Forensic Genealogy & Upcoming Events

Forensic Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick, PHD has just arrived at the McKinney Public Library. It has innovative tools for getting the most information out of your resources. Its topics include "Digital Detective" work - using photographs for location and time, becoming a "Database Detective" - using online, microform, periodical, and event databases, and becoming a "DNA Detective". Each topic includes a case study so you can see how the information is put to use.

This title can be checked out.


Upcoming Events:

Thursday, October 13 7:00 - 8:30 at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library. The North Collin County Genealogical Society will host Shirley Apley, of the Fort Worth Public Library Genealogy Department. Ms. Apley will be presenting Fred Knows All: An In-depth Look at Texas Death Certificates. You do not need to be a member of the Genealogy Society to attend, all are welcome.

Do you know someone who is just starting out in Genealogy? If so, the McKinney Public Library has the program for them. Genealogy 101 is for someone wanting to start tracing their family tree but don't know quite where to begin. Please RSVP if possible so we can judge how many handouts are needed.
When: Saturdays, October 22 and November 19
10:15 - 11:45 am
Where: Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library
101 East Hunt Street
RSVP: Please RSVP Susan at 972.547.7343 or skusterbeck@mckinneytexas.org

Free Genealogy Software

The following was taken from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Free Genealogy Software:

None of the following free programs are limited trial offers. Several of the programs are very powerful and none are "limited trial offers". However, upgrading to the "Plus Editions" of a couple of the programs will add even more features.

Windows:

Legacy family Tree Standard Edition http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ has many more features not found in any other free genealogy software. It is not limited in any way.
RootsMagic Essentials http://www.rootsmagic.com/essentials/ contains many of the core features from RootsMagic Family Tree software.
Ancestral Quest Basics http://www.ancquest.com/ is a lot like Personal Ancestral File only with many more features.
Family Tree Builder http://www.myheritage.com/page/free-genealogy-software by MyHeritage supports 18 languages and features Smart Matching (a fun way to discover new relatives) and provides excellent support for photos, including face recognition technology.
Personal Ancestral File http://familysearch.org/eng/default.asp?Page+home/welcome/simplePAFRegiatration.asp doesn't have all the features of the more modern programs. However hundreds of thousands of users use the program and most seem satisfied with it, despite the limitations.

Macintosh:

Users can use all of the above programs if using Parallels, fusion, or VirtualBox.

Personal Ancestry Writer II http://www.lanopalera.net/Genealogy/AboutPAWriter.html is a very popular free Macintosh genealogy program that performs the basics.

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, October 13th 7:00 - 8:30 pm: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will host Shirley Apley of the Fort Worth Public Library Genealogy Department. Ms. Apley's topic will be "Fred Knows All: An In-depth Look at Texas Death Certificates." This program is free and open to all.

Collin County, Texas in the Civil War

A recent acquisition is the book: Collin County, Texas in the Civil War. This is a biographical directory featuring the Civil War Veterans of Collin County. The directory includes the veteran's date and place of birth, date and place of death, where buried, spouse with marriage date and place, parents, service information, pension number, and comments.

Upcoming Events:

Wednesday, September 14th 10:30 am - noon GLHTA will present Genealogy 201: How to Locate Vital Records. This program is free and you do not have to be a member of the GLHTA to attend. It will take place at the Jeanette Bickley Bland Meeting Room of the Haggard Library located at 2501 Coit Road, Plano. for more information on this program, call 972.769.4240 or visit: http://plano.gov/Departments/Libraries/Genealogy/Pages/default.aspx

Saturday, September 17th at 2:00 pm the Collin County Historical Society will present A Pre-historic Taste of Collin County. Randy farmer and Vicki Day will give a glimpse of our agricultural past. Find out how food of the Caddo Tribes of North Texas and today's menus are related. Enjoy dishes prepared by Kyra Effren. This program will take place at the Collin County Historical Society located at 300 East Virginia Street, McKinney. For more information, call 972.542.9457 or visit the North Texas History Center website at: http://thenthc.org/

New Titles for August and Upcoming Events

The following items were received in August:

• North Texas Conference 2008 Journal, United Methodist Church


• First United Methodist Church, McKinney, Texas (2003)


• Banks and Bankers of McKinney, Texas


• Trail to Texas: A Joint History of the John Alexander Beaty and James Cox Families


