Taking a Trip in Texas?

You might want to visit some Civil War Memorials. We have acquired the book: Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas. This book is divided into geographic sections - East, North, North Central, Central, West and the Panhandle, South, and Southeast Texas. It tells the story of each monument and its creation. It has general maps that show the county and type (Confederate or Union) of monuments.

Other News:

The Collin County Genealogical Society will present:
"FIND GENEALOGY BOOKS & MICROFILM FROM ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES"
Saturday, July 23, 1 - 2:30 PM

Can't travel to your ancestor's home in another state? No Problem! Interlibrary Loan to the rescue!
This is a great tool for obtaining books, court records, manuscripts, and newspapers, all sent to your local library. Come learn how to locate materials, order microfilm, and obtain books from faraway places. (Presented by CCGS members Paula Perkins and Janice Quick!)

Jeanette Bickley Bland Meeting Room (lower level) W.O. Haggard, Jr. Library
2501 Coit Rd
Plano TX 75075
http://plano.gov/Departments/Libraries/About%20the%20Library/Pages/haggard.aspx
972.769.4240

What's in a Name?

Are you sure your Great-Uncle Jack was really named Jack? He could have been Jacques, John or Jacob. If he was John, was it spelled Eion, Evan, Gian, Giovanni, Hans, Ian…. And what about your Great-Great-Grandmother Betsy? Was she Bette, Bettina, Betty, or Elizabeth? Are you missing out on vital information because the spelling for the same person is different for different types of records?

To assist you in answering these questions, we have received two books: Gramp’s Nickname and Granny’s Nickname. Both are by Helen Swenson.


July 14th 7:00 pm: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will host Mr. Dan Bishop.

New Items Received in June

Upcoming Event:
Friday, July 8th, 10:30 - 5:15 - Mr. George Morgan will conduct five seminars. Please see June 28th blog for information on each seminar.

New Items for June:

• McKinney North High School Yearbook – Reflections 2011


• McKinney High School Yearbook – The Lion 2011


• A Who’s Who of Your Ancestral Saints


• Buried Genealogical Data


• Old Tenth Legion Marriages: Marriages in Rockingham County, Virginia From 1778 to 1816 Taken from the Marriage Bonds


• South Carolina Provincial Troops: Named in Papers of the First Council of Safety of the Revolutionary Party in South Carolina, June – November 1775


• Genealogical Guide: Master Index of Genealogy in the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine Volumes 1 – 84 1892 – 1950 with Supplement Volumes 85 – 89 1950 – 1955


• History of the German Settlements and if the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina from the earliest period of the colonization of the Dutch, German, and Swiss settlers to the close of the first half of the present century


• Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry


• Abstracts from Ben Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette 1728 – 1748


• An Index to Hinds County, Mississippi Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts


• Bexar County Texas Confederate Pension Records: annotated Abstractions of the First 325 Accepted Applications


• Cemeteries of Bexar County: Volume 7


• San Antonio, Texas Sexton Burial Records 1892 – 1900


• The Blue & The Grey: Perry County, Mississippi’s Civil War Soldiers


• Confederate Soldiers Buried at Vicksburg: February 15, 1862 – July 4 1863


• McKinney Living 2010 Business, Relocation, Visitor Guide


• Charles County Gentry: a Genealogical History of Six Emigrants - Thomas Dent, John Dent, Richard Edelen, John Hanson, George Newman, Humphrey Warren.


