JewishGen Education is offering a new class in “Researching your Roots
in Canada and The (U.S.)Great Lakes Region” (States: Michigan, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois) May 15 – June 17 2012

Did you ancestor settle in Canada? Did your ancestor settle in the
Great Lakes states Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan or Wisconsin?
Did your ancestor immigrate through a Canadian Port and settle in
the United States Great Lakes Region (i.e.Chicago, Detroit or St Paul,
Buffalo, Toledo or Milwaukee?)Did your ancestor come into a U.S. port
and cross the border into Canada?

JewishGen is offering a four week class discovering your roots
in Canada, passage through Canada to northern U.S. cities of the
Great Lakes (i.e. Chicago, Detroit, Duluth and St Paul).
Course will include (1) entrance and exits through Canadian Ports,
(2) Border Crossings (3) vital records, naturalizations and census
records in Canada and Great Lakes Region U.S.

Course open by application
Application http://www.jewishgen.org/education/
Click on “Requirements and Course Details”

http://www.jewishgen.org/education/description.asp?course=20228

Send your application or questions to nholden@interserv.com
Instructors: Nancy Holden, Bruce Brown
May 17 – June 17 $80. Payment after acceptance.
Enrollment limited to 20 students

Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com

Check out the following program offered by our friends at Southern California Genealogical Society and FamilyTreeDNA:

DNA Interest Group Meeting

Saturday, March 31, 2012

10:00a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Southern California Genealogical Society Library

417 Irving Drive, Burbank, California

Sat, March 31, 2012 – Genetics, Genealogy, and Ethics

Presenter: David Dowell, Ph.D,Genealogist and Research Librarian

• 10:00-10:30             Answeringquestions about DNA testing.
• 10:30-12:00             Bioethicistsconcerns versus the public’s right to know.
• 12:00-1:00               Lunch
• 1:00-2:00                 Individualized help.

$5.00 donation is suggested for attendance. Individualizedhelp will be available after the formal presentation for those who want to order DNA tests or who have received DNA results and need help managing theirpersonal page or interpreting their results. A drawing will be held for a $30 discount certificate for ordering a DNA test. Brown bag or join us for pizza for an additional $5.00.

For additional information contact Kathy Johnston at kjohns7900@aol.com or phone (310) 213-1207.

Following the regular meeting from 2:00-3:00 p.m., those whoare Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) Project Administrators or Project Co-administratorsare invited to remain to discuss how they are managing group projects.  The Roundtable format allows people to share expertise and create solutions to issues.

Future Meetings:

Sat., June 30, 2012 – AliceFairhurst, Understanding Deep Clade Testing

Sat., Sept. 29, 2012 – Douglas Neslund, An Adoptee’s Quest

Wikis are exciting tools to provide information.   The concept behind them is that “we are smarter than me.” In other words, no one  person can know everything about any subject. There is always someone who knows additional details about any subject that can be named. If we could combine our accumulated knowledge and make it available to others, we would all be better for it.

Certainly, that is true in the field of family history. With 50 states and over 3,000 counties or county-equivalents in the United States alone, no one person can ever hope to personally know all of the details about the records and research tools available for all of those localities. Add to that all of the countries of the world and their respective jurisdictions and the problem only grows. And each of those jurisdictions are responsible for many different types of records and documents. No wonder researchers have difficulty knowing about all the records that are available to them.

But now a research wiki is available to help us. It is the Research Wiki provided to the world, free of charge, by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  At the present time, the Research Wiki has nearly 60,000 pages of information about the records of the world, their content, availability, and importance to family history researchers. This tool is a growing, dynamic source of information, with new pages being added daily. Links to sources of information are also included, as well as addresses and descriptions of records depositories where documents may be found.

Visit the Research Wiki at wiki.familysearch.org for valuable research information. And if you have knowledge or records, indexes, websites, or other helpful research tools, share your knowledge with others by contributing to the Research Wiki.

The above is from Family History Expos, Inc. website

Barbara Algaze

JGSLA Librarian

This is a great site for World War II research.

Check it out.