.org/membership.html. (Psst: You can apply for a membership and renew online from our website!)
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga of Lockport NY is Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society and Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club.
Throughout the years, our librarians and volunteers have clipped and copied loads of news articles and filed them by surname in our library. Files like these may also include pedigree charts, family group sheets, pictures, and more if members have donated them.
If you have family group sheets, pictures, etc. that you
would like to donate to our Vertical Files, please contact us! Our
library is located on the 2nd floor of the Niagara County Historical Society
located at 215 Niagara St., Lockport, NY 14094. We are open
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 – 4:45pm or you can reach us by e mail
at: comments@niagaragenealogy.org.
If you are unable to easily visit our library to check out our Vertical Files, remember that your membership to the Niagara County Genealogical Society entitles you to one FREE 30-minute Look-up in our Library’s holdings. More information about our Society, membership and other benefits can be found at: http://niagaragenealogy.org/membership.html. (Psst: You can apply for a membership and renew online from our website!)
Contributor: Jeanette Sheliga of Lockport NY is Vice-President of the Niagara County Genealogical Society and Organizer of the North Tonawanda Library Genealogy Club.
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