• Scots in the Mid-Atlantic States 1783 – 1883


• Lee’s Colonels


• The Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker 2011 (this is available for check out)


• Beyond the Basics: A Guide for Advanced Users of Family Tree Maker 2011 (this is available for check out)


• You Can Write Your Family History (this is available for check out)


• Death, Marriage and Probate Notices from Montgomery, Alabama Newspapers: Volume 1 (1821 – 1865)


• Scots and Scots Descendants in America


• Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina Containing Interesting and Authentic Facts of Lincoln County History Through the Years 1749 to 1937


• Texas in the Confederacy


• Death and Marriage Notices from Autauga County, Alabama Newspaper 1853 – 1889


• Virginia Counties: Those Resulting from Virginia Legislation


• M.D.L. Stephens and Calhoun County, Mississippi


• Births, Marriages, Deaths Abstracted from “The Alex Tribune”, Grady County, Oklahoma: July 5, 1912 – October 12, 1916. Volume I: July 5, 1912 – July 3, 1914, Volume II: July 10, 1914 – October 12, 1916


• Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths (Also Some Native American Records and 1917 Draft Information) Abstracted from “The Kingfisher Daily Times” (1892 – 1898, 1917) and “The Kingfisher Times” (1892 – 1895)


• Births, Deaths and Marriages Abstracted from the “Quanah Tribune Chief”: September 29, 1898 – May 27, 1909


• Grenada County, Mississippi Marriage Index Book


• Cemeteries in Brookhaven Mississippi Plus 10 in the County


• Autauga County, Alabama Cemetery Records: Volume III


• The Mangum star, Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma Territory: Births, Marriages and Deaths: January 5, 1898 – July 30, 1903


• Births, Marriages and Deaths from The Indian Citizen Atoka County, Oklahoma: July 1890 – June 1893


• The Bad Boys of Caldwell County, Texas: Book 1: Murders in the 1800s


• Granny’s Nickname


• Gramp’s Nickname

Genealogy Program by George Morgan

I'm sorry that this blog wasn't posted sooner. We were firming up the times of the programs by Mr. George Morgan.

Friday, July 8th in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library:

Mr. George Morgan, recognized Genealogy expert, author and co-producer of The Genealogy Guys Podcast will be presenting a series of seminars.

10:30 - 11:30: How to Do Everything With Your Genealogy
Based on the second edition of the best-selling book, How to Do Everything: Genealogy by award-winning author George G. Morgan, this seminar provides an overview of genealogy research practices and document types that can be used to locate and study your ancestors.
11:45 - 12:45: Genealogy Orienteering: Using Maps to Find the Right Places
Maps are an essential part of our everyday life. As we use them in our genealogical research, it is essential to understand the geographical history of an area and how boundaries and jurisdictions have changed. These changes are important for determining who created what documents and where these materials can now be found. This seminar presents and discusses a simple yet efficient methodology and some resources to help you use maps to quickly and effectively locate the right place to conduct your research.
1:30 - 2:30: Bring 'Em Back to Life: Developing an Ancestor Profile
In the course of our genealogical research, we often become engrossed in the collection of information snippets, failing to put them into a logical perspective. We lose sight of the fact that the people we're tracing participated in the life of their historical times, led complex lives, and interacted with one another. Organizing the information we collect into a biographical profile can help you begin to recognize character traits and decision patterns. And the profile also provides an invaluable, portable research tool that avoids your taking voluminous amounts of notes with you on research trips. This seminar presents a methodology and a structured model for taking the details you collect about your ancestor and creating a biographical profile.
3:00 - 4:00: Using HeritageQuest Databases
HeritageQuest Online is one of the premiere ProQuest databases for genealogical researchers. It contains six excellent databases of interest to genealogists: U.S. Federal Census: 1790-1930; the Periodical Source Index (PERSI); more than 28,000 digitized, indexed, and full-text searchable local and family histories; the Freedman's Bureau Bank records; Revolutionary War records; and the American Serial Set. This seminar addresses the contents of HeritageQuest Online, and also introduces embedded online tools that can really help your research.
4:15 - 5:15: New Ways to Research Our Roots
We've come a long, long way in the last several decades in our genealogical research work. We started with writing letters and sending away for individual records, and now we are using the Internet, DNA, and social networking applications to collaborate with other researchers. This session takes the attendees from our beginnings to the future of genealogical research, and it concentrates on the products, services, technology, and initiatives that are advancing our research each day. Learn about new research resources available today and trends into the future with books, records, digitization, DNA, and more.

