New Items for October and Upcoming Area Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

October 2012

General:

• Civil War Genealogy (this item may be checked out)
• Italians to America
• Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves
• Surnames in Ireland
• Tracing Your Irish & British Roots

Alabama:

• Mobile Confederates From Shiloh to Spanish Fort: The Story of the 21st Alabama Infantry Volunteers

Illinois:

• St. Mark: A Century of Faith, Praise, and Service 1893-1994 

Kentucky:

• Menifee County, Kentucky Births – Deaths – Marriages 1874 – 1878

Maryland:

• Complete Personal Name Index to a History of Washington County, Maryland
• Index of Obituaries and Marriages in The [Baltimore] Sun 1861 – 1865

Massachusetts:

• A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries

Tennessee:

• 1863 Henderson County, Tennessee Tax Listing and Civil Districts
• Carroll County, Tennessee Guardian Account Records 1842 – 1845
• Dickson County, Tennessee 1836 Civil Districts 1839 Tax Listing
• Madison County, Tennessee Guardian Renewal Bonds 1868 – 1879
• McKenzie’s Fighting Fifth: First Order Book of the 5^th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Confederate States of America
• McKenzie’s Fighting Fifth: Reports and Rosters of the 5^th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Confederate States of America
• McKenzie’s Fighting Fifth: Questionnaires of Veterans of the 5^th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Confederate States of America
• Reminiscences of William G. Allen McKenzie’s 5^th Tennessee Regiment

Texas:

• Another Taste of Heritage
• The Heard Legacy – we have two copies of this title – one of them can be checked out
• Report City of McKinney, Collin County, Texas: Assets and Liabilities Fiscal Year February 1, 1926 to January 31, 1927
• Report on McKinney City Hospital, McKinney, Texas: Receipts and Disbursements from January 1, 1924 to June 30, 1926
• The Saga of Marshal Todd Warden

West Virginia:

• Cabell County, West Virginia History and Biographies
• Greenbrier County, West Virginia History and Biographies

Upcoming Area Events:

Wednesday, November 14 7:00 pm at the Haggard Library 2501 Coit Rd, Plano: The Collin County Genealogical Society will host Ms. Lynell Moss, Consultant Training Director of the Family History Center in Plano. Ms. Moss will be speaking on "The FamilySearch Family of Websites". This event is FREE and open to all.

Saturday, November 17 9:30 am - 3:00 pm at the Plano Bible Chapel, 1900 Shiloh Rd, Plano The Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries will be holding a workshop featuring Lloyd D. Bockstruck. Pitfalls in Research, will help the dedicated researcher wade through court orders and court minutes; birth and death substitute records; and understand the naming quagmire. These are out of the ordinary records that are seldom used in research. More information is available at http://www.genealogyfriends.org/all-day-workshops.html
Fees: $40 for members and $45 for nonmembers

Wednesday, November 28 10:30 am - 12:00 at the Haggard Library 2501 Coit Rd, Plano: The Genealogy, Local History, Texana, Archives (GLHTA) department presents: FamilySearch.org. The latest, greatest, old and hidden uses for your research

Something to add to your calendar: the Collin County Genealogical Society will be having their 2013 All-Day Seminar on Saturday, February 16.  The Featured speaker will be Lloyd Bockstruck.  Topics will include: The Colonial Germans, The Scots-Irish in Colonial America, Anglican Church Records for Genealogical Research, and Virginia: Where the British Empire Began.