Family History Online and Upcoming Area Events

We have acquired the book: Discover Your Family History Online by Nancy Hendrickson.  This is a step-by-step guide to starting your Genealogy search.  Although it is for beginners, it has lists of online databases, websites, resources for researching American Indian, African-American and Jewish ancestors.  Chapters in this book include information on finding birth, marriage, death, census, military, land, and immigration records.  It includes access to online video demonstrations.  This item may be checked out.

Upcoming Area Events:

Saturday, May 19th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the W.O Haggard, Jr. Library 2501 Coit Rd. Plano:"Heraldry for Genealogists" by David Appleton

Saturday, May 19th 2:00 pm at the Gabe Nesbitt Community Park 7001Eldorado Parkway:
The Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution will conduct the "4th Annual McKinney Flag Retirement Ceremony" honoring our Flag and our Veterans. 

Thursday, June 14th 6:45 pm in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library 101 East Hunt Street, McKinney: Dorina Thomas of the HOGAR (Hispanic Organization of Genealogy and Research) de Dallas will be speaking at the North Collin County Genealogical Society's meeting about Hispanic Ancestors.  Ms. Thomas is the President of this organization. This meeting is free and open to all.

Change in Speakers at the CCGS meeting

For those planning on going to Wednesday night's meeting to hear Kathleen Kent, author of The Heretic's Daughter, speak, I've received the following e-mail:

The presentation for this Wednesday’s CCGS meeting is changing.  Instead of the history of early New England, we will learn more about the early history of Plano! Many of us are transplants to this area just might get an insight into today's Plano based on its history.
Our scheduled speaker for May, Kathleen Kent, had an accident and sustained some rather serious injuries. 　Instead of speaking to us on Wednesday, she will be in surgery.  Even while in the midst of this, she asked about re-scheduling for when she is well again. So stay tuned.  Our best wishes and prayers go out to her as she recovers.
Cheryl Smith has graciously and on very short notice agreed to speak to us on "Plano: the First One Hundred Years". As a librarian at the Plano Public Library System for the past fourteen years, she has researched local history as well as fielding genealogy questions, most lately at the Genealogy, Local History, and Texana Archives (GLHTA) at Haggard Library. 　She has been involved in genealogy for 16 years and has taught numerous classes on genealogy at the library as well as speaking to CCGS last year on how to begin locating our immigrant ancestors. 　Cheryl has attended genealogical conferences and taken courses at the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University in Alabama. 　She helped create the Genealogy Round Table at the Texas Library Association and has been a speaker at it conferences.
Come learn about the early history of Plano!
Wednesday, May 9, 7 p.m.
HAGGARD LIBRARY
2501 Coit Rd. - Plano, TX 75075
See you there!

We, too, wish Ms. Kent a speedy recovery.

New Items in April 2012 and Upcoming Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

April 2012

General:

• The Family Tree Problem Solver: Tried-and-True Tactics for Tracing Elusive Ancestors – revised 1^st edition (this may be checked out)
• State Census Records
• Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry: Volume Three Samuel Appleton and His Wife Judith Everard and Five Generations of Their Descendants
• Funeral Home and Cemetery Directory 2012
• Immigrants to New England 1700 – 1775
• Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America: Part One & Two, Part 3, Part 4
• Ships from Scotland to America 1628 – 1828: Volume IV
• Dutch Colonists in the Americas 1615 – 1815
• A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States
• Who Was Who Among the Southern Indians: A Genealogical Notebook 1698 – 1907: Part I Surnames A – J,   Part II Surnames K – Y
• History of the Ordinance of 1787 and the Old Northwest Territory

Arkansas:

• Arkansas 1905 Community & Business Directory
• Arkansas Confederate Veterans and Widows Home

Florida:

• Land Claims in Florida 1824 Records from the 18^th Congress First Session House of Representatives Document Number 412
• Spanish Claims to Land in Florida 1835
• Private Land Claims in East Florida
• Claims to Lands in East and West Florida 1825

