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Jan. 13, 2024: NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives — a presentation by Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist

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The Central Virginia Genealogical Association is pleased to announce a presentation by

Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist
NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives

“All the military records were burned in the fire.”
“There isn’t any birth, marriage or death information in federal records.”
“There aren’t any details about ordinary families at the National Archives.”

These kinds of myth-statements stop genealogists from breaking down all kinds of brick walls using the wealth of information in NARA records. Join the mythbusters with the treasures the National Archives holds for your family.

When: Saturday, January 13, 2024
What Time: 10:30 a.m.
Where: The Meeting Room, Northside Public Library
705 West Rio Road, Charlottesville, VA 22901

This is a free event open to the public.

Webtember

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars is sponsoring free webinars on each Friday in September.  You can go to their website and register for these free webinars on Friday.  In order to obtain the syllabus or listen to a recording you do need to be a member and they are running a special membership rate during September.

Here is the URL:  https://familytreewebinars.com/

Hybrid Meeting July 8, 2023

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Our meeting on Saturday, July 8, 2023, at 10 a.m. will be at the Family History Center, 1275 Timberwood Blvd, Charlottesville, Virginia.  This will be an in person and virtual meeting.

Brendan Wolfe will present The Commissioner & Mr. Coughlin.  This story is about two immigrants, one murder, and a search for origins.  Brendan will talk about his research and writing.

The Zoom link will be sent out on Friday.

 

Upcoming Events

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In our virtual meeting today, the following events were mentioned.  All of these events are virtual.  You do need to register and there may be a fee.

Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree is from August 19 to August 29, 2022.  Registration for this event closes August 18 which is next week.                            https://www.scgsgenealogy.com/

Virginia Genealogical Society Fall Conference, October 21 & 22, 2022.  Registration is open:  https://www.vgs.org/

Fairfax Genealogical Society Fall Fair, October 22, 2022.  Check the website: https://www.fxgs.org/

 

 

 

Meeting June 11, 2022

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Our meeting on June 11, 2022, will be at 10 am at the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (LDS Church).  It will be a hybrid meeting. You can attend in person at the Church or via Zoom.  The Zoom link will be sent out on Friday evening.

CVGA member, Diane Inman, will be doing a presentation called “Remembering the Fallen” which is about the World War II military personnel from our area who died during the War.

1950 Census will be released Friday, April 1, 2022

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The 1950 census will be released at 12:01 am on April 1, 2022.  It will not be indexed.  You can search the census if you know your enumeration district. Ancestry has a 1950 census district finder on their opening page. You will need to input an address to find the enumeration district. Once you have done this, you can also choose to be notified by email when Ancestry completes an index for a state that you are interested in.

Meeting Saturday, March 12, 2022 CANCELLED

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Due to the weather forecast for tomorrow, the in person/zoom session for Saturday, March 12, 2022 has been cancelled. We are sorry to do this but the forecasters seem to think that the worse weather will be in the morning hours.  As one forecaster said, the old groundhog did predict six more weeks of bad weather.  Hopefully spring is around the corner!
Check out the National Archives site for information about the 1950 census – due to be released April 1, 2022 – only 20 days away!