**This program is fully booked. Please contact Lauren Maehrlein at 212-755-8532, ext. 211, to be added to the waiting list.**
This program is a rare chance to research in the Municipal Archives on an afternoon when it is closed to the public, so there is no waiting for workstations or staff attention. Leonora A. Gidlund, Director, will introduce participants to vital records, city directories, photographs, voters' records, and other resources. NYG&B volunteers will assist you with your research.
Maira Liriano, Manager of the Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, will give an overview the Milstein Division, and Katherine Cordes, Manager of the Map Division, will provide an overview of the Map Division, from 10:00-11:30. These introductions will be followed by a “hands-on” tutorial of some of the library’s online offerings in the South Court Classroom and the visit will conclude with tours of both divisions.
Registration: Each program $20 members/$30 non-members.
Searching for your German roots? After looking at the Federal census and the obvious online sources, what's the next step? A look at some other resources and strategies that might help revitalize the search for your nineteenth-century German and German-American ancestors.
When:
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Venue:
South Court Classrooms - NYPL, Steven A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Ave between 40th and 42nd Streets, New York, NY
Sponsor:
The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society and the New York Public Library
The Rev. Guy W. Selvester, an expert on church heraldry and a member of the Committee on Heraldry of the NYG&B, will discuss “The Use of the Miter versus the galero in Ecclesiastical Heraldry." Fr. Selvester is a Governor-at-Large of the American Heraldry Society, as well as a fine heraldic designer and artist and a member of the Committee on Heraldry. He recently gave the Mark Elvins Lecture on Church Heraldry at the heraldry Society in London.
The program is free but reservations are necessary as capacity is limited.
One of three new offerings this year, the Schomburg center, part of the NY Public Library, is a research library and archive for information on people of African descent worldwide. Attendees will be given an overview of the center, followed by tours of two of the divisions: General Research and Reference, which is the most heavily used for genealogy; and Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books with its unique resources.
Registration: Each program $20 members/$30 non-members.
**This program is fully booked. Please contact Lauren Maehrlein at 212-755-8532, ext. 211, to be added to the waiting list.**
Thomas Lannon, Assistant Curator, will provide an orientation to the extensive holdings of the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. Documents, manuscripts, and photographs spanning four centuries of New York history will be on display and attendees will be instructed on using the catalog and retrieving materials.
Registration: Each program $20 members/$30 non-members.
The NYG&B, the New York Public Library, and the National Archives at New York City host a full-day program at the NYPL to prepare researchers for the April 2 launch of the 1940 Federal Census. Released only once every ten years, censuses are a bedrock resource in genealogy, providing a wide range of information on people and the times they lived in. This program will provide perspective on the importance of this powerful research tool and in-depth insight into making the best use of it.
When:
Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
Venue:
Bartos Forum - NYPL, Steven A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Ave between 40th and 42nd
Join us on this new addition to our repository line-up. Learn about the many collections of the five organizations housed at the Center. Staff will provide descriptions of the facility’s five divisions from 1:30-3:00, followed by an orientation by a Jewish genealogy expert. Participants will have time for research after the formal program.
Registration: Each program $20 members/$30 non-members.
John Shannon and Paul Campbell will describe the process of acquiring English and Scottish arms. Both speakers are armigers. John Shannon is the chairman of the committee, as well as the president of the College of Arms Foundation, and acquired arms from the College of Arms in London. Paul Campbell, a member of the Heraldry Society of Scotland, acquired arms for his father from the Court of Lord Lyon in Edinburgh, and is an expert on Campbell arms, of which there are many variants.
The program is free but reservations are necessary as capacity is limited.