These seminars are free. Come to as many or as few as you would like. If you have a laptop computer, you may bring it to work along with Mr. Morgan on some of these seminars.

If you have any questions on these programs please contact Susan at 972.547.7343 or skusterbeck@mckinneytexas.org.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, June 22, 10:30 am - Noon
The Genealogy, Local History, Texana, Archives (GLHTA) division at Haggard Library is presenting "HOW TO FIND YOUR IMMIGRANTS"
Gain an understanding of the history of immigration, the processes immigrants went through, and where to find passenger lists.
For more information on this free program, please call 972.769.4240
Jeanette Bickley Bland Meeting Room (lower level) W.O. Haggard, Jr. Library
2501 Coit Rd
Plano TX 75075

Friday, July 8, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm in the Dulaney Room in the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library
Mr. George Morgan, author of How to Do Everything: Genealogy will be presenting a series of seminars.

How to Do Everything: Genealogy (based on his book). It covers genealogical research for beginning, intermediate and advanced researchers.

Genealogy Orienteering: Using Maps to Find the Right Place. This seminar presents a simple efficient methodology and some resources to help you use maps more quickly and effectively locate the right place to conduct your research

Bring 'Em Back to Life: Developing an Ancestor Profile. This seminar will help you create a biographical profile of your ancestor.

Using HeritageQuest Databases. This lecture is unique in that it not only addresses the contents of HeritageQuest Online, but it also introduces embedded online tools that can really help your research. Heritage Quest is available through the Library in the Texshare databases.

New Ways to Research Our Roots. This session concentrates on the products, services, technology, and initiatives that are advancing our research each day. Learn about new research resources available today and trends into the future with books, records, digitization, DNA, and more.

Times for each of these seminars will be posted as soon as I receive them - Susan
It is recommended that you bring a laptop computer with you. If you don't have one, you will still get lots of information out of these seminars. For more information on these free seminars sponsored by the Northeast Texas Library System (NETLS), contact Susan at 972.547.7343 or skusterbeck@mckinneytexas.org

Thursday, July 14, 7:00 pm in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library
The North Collin County Genealogical Society will be hosting Mr. Danny Bishop. Mr. Bishop will be discussing historic Downtown McKinney. He has worked with the Heard Museum and other historical preservation projects around our area as well as with the Smithsonian in DC. This program is free for all - you don't have to be a member of the Genealogical Society to attend.

Are There Saints in Your Tree?

Who's Who of Your Ancestral Saints
For anyone interested in their genealogical links to medieval Europe and early Christianity, this book by Alan Koman can help. It contains the lives of 275 saints and the lineages connecting them to 24 men and women of medieval Europe. The historical period covers the years 256 to 1322.

Upcoming Program:
June 18th, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Dulaney Room, 101 E. Hunt St. The Registrar and Lineage Committee of John Abston Chapter of DAR will be available to assist anyone interested in DAR who thinks they have a Revolutionary War Patriot, or would like to know if they have a Patriot. They will offer guidance in finding a lineage and assistance/advice on how to gather proof for submission with a DAR application.

New Items for May and Upcoming Events

New Titles for May 2011:

• Nacogdoches County, Texas in the Civil War


• Tax List of Montgomery County, Virginia 1782


• McKinney Boyd High School Yearbook – Fresh: the Bronco 2011


• Texas Ranger Biographies: Those Who Served 1910 – 1921

I know there aren't many titles here. Most of what was ordered didn't come in until the end of the month and I expect June's new titles to be a long list.

Upcoming Events at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library:

Thursday, June 9th 7:00 pm: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will host Guy Giersch, City of McKinney's Historical Officer. All are welcome to attend.

Saturday, June 18th 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: The Daughters of the American Revolution will be here to answer your questions on how to find out if you have a Revolutionary ancestor and the process to join the DAR.

Save the Date: Friday, July 8th. Mr. George G. Morgan will be presenting a number of Genealogy seminars during the day. More information will be coming....