• Trail to Texas: A Joint History of the Edward Teague Williams and James O. McFarland Families


• Hicks: Family History Descendants of Willie Ripley Welch and Jacob Mayer Hicks


• The Descendants of Jesse Hensley Gough


• The Daniel Dunn Family


• The People's Journal: Pickens, South Carolina, 1894-1903


• City Charter McKinney, Texas


• 45th Regiment of Virginia Militia Stafford County, Virginia 1781-1856


• Ralls County, Missouri Settlement Records 1832-1853


• Abstracts of Wills and Estate Records of Granville County, North Carolina 1833-1846


• Black Baltimore 1820-1870


• Local History and Genealogy Abstracts from Fairmount News, Fairmount, Indiana 1888-1900


• Knox County, Tennessee Minutes of the County Court 1792-1795


• Kentucky German Pioneers


• Morgan County, Missouri Marriage Records 1833-1893


• Immigrants of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750


• Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser (Maryland): Volume 4: 1876-1884


• History of Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio


• Blount County, Tennessee Chancery Court Records: Book 1 Part II 1866-1869


• Mastering Online Genealogy (this item may be checked out)


• St. George's Parish Registers [Hartford County, Maryland] 1689-1793


• Covington's German Heritage (Kentucky)


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


• Colonial Families of Delaware: Volume 1


• Brunswick Troops in North America 1776-1783: Index to All Soldiers Who Remained in North America


• Missouri 1850 Agricultural Census: Volumes 2, 3, 4


• The Heritage of Winston County, Alabama Sesquicentennial Edition


• The Heritage of Lee County, Alabama


• Index of death and Other Notices Appearing in the Cincinnati Freie Presse 1874-1920


• Camp County Texas in the Civil War


• Personalities on the East Texas Frontier


• Parker County, Texas Probate Minutes, 1874-1885: Volume 1 Part Two, Volume 1 Part Three, and Volume 1 Part Four


• Parker County, Texas Divorces: Part Three


• Patrick County, Virginia Will Book No. 2


• News From Marion, Marion County, Ohio 1844-1861


• Forgotten Hoosiers: African Heritage in Orange County, Indiana


• Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Indiana (1949) With Supplement (1954)


• The Scotch-Irish in America


• Peirce's Colonial Lists: Civil, Military and Professional Lists of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies


• Bedford County, Tennessee Bible Records Volume 1


• History of the German Element in Virginia


• White Servitude in Pennsylvania: Indentured and Redemption Labor in Colony and Commonwealth


• German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York 1868-1871 With Places of Origin


• Smith County, Tennessee Deeds (1867-1884) Volume 5


• Order of the First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies: Volume 1 "The First Two Hundred"


• The Formation of the North Carolina Counties 1663-1943


• County Courthouse Book: 3rd Edition


• North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster: Volumes 1 through 18

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, September 8: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will meet at 7:00 pm in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library. Special Guest Speaker to be announced. All are welcome to attend.

Wednesday, September 14: The GLHTA division will present: Genealogy 201 - How to Locate Vital Records 10:30 am - 12:00 pm at the Haggard Library 2501 Coit Rd, Plano

New Items Received in July

Items Received in July 2011 at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library:

• Biographical Rosters of Florida’s Confederate and Union Soldiers 1861 – 1865: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI


• Texas: a Historical Atlas


• The Roster of Union Soldiers 1861 – 1865: Volume 1: Missouri – Aansorch, Samuel to Phye, Phillip F., Volume 2: Missouri – Piasseler, Henry to Zwisler, Theodore, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi


• Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina, in the Great War 1861-'65: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V


• Abstracts of Beaufort County, North Carolina, Deed Book 2 1729 – 1748


• Transcription of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Records Volume Two Record Book C 1651 – 1656


• South Carolina’s Royal Grants: Volume Six: Grant Books 38 through 41 1670 – 1785


• Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Presbyterian: Volume III: 1880 – 1891


• Marriage and Death Notices from the Southern Presbyterian: Volume IV: 1892 – 1908


• Index to Probate Oklahoma County, Oklahoma 1895 – 1920


• Dallas County History from the Ground Up: Volume III


• Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas


• The Lineage Book of the First Families of the Twin Territories (Oklahoma)