Georgia:

• Georgia First Battalion of Infantry Roster: Companies “A” “B”

Illinois:

• Montgomery County, Illinois 1850 Census

Indiana:

• Indiana Militia in the Black Hawk War
• Hamilton County, Indiana Marriage Records Book A 1833 – 1843
• Hamilton County, Indiana Naturalization Certificates 1855 – 1905
• Hamilton County, Indiana Will Book “B” 1835 – 1844

Kentucky:

• Kentucky Confederate Veteran and Widows Pension Index
• Bourbon County, Kentucky Wills and Estates 1825 – 1831
• Fayette County, Kentucky Wills and Estates 1788 – 1822
• Hancock County, Kentucky Marriage Book 1B 1829 – 1857
• Harrison Co. Kentucky Wills and Estates Vol. I 1795 – 1818, Vol. II 1819 – 1832
• Nicholas County Kentucky Marriage Records 1852 – 1859, 1876 – 77, and 1878
• Shelby Co., Kentucky Wills and Estates 1792 – 1817
• Woodford County, Kentucky Wills and Estates 1789 – 1815

Louisiana:

• Land Claims in Louisiana and Missouri: House of Representatives Report Number 273 15^th Congress – 1^st Session
• The Canary Island Migration to Louisiana 1778 – 1783
• Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana History and Biography
• Sabine Parish Louisiana Historical & Biographical Memoirs
• Webster Parish, Louisiana History and Biography

Maryland:

• Frederick County, Maryland Church and Cemetery Records: Volume 6
• Civil War Burials in Baltimore’s Loudon Park Cemetery
• The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: A Genealogical and Biographical Review from Wills, Deeds, and Church Records

Massachusetts:

• Mayflower Deeds and Probates From the Files of George Ernest Bowman
• Mayflower Births and Deaths From the Files of George Ernest Bowman: Volume 1 Families A – F, Volume 2 Families H – W 

Missouri:

• Land Claims in Louisiana and Missouri: House of Representatives Report Number 273 15^th Congress – 1^st Session
• Citizens of Missouri Territory – Grants in Present Day Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma: Volume 1 1787 – 1810, Volume 2 1810 – 1812, Volume 3 To – 1835

New York:

• 10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York 1777 – 1834
• 10,000 Vital Records of Western New York 1809 – 1850
• Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County
• Genealogical Notes of New York and New England Families
• New York Alien Residents, 1825 – 1848

Pennsylvania:

• Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania 1727 – 1775 With Foreign Arrivals, 1786 – 1808

Tennessee:

• Chester County, Tennessee Tombstone Records
• Clay County, Tennessee Bible and Tombstone Records
• Crockett County, Tennessee Marriage Records 1884 – 1886
• Crockett County, Tennessee Marriage Records 1886 – 1888
• Giles County, Tennessee Minute Book  - Volume C 1816 – 1817
• Hardeman County, Tennessee Cemetery Listings in 1939
• Hickman County, Tennessee Bible – Tombstone Records
• Lincoln County, Tennessee Tombstone Records
• Macon County, Tennessee Bible and Tombstone Records
• McMinn County, Tennessee Marriage Book “D” 1848 – 1859
• Roane County, Tennessee Militia Fines Records 1806 – 1839
• Tipton County, Tennessee Marriage Book “B” 1840 – 1860

Texas:

