We will have a Zoom meeting this Saturday, February 11, beginning at 10 am. There will be a video about 10 Little Known Genealogy Websites and they are all free.
Category Archives: Discussion
Meeting this Saturday, January 14, 2023
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.
Virtual Meeting Saturday, October 8, 2022
Since October is Family History month, our meeting will be a “round table” discussion of what discoveries we have made in the past year, any brick walls resolved or what new methods have we learned that has helped in our research. Also what we hope to accomplish in the coming year.
Please join us for this discussion.
Virtual Meeting July 9, 2022
We will meet virtually on July 9, 2022 AT 10 am. We will listen to a YouTube video by Lisa Louise Cooke on “How to Use PERSI Like a Pro”.
The Periodical Source Index, or PERSI, is the largest subject index to genealogy and local history periodical articles in the world. PERSI indexes articles in periodical titles (including defunct titles) published by thousands of local, state, national and international societies and organizations. It is arranged by surname or location and also by basic subject headings.
Discussion about 1950 census at Virtual Meeting Saturday
CVGA will have a virtual meeting this Saturday, February 12, at 10 am. I will send out an email on Friday evening with the Zoom information. Our topic will be the 1950 census which will be released on April 1, 2022.
The National Archives has released information about the 1950 census. Check it out at this website https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/1950-census-access
Registration needed for Virtual Meeting tomorrow September 11, 2021
You need to register for this webinar. Click on this link to register.
Once you register, you will receive an email from Zoom with the link to the presentation. Tomorrow just click on that link from Zoom to attend the presentation.
The presentation tomorrow is by Thomas MacEntee on “Successful Collateral and Cluster Research”.
Zoom Meeting Saturday June 12, 2021
Dr. Shelley Murphy will be doing a presentation on Freedmen’s Bureau Records. The Freedmen’s Bureau Records are a valuable source of information For African American research. Dr. Murphy will explain how to use the multitude of records.
There will be a short business meeting, the presentation and discussion.
The Zoom link has been emailed to all members.
Meeting Saturday, December 12, 2020
“Not all those who wander are lost”. [1] Don’t you think that applies to a genealogist but maybe we need to have a purpose for that wandering.
We will have a business meeting this Saturday followed by a short blog post by Amy Johnson Crow about the WANDER[2] research process.
- What do you want to find?
- Analyze what you already have.
- Note what is missing.
- Discover new records.
- Evaluate everything.
- Repeat as necessary.
The link for the Zoom meeting will be sent out to members on Friday.
[1] “All That Glitters is Not Gold”, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
[2] Amy Johnson Crow
Let’s Talk About Deeds – Virtual Meeting September 12, 2020 at 10 am
Our meeting this Saturday will be a presentation by Carol Rush, Let’s Talk About Deeds. Carol will also introduce Nancy Upshaw who will help us understand Deedmapper, a software for working with land records.
A Zoom invitation will be emailed to all members on Thursday. The meeting is scheduled for 10 am on September 12.
Virtual Meeting Saturday August 8 at 10 am
Our meeting on August 8 will be about the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
Do you have any ancestors who marched for suffrage in the 1900s? How did you find out about them? Any stories or photos that you might like to share.
An invitation to the meeting will be emailed to members on Friday.