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NCGS January 2023 Program: “Diaries, Journals and Calendars: Preserving and Document Your Ancestor’s Day-to-Day Life” by Melissa Barker

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Programs

Webinar: Preserving Your Ancestor’s Textiles and Handmade TreasuresSpeaker: Melissa BarkerWhen: Saturday, January 14, 2023 at 10:30am Eastern Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc-CurTgsGdI5XUbnLncVW5UlvNKXrR8B Program Description:Many of our ancestors recorded their day-to-day lives in diaries, journals,…

Protected: (V45, N1) In Our Past: Niagara County in the News

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Digital Newsletter / Newspapers

75 years ago in Niagara County: The Tonawanda Evening News on 11 February 1948: 2 North Siders Fill Liquor Association Posts in County Two North Siders were installed as officers…

Protected: (V45, N1) Beginner’s Corner: Passenger Records by Carol DiPirro-Stipkovits

Post Author:Carol DiPirro-Stipkovits
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Digital Newsletter

Almost every American family history begins with the story of an immigrant. More than 100 million Americans have ancestors who immigrated through Ellis Island or the previous station, Castle Garden.…

Protected: (V45, N1) Gathering and Correlating Information Starting from a Postcard by Jeanette Sheliga

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Digital Newsletter

Angeline Fragale of 25 Van Buren St., Lockport received a postcard that was postmarked in Rochester on 16 August 1939. The sender did not sign the postcard, but after reading…

Protected: (V45, N1) Directory of the I. O. O. F. Niagara Falls Lodge No. 81 for 1927

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Digital Newsletter

Our NCGS Library has many unique sources that you may find your ancestors in. The following are the names from the 1927 By-Laws Rules of Order and Directory of the…

Protected: (V45, N1) World Wide Web by Sandy Chapman

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Digital Newsletter

CALCULATION OF BIRTH DATES FROM EXACT AGE AT DEATH – here are several online calculators to determine birthdates: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Date_Calculator http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/birthday.html http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~fgris/family/brown/agecalc.html 1852 NIAGARA COUNTY (NY) MAP – This map, from…

Protected: (V45, N1) People of Niagara County: Lillian Bronson by Carol DiPirro-Stipkovits

Post Author:Carol DiPirro-Stipkovits
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Digital Newsletter

On October 21, 1902, Lillian Rumsey Bronson was born to Sylvester Marris and Emma Jeanette (nee Huber) Bronson in Lockport, New York. She was the couple’s youngest child, following the…

Protected: (V45, N1) Cemetery Urns Across Niagara County by Jeanette Sheliga

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:January 1, 2023
Post Category:Cemeteries / Digital Newsletter / Niagara County

Different books define the meaning of the urn as: death contains the soul container for ashes of a person who has been cremated death of the flesh #1. Stahler Cemetery,…

Protected: (V44, N2) Our NCGS Library News

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:April 14, 2022
Post Category:Digital Newsletter

Volunteer Librarians Needed: We are looking for local members that would be interested in becoming a volunteer librarian at our library. You would be trained and would not have to…

Protected: (V44, N2) The Wilson Free Library by Eloise Culverwell (1983) Index of Names

Post Author:Jeanette Sheliga
Post published:April 10, 2022
Post Category:Digital Newsletter

The Wilson Historical Society has published many booklets. One of the ones that we have in our NCGS Library is No. 11: The Wilson Free Library by Eloise Culverwell in…

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