• First Settlers of the Republic of Texas: Volume 1 and Volume 2
• The Spanish Abandonment and Reoccupation of East Texas, 1773 – 1779
• Texas Frontiersman 1839 – 1860
• Anderson County, Texas Marriage Records 1875 – 1900 Vol. II
• Angelina County, Texas & Aransas County, Texas Land Titles 1805 – 1878
• Atascosa County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Austin & Bandera Counties, Texas Land Titles 1831 – 1878
• Bastrop County, Texas Land Titles 1831 – 1877
• Bastrop County, Texas Marriage Records Book A 1851 – 1870
• Bastrop & Lee Counties Texas: The Wend Colony 1854
• Baylor County, Texas Land Titles 1831 – 1878
• Bexar County, Texas Marriage Records 1837 – 1866
• Bexar County, Texas Dependants of Civil War Soldiers
• An Inventory of the Colonial Archives of Texas Municipality of Brazoria County, Texas 1832 – 1837
• 1870 Census of Caldwell County, Texas
• Fort Bend County Cemetery Inscriptions: Volume II
• Harris County, Texas Proceedings of the Convention of Texas Veterans Held at Houston May 13 – 15, 1873
• Hunt County, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions: Volume 4
• Hunt County, Texas Court Record Book “D” Volume I 1852 – 1855
• Johnny Rebs of Hunt County, Texas
• Jack County Texas Proofs of Heirship
• Jack County, Texas Miscellaneous Records: Deaths, Early Physicians, Divorces, Will Records, Probate Records, Registered Voters, Scholastic Census
• Jack County, Texas 1887 Drouth Sufferers Tax Rolls – 1858, 1859, 1861
• 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule of Jackson County, Texas
• 1870 U.S. Census of Jackson County, Texas
• 1870 U.S. Census of Jefferson County, Texas
• A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson County, Texas
• Early Doctors of Nacogdoches County, Texas
• Orange County Texas Cemetery Inscriptions Volume 1Cemetery Inscriptions Rains County Texas: Volume I
• Pioneers of Red River County, Texas
• San Saba County Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Schleicher County Texas Marriage Records 1901 – 1909
• Tom Green County, Texas Marriage Records Book A & B 1875 – 1888
• Williamson County, Texas Marriage Records 1849 – 1860

Virginia:

• Confederate Soldiers of Pittsylvania County & Danville

West Virginia:

• Early History of West Virginia
• 1782 Berkeley County, West Virginia Tax Listing
• Clay County, Virginia [Now West Virginia] Birth and Death Records 1858 – 1860
• Fayette County, Virginia [Now West Virginia] Births and Death Records 1854 – 1859
• Fayette Co., W.V. Marriages 1830 – 1870
• Harrison County, West Virginia History and Biographies
• Mercer County Deaths 1853 – 1882
• Raleigh County, West Virginia Death Records 1896 – 1914
• Early Deaths of Raleigh Co. WV 1853 – 1875
• Early Marriages of Raleigh County 1850 – 1870 Volume I
• Raleigh County, WV Marriages 1871 – 1890
• Summers County, West Virginia Death Records: Volume 1: 1872 – 1890 and Volume 2: 1891 – 1900
• Summers County, West Virginia Marriages 1871 – 1883
• Summers Co. Wills 1871 – 1900
• Marriage Records of Wyoming County, West Virginia Volumes 4 – 5 – 6 Nov 1890 – Nov 1902
• Wyoming County, West Virginia Death Records 1853 – 1894
• Wyoming County, West Virginia Marriage Records 1854 – 1889

Upcoming Free Area Events:

Saturday, May 5th 10:30 am - 12:00 pm at the W.O Haggard, Jr. Library 2501 Coit Rd. Plano:
"CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COURT CASES" Using court cases to find out more about your ancestors -- who they were and what they did.

Wednesday, May 9th 7:00 pm at the W.O Haggard, Jr. Library 2501 Coit Rd. Plano:
"A Witch in the Family" Kathleen Kent, author of The Heretic's Daughter will be the guest speaker.

Thursday, May 17th 2:00 pm at the Allen Civic Auditorium 300 North Allen Drive Allen:
Meg Hacker the Director of archives for National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will be speaking about the 1940 U.S. Census.

Saturday, May 19th 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the W.O Haggard, Jr. Library 2501 Coit Rd. Plano:
"Heraldry for Genealogists" by David Appleton

Saturday, May 19th 2:00 pm at the Gabe Nesbitt Community Park 7001Eldorado Parkway:
The Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution will conduct the "4th Annual McKinney Flag Retirement Ceremony" honoring our Flag and our Veterans.