The National Archives at Boston is offering a free genealogy class on Finding Your Ancestors in Maritime Records. Participants will learn what they need to know in order to locate records as well as what one might expect to find in the records.
This class is on June 1st at 2:00 pm
Registration: Call (866) 406-2379 or e-mail waltham.archives@nara.gov to register and for more details. All lectures are FREE and OPEN to the public. Workshop and tour space is limited to 25 participants. Minimum of 4 attendees required.
A Beginning internet genealogy class will be offered May 20,2010 by the Iowa Genealogical Society. The Class is from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the IGS Library located at 628 East Grand Avenue, DesMoines, IA 50309
Space is limited and reservations are suggested as this is a free class and will fill up quickly.
Betty White recently hosted Saturday Night Live and gave all of us Genealogists out their a chuckle with her census skit. If like me, you have poured over census sheets wondering how in the world the census takers came up with the information they did you will enjoy this video.
If you happened to miss it you can watch it below.
The Seattle Genealogical Society (SGS) will be presenting Speaker Elissa Scalise Powell on Monday May 24th 6 pm-8:30 pm at the Greenwood Senior Center in Seattle.