Yesterday, 9 September 2023 was a Zoom meeting . We watched two short videos on Artificial Intelligence or AI and its uses in genealogy. Links are included below:
You CAN use ChatGPT for genealogy (with accuracy)! Here’s how
A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) at Ancestry – How it’s Used & What’s in Store in 2023
Join the Jack Jouett Society, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Central Virginia Genealogical Association for a Genealogy 101 Workshop. Expert genealogists will show you the basics of researching ancestors using birth, death, and marriage certificates. There will also be time to answer individual questions. Register for this program at jmrl.org or call 434-973-7893 ext. 4 for more information.
This program is scheduled from 10:30 am to 12 pm using the computer stations at the library.
Go to Ancestry and look for the small SALE (in green) sign in the upper left portion of the screen.
FindMyPast, a subscription database, has announced new records that are now available:
Irish Army Census 1922
Norfolk, Churchyard Graves and Memorials (This is England not the US) There are also images available.
They have added over 250,000 pages to the Newspaper Collection.
Our first meeting of 2023 will be an in-person meeting at the Church on Airport Road. This will be a meet and greet with no scheduled program. This will be an opportunity to meet with fellow genealogists that we may not have seen over the past year – maybe longer. We will have an informal discussion about our plans for CVGA for 2023.
Please plan to attend so we can get re-acquainted or meet in person for the first time and set out our plans for this year.
The 2023 National Genealogical Society (NGS) Family History
Conference will be held in Richmond. Mark your calendars for 30 May through 3 June, 2023. More information about this conference will be released shortly.
The Virginia Genealogical Society is the local society host. VGS is looking for volunteers to help during the conference. VGS will be releasing more details about this volunteer opportunity soon.
Hi, all — I wanted to announce a new page on the website, a central place where those interested can see and purchase CVGA Occasional Papers:
Finding the Freedmen: Records From Louisa County, 1865-1870,
by Elaine L. Taylor
The identity of enslaved people, the names of their parents and siblings, where they came from, the work, and the wounds that filled their lives are extremely challenging to uncover. This book brings together public records and a few family papers containing information about the Freedmen of Louisa County, Virginia, in the years immediately after the Civil War. Many of those sources are now online but sometimes identifying, let alone accessing those online sources, creates another brick wall for many researchers. My experience in assisting people with research in the Louisa County museum convinced me that the most useful format for these records would be to make them available in a single source in print format. The following records are combined and presented in two forms, alphabetically by the Freedmen’s names and alphabetically by the names of employers….
To see the rest of this article, CVGA members should go to “Members Only” on the menu bar above, and choose “Central Virginia Heritage — Current Issue.” (Note: You have to be logged in to this website in order to see “Members Only.”)
If you have trouble logging in to the site to download your copy, please contact me at the webmaster link at the bottom of this page.
For those who are not members of CVGA, we offer the opportunity to purchase a printed copy of each issue. The Summer 2022 issue is available from Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3MXKT29 for $6.50. Click on the Amazon.com link above or search for “Central Virginia Heritage” on Amazon.com.
Contents of the Summer 2022 issue:
If you have any articles you’d like to share with CVGA members, please send an email to the editor, eleanordew at gmail dot com — The Editor.
Hi, all — Over the past few years I have been running lists of the people who have served as sheriffs of counties in Central Virginia in the Central Virginia Heritage. In order to complete this collection of information, I need lists of sheriffs from the following counties:
If anyone has done research in these areas, or has seen research that has been done, please contact me. I would love to be able to give credit to the compilers of such lists. Thank you for your help,
Jean (eleanordew at gmail dot com), Editor, Central Virginia Heritage
Our special speaker will be Thomas MacEntee of Genealogy Bargains.com. Thomas will present a program about “Successful Collateral and Cluster Searching”. Thomas is a genealogy professional, a “tech guy”, blogger, educator, author and more. Please join us on Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10 am for his presentation.