New Items for July & Upcoming Area Events

I know it's a little early for the July New Item list, but I will be out of town for the next two weeks and didn't want to make you wait - Susan

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

July 2012

General:

• The Kid’s Family Tree Book (this item may be checked out)

• Bristol and America 1654 – 1685
• Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the U.S.A.
• Emigrants from the Former Amt Damme, Oldenburg (Now Niedersachen), Germany Mainly to the United States 1830 – 1849
• An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America
• List of Emigrants to America from Liverpool 1697 – 1707
• Nineteenth-Century Emigration From Kreis Simmern (Hunsrueck), Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany to Brazil, England, Russian Poland, and the United States of America
• Passengers from Ireland: Lists of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811 and 1817
• Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America 1575-1825
• Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: 4^th Edition

Kentucky:

• Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky

Louisiana:

• Louisiana Census Records: Volume I Avoyelles and St. Landry Parishes 1810 & 1820, Volume II Iberville, Matchitoches, Point Coupee, and Rapides Parishes 1810 & 1820

Mississippi:

• Mississippi, Storm Center of Secession, 1856-1861

New York:

• Denizations, Naturalizations, and Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New York

Tennessee:

• Historic Sumner County, Tennessee

Texas:

• Dear Brethren: Quarterly Conference Minutes Cushing Circuit, San Augustine District, Texas Conference: Methodist Episcopal Church, South 1904 – 1907

Virginia:

• Genealogies and Sketches of Some Old Families
• Old New Kent County: Volume I – New Kent County (Blisland and ST. Peter’s Parishes), King and Queen County (Stratton Major, St. Stephen’s, and Drysdale Parishes) Volume II – King William county (St. John’s and St. David’s Parishes)
• Southside Virginia Families Volume I and Volume II

Upcoming Area Events:

Thursday, August 9 6:45 pm at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library - 101 East Hunt Street: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will be hosting Mr. Aaron Holt, from the National Archives in Fort Worth.  Mr. Holt will be speaking about Military Records.  This free program is open to all.

Saturday, August 18 10:30 am - 12:30 pm at the Haggard Public Library - 2501 Coit Road, Plano:
The Genealogy Friends of the Plano Libraries will present "Early American Migration Routes".  Mr. don Raney will be the speaker for this program.  This free program is open to all.  For more information, contact: http://www.genealogyfriends.org/ 

Collin County Census

Are you looking for information from the Collin County Census?  We have a microfilm collection of the Federal Census for Collin County from 1850 through 1940.  The only census not included in this collection is from 1890, as this is the year that most of the census records were lost in a fire.  So come visit the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library to take advantage of seeing your relatives names and those of their neighbors.

Upcoming Events:
Thursday, August 9 6:45 pm at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library - 101 East Hunt Street: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will be hosting Mr. Aaron Holt, from the National Archives in Fort Worth.  Mr. Holt will be speaking about Military Records.  This program is open to all.

New Items for June 2012

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

June 2012

General:

• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy, Third Edition (this item may be checked out)
• DNA and Social Networking (this item may be checked out)
• Family Archaeology: Discovering the Family Skeleton and Making It Dance (this item may be checked out)
• Family History Detective (this item may be checked out)
• Genealogy Online for Dummies (this item may be checked out)
• Secrets of Tracing Your Ancestors (this item may be checked out)
• Surnames, DNA, & Family History (this item may be checked out)
• Telling Our Stories: Oral and Family History A Bibliography (this item may be checked out)
• Tracing Your Family History on the Internet (this item may be checked out)
• Tracing Your Legal Ancestors (this item may be checked out)

• Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Volume 6: July 1872 – December 1872, Volume 7: January 1873 – June 1873, Volume 8: June 1873 – December 1873, Volume 9: January 1874 – August 1874, and Volume 10: September 1874 – June 1875
• Forever Dixie: A Field Guide to Southern Cemeteries & Their Residents
• German Mercenary Expatriates in the United States and Canada
• Mastering Census and Military Records
• Mastering Immigration & Naturalization Records
• Notable Southern Families: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI
• Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: 4^th edition

Georgia:

• Colonial Georgia Marriage Records From 1760 – 1810
• Evidences of Title Derived from the State of Georgia 1795 – 1804
• Yazoo land Company House of Representatives Document 110 Eighth Congress Second Session 1805

Illinois:

• A Guide to Chicago and Midwestern Polish-American Genealogy

Kentucky:

