New Items for January 2012 and Upcoming Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

January 2012

General:

• The French in the Americas, 1620 – 1820
• Infestation of Yankees: Reference Guide to Union Troops in Confederate Territory
• A Guide to Mormon Family History Resources
• Preserving Your Family Photographs
• Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840 – 1900
• Finding the Civil War in Your Family Album
• A Kid’s Guide to Genealogy: Design Your Family Tree (this item may be checked out)
• A Kid’s Guide to Genealogy: How to Research Your Ancestry (this item may be checked out)
• A Kid’s Guide to Genealogy: Using Technology to Find Your Family History (this item may be checked out)
• A Kid’s Guide to Genealogy: Basic Genealogy for Kids (this item may be checked out)
• Super Smart Information Strategies: Your Fascinating Family History (this item may be checked out)

Alabama:

• Early Settlers of Alabama

Delaware:

• Delaware Mortality Schedules 1850 – 1880 Delaware Insanity Schedule 1880 Only
• Colonial Families of Delaware: Volumes 2, through 11

Kentucky:

• More Marylanders to Kentucky 1778 – 1828

Maryland:

• Frederick County, Maryland Church and Cemetery Records: Volumes 1 through 5
• Talbot County , Maryland Land Records Book Five: 1712 – 1725
• Supplement to Maryland Eastern Shore Vital Records Books 1 – 3
• Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland Caretaker Records – Volume 2: Sections E through J, Volume 3: Sections K through S and Single Interments
• Maryland Bible Records – Volume 6: Eastern Shore, Volume 7: Harford, Baltimore, and Frederick Counties
• Quaker Records of Northern Maryland: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Abstracts from the Minutes 1716 – 1800

Massachusetts:

• Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families

Missouri:

• Missouri 1850 Agricultural Census: Volume 5

New York:

• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State

North Carolina:

• North Carolina General Assembly Sessions Records Slaves and Free Persons of Color 1709 - 1789

Ohio:

• Ohio’s German Heritage

Pennsylvania:

• Genealogical Data Abstracted from History of Middle Spring Presbyterian Church, Middle Spring, Pennsylvania 1738 – 1900

Tennessee:

• Rhea County, Tennessee Circuit Court Minutes: September 1815 – March 1836
• Blount County, Tennessee Deeds 1819 – 1833

Texas:

• 1840 Citizens of Texas: Volume I – Land Grants, Volume II – Tax Rolls, Volume III – Land Grants
• Texas Indians and Spanish Missions in Colonial Texas
• Around Timpson (Images of America series)

Virginia:

• Buckingham Burials: A Survey of Cemeteries in Buckingham County, Virginia – Volumes I, II, III
• Stafford County, Virginia Marriage References and Family Relationships 1664 – 1800

Washington D.C:

• The Washington and Georgetown Directory
• Georgetown, District of Columbia Marriage and Death Notices 1801 – 1838
• District of Columbia Probate Records Will Books 1 through 6 1801 – 1852 and Estate Files 1801 – 1852

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, February 9 6:45 pm in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library: North Collin County Genealogical Society will host Mr. Aaron Holt from NARA.  Mr. Holt will be speaking about the 1940 Census which is scheduled to become available to the public in April.  You do not have to be a member to come to this program.  (I attended one of Mr. Holt's seminars recently - he is an excellent speaker.  I encourage you to attend.  Susan)

Friday, March 2 6:00 - 11:00 pm at the Haggard Library:  Lock-In at the Haggard Library.  Genealogists will have the library to themselves for the evening.  We will begin the evening with a Welcome at 6pm.  The classes will include FamilySearch.org, Legacy software, Immigration Research, Collin County Genealogy Corner, DNA and genealogy, Newspaper Research, and National Archives.  We will also have demonstrations of the Civil War Database.  The heritage groups that will be represented include DAR-Daughters of American Revolution, SAR-Sons of American Revolution, DRT-Daughters of Republic of Texas, War of 1812 Society, Mayflower Society, Scots of America, SUVCW-Sons of Union Veterans of Civil War, Collin County Genealogical Society, and Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries Inc.  Registration is required as there is only room for 50 people. Please register on the library webpage, http://www.plano.gov/SiteCollectionDocuments/Plano/Library/Genealogy%20Poster%20March2012%20LearningLockin_LINK.pdf