• Wilson County, Tennessee Bible, Family and Tombstone Records


• Washington County, Tennessee Tombstones: Select Cemeteries


• Sumner County, Tennessee Tax Records 1787 - 1794


• Washington County, Missouri Records


• Scotland County, Missouri Records


• Gasconade County, Missouri Records


• Carter County, Missouri Records


• Barton County, Missouri Records


• Barry County, Missouri Records


• Goodspeed’s Washington County History: Washington County, Missouri


• Baltimore Town and Fell’s Point, Maryland Directory of 1796 with Supplement Containing Baltimore Naturalizations 1796 – 1803


• Index to Marriage Records Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory 1889 – 1907


• Bledsoe County Tennessee Deed Books – A: 1807 – 1812, B: 1812 – 1820, C: 1817 – 1821


• Colonial Tavern Keepers of Maryland and Delaware 1634 – 1776


• Deaths Abstracted from the Camp Point Journal 1873 – 1882 Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois


• Land Records of Wicomico County, Maryland 1666 – 1810


• Heirs and Legatees of Caroline County Maryland


• 1783 Tax List of Maryland: Part I: Cecil, Talbot, Harford, and Calvert Counties


• Baltimore County Marriage References 1659 – 1746


• Mt. Olivet Cemetery Baltimore, Maryland Caretaker Records Volume 1: Sections A through D


• Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania: Volumes I, II, and III


• Biographical Data from Baltimore Newspapers 1817 – 1819


• Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia


• Constables and Tobacco Planters in Orange County, Virginia1735 – 1769


• Complete Delaware Roll of 1898


• Illinois Census Returns: 1820


• Illinois Census Returns 1810 and 1818

Upcoming Events:

August 11 at 7:00 in the Dulaney Room of the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library. The North Collin County Genealogical Society will hold its monthly meeting. The speaker will be Mary Carol Strother, author of the children's book: Collin McKinney: Texas Patriot and Statesman. All are welcome - you do not have to be a member to attend this program.

At the Jeanette Bickley Bland Meeting Room (lower level) of the W.O. Haggard, Jr. Library: 2501 Coit Rd, Plano, TX 75075. Please call 972.769.4240 for more information on the following programs:

"GERMANY TO AMERICA" Saturday, August 13, 2011, 1:00 - 2:30 PM German passenger ships and other tips for German research. Presented by Carol Harper.

"HOW TO GET STARTED" Thursday, August 18, 10:30 AM - Noon Learn how to fill out your family tree chart and where to locate the information.

I will be going on vacation (visiting my roots) for the next two weeks. This blog will continue after my return. Enjoy the rest of your summer! Susan

North Carolina Troops 1861 - 1865

We have just added North Carolina Troops 1861 - 1865 A Roster to our collection. This is a set of 18 volumes. The rosters contained in each volume are arranged numerically by regiment or battalion and then alphabetically by company, and each roster is preceded by a unit history. Officers and enlisted men are then listed in separate sections, the arrangement being (with a few exceptions) alphabetical by surname. Each name is followed by a service record that includes information such as the soldier's county of birth and residence; his age and occupation at time of enlistment; promotions; whether he was wounded, captured, or killed; and whether he deserted or died of disease.

This collection will be on the shelf at R GEN 929.3756 NOR starting Wednesday, August 3rd. Due to its size, it will not be housed in the "New Genealogy" section.

Collin County Articles

From the Collin County Genealogical Society:

For Collin County Researchers, A series of articles by Tom Keener, cultural arts manager with the Allen Public Library, were published in The Allen Image in 2009

The Allen Image is archived at http://www.allenimage.com/archives/
"My Remembers, A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression"
by Tom Keener for the Allen Image, Nov 2009 "Plano, Texas: The Early Years"
by Tom Keener for the Allen Image, Sep 2009 "The George Pearis Brown Papers"
by Tom Keener for the Allen Image, Jul 2009 "A History of Collin County Texas"
by Tom Keener for the Allen Image, Jun 2009 "The Annals of Elder Horn"
by Tom Keener for the Allen Image, May 2009 "The Annals of Elder Horn"
by Tom Keener for the Allen Image, Apr 2009 "The Annals of Elder Horn"
by Tom Keener for the Allen Image, Mar 2009

Upcoming Events:

"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!)
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LOCATION:
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