• Adair County, Kentucky Marriage Records 1852 – 1859, 1861, 1893 – 1894, 1903 – 1904, 1906 – 1907
• Adair County, Kentucky Birth Records 1852 – 1859, 1861, 1893 – 1894, 1903 – 1904, 1906 – 1907
• Adair County, Death Records 1852 – 1878
• Bracken County, Kentucky Death Records 1852 – 1858, 1861, 1875 – 1879, 1904
• Bracken County Marriages: Kentucky Vital Records Series 1 Volume 12
• Breathitt County, Kentucky marriage Records 1852 – 1855, 1857 – 1859, 1875 – 1878
• Breathitt County, Kentucky Death Records 1852 – 1858 & 1874 – 1878
• Breckenridge Co., Kentucky Births 1852 – 1853, 1855 – 1859, 1861, 1874 – 1878, 1893 – 1894, 1903 – 1904
• Breckinridge County, Kentucky Death Records 1852 thru 1859, 1861, 1874 thru 1878, 1894, 1903 thru 1904
• Breckinridge Co., Kentucky Marriages 1853 – 1859, 1861, 1875 – 1878, 1893 – 1894, 1904
• Casey County, Kentucky Death Records 1852 – 1860, 1874 – 1878, 1904 – 1907
• Casey County, Kentucky Marriages 1852 – 1859, 1875 – 1878, 1904 – 1906 & 1907
• Grayson County Marriages: Kentucky Vital Records Series 1 Volume 43
• Grayson County Deaths: Kentucky Vital Records Series 3 Volume 43
• Grayson County, Kentucky Miscellaneous
• Grayson County, Kentucky Births 1852 – 59 – 1861 – 1901-1904 – 1907: Volume 1

Louisiana:

• Appointments of Postmasters in Louisiana 12 January 1827 – 28 December 1892
• Civil War Diary of Moses A. Cleveland 7^th Battery Mass. Light Artillery Operations in Louisiana and the Campaign Against the Port of Mobile Alabama 1864 - 1865

Maryland:

• Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland: Volume XXXIV 1765 – 1767 Libers 41 (pp.194 – end), 42 (pp. 1 – 173), Volume XXXV 1767 – 1768 Libers 42 (pp.174 – end), 43 (pp. 1 – 140), Volume XXXVI 1768 – 1770 Libers 43 (pp.141 – 463)
• Frederick County, Maryland Church and Cemetery Records: Volume 7
• Somerset County, Maryland
  Orphans Court
  Proceedings Volume 1 1777 – 1792 and 1811 – 1823

Massachusetts:

• Records of the Town of Plymouth: Volume 1 1636 to 1705, Volume 2 1705 to 1743

Missouri:

• Saint Francois County, Missouri History and Biographies
• Saint Francois County, Missouri Records
• Saint Genevieve County, Missouri History and Biographies
• Schuyler County, Missouri History and Biographies
• Texas County, Missouri History and Biographies
• Warren County, Missouri Records

North Carolina:

• Villainy Often Goes Unpunished: Indian Records from the North Carolina General Assembly Sessions 1675 – 1789

Ohio:

• A Bicentennial History of Green Township: Uncovering a Jewel in the Crown of the Queen City 1809 – 2009

Pennsylvania:

• Quaker Marriage Certificates: New Garden Monthly Meeting Chester County, Pennsylvania 1704 – 1799
• History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the Revolution from 1774 – 1783

Tennessee:

• Crockett County, Tennessee Marriage Records 1886 – 1888
• Decatur County, Tennessee Record Book 3 1854 – 1857
• Genealogical Abstracts from Tennessee Newspapers: Volume 1 1791 – 1808, Volume 2 1803 – 1812, Volume 3 1821 – 1828
• Past Times: Obituaries , Marriages, and Other Selected Articles from the Maryville Times – Maryville, Tennessee 1891 – 1895 and 1896 – 1899
• Perry County, Tennessee Tombstones

Texas:

• 1887 Tax List Shelby Co. Texas
• Cass County, Texas in the Civil War
• The Church register of the Simpson Camp Ground Methodist Episcopal Church, South
• Dear Brethren: Quarterly Conference Minutes Cushing Circuit, San Augustine District, Texas Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South 1904 – 1907
• Grayson County, Texas in the Civil War
• History and Tax Records of the Sabine District and Sabine County, Texas
• Marriage Record, Trinity County, Texas: Volume 1 1876 – 1893
• Minutes 1858 – 1890 First Baptist Church Hemphill, Texas
• Minutes of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Rusk County, Texas October 1867 – November 1871
• Minutes, Quarterly Conferences, Melrose Circuit, San Augustine District, East Texas Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church south, 12 October 1861 – 16 November 1889
• Muster Roll of Reserve Militia Nacogdoches County, Texas 1870
• Texas State Cemetery

Virginia:

• A History of St. Mark’s Parish Culpeper County, Virginia With Notes of Old Churches and Old Families
• How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties: An Abstract of Their Formation

Are You Tracing Your Irish Roots?

If you are searching for your Irish Roots, we have received the 4th edition of Tracing Your Irish Ancestors by John Grenham.  This edition includes detailed guides to Irish online records.  It discusses research strategies, contains information on obtaining information on county-by-county reference lists, census records, church records, occupational records and much more.  This is a reference book, so it can't be checked out.  We have made the third edition available for check out.

