WGS Meetings If you are ready to reveal to the Society your 'infamous,
notorious or just plain amazing, weird, troublesome relatives'
and not the ones you have 'unfriended' from
Facebook, (because they would be living and we don't do living)
please contact Dot LaLone to schedule your
presentation. Contact
Dot LaLone
WGS
has a great Facebook page. It is being updated regularly with
interesting genealogical related items.
Visit us at: https://www.facebook.com/WaterfordGenealogicalSociety
Our
webpage: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~miwatgs/index.htm
COME JOIN US ON JAN 6TH
Date: January 6, 2021 via ZOOM
Topic: Business Meeting followed by Presentation
“Telling Family Tales Using Today’s Technology”
Presenter: member Tom Smith
This slideshow shares some of Tom’s many projects that he has done
over his twenty-plus years of family research
and will be followed by a showing of one of his recent family
history videos: “John Canaan: The Cop”.
Tom takes “artistic license” in developing his version of the
Genealogical Proof Standard’s “a coherent, written conclusion” element,
while providing an up-to-date approach for using software, cloud
storage,
and social media to pass along the family lore and historical
documents to the next generations.
Anyone wishing to attend will need to register using the library
calendar of events and include their email.
The link below will take you directly to the library calendar.
From there you can select the correct month and go to the first
Wednesday of that month.
You then click on “Waterford Genealogical Society Meeting via
Zoom” and register your email.
http://waterfordmi.evanced.info/signup/calendar
FUTURE PRESENTATIONS
VIA ZOOM
Date: February 3, 2021 via ZOOM
Topic:
Business Meeting followed by Presentation designed to help those new to
researching German record sets.
The complexity of Germany's history, and its
effect on genealogical sources can be difficult obstacles for a family historian
to overcome.
The class will focus specifically on German
civil records and parish records,
with
emphasis on how/where to locate the records and how to interpret the records.
This
ranges from using FamilySearch's catalog to using German repositories like Archion.De to contacting local archives.
Additional attention will be provided to
historical geopolitics of what is today Germany, handwriting styles, as well as
useful German reference materials.
Lastly,
the class also covers territorial regions formerly included in the German
Empire (i.e. Alsace-Lorraine and eastern Prussian provinces)
Presenter: Alexander Tolksdorf. Alex is a financial analyst
for the Ford Motor Company, the President of the Ford Genealogy Club,
and a native resident of the Metro Detroit
area. He has been active in researching his family for 10 years, starting with
a high school class trip to Ellis Island in 2009.
Paternally, his family is German, primarily
from the Prussian provinces of Westphalia, Posen, and East Prussia. Maternally,
his family roots are Ukrainian, Belarussian, and Lithuanian.
All four of his grandparents immigrated to the
United States in the 1950s following the Second World War;
as such, the majority of his research
experience and focus is in German and Eastern European sources.
Mar. 3, 2021 - Allison DePrey Singleton MA, MLS - Senior Librarian
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center - "Getting To Know The
Genealogy Center"
Apr. 7, 2021 - Sally Strait - President of the Waterford Historical
Society - "History Of Waterford"
May 5, 2021 - Kris Rzepczynski - Senior Archivist Archives Of Michigan
History Center -
Anyone wishing to attend will need to register using the library
calendar of events and include their email.
The link below will take you directly to the library calendar.
From there you can select the correct month and go to the first
Wednesday of that month.
You then click on “Waterford Genealogical Society Meeting via
Zoom” and register your email.
http://waterfordmi.evanced.info/signup/calendar
Zoom meetings with Julia
Hanneman-Schoenbach: please contact Julia,
directly, if you are interested in the Wednesday meetings
-this link may not be through the library
system, this is a repeat of her Tuesday evening meeting.
Tuesday
meeting time is 7pm
and Wednesday meeting time is 10am via Zoom
Dec
8: 1st 15 min Germanic Genealogy, Sharing Holiday Customs also Dec. 16
Jan.
12: 1st 15 min Germanic Genealogy, Websites for research also Jan. 20
Feb
9: 1st 15 min Germanic Genealogy, Getting ready for Roots Tech also Feb. 17
Directions
to sign up for our ZOOM meetings:
1
Go to Waterford Public library website Library | Waterford, MI
2.
On the left side of site, near the Library News, is a vertical list of choices
that begins with Adults, then Children.
..
go to the one saying Programs and Events and click on that, it will take you to
the Program and Events page
3.
There is another vertical list being again with Adults...Go to the 4th
selection Calendar of Events, and click on it.
4.
This takes you to the calendar. Make sure you are in the correct calendar. You
will see the WGS meeting via zoom. Click on this to register.
You
will be asked to put in an email address for a verification process. All you
have to do is click on the verification email when you get it.