Upcoming Area Events:

Saturday, July 21 10:30 am - 12:30 pm:  Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries will host Sandra Crowley.  Ms. Crowley will speak about "Genealogists Go Mobile".  This will take place at the Haggard Public Library 2501 Coit Rd. Plano

New Titles for May 2012 and Upcoming Events

New Items at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library

May 2012

General:

• 101 Brick Wall Busters
• Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII
• The Complete Book of Emigrants 1661 – 1699 in Two Volumes: Volume I, Volume II – Index Volume
• Discover Your Family History Online (can be checked out)
• Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina From the Colonial Period to About 1820: Volumes I and II
• Genealogies of Mayflower Families From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Volume I Adams – Fuller, Volume II Gibbs – Parker, and Volume III Peck – Wolcott
• The Genealogist’s Census Pocket Reference (we have two copies – one of these maybe checked out)
• Skeletons in the Closet
• Tombstones of Your Ancestors
• Windows on the Past: Identifying, Dating, & Preserving Photographs (this item may be checked out)
• Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice

Florida:

• Seminole Indians of Florida 1875 – 1879

Illinois:

• Greene County, Illinois Miscellaneous Marriages 1823 – 1858

Massachusetts:

• Boston Marriages From 1700 to 1751

Mississippi:

• The Woodville Republican Mississippi’s Oldest Existing Newspaper: Volume 3 January 8 1848 – January 9, 1855

New York:

• Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration

Pennsylvania:

• Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution

Tennessee:

• Estate Settlements in Blount County Tennessee
• Roster of Our Dead Buried in the Confederate Cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn.
• Tennesseans to Missouri 1810 – 1875
• Warren County, Tennessee Genealogical Notes From the McMinnville Newspapers 1880 – 1914

Texas:

• Anderson County Texas Marriage Records 1846 – 1875 Vol.1
• Bee & Borden Counties, Texas Land Titles 1831 – 1878
• Bell County, Texas Land Titles 1831 – 1878
• Bexar County, Texas Land Titles
• Blanco County, Texas Marriage Records 1876 – 1880
• Brazoria County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Brazoria County Republic of Texas Marriage Records 1829 – 1844
• Brazos County, Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1844 – 1878
• Bosque County, Texas Marriage Records Book F 1891 – 1896 Vol. II
• Bowie County, Texas Index to Probate Records
• Caldwell County Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1848 – 1869
• Caldwell County Texas Marriage Records 1868 – 1873 Vol. II
• Caldwell County, Texas Marriage Records Book E – F 1874 – 1886
• Calhoun County, Texas Marriage Records 1847 – 1890
• Chambers County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Coke County, Texas Marriage Records 1890 – 1900
• Comal County, Texas Marriage Records Book A 1846 – 1853
• Crockett County Texas Marriage Records 1892 – 1912
• De Witt County, Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1846 – July – 1865
• Deaf Smith County Texas Marriage Records Book I 1891 – 1916
• Ellis County,  Texas Marriage Records 1878 – 1886 Vol. II
• Fort Bend County Texas Marriage Records 1838 – 1868
• Frio County, Texas Marriage Records Book 1 – 2 – 3 1871 – 1900
• Frio County, Texas Selected Cemeteries
• Glasscock County Texas Marriage Records 1883 – 1910
• Gray County, Texas Marriage Records Book I 1902 – 1928
• Gregg County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Guadalupe County, Texas Index to Probate Cases
• Hemphill County Texas Marriage Records 1887 – 1910
• Hutchinson County Texas Marriage Records Book A 1901 – 1914
• Irion County, Texas Marriage Records 1889 – 1904
• Jasper County, Texas 1880 Census Records
• Jasper County, Texas Marriage Records 1849 – 1880
• Jones County, Texas Marriage Records 1881 – 1892
• Kerr County, Texas Marriage Records Book A 1856 – 1866
• Liberty County, Texas Marriage Records Book A – B 1875 – 1899
• Lipscomb County Texas Marriage Records 1887 – 1910
• Parker County, Texas Marriage Records 1889 – 1893 Vol. II
• 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule of Refugio County, Texas
• Robertson County, Texas Index to Probate Records
• Texas Cherokees 1820 – 1839 A Document for Litigation 1921

Virginia:

• Virginia Military Bounty Land in the Northwest Territory

Washington D.C:

• Daily National Intelligencer Index to Deaths 1855 – 1870
• Daily National Intelligencer Washington, District of Columbia Marriage and Death Notices
• National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts: Volumes: 1814 – 1817, 1818 – 1820, 1821 – 1823, 1827 – 1829, 1836 – 1837, 1847, and 1848
• National Intelligencer Newspaper Abstracts Special Edition: The Civil War Years: Volume 1: January 1, 1861 – June 30, 1863 and Volume 2: July 1, 1863 – December 31, 1865

West Virginia:

• Calhoun County, VA [Now West Virginia] Birth Records 1855 – 1860 Death Records 1855 – 1859

Upcoming Events:

June 14, 6:45 pm at the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library - 101 East Hunt Street, McKinney: The North Collin County Genealogical Society will be hosting Ms. Dorina Thomas.  Ms. Thomas will be speaking about Hispanic Ancestors.  Ms. Thomas is the President of the Hispanic Organization of Genealogy and Research (HOGAR) of Dallas.

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.